The upcoming Debian 13.8 point release will be the foundation of the first release of Debian Edu 13.
This is a call for testing, we are interested in your feedback.
How To Prepare
- Download the Debian Edu 13.7.0 BD ISO Image (beware, ~17GiB) [1]
- Tweak the BD ISO image [2] and add support for packages in trixie-proposed-updates [3]
How To Test
- Use virt-manager
- Prepare an internal 'edu' network and another internal 'thinclient' network
- Prepare three VMs:
- gateway:
- Attach one network adapter to the Default/NAT network of libvirt
- attach the other network adapter to the internal 'edu' network
- Install a Debian 13 minimal system, install the 'debian-edu-router-config' package and follow the debconf (many!) dialogs to configure the system (see [4] for additional info)
- tjener (Main-Server):
- RAM: 4-8GiB, CPU Cores 2-4 (or more)
- Provide 80GiB (or more) of storage (to be flexible with LTSP setups)
- Attach primary network adapter to the internal 'edu' network
- attach the second network adapter to the internal 'thinclient' network
- Install the Main-server from your self-created debian-edu-13.7.0-amd64-BD-1-withPU.iso (see [2])
- Install profiles Main-Server, LTSP-Server and Workstation (menu shown in Debian (Edu) Installer)
- workstation:
- needs ~40GiB of disk storage, 4GiB RAM, 2 (or more) CPU cores
- boot over PXE on the internal 'edu' network
- test runs:
- boot as Diskless Workstation
- boot as X2Go Thin Client
- install a Debian Edu system to disk
- gateway:
Known Issues
See our Debian Edu 13 status page on the Debian Wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Trixie
More Info
Debian Edu comes with the Debian Edu manual, it can be found at:
https://jenkins.debian.net/userContent/debian-edu-doc/debian-edu-doc-en/...
Where to Report Findings
Please either directly submit bugs to Debian's bug tracker (package: debian-edu-config); talk to us on IRC #debian-edu on irc.debian.org or write to the Debian Edu mailing list.
References
[1] https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-bd/debian-edu-13....
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/TestInstallVirtualMachine#Varian...
[3] https://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html
[4] https://jenkins.debian.net/userContent/debian-edu-doc/debian-edu-doc-en/...