Oslo - July 22., 2007 - Skolelinux 3.0 is ready. This is an community release with comprehensive support from regional and national projects in Germany, Spain, France, Greece and Norway. The Skolelinux project is now a part of Debian under the name Debian-Edu. Several other projects have made additional functionality to Skolelinux tailored for national needs. Skolelinux now supports more than 50 countries.

Skolelinux is the Debian-edu project's Custom Debian Distribution (CDD) in development. It is aiming to provide an out-of-the-box localised environment tailored for schools and universities. The out-of-the-box environment comes with 75 applications aimed at schools, as well as 15 network services pre-configured for a school environment. The simple, three-question installation requires minimal technical knowledge. Skolelinux is Debian, which means, among other things, that there are no license costs or worries, and that upgrade and maintenance of the software can be done over the Internet with the power of Debian's apt-get. The core goals of Skolelinux are localisation and ease of system administration.

Whats new in Skolelinux 3.0:

• based on Debian 4.0 "etch" and therefore compatible to LSB 3.1, using
  kernel 2.6.18 and KDE 3.5.5
• Full support for networked Thin clients, LowFat (diskless) clients,
  Workstations and Laptops. With the LowFat clients users got full PC
  functionality with extremely low maintenance cost. The use of LowFat
  clients gives full support for sound, video, USB memory stick's and DVDs
  without the need for a local installation.
• Skolelinux now got more than 80 applications selected for pedagogic
  uses, supporting more than 50 languages. Many new applications are
  introduced in addition to popular classic as GCompris, KDE-Edu,
  Iceweasel (unbranded version of Firefox) and OpenOffice.org.
• Installation is a breeze: Both the installation and source code for
  all software are now distributed on a single DVD now supporting three
  different processor platforms as i386, PowerPC and AMD64. This makes it
  more easy to choose hardware, and to study the recipes behind the
  software. Those interested can excercize  their freedom to learn,
  participate and share knowledge more easily. Installation CDs are also
  available, but requires a working Internet connection for installation.

• Release announcement: Skolelinux 3.0 Terra available for freedownload!
• Skolelinux

1. ATI Proprietary Linux x86_64 Display Driver 8.39.4
2. SeaMonkey for Linux/x86_64 1.1.3
3. 64 Studio Live
4. Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 1.0 Business Edition
5. PlaneShift
6. Announcing Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0!
7. Sflack Linux 12.0
8. First release candidate for 64 Studio 2.0 - "Safe as Milk"