There are some issues like it is still not possible to configure everything via a GUI(use dconf-editor). I guess this is because the project is in initial stage and the rough edges will be sorted out as further development and contributions flows in.

Some gnome-shell extensions have been ported to work with Cinnamon, to enable them use dconf-editor, for example the org -> cinnamon -> enabled-extensions should look like this for all available extensions to be enabled:

['system-monitor@paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com', 'apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org', 'dock@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org', 'drive-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org', 'places-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org', 'windowsNavigator@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org', 'xrandr-indicator@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org']

Please note that the package is for testing purpose only, it will not be maintained/updated in future, so if you are a developer who can hack and want to contribute to that project check it out, please report bugs directly on cinnamon project issue tracker, preferably with a patch fixing the issue . More information about the project is here and here.

  more screenshots…

Softwares for mathematics, chemistry, astronomy etc, servers like KIWI-LTSP, Fedena school ERP, Moodle course management etc., full multimedia, graphics, office suite, many popular programming languages including AMP stack, java, C, C++, python, ruby, latest stable Gnome and KDE desktop environments and lot more is packed in this release. More about softwares included here.

To know more about openSUSE Education project, file bugs, request enhancements, participate, or to get in touch with us visit Education Portal.

Create live USB stick or DVD with this image. About 15GB disk space and 1GB RAM is required for installation, more is better. Please note that we release 32bit image only, for users with RAM 4G or more install and use kernel-pae package.

Happy holidays…

Hosted at sourceforge.net

Direct Download | md5sum

Hosted at opensuse-education.org

Direct Download | new metalink | old metalink | md5sum | torrent

Use download manager or Metalink client such as aria2c for most efficient way to download.

fsck -f -y /dev/drbd0
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
fsck.ocfs2 1.4.3
Checking OCFS2 filesystem in /dev/drbd0:
Label: vmimages
UUID: B5A45669962C4E40AE9FB2BF16184981
Number of blocks: 157281328
Block size: 4096
Number of clusters: 19660166
Cluster size: 32768
Number of slots: 4

to re-enable it after completing fsck, run:
tunefs.ocfs2 --fs-features=metaecc /dev/drbd0

Run the following as normal user in terminal to get the required resolution.

xrandr --output LVDS1 --panning 1024x768
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768

Note: just in case wordpress eats up – character, there are 2 – before output, panning and mode.

This release includes the latest carefully selected softwares for students, educators as well as parents. The software selection encompasses everything required to make computers productive for either home or educational use without having to install anything additional.

More here

It is again that time of a year when we participate in our local IT mega event: Baroda IT Association Show 2011 (BITA 2011).

Drop in to see what we are up to if you happen to be around here during 23-26 January 2011.

There will of course be openSUSE Education Li-f-e DVDs available at our stall that is why BITA probably is green this time

See you all there

DazukoFS is a stack-able filesystem for virus scanning, here is how it works:

Install clamav, clamav-db and dazukofs, dazukofs-kmp-yourkernelflavor via 1-click.

Edit /etc/clamd.conf to change these parameters (change only these two parameters, nothing else there):

User root
ClamukoScanOnAccess yes

Edit /etc/fstab to mount the folder/s you would like to scan on access. So if /home is on /dev/sda2, there will be another line for /home in fstab, this will effectively mount /home twice, one normal way and another as dazukofs.

/home /home dazukofs defaults 0 0

Run the following commands as root in terminal:

insserv boot.dazukofs
insserv clamd
/etc/init.d/boot.dazukofs start
mount -a
rcclamd start
freshclam

Test it out with eicar, there will be message like this in /var/log/mail if you try to copy eicar.com to user’s home:

clamd[4734]: Clamuko: /home/username/eicar.com: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND

I don’t know how to get the files with virus detected to quarantine, let me know if anyone knows how to do that.

For example, with very powerful hardware available, images of KDE, GNOME desktops or any other profile of your choice  can be served as  LTSP_FATCLIENT, this will enable images to use resources on the clients’ local hardware instead of traditional LTSP way of running all the client sessions on the server. Advantage of this way is making use of local hardware resources and central management of OS deployed in the entire network. LTSP can also be clustered to load balance and in case one of the servers fail.

New development also include easier way of managing PXE boot menu. See kiwi-ltsp-setup –intro for more.

Check out the detailed  howto for using multiple LTSP images here.  Start here to know more about LTSP and how you can get started with it in your network. openSUSE Education Li-f-e DVD comes bundled with KIWI-LTSP server and takes just a few clicks to get it up and running.

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.vendor --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename --type=string "/path/to/picture"
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.vendor --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options --type=string "stretched"

Edit: The easier way

Click on “Computer > logout > Switch User” to open GDM on tty8 (Ctrl+Alt+F8)

Switch to tty7 (Ctrl+Alt+F7) log back in the running session

open gnome-terminal, switch to root (su -)

Run this command:

DISPLAY=:1 gnomesu -u gdm -c “gnome-appearance-properties”

Switch to tty8 (Ctrl+Alt+F8) to change all elements of GDM.

Guess what you can even start compiz there

Basic configuration

Configure and start Apache web server

Edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2 APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS=”ATUTOR FREESMS”. Use your favourite text editor (vi,gedit…) as root. Note that “linux-n8li:~ #” and “mysql>” are prompts are not to be typed as command.

linux-n8li:~ # insserv apache2
linux-n8li:~ # rcapache2 start

Configure and start MySQL server

linux-n8li:~ # insserv mysql
linux-n8li:~ # rcmysql start

If mysql is started for the first time:

linux-n8li:~ # /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password ‘somepassword‘
linux-n8li:~ # /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h yourhostname password ‘somepassword‘

Create databases for OpenBiblio and FreeSMS.

linux-n8li:~ # mysql -u root -p
mysql> create database OpenBiblio;
mysql> grant all privileges on OpenBiblio.* to obiblio_user@localhost
-> identified by ‘obiblio_password‘;

mysql> create database crcdb;
mysql> grant all privileges on crcdb.* to freesms_user@localhost identified by ‘freesms_password‘;

Required for OpenSIS
mysql> SET GLOBAL log_bin_trust_function_creators = 1;

OpenBiblio

OpenBiblio is a program to manage library. This tool allows you to follow the loan of the books and other statistics.

Open the browser and point it to: http://localhost/openbiblio/install_instructions.html

Edit /srv/www/openbiblio/database_constants.php, fill out the database details as given previously:

define(“OBIB_DATABASE”, “OpenBiblio”);
define(“OBIB_USERNAME”, “obiblio_user“);
define(“OBIB_PWD”,      “obiblio_password“);

Point the browser to http:/localhost/openbiblio/install and follow the on screen wizard, once done you can access new OpenBiblio server from: http://localhost/openbiblio

To secure the installation:

linux-n8li:~ # mv /srv/www/openbiblio/install /srv/www/openbiblio/install-backup
linux-n8li:~ # chmod 700 /srv/www/openbiblio/install-backup

OpenSIS

OpenSIS is a commercial grade, secure, scalable & intuitive Open Source Student Information System from OS4ED.

Create /etc/apache2/conf.d/opensis.conf with the following content:

Alias /opensis “/srv/www/opensis/”
<Directory /srv/www/opensis/>
AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Restart apache (run “rcapache2 restart” in terminal as root)

linux-n8li:~ # chown wwwrun /srv/www/opensis/data.php

Edit /srv/www/opensis/install/sql.php Lines 1045 – 1047, change year 2009 to 2010. Change the passwords after md5(here whatever you want).

(2010, 1, 1, NULL, ‘Admin’, ‘Administrator’, ‘A’, ‘admin’, md5(‘admin‘), NULL, NULL, ‘admin’, NULL, NULL, ’2009-09-22 02:02:55′, NULL, ’1′, NULL),
(2010, 2, NULL, NULL, ‘Mary’, ‘Teacher’, ‘M’, ‘teacher’, md5(‘teacher‘), NULL, NULL, ‘teacher’, NULL, ‘,1,’, ’2009-09-22 02:11:42′, NULL, ’2′, NULL),
(2010, 3, NULL, NULL, ‘Joe’, ‘Parent’, ‘J’, ‘parent’, md5(‘parent‘), NULL, NULL, ‘parent’, NULL, NULL, ’2009-09-22 02:11:57′, NULL, ’3′, NULL);

Point the browser to http://localhost/opensis/install/index.php and follow on screen wizard, provide mysql username: root and the password set earlier.

ATutor

ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS/LMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind.

linux-n8li:~ # mkdir /srv/atutorcontent
linux-n8li:~ # chown wwwrun /srv/atutorcontent
linux-n8li:~ # chown wwwrun /srv/ATutor/include/config.inc.php

Point the browser to http://localhost/ATutor follow onscreen wizard, use mysql username root and its password given earlier.

To secure installation after the setup is done:

linux-n8li:~ # mv /srv/ATutor/install /srv/ATutor/install-old
linux-n8li:~ # chmod 700 /srv/ATutor/install-old

FreeSMS

FreeSMS is a teacher and student management system providing marketing, registration, course management, attendance and a student evaluation system.

Edit /etc/apache2/conf.d/FreeSMS.conf change Alias from /FreeSMS to /freesms and restart apache (rcapache2 restart).

Edit /srv/FreeSMS/mysql/crc_database_setup.sql Line 779:

) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=24 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1

Import the database by running this in terminal

linux-n8li:~ # mysql -u root -p crcdb < crc_database_setup.sql

Edit /srv/FreeSMS/classes/crc_constants.mod.php Lines: 23 and 24 with database username and password.

define(‘MYSQL_USER’, ‘freesms_user‘);
define(‘MYSQL_PASS’, ‘freesms_password‘);

Comment line 49 in /srv/FreeSMS/classes/crc_profile.cls.php

//var $m_roleid;

Point the browser at http://localhost/freesms/pages/crc_login.php

Log in using this account:

Username: shaffin_bhanji@yahoo.ca
Password: shaffin

Moodle

Moodle is a Course Management System.

This is the easiest of them all to set up.

Set the permission of the data directory so the web user can write to it.

linux-n8li:~ # chown wwwrun /srv/www/moodledata

Point the browser at http://localhost/moodle/install.php and follow the on screen wizard.

Consider this howto as a starting point, more details and advanced configuration information can be found in the documentations provided by the applications on their websites or openSUSE wiki.