Hi Hans, On Mo 09 Feb 2026 11:53:58 CET, Hans wrote:
Hi folks, I am wondering, what actual the status of Debia/Edu is. Some years ago I worked some time for ISERV, but IMO Debian/Edu is much much better. However, here in Germany the choice to ISERV was a political one, not a decision based of quality. They said: ISERV is German, we are German so we pressure schools to use it.
Yeah, without doing a tender in most places, I know.
However, till this time I am watching Debian/Edu but do not see much changes. There are still only installer cd's for bullseye, but none for bookworm.
I must admit that since Wolfgang retired from the project we haven't been really able to fill the gap.
I have just now hired a sysadmin/developer with GNU/Linux experience to start working on Debian Edu.
The problem is not the development, the problem is the time-intensive testing. The new employee in my company will explicitly work on that and hopefully this creates some drive.
And yes, there are still many bugs in latest version. But I think, this shouldnot inhibit to release latest versions. People are not forced to use it in productive systems, but they could test it. And even if there are some bugs, they might to be able to be fixed during run. And the question also is, ho effected are people with some bugs.
My current status is:
+ Debian Edu 12 is usable for server + clients (with some bugs mainly on
the server aka tjener).
+ Debian Edu 13 is usable as clients, no known issues so far
So, can it be, that Debian/Edu is dead? That it is no more developed because of the lack of developers and because are people more interested in other schoolservers like ISERV, linuxmuster.net, UCS and some more?
Debian Edu development has always been kind of independent from interested consumers. It needs people to work on it, consumers being interested does not help with development tasks in general. Of course, it is good if a project is well-known because of its users and more users can lead to more developers at the end. So yeah, we should finalize things and improve the marketing of what we have and make it more transparent what needs to be done next.
Currently, it feels like the overview of tasks at hand is mostly on me and I have failed to allocate time to the project, so I have to apologize.
Here in Germany Debian/Edu will not have a great chance to be used by many schools. ISERV got too much influence, and it is a political (and IMO dumb) decision, but I think, for children and pupils Debian/Edu is much better for learning, so I hope, Debian/Edu will rise again and it is not dead.
It will, I am pretty much focused on this to happen. We will at the latest need something working well for Debian Edu 14.
I will be happy for any little feedback.
Hope that provides information needed, Mike -- mike gabriel aka sunweaver (Debian Developer) mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 landline: +49 (4351) 486 14 27 GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 mail: [email protected], http://sunweavers.net
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