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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries tagged debian edu</title>
   5                 <description>Entries tagged debian edu</description>
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  10                 <title>Is there a PHP expert in the building?  Debian Edu need help!</title>
  11                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
  15 We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
  16 hope to get released soon.  The two problems require some with PHP
  17 skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
  18 the project:
  19
  20 &lt;ol&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;li&gt;It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
  23   (slbackup-php) using the root user and password.  This is
  24   &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;BTS report #700257&lt;/a&gt;.
  25   This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
  26   Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?&lt;/li&gt;
  27
  28 &lt;li&gt;It is not possible to &quot;mass import&quot; user lists in Gosa, neither
  29   using ldif nor using CSV files.  The feature was disabled after a
  30   major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
  31   This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;BTS report
  32   #698840&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
  33
  34 &lt;/ol&gt;
  35
  36 &lt;p&gt;If you can help us, please join us on IRC
  37 (&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
  38 irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;) and provide patches via the BTS.&lt;/p&gt;
  39 </description>
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  43                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</title>
  44                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</link>
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  46                 <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  47                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last English
  48 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
  49 interview last November.  But the developers and translators are still
  50 pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
  51 time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
  52 in the project, Cédric Boutillier.&lt;/p&gt;
  53
  54 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;p&gt;I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
  57 professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
  58 mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
  59 probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.&lt;/p&gt;
  60
  61 &lt;p&gt;I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
  62 and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
  63 packaging, publicity and translation.&lt;/p&gt;
  64
  65 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
  66 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  67
  68 &lt;p&gt;I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
  69 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals&quot;&gt;the
  70 Debian Edu manual&lt;/a&gt; for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
  71 then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
  72 manual.
  73
  74 &lt;p&gt;I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
  75 virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
  76 shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
  77 how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.&lt;/p&gt;
  78
  79 &lt;p&gt;What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
  80 ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
  81 by &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa²&lt;/a&gt;.  What pleased
  82 me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
  83 there were many &quot;traditional&quot; educative software to learn languages,
  84 to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
  85 artistic skills with music (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ardour.org/&quot;&gt;Ardour&lt;/a&gt;,
  86 &lt;a href=&quot;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Audacity&lt;/a&gt;) and
  87 movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
  88 &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
  89
  90 &lt;p&gt;I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
  91 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt;.
  92 Unfortunately, I don&#39;t much time to get more involved in this
  93 beautiful project.&lt;/p&gt;
  94
  95 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
  96 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  97
  98 &lt;p&gt;For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
  99 community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
 100 fact that it provides a solution ready to use.&lt;/p&gt;
 101
 102 &lt;p&gt;I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
 103 distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
 104 of educational free software.&lt;/p&gt;
 105
 106 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 107 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 108
 109 &lt;p&gt;Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
 110 project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
 111 not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
 112 solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
 113 is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.&lt;/p&gt;
 114
 115 &lt;p&gt;One can find support from a company by looking at
 116 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;the
 117 wiki dokumentation&lt;/a&gt;, where some countries already have a number of
 118 companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
 119 Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
 120 for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
 121 consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
 122 support for Debian Edu as well.&lt;/p&gt;
 123
 124 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 125
 126 &lt;p&gt;I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
 127 most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
 128 scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice.  I am
 129 also using the mathematical software
 130 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about‎&quot;&gt;Scilab&lt;/a&gt; and
 131 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagemath.org/index.html‎&quot;&gt;Sage&lt;/a&gt; (built from
 132 source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
 133
 134 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
 135 using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
 136 statistics?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 137
 138 &lt;p&gt;I do not have any &quot;nice&quot; recommendations for statistics. At our
 139 university, we use both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/‎&quot;&gt;R&lt;/a&gt; and
 140 Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
 141 geometry, there are nice programs:&lt;/p&gt;
 142
 143 &lt;ul&gt;
 144
 145 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drgeo.eu/&quot;&gt;drgeo&lt;/a&gt; and
 146 &lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig‎&quot;&gt;kig&lt;/a&gt; to do
 147 constructions in planar geometry
 148
 149 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html&quot;&gt;kali&lt;/a&gt;
 150 to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
 151 groups), although the interface looks a bit old.&lt;/li&gt;
 152
 153 &lt;/ul&gt;
 154
 155 &lt;p&gt;I like also
 156 &lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor&quot;&gt;cantor&lt;/a&gt;, which
 157 provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
 158 &lt;a href=&quot;http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave‎&quot;&gt;Octave&lt;/a&gt;, etc...&lt;/p&gt;
 159
 160 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 161 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 162
 163 &lt;p&gt;My suggestions would be to&lt;/p&gt;
 164
 165 &lt;ul&gt;
 166
 167 &lt;li&gt;advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.&lt;/li&gt;
 168
 169 &lt;li&gt;communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
 170     well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
 171     OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.&lt;/li&gt;
 172
 173 &lt;li&gt;advertise the living and strong community around the project.&lt;/li&gt;
 174
 175 &lt;li&gt;show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
 176     system.&lt;/li&gt;
 177
 178 &lt;/ul&gt;
 179 </description>
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 183                 <title>Educational applications included in Debian Edu / Skolelinux (the screenshot collection :-)</title>
 184                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</link>
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 186                 <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jun 2013 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
 187                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Included in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
 188 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, there are quite a lot of educational software.
 189 Created to help teachers teach, and pupils learn.  We have tried to
 190 tag them all using debtags use::learning and role::program, and using
 191 the debtags I was happy to be able to create a collage of the
 192 educational software packages installed by default, sorted by the
 193 debtag field.  Here it is.  Click on a image to learn more about the
 194 program.&lt;/p&gt;
 195
 196 &lt;!-- for f in $(debtags tagcat|grep field::|awk &#39;{print $2}&#39;); do   echo; echo &quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$f&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&quot;; echo &quot;&lt;p&gt;&quot;;   (     for p in $(debtags search --names &quot;use::learning &amp;&amp; interface::x11 &amp;&amp; role::program &amp;&amp; $f&quot;); do img=&quot;&lt;img src=&#39;http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/$p&#39; alt=&#39;$p&#39;&gt;&quot;; if dpkg -s $p &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1; then           echo &quot;&lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.qa.debian.org/$p&#39;&gt;$img&lt;/a&gt;&quot;; fi;     done;   ) | LANG=C sort; echo &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&quot;; done --&gt;
 197
 198 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::arts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 199 &lt;p&gt;
 200 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=audacity&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/audacity.png&#39; alt=&#39;audacity&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 201 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=childsplay&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/childsplay.png&#39; alt=&#39;childsplay&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 202 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=denemo&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/denemo.png&#39; alt=&#39;denemo&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 203 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=freebirth&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/freebirth.png&#39; alt=&#39;freebirth&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 204 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png&#39; alt=&#39;gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 205 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gimp&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gimp.png&#39; alt=&#39;gimp&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 206 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=hydrogen&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/hydrogen.png&#39; alt=&#39;hydrogen&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 207 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=lilypond&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/lilypond.png&#39; alt=&#39;lilypond&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 208 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=lmms&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/lmms.png&#39; alt=&#39;lmms&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 209 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=rosegarden&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/rosegarden.png&#39; alt=&#39;rosegarden&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 210 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=scribus&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/scribus.png&#39; alt=&#39;scribus&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 211 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=solfege&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/solfege.png&#39; alt=&#39;solfege&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 212 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=stopmotion&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/stopmotion.png&#39; alt=&#39;stopmotion&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 213 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=tuxpaint&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/tuxpaint.png&#39; alt=&#39;tuxpaint&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 214 &lt;/p&gt;
 215
 216 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::astronomy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 217 &lt;p&gt;
 218 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=celestia-gnome&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/celestia-gnome.png&#39; alt=&#39;celestia-gnome&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 219 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gpredict&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gpredict.png&#39; alt=&#39;gpredict&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 220 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=kstars&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kstars.png&#39; alt=&#39;kstars&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 221 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=planets&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/planets.png&#39; alt=&#39;planets&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 222 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=stellarium&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/stellarium.png&#39; alt=&#39;stellarium&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 223 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=xplanet&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/xplanet.png&#39; alt=&#39;xplanet&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 224 &lt;/p&gt;
 225
 226 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::biology:structural&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 227 &lt;p&gt;
 228 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=pymol&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/pymol.png&#39; alt=&#39;pymol&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 229 &lt;/p&gt;
 230
 231 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::chemistry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 232 &lt;p&gt;
 233 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=atomix&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/atomix.png&#39; alt=&#39;atomix&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 234 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=chemtool&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/chemtool.png&#39; alt=&#39;chemtool&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 235 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=easychem&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/easychem.png&#39; alt=&#39;easychem&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 236 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gchempaint&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gchempaint.png&#39; alt=&#39;gchempaint&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 237 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gdis&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gdis.png&#39; alt=&#39;gdis&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 238 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=ghemical&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/ghemical.png&#39; alt=&#39;ghemical&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 239 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gperiodic&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gperiodic.png&#39; alt=&#39;gperiodic&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 240 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=kalzium&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kalzium.png&#39; alt=&#39;kalzium&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 241 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=pymol&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/pymol.png&#39; alt=&#39;pymol&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 242 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=viewmol&#39;&gt;[viewmol]&lt;/a&gt;
 243 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=xdrawchem&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/xdrawchem.png&#39; alt=&#39;xdrawchem&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 244 &lt;/p&gt;
 245
 246 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::electronics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 247 &lt;p&gt;
 248 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png&#39; alt=&#39;gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 249 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gpsim&#39;&gt;[gpsim]&lt;/a&gt;
 250 &lt;/p&gt;
 251
 252 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::geography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 253 &lt;p&gt;
 254 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=kgeography&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kgeography.png&#39; alt=&#39;kgeography&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 255 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=marble&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/marble.png&#39; alt=&#39;marble&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 256 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=xplanet&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/xplanet.png&#39; alt=&#39;xplanet&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 257 &lt;/p&gt;
 258
 259 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::linguistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 260 &lt;p&gt;
 261 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png&#39; alt=&#39;gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 262 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=kanagram&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kanagram.png&#39; alt=&#39;kanagram&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 263 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=khangman&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/khangman.png&#39; alt=&#39;khangman&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 264 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=klettres&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/klettres.png&#39; alt=&#39;klettres&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 265 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=parley&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/parley.png&#39; alt=&#39;parley&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 266 &lt;/p&gt;
 267
 268 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::mathematics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 269 &lt;p&gt;
 270 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=childsplay&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/childsplay.png&#39; alt=&#39;childsplay&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 271 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=drgeo&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/drgeo.png&#39; alt=&#39;drgeo&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 272 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png&#39; alt=&#39;gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 273 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=geogebra&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/geogebra.png&#39; alt=&#39;geogebra&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 274 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=geomview&#39;&gt;[geomview]&lt;/a&gt;
 275 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=grace&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/grace.png&#39; alt=&#39;grace&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 276 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=graphmonkey&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/graphmonkey.png&#39; alt=&#39;graphmonkey&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 277 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=graphthing&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/graphthing.png&#39; alt=&#39;graphthing&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 278 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=kalgebra&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kalgebra.png&#39; alt=&#39;kalgebra&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 279 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=kbruch&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kbruch.png&#39; alt=&#39;kbruch&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 280 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=kig&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kig.png&#39; alt=&#39;kig&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 281 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=kmplot&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kmplot.png&#39; alt=&#39;kmplot&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 282 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=mathwar&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/mathwar.png&#39; alt=&#39;mathwar&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 283 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=rocs&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/rocs.png&#39; alt=&#39;rocs&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 284 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=scratch&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/scratch.png&#39; alt=&#39;scratch&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 285 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=tuxmath&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/tuxmath.png&#39; alt=&#39;tuxmath&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 286 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=xabacus&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/xabacus.png&#39; alt=&#39;xabacus&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 287 &lt;/p&gt;
 288
 289 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::physics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 290 &lt;p&gt;
 291 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png&#39; alt=&#39;gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 292 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=step&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/step.png&#39; alt=&#39;step&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 293 &lt;/p&gt;
 294
 295 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::TODO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 296 &lt;p&gt;
 297 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=blinken&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/blinken.png&#39; alt=&#39;blinken&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 298 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=cgoban&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/cgoban.png&#39; alt=&#39;cgoban&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 299 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=childsplay&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/childsplay.png&#39; alt=&#39;childsplay&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 300 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png&#39; alt=&#39;gcompris&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 301 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gnuchess&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gnuchess.png&#39; alt=&#39;gnuchess&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 302 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gnugo&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gnugo.png&#39; alt=&#39;gnugo&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 303 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=gtans&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gtans.png&#39; alt=&#39;gtans&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 304 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=ktouch&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/ktouch.png&#39; alt=&#39;ktouch&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 305 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=librecad&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/librecad.png&#39; alt=&#39;librecad&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 306 &lt;a href=&#39;http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&amp;exact=1&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all&amp;keywords=scratch&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/scratch.png&#39; alt=&#39;scratch&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 307 &lt;/p&gt;
 308
 309 &lt;p&gt;In total, 61 applications.  3 of them lacked screen shots on
 310 &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenshot.debian.net&quot;&gt;screenshot.debian.net&lt;/a&gt;.  If
 311 you know of some packages we should install by default, please let us
 312 know on &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;IRC, #debian-edu
 313 on irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;, or our
 314 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;mailing list
 315 debian-edu@&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 316 </description>
 317         </item>
 318
 319         <item>
 320                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Nirosan Thiyagalingam</title>
 321                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</link>
 322                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</guid>
 323                 <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 324                 <description>&lt;p&gt;En ting
 325 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-prosjektet&lt;/a&gt; har
 326 hatt mye glede av er studentprosjekter.  F.eks.  er
 327 &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.org/&quot;&gt;stillbildeanimasjonssystemet
 328 Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt; resultat av et studentprosjekt i Skolelinux.  De siste
 329 månedene har en ivrig student veiledet av Marius Kotsbak i
 330 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRiSK&lt;/a&gt; testet hva en
 331 kan få til med en datamaskin til NOK 400,- (antagelig 1700,- med
 332 skjerm, tastatur og mus) når det brukes i Skolelinux.  Jeg spurte han
 333 om et intervju.&lt;/p&gt;
 334
 335 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 336
 337 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Nirosan Thiyagalingam. Jeg er 24 år og studerer
 338 dataingeniør studiet ved Høgskolen i Sør Trøndelag. Interessen for
 339 data har siden ung alder vært tilstede og jeg har i tillegg alltid
 340 vært glad i å lære nye ting. Med teknologi som endres svært hurtig er
 341 det alltid noe nytt å lære.  Noe som igjen har gjort det svært
 342 interessant å følge med på utviklingen.  Jeg valgte dataingeniør
 343 studiet grunnet ønske om å lære enda mer om programmering og utvikling
 344 av store systemer.&lt;/p&gt;
 345
 346 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 347
 348 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux prosjektet hørte jeg først om i media. Men det var først
 349 når jeg skulle velge bacheloroppgave at jeg fattet mer interesse for
 350 prosjektet. Et enkelt søk på nettet førte meg til skolelinux sine
 351 hjemmesider.  Informasjonen jeg fant der gjorde meg enda nysgjerrig og
 352 jeg valgte derfor en oppgave som gikk ut på å få en
 353 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspberrypi.org&quot;&gt;Raspberry PI&lt;/a&gt;.  Altså en
 354 ultra-billig datamaskin til å kjøre Debian Edu på lik linje med
 355 vanlige datamaskiner. I løpet av prosjektet ble det gjort mye
 356 forskning på nettet. Det var mye jeg måtte forstå rundt hvordan
 357 operativsystemet Linux fungerte før jeg kunne angripe
 358 problemet. Prøvde først å finne ut hvordan man kunne transformere en
 359 vanlig installasjon av Skolelinux til Raspberry PI, men dette var
 360 altfor vanskelig å jeg endte opp med mer spørsmål enn svar. Det ble
 361 videre opprettet kontakt med Skolelinux utviklere på IRC der jeg fikk
 362 diskutert hvilken retning jeg burde gå for å få til en fullverdig
 363 løsning. Det ble bestemt at jeg skulle gå for å først installere
 364 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspbian.org/&quot;&gt;Raspian&lt;/a&gt;. Dette er et
 365 operativsystem basert på Debian spesiallaget for Raspberry Pi sin
 366 maskinvare. Nå som Debian var installert på datamaskinen gjenstod det
 367 å installere de nødvendige Skolelinux pakkene for å få til et
 368 fullverdig system. Disse pakkene ble installert manuelt i første
 369 omgang, men ble senere installert automatisk via et script som Petter
 370 Reinholdtsen laget. Dette scriptet er så enkel å bruke at man er i
 371 gang med installasjonen i løpet av bare 5 minutter. Ikke nok med det,
 372 alt skjer helt automatisk. Alt i alt er jeg veldig fornøyd med
 373 resultatet av installasjonsprosessen. Raspberry Pi er en veldig svak
 374 maskin og det merkes godt når man har installert Skolelinux på
 375 den. Video og 3D-rendering fungerer utrolig dårlig, men nettsurfing og
 376 kontorprogrammer fungerer godt.  Det kan derfor konkluderes med at
 377 datamaskinen er egnet for enkle oppgaver.
 378
 379 &lt;p&gt;Jeg syns det er viktig påpeke at dette kun er startfasen av en slik
 380 løsning. På markedet finnes det nå maskiner som har bedre hardware enn
 381 Raspberry Pi. Det er store muligheter for at man kan klare å
 382 installere Skolelinux på disse også, og da forsvinner nok mest
 383 sannsynlig ytelsesproblemene med Video og 3D rendering også.&lt;/p&gt;
 384
 385 &lt;p&gt;Det ble også prøvd med en løsning som gjorde at Raspberry Pi
 386 fungerte som en tynnklient. Denne løsningen hadde langt bedre ytelse
 387 med tanke på hastighet og brukeropplevelse. Men også her var video og
 388 3D rendering dårlig. Det ble brukt en liten Linux distribusjon kalt
 389 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berryterminal.com/&quot;&gt;BerryTerminal&lt;/a&gt; for å få til
 390 dette.&lt;/p&gt;
 391
 392 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 393
 394 &lt;p&gt;Fordelen med Skolelinux er mange. At det er gratis er en stor
 395 fordel, men at det er så mange som er med på å utvikle det og
 396 vedlikeholde det er en enda større fordel. Allerede før jeg startet
 397 med prosjektet så jeg mange fordeler, og når jeg nærmet meg sluttfasen
 398 så jeg langt flere. At prosjektet skulle inneha en så høy kvalitet
 399 hadde jeg aldri trodd. En vanlig Skolelinux installasjon har de
 400 nødvendige programmene og funksjonen som både små og store skoler i
 401 tillegg til organisasjoner kan klare seg med.  At prosjektet tilbyr en
 402 så komplett løsning er en kjempefordel.  Installasjonen er knirkefri
 403 og det er svært enkelt å installere og komme i gang.&lt;/p&gt;
 404
 405 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 406
 407 &lt;p&gt;Ulempene jeg ser med prosjektet er ryddigheten av websidene. Selv
 408 om websidene er enkle og konsise er det allikevel ikke appellerende i
 409 like stor grad som for eksempel
 410 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; sine sider.  Deres side
 411 tilbyr, i tillegg til godt design og presentasjon, en nettbasert
 412 emulator av deres operativsystem. Dette er en stor fordel slik jeg ser
 413 det.  Bortsett fra dette ser jeg absolutt ingen ulemper med
 414 Skolelinux-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
 415
 416 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 417
 418 &lt;p&gt;Til daglig er jeg en flittig bruker av det åpne media
 419 sentersystemet &lt;a href=&quot;http://xbmc.org/&quot;&gt;XBMC&lt;/a&gt;. Det enorme
 420 samfunnet rundt dette prosjektet har gjort dette til et program som
 421 dekker alles behov. Man kan tilpasse det akkurat slik man vil både med
 422 tanke på utseende og funksjoner ved installere plug-ins eller
 423 scripts.&lt;/p&gt;
 424
 425 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
 426 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 427
 428 &lt;p&gt;Strategien som burde brukes sett fra mine øyne er
 429 markedsføring. Jeg er sikker på at om flere skoler fikk et lite innsyn
 430 i hvor bra Skolelinux er så ville de ikke nølt med å gå over fra noe
 431 annet som koster de store summer. At skolelinux til de grader tilbyr
 432 en så komplett løsning bure komme frem. Enten via reklamekampanjer
 433 eller ved å sende ut folk til skoler for så å la skolenettverk
 434 ansvarlige få teste ut hvordan Skolelinux fungerer i praksis. Om det
 435 i tillegg ble utviklet gode websider og en emulator for å la brukere
 436 prøve operativsystemet ville nok dette ha styrket inntrykket
 437 betraktelig.&lt;/p&gt;
 438 </description>
 439         </item>
 440
 441         <item>
 442                 <title>How to transform a Debian based system to a Debian Edu installation</title>
 443                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</link>
 444                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</guid>
 445                 <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
 446                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is
 447 an operating system based on Debian intended for use in schools.  It
 448 contain a turn-key solution for the computer network provided to
 449 pupils in the primary schools.  It provide both the central server,
 450 network boot servers and desktop environments with heaps of
 451 educational software.  The project was founded almost 12 years ago,
 452 2001-07-02.  If you want to support the project, which is in need for
 453 cash to fund developer gatherings and other project related activity,
 454 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html&quot;&gt;please
 455 donate some money&lt;/a&gt;.
 456
 457 &lt;p&gt;A topic that come up again and again on the Debian Edu mailing
 458 lists and elsewhere, is the question on how to transform a Debian or
 459 Ubuntu installation into a Debian Edu installation.  It isn&#39;t very
 460 hard, and last week I wrote a script to replicate the steps done by
 461 the Debian Edu installer.&lt;/p&gt;
 462
 463 &lt;p&gt;The script,
 464 &lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/branches/wheezy/debian-edu-config/share/debian-edu-config/tools/debian-edu-bless?view=markup&quot;&gt;debian-edu-bless&lt;a/&gt;
 465 in the debian-edu-config package, will go through these six steps and
 466 transform an existing Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu (untested) installation
 467 into a Debian Edu Workstation:&lt;/p&gt;
 468
 469 &lt;ol&gt;
 470
 471 &lt;li&gt;Add skolelinux related APT sources.&lt;/li&gt;
 472 &lt;li&gt;Create /etc/debian-edu/config with the wanted configuration.&lt;/li&gt;
 473 &lt;li&gt;Install debian-edu-install to load preseeding values and pull in
 474     our configuration.&lt;/li&gt;
 475 &lt;li&gt;Preseed debconf database with profile setup in
 476     /etc/debian-edu/config, and run tasksel to install packages
 477     according to the profile specified in the config above,
 478     overriding some of the Debian automation machinery.&lt;/li&gt;
 479 &lt;li&gt;Run debian-edu-cfengine-D installation to configure everything
 480     that could not be done using preseeding.&lt;/li&gt;
 481 &lt;li&gt;Ask for a reboot to enable all the configuration changes.&lt;/li&gt;
 482
 483 &lt;/ol&gt;
 484
 485 &lt;p&gt;There are some steps in the Debian Edu installation that can not be
 486 replicated like this.  Disk partitioning and LVM setup, for example.
 487 So this script just assume there is enough disk space to install all
 488 the needed packages.&lt;/p&gt;
 489
 490 &lt;p&gt;The script was created to help a Debian Edu student working on
 491 setting up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspberrypi.org&quot;&gt;Raspberry Pi&lt;/a&gt; as a
 492 Debian Edu client, and using it he can take the existing
 493 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspbian.org/FrontPage‎&quot;&gt;Raspbian&lt;/a&gt; installation and
 494 transform it into a fully functioning Debian Edu Workstation (or
 495 Roaming Workstation, or whatever :).&lt;/p&gt;
 496
 497 &lt;p&gt;The default setting in the script is to create a KDE Workstation.
 498 If a LXDE based Roaming workstation is wanted instead, modify the
 499 PROFILE and DESKTOP values at the top to look like this instead:&lt;/p&gt;
 500
 501 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 502 PROFILE=&quot;Roaming-Workstation&quot;
 503 DESKTOP=&quot;lxde&quot;
 504 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 505
 506 &lt;p&gt;The script could even become useful to set up Debian Edu servers in
 507 the cloud, by starting with a virtual Debian installation at some
 508 virtual hosting service and setting up all the services on first
 509 boot.&lt;/p&gt;
 510 </description>
 511         </item>
 512
 513         <item>
 514                 <title>Second alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
 515                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
 516                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
 517                 <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 518                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 519 project&lt;/a&gt; is making great progress and made its second Wheezy based
 520 release today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
 521
 522 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released
 523 2013-05-14&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 524
 525 &lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
 526 alpha1, based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; with
 527 codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
 528
 529 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 530
 531 &lt;p&gt;Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
 532 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 533 configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
 534 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 535 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 536 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 537 initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
 538 other machines can be installed via the network.&lt;/p&gt;
 539
 540 &lt;p&gt;This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
 541 not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
 542 version compared to the Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
 543
 544 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 545 &lt;ul&gt;
 546   &lt;li&gt;Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
 547     default.&lt;/li&gt;
 548   &lt;li&gt;Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.&lt;/li&gt;
 549   &lt;li&gt;Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.&lt;/li&gt;
 550   &lt;li&gt;Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
 551     ibus-anthy.&lt;/li&gt;
 552 &lt;/ul&gt;
 553
 554 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 555 &lt;ul&gt;
 556
 557   &lt;li&gt;Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
 558     reliability improvements.&lt;/li&gt;
 559   &lt;li&gt;Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
 560     of &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/706434&quot;&gt;706434&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 561   &lt;li&gt;Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
 562     problems.&lt;/li&gt;
 563   &lt;li&gt;Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
 564     direct:// URL.&lt;/li&gt;
 565   &lt;li&gt;Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.&lt;/li&gt;
 566   &lt;li&gt;Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.&lt;/li&gt;
 567   &lt;li&gt;Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.&lt;/li&gt;
 568   &lt;li&gt;Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
 569     servers, to make room for all the software installed.&lt;/li&gt;
 570   &lt;li&gt;Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
 571     log in (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/706753&quot;&gt;706753&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
 572 &lt;/ul&gt;
 573
 574 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 575 &lt;ul&gt;
 576
 577   &lt;li&gt;IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
 578     (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/705900&quot;&gt;705900&lt;/a&gt;).  Only install
 579     libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
 580   &lt;li&gt;DVD images are not yet ready.&lt;/li&gt;
 581   &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
 582     available yet (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;698840&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
 583   &lt;li&gt;Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).&lt;/li&gt;
 584   &lt;li&gt;KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.&lt;/li&gt;
 585   &lt;li&gt;LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
 586     (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.&lt;/li&gt;
 587   &lt;li&gt;Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
 588     password submission problem
 589     (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;700257&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
 590
 591 &lt;/ul&gt;
 592
 593 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 594
 595 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
 596 &lt;ul&gt;
 597
 598   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 599   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 600   &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
 601
 602 &lt;/ul&gt;
 603
 604 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b&lt;/p&gt;
 605
 606 &lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c&lt;/p&gt;
 607
 608 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 609
 610 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 611 </description>
 612         </item>
 613
 614         <item>
 615                 <title>Narvik sparer minst 9 millioner på å bruke Skolelinux</title>
 616                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</link>
 617                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</guid>
 618                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 619                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I fjor sommer ble jeg
 620 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html&quot;&gt;gledelig
 621 overrasket&lt;/a&gt; over et oppslag i avisen Fremover om Narvik kommunes
 622 bruk av &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  Oppslaget
 623 var basert på et notat som besvarte spørsmål fra ordfører Tor Nysæter
 624 og rådgiver for skolesektoren, Petter Falkbu, om bruken av Skolelinux
 625 i Narvikskolene og konstnaden ved å gå over til Windows.  For litt
 626 over en uke siden siden fikk jeg endelig bedt kommunen om å få innsyn
 627 i dette notatet, og det ble oversendt på epost tirsdag.  Jeg fikk
 628 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Narvik-kommune/2013-04-29-09:12-skolelinux-notat/PetterFalkbuogwindowsfornarvikskolen%20(L)351310.pdf&quot;&gt;lagt
 629 ut notatet&lt;/a&gt; samme dag, og fikk i dag sjekket postlista til Narvik,
 630 der jeg fant notatet som
 631 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.narvik.kommune.no/innsyn.aspx?response=arkivsak_detaljer&amp;arkivsakid=2013001023&amp;scripturi=/innsyn.aspx&amp;skin=infolink&amp;Mid1=301&amp;&quot;&gt;sak
 632 2013/1023&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 633
 634 &lt;p&gt;Notatet forteller at Narvik ville måtte betalt minst 9 millioner
 635 for å gå over til Windows på skolene.  I tillegg dokumenterer notatet
 636 at læreplanens krav oppfylles uten problemer ved bruk av Skolelinux.
 637 Jeg anbefaler alle å lese de 10 sidene med gode argumenter for å kutte
 638 unødige utgifter på IT i skoleverket. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 639 </description>
 640         </item>
 641
 642         <item>
 643                 <title>Debian Wheezy is out - and Debian Edu / Skolelinux should soon follow! #newinwheezy</title>
 644                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</link>
 645                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</guid>
 646                 <pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 07:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 647                 <description>&lt;p&gt;When I woke up this morning, I was very happy to see that the
 648 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504&quot;&gt;release announcement
 649 for Debian Wheezy&lt;/a&gt; was waiting in my mail box.  This is a great
 650 Debian release, and I expect to move my machines at home over to it fairly
 651 soon.&lt;/p&gt;
 652
 653 &lt;p&gt;The new debian release contain heaps of new stuff, and one program
 654 in particular make me very happy to see included.  The
 655 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scratch.mit.edu/&quot;&gt;Scratch&lt;/a&gt; program, made famous by
 656 the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.code.org/&quot;&gt;Teach kids code&lt;/a&gt; movement, is
 657 included for the first time.  Alongside similar programs like
 658 &lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/&quot;&gt;kturtle&lt;/a&gt; and
 659 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art&quot;&gt;turtleart&lt;/a&gt;,
 660 it allow for visual programming where syntax errors can not happen,
 661 and a friendly programming environment for learning to control the
 662 computer.  Scratch will also be included in the next release of Debian
 663 Edu.&lt;/a&gt;
 664
 665 &lt;p&gt;And now that Wheezy is wrapped up, we can wrap up the next Debian
 666 Edu/Skolelinux release too.  The
 667 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/04/msg00132.html&quot;&gt;first
 668 alpha release&lt;/a&gt; went out last week, and the next should soon
 669 follow.&lt;p&gt;
 670 </description>
 671         </item>
 672
 673         <item>
 674                 <title>First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
 675                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
 676                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
 677                 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 678                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
 679 its first Wheezy based release today.  This is the release
 680 announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
 681
 682 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
 683 2013-04-26&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 684
 685 &lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
 686 edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
 687
 688 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 689
 690 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
 691 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 692 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 693 network. Immediatly after installation a school server running all
 694 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 695 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 696 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 697 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
 698 installed via the network.&lt;/p&gt;
 699
 700 &lt;p&gt;This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
 701 not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
 702 version compared to the Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
 703
 704 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 705
 706 &lt;ul&gt;
 707 &lt;li&gt;Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
 708   &lt;ul&gt;
 709      &lt;li&gt;Linux kernel 3.2.x&lt;/li&gt;
 710      &lt;li&gt;Desktop environments KDE &quot;Plasma&quot; 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
 711          (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
 712          manual.)&lt;/li&gt;
 713      &lt;li&gt;Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR&lt;/li&gt;
 714      &lt;li&gt;LibreOffice 3.5.4&lt;/li&gt;
 715      &lt;li&gt;LTSP 5.4.2&lt;/li&gt;
 716      &lt;li&gt;GOsa 2.7.4&lt;/li&gt;
 717      &lt;li&gt;CUPS print system 1.5.3&lt;/li&gt;
 718      &lt;li&gt;Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01&lt;/li&gt;
 719      &lt;li&gt;Music creator Rosegarden 12.04&lt;/li&gt;
 720      &lt;li&gt;Image editor Gimp 2.8.2&lt;/li&gt;
 721      &lt;li&gt;Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1&lt;/li&gt;
 722      &lt;li&gt;Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3&lt;/li&gt;
 723      &lt;li&gt;Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6&lt;/li&gt;
 724      &lt;li&gt;New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
 725          &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual&quot;&gt;installation
 726          manual&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/li&gt;
 727      &lt;li&gt;Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
 728          installation.&lt;/li&gt;
 729      &lt;li&gt;More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
 730          &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes&quot;&gt;release notes&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual&quot;&gt;installation manual&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 731   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 732 &lt;/ul&gt;
 733
 734 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Documentation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 735 &lt;ul&gt;
 736 &lt;li&gt;The (&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
 737     German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
 738     for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.&lt;/li&gt;
 739 &lt;/ul&gt;
 740
 741 &lt;p&gt;&lt;Strong&gt;LDAP related changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 742 &lt;ul&gt;
 743 &lt;li&gt;Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
 744     choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
 745     server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.&lt;/li&gt;
 746 &lt;/ul&gt;
 747
 748 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 749 &lt;ul&gt;
 750 &lt;li&gt;LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
 751     configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
 752     entry in lts.conf or LDAP.&lt;li&gt;
 753 &lt;li&gt;GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
 754     functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
 755     completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.&lt;/li&gt;
 756 &lt;/ul&gt;
 757
 758 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regressions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 759 &lt;ul&gt;
 760 &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
 761     yet.&lt;/li&gt;
 762 &lt;/ul&gt;
 763
 764 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No updated artwork&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 765
 766 &lt;ul&gt;
 767 &lt;li&gt;Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
 768     screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
 769     had for our Squeeze based release.&lt;/li&gt;
 770 &lt;/ul&gt;
 771
 772 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 773
 774 To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
 775 &lt;ul&gt;
 776 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 777 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 778 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&lt;/li&gt;
 779 &lt;/ul&gt;
 780
 781 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c&lt;/p&gt;
 782
 783 &lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2&lt;/p&gt;
 784
 785 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 786
 787 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 788 </description>
 789         </item>
 790
 791         <item>
 792                 <title>First Debian Edu / Skolelinux developer gathering in 2013 take place in Trondheim</title>
 793                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_developer_gathering_in_2013_take_place_in_Trondheim.html</link>
 794                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_developer_gathering_in_2013_take_place_in_Trondheim.html</guid>
 795                 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 796                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This years first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux /
 797 Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; developer gathering take place the coming weekend in Trondheim.
 798 Details about the gathering can be found
 799 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2013-04-19-21-Trondheim&quot;&gt;on
 800 the FRiSK wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  The dates are 19-21th of April 2013, and online
 801 participation for those unable to make it in person is very welcome,
 802 and I plan to participate online myself as I could not leave Oslo this
 803 weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
 804
 805 &lt;p&gt;The focus of the gathering is to work on the web pages and project
 806 infrastructure, and to continue the work on the Wheezy based Debian
 807 Edu release.&lt;/p&gt;
 808
 809 &lt;p&gt;See you on &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;IRC, #debian-edu on irc.debian.org,&lt;/a&gt; then?&lt;/p&gt;
 810 </description>
 811         </item>
 812
 813         <item>
 814                 <title>Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz</title>
 815                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</link>
 816                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</guid>
 817                 <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 818                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Via
 819 &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;
 820 I just discovered that &lt;a href=&quot;http://pcwizz.net/&quot;&gt;Pcwizz&lt;/a&gt; have
 821 done a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc&quot;&gt;video
 822 review&lt;/a&gt; on Youtube of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
 823 / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; version 6.  He installed the standalone profile and
 824 the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of
 825 a few programs and his view of our distribution.&lt;/p&gt;
 826
 827 &lt;p&gt;There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might
 828 have heard wrong).  While looking thought the Graphics menu:&lt;/p&gt;
 829
 830 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 831 &quot;Basically everything you ever need in a school environment.&quot;
 832 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 833
 834 &lt;p&gt;And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:&lt;/p&gt;
 835
 836 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 837 &quot;So, yeah, a bit bloated.  It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just
 838 to keep it nice and GNU.  So, I do not want to go on about it, but
 839 lets give it 7 out of 10.  I am not going to use it.  That is because
 840 I am not deploying a school network.  There may be some mythical
 841 feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network.&quot;
 842 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 843
 844 &lt;p&gt;To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE
 845 installation option.  It make it possible to install only the main
 846 server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be
 847 considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 848
 849 &lt;p&gt;While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment
 850 about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem:
 851
 852 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 853 &quot;[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one
 854 is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you
 855 actually don&#39;t need in the education distribution, but have just been
 856 included because it isn&#39;t stripped out for some reason.&quot;
 857 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 858
 859 &lt;p&gt;I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and
 860 Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into
 861 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries&quot;&gt;one
 862 consistent menu system&lt;/a&gt; instead of two incomplete and partly
 863 inconsistent menu systems.&lt;/p&gt;
 864
 865 &lt;p&gt;The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe
 866 embedding:&lt;/p&gt;
 867
 868 &lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/wPzTZ61Pcuc&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
 869 </description>
 870         </item>
 871
 872         <item>
 873                 <title>First Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze update released</title>
 874                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_update_released.html</link>
 875                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_update_released.html</guid>
 876                 <pubDate>Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 877                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Last Sunday, 2013-03-03,, Holger Levsen announced the first update
 878 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt;
 879 based on Debian Squeeze.  This is the first update since
 880 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;the
 881 initial release 2012-03-11&lt;/a&gt;.  This is the
 882 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2013/03/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;release
 883 announcement email from Holger&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
 884
 885 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
 886
 887 &lt;p&gt;it&#39;s my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Debian
 888 Edu 6.0.7+r1 (&quot;Debian Edu Squeeze&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;
 889
 890 &lt;p&gt;Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 is an incremental update to Debian Edu
 891 6.0.4+r0, containing all the changes between Debian 6.0.4 and 6.0.7 as
 892 well Debian Edu specific bugfixes and enhancements. See below (in this
 893 mail) for the full list of (edu) changes.  Please see
 894 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311&lt;/a&gt;
 895 for more information on &quot;Debian Edu Squeeze&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
 896
 897 &lt;p&gt;Images are available for download at
 898 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 899
 900 &lt;p&gt;md5sums:
 901 &lt;br&gt;1fe79eb4f0f9ae1c58fc318e26cc1e2e  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-CD.iso
 902 &lt;br&gt;a6ddd924a8bd9a1b5ca122e8fe1c34ec  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
 903 &lt;br&gt;ac6c72cd7925ccec51bfbf58e2a7c69c  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-source-DVD.iso&lt;/p&gt;
 904
 905 &lt;p&gt;sha1sums:
 906 &lt;br&gt;a4b58233b672a99c7df8dc24fb6de3327654a5c3  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-CD.iso
 907 &lt;br&gt;9b524915e0ff2aa793f13d93123e5bd2bab2dbaa  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
 908 &lt;br&gt;43997614893fc5e9e59ad6ce066b05d07fd836fa  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-source-DVD.iso&lt;/p&gt;
 909
 910 &lt;p&gt;These images are suitable for amd64+i386.&lt;/p&gt;
 911
 912 &lt;p&gt;Changes for Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 Codename &quot;Squeeze&quot;, released
 913 2013-03-03:&lt;/p&gt;
 914
 915 &lt;ul&gt;
 916   &lt;li&gt;sitesummary was updated from 0.1.3 to 0.1.8
 917   &lt;ul&gt;
 918         &lt;li&gt;Make Nagios configuration more robust and efficient&lt;/li&gt;
 919         &lt;li&gt;Comply with 3.X kernel&lt;/li&gt;
 920   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 921   &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-doc from 1.4~20120310~6.0.4+r0 to 1.4~20130228~6.0.7+r1
 922   &lt;ul&gt;
 923         &lt;li&gt;Minor updates from the wiki&lt;/li&gt;
 924         &lt;li&gt;Danish translation now complete&lt;/li&gt;
 925   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 926   &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-config from 1.453 to 1.455
 927      &lt;ul&gt;
 928         &lt;li&gt;Fix /etc/hosts for LTSP diskless workstations. Closes: #699880&lt;/li&gt;
 929         &lt;li&gt;Make ltsp_local_mount script work for multiple devices.&lt;/li&gt;
 930         &lt;li&gt;Correct Kerberos user policy: don&#39;t expire password after 2 days.
 931                 Closes: #664596&lt;/li&gt;
 932         &lt;li&gt;Handle &#39;#&#39; characters in the root or first users password.
 933                 Closes: #664976&lt;/li&gt;
 934         &lt;li&gt;Fixes for gosa-sync:
 935            &lt;ul&gt;
 936                 &lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t fail if password contains &quot;&lt;/li&gt;
 937                 &lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t disclose new password string in syslog&lt;/li&gt;
 938            &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 939         &lt;li&gt;Fixes for gosa-create:
 940            &lt;ul&gt;
 941                 &lt;li&gt;Invalidate libnss cache before applying changes&lt;/li&gt;
 942                 &lt;li&gt;Multiple failures during mass user import into GOsa²&lt;/li&gt;
 943                 &lt;li&gt;gosa-netgroups plugin: don&#39;t erase entries of attribute type
 944                          &quot;memberNisNetgroup&quot;. Closes: #687256&lt;/li&gt;
 945                 &lt;li&gt;First user now uses the same Kerberos policy as all other users&lt;/li&gt;
 946            &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 947         &lt;li&gt;Add Danish web page&lt;/li&gt;
 948     &lt;/ul&gt;
 949   &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-install from 1.528 to 1.530
 950     &lt;ul&gt;
 951         &lt;li&gt;Improve preseeding support and documentation&lt;/li&gt;
 952     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 953 &lt;/ul&gt;
 954
 955 &lt;p&gt;End-user documentation in English is available at
 956 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/&lt;/a&gt;
 957 - translations to French, Italian, Danish and German are available in
 958 the debian-edu-doc package. (Other languages could use your help!)&lt;/p&gt;
 959
 960 &lt;p&gt;If you want to contribute to Debian Edu, please join our
 961 mailinglist
 962 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@lists.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;!
 963 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
 964
 965 &lt;p&gt;I am very happy to see the fruits of a year of hard work. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 966 </description>
 967         </item>
 968
 969         <item>
 970                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Helge Tore Høyland</title>
 971                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Helge_Tore_H_yland.html</link>
 972                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Helge_Tore_H_yland.html</guid>
 973                 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
 974                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter en lang pause og travle uker har jeg endelig klart å få
 975 samlet et nytt intervju med en av folkene i
 976 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet.
 977 Denne gang er det Helge Tore Høyland, en mangeårig bidragsyter på
 978 epostlistene og ellers i prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
 979
 980 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 981
 982 &lt;p&gt;Eg er IT-konsulent/teknikker hjå eit firma i Steinkjer med navn
 983 &lt;a href=&quot;http://unoit.no/&quot;&gt;Uno IT&lt;/a&gt;.  Uno IT er eit lite firma som
 984 drifter nettverk og maskiner for små og mellomstore firma
 985 Steinkjer-området. Per dags dato er me 2 ansatte. Min faglege bakgrunn
 986 er Fagbrev som it-teknikker, samt nokre fag innen nettverk- og
 987 server-drift frå HiST og NTNU. Dagleg arbeid består i oppsett av nye
 988 maskiner og hjelp til sluttbrukere, samt oppsett og vedlikehold av eit
 989 vidt spekter av fagsystemer ute hjå kunder. Erfaring med Skolelinux
 990 har eg hatt i forbindelse med drifting av
 991 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bjorkly.no/&quot;&gt;Bjørkly skule&lt;/a&gt;, ein privat
 992 grunnskule i Namsos-området.  I dag har skulen 65 elever, 15 lærere, 1
 993 hovedserver og ca 60 klienter som kjører halvtjukt.  Eg har bygd og
 994 driftet systemet sidan summaren 2006.&lt;/p&gt;
 995
 996 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 997
 998 &lt;p&gt;Eg kom i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet via ein artikkel i eit
 999 fagblad, som eg ikkje lenger hugsar namnet på.  I og med at eg allereie
1000 hadde pusla med nettverk for ein annan skule, fatta eg straks
1001 interesse for prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
1002
1003 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1004
1005 &lt;p&gt;Fordelane med Skolelinux er sentralisert administrasjon og svært
1006 mange gode verktøy «ut av boksen». Veldig kjekt å kunne drifte 60
1007 klientar med berre å «bry» seg med ein server. Levetid for systemets
1008 hardware er og ein veldig fin effekt. I tillegg kjem fordelar som økt
1009 sikkerhet og mindre lisenskostnader. Etter min erfaring er det og
1010 mykje mindre driftskostnader med eit slikt system enn konkurrerande
1011 system, pga enkelhet med sentralisert administrasjon. På grunn av at
1012 Skolelinux er basert på Debian er det òg svært stabilt.&lt;/p&gt;
1013
1014 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1015
1016 &lt;p&gt;Ulemper er mangel på vilje til å følge standarer ute i markedet,
1017 som fører til mangel på støtte til nokre mykje brukte ting. Flash og
1018 Java er typiske eksempel. Sidan Debian satsar på stabilitet framfor å
1019 ha nyeste pakke av eit program, kan ein i nokre tilfeller kome borti
1020 at program vert «for gamle». Det er spesielt nettlesaren som er
1021 utsett. Mangel på vilje til å utvikle pedagogisk programvare, i Noreg,
1022 for «alle» platformer fører òg til noko hovudbry.&lt;/p&gt;
1023
1024 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1025
1026 &lt;p&gt;Til dagleg bruker eg svært mange forskjellige «fri programvare»
1027 program.  Firefox, Thunderbird, Freecommander, ImgBurn, Clonezilla,
1028 OCS inventory, Icinga, Skolelinux, SystemRescueCD og mykje meir.&lt;/p&gt;
1029
1030 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
1031 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1032
1033 &lt;p&gt;Strategisk må ein fokusere på at sluttbruker eigentleg ikkje er så
1034 fokusert på at det er fri programvare men at det skal «berre fungere».
1035 Gjer det enkelt å bruker og ikkje minst å administrere. For Skolelinux
1036 sin del må ein få eit betre fokus på overganger. Utbytting av servere
1037 må gå meir automatisk, import og eksport av brukerbase og maskinbase
1038 med meir må kunne gå enkelt og oppgradering til neste versjon må bli
1039 mykje meir automatisk og gjennomtesta. Ein må unngå at ein må sette
1040 opp frå start når ein byter ut ein server eller oppgraderer til neste
1041 versjon. For å få Skolelinux til å bli eit betre alternativ for skular
1042 må ein ha fokus på nettlesaren. Denne må bli «up to date» og støtte
1043 dei protokollar og tillegg som vert brukt av forlag med meir.  Etter
1044 kvart som meir og meir blir flytta ut i «skya» vert dette viktigare og
1045 viktigare. Ein kunne ynskje og jobbe for at forlag med fleire tar i
1046 bruk opne standarer, men inntil det skjer, må systemet kunne brukast
1047 mot desse fagsystema.&lt;/p&gt;
1048
1049 &lt;p&gt;For meg har prosjektet med Skolelinux vore ein svært artig og
1050 lærerik prosess. Miljøet rundt er ikkje enormt stort, dog stort nok,
1051 men det er svært hjelpevillig og engasjert.&lt;/p&gt;
1052 </description>
1053         </item>
1054
1055         <item>
1056                 <title>A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu</title>
1057                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</link>
1058                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</guid>
1059                 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
1060                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I was happy to discover a few days ago that the
1061 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt;
1062 project also this year received a Christmas present from Another
1063 Agency in Trondheim.  NOK 1000,- showed up on our donation account
1064 December 24th.  I want to express our thanks for this very welcome
1065 present.  As the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is very short on
1066 funding these days, and thus lack the money to do regular developer
1067 gatherings, this donation was most welcome.  One developer gathering
1068 cost around NOK 15&amp;nbsp;000,-, so we need quite a lot more to keep the
1069 development pace we want.  Thus, I hope their example this year is
1070 followed by many others. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1071
1072 &lt;p&gt;The public list of donors can be found on
1073 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html&quot;&gt;the
1074 donation page&lt;/a&gt; for the project, which also contain instructions if
1075 you want to donate to the project.&lt;/p&gt;
1076 </description>
1077         </item>
1078
1079         <item>
1080                 <title>Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</title>
1081                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html</link>
1082                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html</guid>
1083                 <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
1084                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I came across
1085 &lt;a href=&quot;http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/&quot;&gt;a blog post from Joey
1086 Hess&lt;/a&gt; describing &lt;a href=&quot;http://ledger-cli.org/&quot;&gt;ledger&lt;/a&gt; and
1087 hledger, a text based system for double-entry accounting.  I found it
1088 interesting, as I am involved with several organizations where
1089 accounting is an issue, and I have not really become too friendly with
1090 the different web based systems we use.  I find it hard to find what I
1091 look for in the menus and even harder try to get sensible data out of
1092 the systems.  Ledger seem different.  The accounting data is kept in
1093 text files that can be stored in a version control system, and there
1094
1095 are at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports&quot;&gt;five
1096 different implementations&lt;/a&gt; able to read the format.  An example
1097 entry look like this, and is simple enough that it will be trivial to
1098 generate entries based on CVS files fetched from the bank:&lt;/p&gt;
1099
1100 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
1101 2004-05-27 Book Store
1102       Expenses:Books                 $20.00
1103       Liabilities:Visa
1104 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
1105
1106 &lt;p&gt;The concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out and
1107 look for others using it.  I found blog posts from
1108 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.spang.cc/posts/hledger_rocks_my_world/&quot;&gt;Christine
1109 Spang&lt;/a&gt;,
1110 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html&quot;&gt;Pete
1111 Keen&lt;/a&gt;,
1112 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2010/11/06/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/&quot;&gt;Andrew
1113 Cantino&lt;/a&gt; and
1114 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/11/29/command-line-double-entry-accounting/&quot;&gt;Ronald
1115 Ip&lt;/a&gt; describing how they use it, as well as a post from
1116 &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ledger-cli/r0oWjwbQ9Bo&quot;&gt;Bradley
1117 M. Kuhn&lt;/a&gt; at the Software Freedom Conservancy.  All seemed like good
1118 recommendations fitting my need.&lt;/p&gt;
1119
1120 &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ledger.html&quot;&gt;ledger&lt;/a&gt;
1121 package is available in Debian Squeeze, while the
1122 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-hledger.html&quot;&gt;hledger&lt;/a&gt;
1123 package only is available in Debian Sid.  As I use Squeeze, ledger
1124 seemed the best choice to get started.&lt;/p&gt;
1125
1126 &lt;p&gt;To get some real data to test on, I wrote a
1127 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/tools/lodo2ledger&quot;&gt;web scraper&lt;/a&gt; for
1128 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lodo.no/&quot;&gt;LODO&lt;/a&gt;, the accounting system used by
1129 the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; association, and started to
1130 play with the data set.  I&#39;m not really deeply into accounting, but I
1131 am able to get a simple balance and accounting status for example
1132 using the &quot;&lt;tt&gt;ledger balance&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; command.  But I will have to
1133 gather more experience before I know if the ledger way is a good fit
1134 for the organisations I am involved in.&lt;/p&gt;
1135 </description>
1136         </item>
1137
1138         <item>
1139                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Angela Fuß</title>
1140                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Angela_Fu_.html</link>
1141                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Angela_Fu_.html</guid>
1142                 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
1143                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is another interview with one of the people in the &lt;a
1144 href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
1145 community.  I am running short on people willing to be interviewed, so
1146 if you know about someone I should interview, Please send me an email.
1147 After asking for many months, I finally managed to lure another one of
1148 the people behind the German
1149 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.it-zukunft-schule.de/&quot;&gt;IT-Zukunft Schule&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
1150 project out from maternity leave to conduct an interview.  Give a warm
1151 welcome to Angela Fuß. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1152
1153 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1154
1155 &lt;p&gt;I am a 39-year-old woman living in the very north of Germany near
1156 Denmark. I live in a patchwork family with &quot;my man&quot; Mike Gabriel, my
1157 two daughters, Mikes daughter and Mikes and my rather newborn son.
1158
1159 &lt;p&gt;At the moment - because of our little baby - I am spending most of
1160 the day by being a caring and organising mom for all the kids.
1161 Besides that I am really involved into and occupied with several inner
1162 growth processes: New born souls always bring the whole familiar
1163 system into movement and that needs time and focus ;-).  We are also
1164 in the middle of buying a house and moving to it.&lt;/p&gt;
1165
1166 &lt;p&gt;In 2013 I will work again in my job in a German foundation for
1167 nature conservation. I am doing public relation work there.  Besides
1168 that - and that is the connection to Skolelinux / Debian Edu - I am
1169 working in our own school project &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; in North
1170 Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the customer
1171 relationship management and the communication processes in the
1172 project.&lt;/p&gt;
1173
1174 &lt;p&gt;Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication
1175 and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener
1176 and a yoga teacher.&lt;/p&gt;
1177
1178 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
1179 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1180
1181 &lt;p&gt;I fell in love with Mike ;-).&lt;/p&gt;
1182
1183 &lt;p&gt;Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into
1184 Free Software.  At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly
1185 founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for
1186 their IT environment.  Often when Mike came home from working at the
1187 newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about
1188 several points where the communication with the schools head or the
1189 teachers did not work.  So we were clear that he would not work for
1190 one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication
1191 between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the
1192 parents.&lt;/p&gt;
1193
1194 &lt;p&gt;Together with our friend and hardware supplier Andreas Buchholz we
1195 started to get an overview of free software solutions suitable for
1196 schools. One day before Christmas 2010 Mike and I had a date with Kurt
1197 Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really interested in building
1198 networks of people and in being in communication we dived into
1199 Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in Northern
1200 Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
1201
1202 &lt;p&gt;For information about our school project you can read
1203 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html&quot;&gt;the
1204 interview with Mike Gabriel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1205
1206 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
1207 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1208
1209 &lt;p&gt;First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My
1210 answer comes rather from a social point of view.&lt;/p&gt;
1211
1212 &lt;p&gt;The biggest advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu I see is the large
1213 and strong international community of Debian Developers in the
1214 background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs
1215 and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If
1216 something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well
1217 ;-). This is of course a user experience.  What I also get as a big
1218 advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and
1219 works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students,
1220 teachers, parents...&lt;/p&gt;
1221
1222 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
1223 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1224
1225 &lt;p&gt;I will answer this question relating to the internal structure of
1226 Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
1227
1228 &lt;p&gt;What I see as a major disadvantage is that there is a gap between
1229 the group of developers for Debian Edu and the people who make the
1230 marketing, that means the people that bring Skolelinux to the
1231 schools. There is a lack of communication between these two groups and
1232 I think that does not really work for Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
1233
1234 &lt;p&gt;Further I appreciate that Skolelinux / Debian Edu is known as a
1235 do-ocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a
1236 democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good
1237 and helpful.  I am also missing some kind of contact between the
1238 Skolelinux / Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international
1239 level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the
1240 different countries using Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
1241
1242 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1243
1244 &lt;p&gt;On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop
1245 on.  As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin,
1246 LaTeX and GnuCash. For mails I am using Horde. And I am really fond of
1247 my N900 running with Maemo.&lt;/p&gt;
1248
1249 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
1250 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1251
1252 &lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that in our school project &quot;IT-Zukunft
1253 Schule&quot; we have developed (and keep developing) a great way to get
1254 schools to use Free Software. We have written a detailed concept for
1255 that so I cannot explain the whole thing here. But in a nutshell the
1256 strategy has three crucial pillars:&lt;/p&gt;
1257
1258 &lt;ul&gt;
1259
1260 &lt;li&gt;We really take time to get what sort of stories, questions and
1261 concerns the schools head and the teachers have about using different
1262 kinds of IT and we take time to enrol them into Free Software.&lt;/li&gt;
1263
1264 &lt;li&gt;Our solution for schools is never just technical. In the centre
1265 are always the people who are going to use the software. From the very
1266 beginning of the planning for a school, we tell the schools head that
1267 they are paying us not only for a technical solution for their school,
1268 they also pay us for leading all the communication processes
1269 needed. If they do not want that, we are not working with them because
1270 we cannot give a guarantee for the quality of our work then.&lt;/li&gt;
1271
1272 &lt;li&gt;Another focus lies in the training of teachers and students in
1273 co-administrating the IT-System at their school. They start getting in
1274 contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu community and they get the
1275 offer to become more and more independent from us.&lt;/li&gt;
1276
1277 &lt;/ul&gt;
1278 </description>
1279         </item>
1280
1281         <item>
1282                 <title>Skolelinux noe for Ballangen? (Leserinnlegg til avisen Fremover)</title>
1283                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_noe_for_Ballangen___Leserinnlegg_til_avisen_Fremover_.html</link>
1284                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_noe_for_Ballangen___Leserinnlegg_til_avisen_Fremover_.html</guid>
1285                 <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1286                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Tirsdag 2012-10-09 sendte jeg følgende leserinnlegg til avisen
1287 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fremover.no/&quot;&gt;Fremover&lt;/a&gt;, etter å ha vært nordpå
1288 noen dager og lest noen gamle aviser.  Publiserer den her i sin helhet
1289 for fremtidig referanse.  Fremover publiserer dessverre ikke
1290 leserinnlegg på nett.&lt;/p&gt;
1291
1292 &lt;blockquote&gt;
1293 &lt;p&gt;To: redaksjon (at) fremover.no
1294 &lt;br&gt;Subject: Leserinnlegg til Fremover: Skolelinux noe for Ballangen?&lt;/p&gt;
1295
1296 &lt;p&gt;Ærede redaktør&lt;/p&gt;
1297
1298 &lt;p&gt;I sommer (2012-07-23) hadde Fremover et oppslag om at Narvik
1299 kommune hadde spart mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de siste årene på
1300 å bruke Skolelinux på sine skoler.  Harstad har også tatt i bruk
1301 Skolelinux på alle sine skoler.  Som tidligere Ballangsværing gledet
1302 det meg stort å se at skoleløsningen vi har utviklet siden 2001 tas i
1303 bruk i området der jeg vokste opp, og dermed bidrar til en bedre og
1304 billigere skolehverdag.&lt;/p&gt;
1305
1306 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er en komplett IT-løsning for elevnettverket på en
1307 skole, med både nettverkstjenester og løsning for elevmaskiner med
1308 pedagogisk programvare, som tillater en å øke levetiden på en
1309 datamaskin i skolen med mange år.  En undersøkelse publisert i mars
1310 2012 viste at de 56 norske skolene som har offentliggjort at de bruker
1311 Skolelinux eller annen Linuxutgave hadde 36% større PC-tetthet enn
1312 landsgjennomsnittet, når en ser på tall rapportert til Grunnskolens
1313 Informasjonssystem.  I følge Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken, IKT-konsulent i
1314 Nord-Odal, fungerer datamaskiner godt til de er 8 til 10 år gamle.&lt;/p&gt;
1315
1316 &lt;p&gt;I høst (2012-09-29) fortalte Fremover hvordan Ballangen kommune har
1317 opparbeidet seg 20 millioner i underskudd og nok havner på Robek-lista
1318 fra nyttår.  Kanskje Ballangen også burde ta i bruk Skolelinux for å
1319 spare penger?  Hvis kommunen mangler kompetanse lokalt på Linux finnes
1320 det kommersielle selskaper som tilbyr driftstjenester rundt
1321 Skolelinux, og jeg bør vel avsløre at jeg selv er involvert i et av
1322 dem, Skolelinux Drift AS.  Kommunen kan dermed få hjelp hvis de ikke
1323 ønsker å bygge opp egen kompetanse.&lt;/p&gt;
1324
1325 &lt;p&gt;Vennlig hilsen
1326 &lt;br&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen
1327 &lt;br&gt;Fri programvareutvikler&lt;/p&gt;
1328
1329 &lt;p&gt;Referanser:&lt;/p&gt;
1330
1331 &lt;ul&gt;
1332
1333 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Linux_skoler_har_h_yere_PC_tetthet_enn_landsgjennomsnittet___pressemelding_fra_FRiSK.html&quot;&gt;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Linux_skoler_har_h_yere_PC_tetthet_enn_landsgjennomsnittet___pressemelding_fra_FRiSK.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1334 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html&quot;&gt;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1335
1336 &lt;/ul&gt;
1337
1338 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
1339
1340 &lt;p&gt;Innlegget ble så vidt jeg vet trykket i papirutgaven et par dager
1341 senere, men jeg har ikke sett det selv.&lt;/p&gt;
1342 </description>
1343         </item>
1344
1345         <item>
1346                 <title>Trengs flere frivillige til korrektur av den frie norske stavekontrollen</title>
1347                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trengs_flere_frivillige_til_korrektur_av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen.html</link>
1348                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trengs_flere_frivillige_til_korrektur_av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen.html</guid>
1349                 <pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
1350                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/&quot;&gt;Den frie norske stavekontrollen&lt;/a&gt;
1351 består av ca. 1,3 millioner bokmåls- og nynorskord.  Det er mange
1352 kilder til ordene, f.eks. den norske ordbanken, norske nett-aviser,
1353 stavekontrollbrukere og korrekturlesere, og endel feil har sneket seg
1354 inn i databasen over ord.  For å finne og fikse feilene trengs det
1355 korrekturlesing.  Her kommer frivillige inn.&lt;/p&gt;
1356
1357 &lt;p&gt;Hvis du vil bidra med korrektur av orddatabasen, kan du melde deg
1358 frivillig som bokmåls- eller nynorskkorrekturleser og få tilsendt en
1359 liten bunke ord på epost hver dag, lese over og sende inn på epost
1360 tilbake til korrekturlesing-systemet.  Jo flere som sjekker, jo
1361 raskere kommer vi igjennom hele databasen.  Så langt har vi oppdaget
1362 341 bokmålsord og 50 nynorskord som ikke skal vært med i databasen.
1363 Det er nok noen flere.  I tillegg har korrekturleserne oppdaget flere
1364 ord som manglet, og fått lagt dem inn i stavekontrollen.&lt;/p&gt;
1365
1366 &lt;p&gt;Hvis du vil bidra, følg instruksene på
1367 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/dokumentasjon.html&quot;&gt;prosjektsidene&lt;/a&gt;
1368
1369 for nye bidragsytere, og ta kontakt med Håvard eller epostlisten
1370 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lister.ping.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/i18n-no&quot;&gt;i18n-no&lt;/a&gt;.
1371 Gode norskkunnskaper er en fordel, og vilje til å sjekke
1372 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nob-ordbok.uio.no/perl/ordbok.cgi&quot;&gt;ordboka&lt;/a&gt; et
1373 krav!&lt;/p&gt;
1374 </description>
1375         </item>
1376
1377         <item>
1378                 <title>Ny utgave (v2.1) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
1379                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_1__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</link>
1380                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_1__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</guid>
1381                 <pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2012 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
1382                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I helga fikk jeg endelig pakket sammen en ny versjon av den norske
1383 stavekontrollen, og gikk ut versjon 2.1 etter at det var gått fire og
1384 et halvt år siden sist.  I dag fikk vi sendt ut annonseringen.  Her er
1385 det vi sendte ut:&lt;/p&gt;
1386
1387 &lt;p&gt;Oslo, 2012-10-02&lt;/p&gt;
1388
1389 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pressemelding: Ny utgave av norsk stavekontroll med
1390 synonymordliste&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1391
1392 &lt;p&gt;Mer enn fire år etter at forrige utgave av den frie norske
1393 stavekontrollen ble utgitt, er en ny og forbedret versjon klar. Dette er
1394 noe utviklerne er veldig glade for.&lt;/p&gt;
1395
1396 &lt;p&gt;Den største endringen er at byggesystemet for stavekontrollen er
1397 skrevet om til å akseptere ord med bindestrek (f.eks. «e-post»). Litt
1398 over 10.000 slike ordformer er lagt til i orddatabasen. I tillegg er
1399 det kommet en del nye ord og rettelser rapportert inn av de frivillige
1400 som gjennomfører korrektur av orddatabasen i prosjektet. For å få
1401 fortgang i dette korrekturarbeidet er det fint med flere frivillige
1402 som kan bidra i prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
1403
1404 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
1405  - En god og fritt tilgjengelig stavekontroll er en viktig byggestein
1406    for å fremme bruken av korrekt norsk språk, sier prosjektdeltager
1407    Petter Reinholdtsen.
1408 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1409
1410 &lt;p&gt;Takket være samarbeidet med synonymordlisteprosjektet er
1411 synonymordlista for bokmål tilgjengelig sammen med ordlista for bokmål
1412 og nynorsk. En synonymordliste for nynorsk er også med, men den er på
1413 prøvestadiet og meget liten.&lt;/p&gt;
1414
1415 &lt;p&gt;Stavekontrollpakken og synonymordlistene brukes i
1416 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox og
1417 en rekke andre programmer, og på både Windows, Mac OS X, Linux og
1418 BSD.&lt;/p&gt;
1419
1420 &lt;p&gt;Det hele utgis under den frie lisensen GPL og kan fritt lastes ned
1421 fra prosjektsidene på
1422 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org&quot;&gt;no.speling.org&lt;/a&gt;. Ferdige pakker for
1423 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er også tilgjengelige fra samme sted.&lt;/p&gt;
1424
1425 &lt;p&gt;Det norske stavekontrollprosjektet er i kontakt med lignende
1426 prosjekter for blant annet å forbedre stavekontrollteknologien, å
1427 utveksle verktøy for vedlikehold av orddatabasen og å få tilgang til
1428 relevante datasett. Et av disse prosjektene er et separat prosjekt ved
1429 Sametinget som er i gang med å utvikle samisk stavekontroll for blant
1430 annet Microsoft Word og OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
1431
1432 &lt;p&gt;Et søsterprosjekt for å lage grammatikk-kontroll for
1433 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er igangsatt, men har ennå ikke kommet
1434 langt nok til å brukes. Frivillige til å bidra i dette prosjektet er
1435 også svært velkomne.&lt;/p&gt;
1436
1437 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kontaktperson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1438
1439 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
1440 Axel Bojer, prosjektdeltager
1441 &lt;br&gt;E-post: fri_programvare (at) bojer.no
1442 &lt;br&gt;Tlf: +47 954 32 417
1443 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1444
1445 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referanser&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1446
1447 &lt;ul&gt;
1448
1449 &lt;li&gt;Det frie norske stavekontrollprosjektet for bokmål og nynorsk:
1450     &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org&quot;&gt;http://no.speling.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1451 &lt;li&gt;Samiske korrekturverktøy:
1452     &lt;a href=&quot;http://divvun.no/&quot;&gt;http://divvun.no/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1453 &lt;li&gt;Ordlistene fra Norsk ordbank:
1454     &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/&quot;&gt;http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1455 &lt;li&gt;Last ned ordlistene:
1456     &lt;a href=&quot;http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577&quot;&gt;http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577&lt;/a&gt;
1457     (PS: no_NO-pack2 for OOo 2.x))&lt;/li&gt;
1458 &lt;/ul&gt;
1459
1460 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fra NEWS-fila i kildekodepakken&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1461
1462 &lt;p&gt;Release 2.1 (2012-09-30)&lt;/p&gt;
1463
1464 &lt;ul&gt;
1465
1466 &lt;li&gt;Switch to new version scheme. Make new version 2.1, not 2.0.11. We do not
1467     release often enough to justify three digits.&lt;/li&gt;
1468 &lt;li&gt;Switch build rules to build OOo v2 thesaurus files, as the v1 build rules
1469     no longer work. This require the libmythes-dev package on Debian.&lt;/li&gt;
1470 &lt;li&gt;Introduce new Makefile variables hyphendir and thesdir to make it easier to
1471     control where to install these.&lt;/li&gt;
1472 &lt;li&gt;Change script used to import from no.speling.org, to load new word
1473     boundaries if at least two people believed the boundaries was correct.&lt;/li&gt;
1474 &lt;li&gt;Added word boundaries for several words (around 500 words) using the
1475     updated script.&lt;/li&gt;
1476 &lt;li&gt;Imported thesarus for bokmål from synonymer.merg.net.&lt;/li&gt;
1477 &lt;li&gt;Rewrote build rules to use = instead of - as combined word marker, thus
1478     allowing words like e-post.&lt;/li&gt;
1479 &lt;li&gt;Imported a lot (around 10k words) of new words with dash (-) in them from
1480     no.speling.org now that it is handled by the build system.&lt;/li&gt;
1481 &lt;/ul&gt;
1482 </description>
1483         </item>
1484
1485         <item>
1486                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</title>
1487                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</link>
1488                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</guid>
1489                 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
1490                 <description>&lt;p&gt;After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
1491 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
1492 community, I finally found time to wrap up another.  This time it is
1493 Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
1494 this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
1495 administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
1496 conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.&lt;/p&gt;
1497
1498 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1499
1500 &lt;p&gt;I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
1501 in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of &quot;light&quot;
1502 university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
1503 Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
1504 IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
1505 got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
1506 labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
1507 the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
1508 training is anyway very important&lt;/p&gt;
1509
1510 &lt;p&gt;I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
1511 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spse.ch/&quot;&gt;SPSE school&lt;/a&gt; (secondary) is a very
1512 special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
1513 all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
1514 recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
1515
1516 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
1517 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1518
1519 &lt;p&gt;Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
1520 already several years ago. But since the system was still not
1521 Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn&#39;t
1522 use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
1523 next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
1524 hole.&lt;/p&gt;
1525
1526 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
1527 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1528
1529 &lt;p&gt;Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
1530 very generous for help and hints.  Chat help is crucial, together with
1531 the mailing list.  Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
1532 engineered platform and you don&#39;t have to start to build up your PDC
1533 and your clients from GNU/scratch; I&#39;ve already done this once and I
1534 can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
1535 platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
1536 head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
1537 hassle.&lt;/p&gt;
1538
1539 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
1540 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1541
1542 &lt;p&gt;The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
1543 flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
1544 there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
1545 need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
1546 devices that have specific software packages for another specific
1547 distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
1548 Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
1549 and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
1550
1551 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1552
1553 &lt;p&gt;I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
1554 mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
1555 combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
1556 &lt;a href=&quot;http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html&quot;&gt;Perceus&lt;/a&gt;
1557 has the same...&lt;/p&gt;
1558
1559 &lt;p&gt;For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
1560 only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
1561 something breaks.  Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
1562 statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
1563
1564 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
1565 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1566
1567 &lt;P&gt;I think that the only real argument that school managers &quot;hear&quot; is
1568 cost reduction. They don&#39;t give too much weight on quality, stability,
1569 just because they are normally not open to change.&lt;/p&gt;
1570
1571 &lt;p&gt;Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
1572 to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
1573 don&#39;t.&lt;/p&gt;
1574
1575 &lt;p&gt;We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
1576 laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
1577 we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
1578 machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
1579 reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
1580 repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
1581 Those who don&#39;t have such needs will hardly move to Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
1582 </description>
1583         </item>
1584
1585         <item>
1586                 <title>Gladoppslag om Skolelinux i avisen Fremover</title>
1587                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html</link>
1588                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html</guid>
1589                 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
1590                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I sommer hadde avisen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fremover.no/&quot;&gt;Fremover&lt;/a&gt;
1591 et flott oppslag om bruken av
1592 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; på alle skolene
1593 der.  Artikkelen var på trykk på side 4 og 5 i papirutgaven
1594 2012-07-23, men mangler dessverre i nettutgaven av avisen.  Mine
1595 henvendelser til avisen for å få artikkelen på nett har så langt ikke
1596 vært vellykket.&lt;/p&gt;
1597
1598 &lt;p&gt;Artikkelen med tittelen &quot;Narvik kommune bruker gratisprogram i
1599 skolen - Har spart millioner&quot;, forteller om hvordan bruken av
1600 Skolelinux er en stor suksess i Narvik siden det ble tatt i bruk i
1601 2004.  Her er noen fine sitater:&lt;/p&gt;
1602
1603 &lt;blockquote&gt;
1604 &quot;- Skolelinux har spart kommunen for store pengesummer, millionbeløp,
1605   som de heller kan bruke på andre ting, sier IKT-konsulent Viggo
1606   Fedreheim.&quot;
1607 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
1608
1609 &lt;p&gt;Avisen forteller at de har fått tilgang til beregninger som viser
1610 at Narvik kommune har spart noe mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de
1611 siste 8 årene på å bruke Skolelinux, og fortsetter:&lt;/p&gt;
1612
1613 &lt;blockquote&gt;
1614
1615 &quot;Regnestykket tar høyde for sparte kostnader til lisenser som medfølger
1616 de alternative operativsystemene, lavere driftskostnader og lengre
1617 levetid på datautstyret.  Totalt har Narvikskolen en maskinpark på
1618 1600 maskiner fordelt på de 11 skolene fra Skjomen i sør til Bjerkvik
1619 i nord.&quot;
1620
1621 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
1622
1623 &lt;p&gt;Viggo Fedreheim sier dette om hvor noe av gevinsten kommer fra:&lt;/p&gt;
1624
1625 &lt;blockquote&gt;
1626 &quot;- Vi kan gjenbruke gamle maskiner i skolen som er for dårlig andre
1627   steder i kommunen der de ikke bruker Skolelinux.  Levetiden på en
1628   datamaskin blir 3-5 år lenger med Skolelinux.  Vi kaller det for
1629   grønn IT, miljøvennlig IT.&quot;
1630 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
1631
1632 &lt;p&gt;Her er det mulighet for flere kommuner å få et godt IT-system på
1633 skolene, hvis de er villige til å forsøke.  De som ikke har kompetanse
1634 innomhus kan kjøpe det fra en av de kommersielle leverandørene av
1635 Skolelinux-tjenester, som &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
1636 Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; (der jeg er styremedlem).  Komplett liste er tilgjengelig
1637 via
1638 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;wikien&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1639
1640 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-08-16: Today I was allowed by Fremover to put the PDF I
1641 received from them with a copy of the article on the Internet.  It is
1642 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/2012-07-23-fremover-narvik.pdf&quot;&gt;now
1643 available&lt;/a&gt; in the Skolelinux press archive.&lt;/p&gt;
1644 </description>
1645         </item>
1646
1647         <item>
1648                 <title>Tips for å bli med i Skolelinux-prosjektet (som faktisk er aktivt)</title>
1649                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tips_for___bli_med_i_Skolelinux_prosjektet__som_faktisk_er_aktivt_.html</link>
1650                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tips_for___bli_med_i_Skolelinux_prosjektet__som_faktisk_er_aktivt_.html</guid>
1651                 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
1652                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg fikk nettopp spørsmål på epost om Skolelinux-prosjektet lever
1653 fra en som var interessert i å bidra, og måtte jo konstatere at i og
1654 med at spørsmålet ble stilt har prosjektet ikke lyktes med å formidle
1655 sin aktivitet.  Her er det jeg svarte:&lt;/p&gt;
1656
1657 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
1658 &lt;p&gt;Jada, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-prosjektet&lt;/a&gt;
1659 lever, men det meste av utvikling foregår nå under paraplyen
1660 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; som er det
1661 internasjonale navnet på prosjektet.  Dugnaden i Norge organiseres av
1662 medlemsforeningen
1663 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
1664 Skolen&lt;/a&gt;, og det finnes minst ett selskap som selger kommersiell
1665 support på løsningen (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
1666 Drift AS&lt;/a&gt;, der jeg er styremedlem).  Anbefaler at du melder deg på
1667 epostlisten
1668 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@lists.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;
1669 (og debian-edu-announce) og
1670 &lt;a href=&quot;http://medlem.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;melder deg inn i
1671 foreningen&lt;/a&gt; for å få beskjed om aktivitet som planlegges.  Det
1672 planlegges
1673 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering&quot;&gt;utviklersamlinger
1674 i august&lt;/a&gt; og utover høsten.&lt;/p&gt;
1675
1676 &lt;p&gt;Bidra gjerne med å spre ordet om Skolelinux.  Det er alt for få som
1677 bidrar til pressedekning, bloggposter, twittermeldinger, etc. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1678
1679 &lt;p&gt;Jeg antar du har funnet
1680 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju/&quot;&gt;bloggserien
1681 min med intervjuer&lt;/a&gt;.  Det er antagelig også interessant for deg å
1682 følge med på &lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Planet
1683 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1684
1685 &lt;p&gt;Hm, jeg burde vel blogge alle disse lenkene slik at de blir enklere
1686 å finne...&lt;/p&gt;
1687 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1688 &lt;p&gt;Herved gjort. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1689 </description>
1690         </item>
1691
1692         <item>
1693                 <title>Debian Edu interview: George Bredberg</title>
1694                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__George_Bredberg.html</link>
1695                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__George_Bredberg.html</guid>
1696                 <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
1697                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
1698 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; project have users all over the globe, but until
1699 recently we have not known about any users in Norway&#39;s neighbour
1700 country Sweden.  This changed when George Bredberg showed up in March
1701 this year on the mailing list, asking interesting questions about how
1702 to adjust and scale the just released
1703 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
1704 Wheezy&lt;/a&gt; setup to his liking.  He granted me an interview, and I am
1705 happy to share his answers with you here.&lt;/p&gt;
1706
1707 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1708
1709 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 44 year old country guy that have been working 12 years at
1710 the same school as 50% IT-manager and 50% Teacher. My educational
1711 background is fil.kand in history and religious beliefs, an exam as a
1712 &quot;folkhighschool&quot; teacher, that is, for teaching grownups.  In
1713 Norwegian I believe it&#39;s called &quot;Vuxenupplaring&quot;. I also have a master
1714 in &quot;Technology and social change&quot;. So I&#39;m not really a tech guy, I
1715 just like to study how humans and technology interact and that is my
1716 perspective when working with IT.&lt;/p&gt;
1717
1718 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
1719 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1720
1721 I have followed the Skolelinux project for quite some time by
1722 now. Earlier I tested out the K12-LTSP project, which we used for some
1723 time, but I really like the idea of having a distribution aimed to be
1724 a complete solution for schools with necessary tools integrated. When
1725 K12-LTSP abandoned that idea some years ago, I started to look more
1726 seriously into Skolelinux instead.
1727
1728 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
1729 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1730
1731 The big point of Skolelinux to me is that it is a complete
1732 distribution, ready to install. It has LDAP-support, MS Windows
1733 integration tools and so forth already configured, saving an
1734 administrator a lot of time and headache. We were using another Linux
1735 based thin-client system called Thinlinc, that has served us very
1736 well. But that Skolelinux is based on VNC and LTSP, to me, is better
1737 when it comes to the kind of multimedia used in schools. That is
1738 showing videos from Youtube or educational TV. It is also easier to
1739 mix thin clients with workstations, since the user settings will be the
1740 same. In our VNC-based solution you had to &quot;beat around the bush&quot; by
1741 setting up a second, hidden, home-directory for user settings for the
1742 workstations, because they will be different from the ones used on the
1743 thin clients. Skolelinux support for diskless workstations are very
1744 convenient since a school today often need to use a class room
1745 projector showing videos in full screen. That is easily done with a
1746 small integrated media computer running as a diskless workstation. You
1747 have only two installs to update and configure. One for the thin
1748 clients and one for the workstations. Also saving a lot of time.  Our
1749 old system was also based on Redhat and CentOS. They are both very
1750 nice distributions, but they are sometimes painfully slow when it
1751 comes to updating multimedia support and multimedia programs (even
1752 such as Gimp), leaving us with a bit &quot;oldish&quot; applications. Debian is
1753 quicker to update.
1754
1755 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
1756 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1757
1758 &lt;p&gt;Debian is a bit too quick when it comes to updating. As an example
1759 we use old HP terminals as thinclients, and two times already this
1760 year (2012) the updates you get from the repositories has stopped
1761 sound from working with them.  It&#39;s a kernel/ALSA issue. So you have
1762 to be more careful properly testing the updates before you run them in
1763 a production environment. This has never happened with CentOS.&lt;/p&gt;
1764
1765 &lt;p&gt;I also would like to be able to set my own domain-settings at
1766 install time.  In Skolelinux they are kind of hard coded into the
1767 distribution, when it comes to LDAP and at least samba integration.
1768 That is more a cosmetic/translation issue, and not a real problem.
1769 Running MS Windows applications within the Skolelinux environment needs
1770 to be better supported. That is, running them seamlessly via RDP, and
1771 support for single-sign on.  That will make the transition to free
1772 software easier, because you can keep the applications you really
1773 need.  No support will make it impossible if you work in a school where
1774 some applications can&#39;t be open source. As for us we really need to
1775 run Adobe InDesign in our journalist classes.  We run a journalist
1776 education, and is one of the very few non university ones that is ok:d
1777 by Svenska journalistförbundet (Swedish journalist association).  Our
1778 education gives the pupils the right of membership there, once they
1779 are done.  This is important if you want to get a job.&lt;/p&gt;
1780
1781 &lt;p&gt;Adobe InDesign is the program most commonly used in newspapers and
1782 magazines.  We used Quark Express before, but they seem to loose there
1783 market to Adobe. The only &quot;equivalent&quot; to InDesign in the opensource
1784 world is Scribus, and its not advanced enough. At least not according
1785 to the teacher. I think it would be possible to use it, because they
1786 are not supposed to learn a program, they are supposed to learn how to
1787 edit and compile a newspaper.  But politically at our school we are not
1788 there yet.  And Scribus lacks a lot of things you find i InDesign.&lt;/p&gt;
1789
1790 &lt;p&gt;We used even a windows program for sound editing when it comes to
1791 the radio-journalist part. The year to come we are going to try
1792 Audacity. That software has the same kind of limitations compared to
1793 Adobe Audition, but that teacher is a bit more open minded. We have
1794 tried Ardour also, but that instead is more like a music studio
1795 program, not intended for the kind of editing taking place in a radio
1796 studio. Its way to complex and the GUI is to scattered when you only
1797 want to cut, make pass-overs, add extra channels and normalise.  Those
1798 things you can do in Audacity, but its not as easy as in Audition. You
1799 have to do more things manually with envelopes, and that is a bit old
1800 fashion and timewasting. Its also harder to cut and move sound from
1801 one channel to another, which is a thing that you do frequently
1802 because you often find yourself needing to rearrange parts of the
1803 sound file.&lt;/p&gt;
1804
1805 &lt;p&gt;So, I am not sure we will succeed in replacing even Audition, but we
1806 will try.  The problem is the students have certain expectations when
1807 they start an education towards a profession.  So the programs has to
1808 look and feel professional.  Good thing with radio, there are many
1809 programs out there, that radio studios use, so its not as standardised
1810 as Newspaper editing. That means, it does not really matter what
1811 program they learn, because once they start working they still have to
1812 learn the program the studio uses, so instead focus has to be to learn
1813 the editing part without to much focus on a specific software.&lt;/p&gt;
1814
1815 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1816
1817 &lt;p&gt;Myself I&#39;m running Linux Mint, or Ubuntu these days.  I use almost
1818 only open source software, and preferably Linux based. When it comes
1819 to most used applications its OpenOffice, and Firefox (of course ;)
1820 )&lt;/p&gt;
1821
1822 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
1823 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1824
1825 &lt;p&gt;To get schools to use free software there has to be good open
1826 source software that are windows based, to ease the transition. But
1827 it&#39;s also very important that the multimedia support is working
1828 flawlessly.  The problems with Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and whatever
1829 will create problems when it comes to both teachers and
1830 students. Economy are also important for schools, so using thin
1831 clients, as long as they have good multimedia support, is a very good
1832 idea. It&#39;s also important that the open source software works even for
1833 the administration.  It&#39;s hard to convince the teachers to stick with
1834 open source, if the principal has to run Windows.  It also creates a
1835 problem if some classes has to use Windows for there tasks, since that
1836 will create a difference in &quot;status&quot; between classes, so a good
1837 support for running windows applications via the thin client (Linux)
1838 desktop is essential.  At least at our school, where we have mixed
1839 level of educations, from high-school to journalist-school.&lt;/p&gt;
1840
1841 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-07-09 08:30: Paul Wise tipped me on IRC about three
1842 useful sources related to Free Software for radio stations: the LWN
1843 article &lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/Articles/481607/&quot;&gt;Radio station
1844 management with Airtime&lt;/a&gt;,
1845 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/&quot;&gt;Airtime&lt;/a&gt; which
1846 claim to be a Free open source radio automation software and
1847 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rivendellaudio.org/&quot;&gt;Rivendell&lt;/a&gt; which claim to
1848 be complete radio broadcast automation solution.  All of them seem
1849 useful to the aspiring radio producer.&lt;/p&gt;
1850 </description>
1851         </item>
1852
1853         <item>
1854                 <title>Why do schools waste money on IT?</title>
1855                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_do_schools_waste_money_on_IT_.html</link>
1856                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_do_schools_waste_money_on_IT_.html</guid>
1857                 <pubDate>Sun, 8 Jul 2012 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
1858                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, we have realised that one
1859 of the major blockers for the project success is the purchasing skills
1860 in schools and municipalities.  We provide what the happy users of
1861 Debian Edu / Skolelinux say they need and to a lower cost than the
1862 alternatives, and yet so few schools decide to use our solution.  I
1863 was pleased to discover the same observation done by mySociety and Tom
1864 Steinberg in his blog post
1865 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/2012/06/19/can-you-recognize-the-million-pound-chair/&quot;&gt;Can
1866 you recognize the million pound chair?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  Read it and weep for the
1867 spending of your tax money.&lt;/p&gt;
1868
1869 &lt;p&gt;Of course there are other factors involved as well, like our
1870 projects bad marketing skills and the Linux community fragmentation
1871 causing worry with the people on the outside, so we as a project need
1872 to keep working hard to gain users, but it is a up-hill battle when
1873 public decision makers are unable to understand computer system
1874 purchases.&lt;/p&gt;
1875 </description>
1876         </item>
1877
1878         <item>
1879                 <title>Free Timetabling Software - nice free software</title>
1880                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Timetabling_Software___nice_free_software.html</link>
1881                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Timetabling_Software___nice_free_software.html</guid>
1882                 <pubDate>Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
1883                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Included in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
1884 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is a large collection of end user and school specific
1885 software.  It is one of the packages not installed by default but
1886 provided in the Debian archive for schools to install if they want to,
1887 is a system to automatically plan the school time table using
1888 information about available teachers, classes and rooms, combined with
1889 the list of required courses and how many hours each topic should
1890 receive.  The software is
1891
1892 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/&quot;&gt;named FET&lt;/a&gt;, and it provide a
1893 graphical user interface to input the required information, save the
1894 result in a fairly simple XML format, and generate time tables for
1895 both teachers and students.  It is available both for
1896 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/download.html&quot;&gt;Linux, MacOSX and
1897 Windows&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1898
1899 &lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/features.html&quot;&gt;the
1900 feature list&lt;/a&gt;, liftet from the project web site:&lt;/p&gt;
1901
1902 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
1903
1904   &lt;li&gt;FET is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
1905     You can freely use, copy, modify and redistribute it &lt;/li&gt;
1906
1907   &lt;li&gt;Localized to en_US (US English, default), ar (Arabic), ca
1908     (Catalan), da (Danish), de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), fa
1909     (Persian), fr (French), gl (Galician), he (Hebrew), hu
1910     (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), lt (Lithuanian), mk
1911     (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), pt_BR
1912     (Brazilian Portuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), si (Sinhala),
1913     sk (Slovak), sr (Serbian), tr (Turkish), uk (Ukrainian), uz
1914     (Uzbek) and vi (Vietnamese) (incompletely for some languages)
1915     &lt;/li&gt;
1916
1917   &lt;li&gt;Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also
1918     semi-automatic or manual allocation&lt;/li&gt;
1919
1920   &lt;li&gt;Platform independent implementation, allowing running on
1921     GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports &lt;/li&gt;
1922
1923   &lt;li&gt;Flexible modular XML format for the input file, allowing editing
1924     with an XML editor or by hand (besides FET interface)&lt;/li&gt;
1925
1926   &lt;li&gt;Import/export from CSV format&lt;/li&gt;
1927
1928   &lt;li&gt;The resulted timetables are exported into HTML, XML and CSV
1929     formats &lt;/li&gt;
1930
1931   &lt;li&gt;Flexible students structure, organized into sets: years, groups
1932     and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and
1933     non-overlapping subgroups. You can even define individual students
1934     (as separate sets)&lt;/li&gt;
1935
1936   &lt;li&gt;Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0%
1937     (but some special constraints are allowed to have only 100% weight
1938     percentage)&lt;/li&gt;
1939
1940   &lt;li&gt;Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on
1941     demand, as a custom version, because this would require a bit more
1942     memory):
1943     &lt;ul&gt;
1944       &lt;li&gt;Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60&lt;/li&gt;
1945       &lt;li&gt;Maximum number of working days per week: 35&lt;/li&gt;
1946       &lt;li&gt;Maximum total number of teachers: 6000&lt;/li&gt;
1947       &lt;li&gt;Maximum total number of sets of students: 30000&lt;/li&gt;
1948       &lt;li&gt;Maximum total number of subjects: 6000&lt;/li&gt;
1949       &lt;li&gt;Virtually unlimited number of activity tags&lt;/li&gt;
1950       &lt;li&gt;Maximum number of activities: 30000&lt;/li&gt;
1951       &lt;li&gt;Maximum number of rooms: 6000&lt;/li&gt;
1952       &lt;li&gt;Maximum number of buildings: 6000&lt;/li&gt;
1953       &lt;li&gt;Possibility of adding multiple teachers and
1954           students sets for each activity.  (it is possible
1955           also to have no teachers or no students sets for an
1956           activity)&lt;/li&gt;
1957       &lt;li&gt;Virtually unlimited number of time constraints&lt;/li&gt;
1958       &lt;li&gt;Virtually unlimited number of space constraints&lt;/li&gt;
1959     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1960
1961   &lt;li&gt;A large and flexible palette of time constraints:
1962     &lt;ul&gt;
1963       &lt;li&gt;Break periods&lt;/li&gt;
1964       &lt;li&gt;For teacher(s):
1965         &lt;ul&gt;
1966           &lt;li&gt;Not available periods&lt;/li&gt;
1967           &lt;li&gt;Max/min days per week&lt;/li&gt;
1968           &lt;li&gt;Max gaps per day/week&lt;/li&gt;
1969           &lt;li&gt;Max hours daily/continuously&lt;/li&gt;
1970           &lt;li&gt;Min hours daily&lt;/li&gt;
1971           &lt;li&gt;Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag&lt;/li&gt;
1972
1973           &lt;li&gt;Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of
1974             days per week&lt;/li&gt;
1975         &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1976       &lt;li&gt;For students (sets):
1977         &lt;ul&gt;
1978           &lt;li&gt;Not available periods&lt;/li&gt;
1979           &lt;li&gt;Begins early (specify max allowed beginnings at second hour)&lt;/li&gt;
1980           &lt;li&gt;Max gaps per day/week&lt;/li&gt;
1981           &lt;li&gt;Max hours daily/continuously&lt;/li&gt;
1982           &lt;li&gt;Min hours daily&lt;/li&gt;
1983           &lt;li&gt;Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag&lt;/li&gt;
1984
1985           &lt;li&gt;Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of
1986             days per week&lt;/li&gt;
1987         &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1988       &lt;li&gt;For an activity or a set of activities/subactivities:
1989         &lt;ul&gt;
1990           &lt;li&gt;A single preferred starting time&lt;/li&gt;
1991           &lt;li&gt;A set of preferred starting times&lt;/li&gt;
1992           &lt;li&gt;A set of preferred time slots&lt;/li&gt;
1993           &lt;li&gt;Min/max days between them&lt;/li&gt;
1994           &lt;li&gt;End(s) students day&lt;/li&gt;
1995           &lt;li&gt;Same starting time/day/hour&lt;/li&gt;
1996           &lt;li&gt;Occupy max time slots from selection (a complex and
1997             flexible constraint, useful in many situations)&lt;/li&gt;
1998           &lt;li&gt;Consecutive, ordered, grouped (for 2 or 3 (sub)activities)&lt;/li&gt;
1999           &lt;li&gt;Not overlapping&lt;/li&gt;
2000           &lt;li&gt;Max simultaneous in selected time slots&lt;/li&gt;
2001           &lt;li&gt;Min gaps between a set of (sub)activities&lt;/li&gt;
2002         &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
2003     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
2004
2005   &lt;li&gt;A large and flexible palette of space constraints:
2006     &lt;ul&gt;
2007       &lt;li&gt;Room not available periods&lt;/li&gt;
2008       &lt;li&gt;For teacher(s):
2009         &lt;ul&gt;
2010           &lt;li&gt;Home room(s)&lt;/li&gt;
2011           &lt;li&gt;Max building changes per day/week&lt;/li&gt;
2012           &lt;li&gt;Min gaps between building changes&lt;/li&gt;
2013         &lt;/ul&gt;
2014       &lt;/li&gt;
2015
2016       &lt;li&gt;For students (sets):
2017         &lt;ul&gt;
2018           &lt;li&gt;Home room(s)&lt;/li&gt;
2019           &lt;li&gt;Max building changes per day/week&lt;/li&gt;
2020           &lt;li&gt;Min gaps between building changes&lt;/li&gt;
2021         &lt;/ul&gt;
2022       &lt;/li&gt;
2023       &lt;li&gt;Preferred room(s):
2024         &lt;ul&gt;
2025           &lt;li&gt;For a subject&lt;/li&gt;
2026           &lt;li&gt;For an activity tag&lt;/li&gt;
2027           &lt;li&gt;For a subject and an activity tag&lt;/li&gt;
2028           &lt;li&gt;Individually for a (sub)activity&lt;/li&gt;
2029         &lt;/ul&gt;
2030       &lt;/li&gt;
2031
2032       &lt;li&gt;For a set of activities:
2033         &lt;ul&gt;
2034           &lt;li&gt;Occupy a maximum number of different rooms&lt;/li&gt;
2035         &lt;/ul&gt;
2036       &lt;/li&gt;
2037     &lt;/ul&gt;
2038   &lt;/li&gt;
2039 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2040
2041 &lt;p&gt;I have not used it myself, as I am not involved in time table
2042 planning at a school, but it seem to work fine when I test it.  If you
2043 need to set up your schools time table, and is tired of doing it
2044 manually, check it out.
2045
2046 A quick summary on how to use it can be found in
2047 &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelsoft.co.in/wp/2012/03/generate-timetable-for-state-cbse-icse-igcse-schools-free/&quot;&gt;a
2048 blog post from MarvelSoft&lt;/a&gt;.  If you find FET useful, please provide
2049 a recipe for the Debian Edu project in the
2050 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu#Howtos&quot;&gt;Debian Edu HowTo
2051 section&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
2052 </description>
2053         </item>
2054
2055         <item>
2056                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Markus Gamenius</title>
2057                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Markus_Gamenius.html</link>
2058                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Markus_Gamenius.html</guid>
2059                 <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
2060                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Tidligere leder av
2061 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no&quot;&gt;foreningen som
2062 organiserer Skolelinux-dugnaden&lt;/a&gt;, Markus Gamenius , har i vår vært
2063 i media og
2064 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dn.no/privatokonomi/article2345489.ece&quot;&gt;debattert
2065 skattepolitikk&lt;/a&gt;, og det fikk meg til å høre om han kunne lokkes til
2066 å fortelle om hans inntrykk nå, etter at han ble lokket bort fra
2067 Linux- og &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-verden
2068 for å overta familiebedriften.  Her har vi hans betraktninger i dag,
2069 noen måneder etter at
2070 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
2071 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;-utgaven ble gitt ut.&lt;/p&gt;
2072
2073 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2074
2075 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Markus Gamenius og er 40 år.  Utdannet biolog med ymse
2076 fag på siden.  Har jobbet som lærer der jeg var driftsansvarlig på
2077 Ulsrud VGS i Oslo.  Senere eide og jobbet jeg flere år i Linuxlabs AS,
2078 som jeg solgte til Redpill Linpro AS (den gangen Linpro AS).  I dag
2079 jobber jeg med ulike investeringer, hovedsaklig i eiendom, men også i
2080 en del ulike IT-relaterte bedrifter.&lt;/p&gt;
2081
2082 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2083
2084 &lt;p&gt;Fruen og jeg dro på en lengre seiltur i 2000, der jeg måtte ha &quot;noe
2085 å gjøre&quot; under hjemturen over Atlanteren.  Jeg kjøpte et par bøker om
2086 Linux i en bokhandel i New York og ble veldig fascinert.  Etter
2087 hjemkomsten begynte jeg å jobbe på Ulsrud VGS, som naturfagslærer, men
2088 som IT-interessert ble jeg fort en del av den nye IT-satsningen som
2089 skulle løfte Ulsrud og gi skolen en bedre rykte.  Vi hadde ganske
2090 mange maskiner, som gikk på Win98 og to servere som ble oppgradert til
2091 Win2000.  Systemene var ustabil og dårlige.  På leting etter noe
2092 bedre, uten å knekke ryggen økonomisk, kom jeg over &quot;Linux i Skolen&quot;
2093 og Skolelinux.  Jeg tok kontakt med miljøet og en gjeng møtte opp på
2094 skolen, der vi gjorde en liten testinstallasjon.  Etter et par år var
2095 ryggraden på skolen Linux (Skolelinux) og vi hadde flere hundre
2096 maskiner, både tynne klienter (gamle og nye), bærbare (Debian) og noen
2097 stasjonære (Win2000).  På et tidspunkt var Ulsrud den råeste IT-skolen
2098 og det irriterte skolesjefen i Oslo, da de satset hardt på
2099 Windows.&lt;/p&gt;
2100
2101 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2102
2103 &lt;p&gt;Det som gjorde at vi fikk inn Skolelinux var ene og alene
2104 økonomiske.  Det faktum at vi slapp å kjøpe masse nye lisenser og at
2105 vi kunne bruke gammel hardware.  Alt i alt gjorde dette at vi sparte
2106 mye, men i stede for å bruke mindre på IT brukte vi det vi sparte på å
2107 skaffe mer hardware og på den måten gi det beste tilbudet i landet til
2108 våre elever.  For oss som driftet var det himmel å ha et system som
2109 gikk å administrere sentralt og effektivt.  Det var heller ikke så
2110 dumt at vi kunne &quot;låse&quot; maskinene mer effektivt enn vi kunne med
2111 Microsoft Windows, slik at vi slapp mye feil og problemer som ble
2112 forårsaket av &quot;kreative&quot; elever.&lt;/p&gt;
2113
2114 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2115
2116 &lt;p&gt;Det vi slet med var mangelen av en del programmer lærerne ville ha.
2117 Husker ikke alle, men det var et knippe med pedagogiske programmer de
2118 ikke fikk.  I dag tror jeg det problemet er langt mindre da det meste
2119 av disse kjøres gjennom nettleseren.&lt;/p&gt;
2120
2121 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2122
2123 &lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker mye Apple i dag og er ikke så stolt av det, men jeg har
2124 både OpenOffice, Firefox og en del andre programmer på den bærbare.
2125 Firefox brukes mest av disse.  På Apple-serveren hjemme bruker jeg
2126 HandBrake mye, og jeg har installert OpenWRT på flere av
2127 basestasjonene både hjemme og på jobben.  I tillegg til det har jeg i
2128 flere år finansiert et prosjekt som heter
2129 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.found.no/&quot;&gt;Found IT&lt;/a&gt;.  Dette er et prosjekt der
2130 vi lager et rammeverk for søk, der alt vi bruker fri programvare.  Det
2131 er Alex Brasetvik som er daglig leder i Found IT.&lt;/p&gt;
2132
2133 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
2134 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2135
2136 &lt;p&gt;Når det gjelder IT og skole er fortsatt økonomi veldig viktig.  Så
2137 man må oppfylle minimumskravene (ikke være best, men bra nok) og selge
2138 seg inn på hvor mye man sparer.  Det betyr selvsagt at man sparer på
2139 lisenser, men også på driftsinnsats.  Men nå når jeg ikke er en aktiv
2140 del av miljøet lenger hører jeg nesten ingen ting om fri programvare.
2141 Jeg stiller meg da spørsmålet om det har blitt stille rundt miljøet,
2142 eller om jeg kun så det tydeligere før når jeg var aktiv? Uansett er
2143 det for stille rundt Skolelinux-prosjektet nå.&lt;/p&gt;
2144 </description>
2145         </item>
2146
2147         <item>
2148                 <title>Debian Edu interview: José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez</title>
2149                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html</link>
2150                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html</guid>
2151                 <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
2152                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been too busy at home, but finally I found time to wrap up
2153 another interview with the people behind
2154 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.
2155 This time we get to know José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez, one of our great
2156 helpers from Spain.  His effort was the reason we added support for
2157 several desktop types (KDE, Gnome and most recently LXDE) in Debian
2158 Edu, and have all of these available in the recently published
2159 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
2160 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
2161
2162 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2163
2164 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a father, teacher and engineer who is working for the Education
2165 ministry of the Region of Extremadura (Spain) in the implementation of
2166 ICT in schools&lt;/p&gt;
2167
2168 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
2169 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2170
2171 &lt;p&gt;At 2006, I verified that both, we in Extremadura and Skolelinux
2172 project, had been working in parallel for some years, doing very
2173 similar things, using very similar tools and with similar targets, so
2174 I decided it was time to join forces as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
2175
2176 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2177 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2178
2179 &lt;p&gt;A community of highly skilled experts working together, with a
2180 really open schema of collaboration and work. I really love the
2181 concepts of Do-ocracy and Merit-ocracy and the way these concepts are
2182 been used everyday inside Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
2183
2184 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2185 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2186
2187 &lt;p&gt;Sometimes the differences in the implementations, laws or
2188 economical and technical resources in the different countries don&#39;t
2189 allow us to agree in the same solution for all of us, and several
2190 approaches are needed, what is a waste of effort. Also, there is a
2191 lack of more man power to be able to follow the fast evolution of the
2192 technologies in school.&lt;/p&gt;
2193
2194 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2195
2196 &lt;p&gt;Debian, of course, and due to my kind of job I am most of my time
2197 between Iceweasel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geany.org/&quot;&gt;Geany&lt;/a&gt; and
2198 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome-terminator&quot;&gt;Terminator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
2199
2200 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
2201 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2202
2203 &lt;p&gt;I think there is not a single strategy because there are very
2204 different scenarios: schools with mixed proprietary and free
2205 environments, schools using only workstations, other schools using
2206 laptops, netbooks, tablets, interactive white-boards, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
2207
2208 &lt;p&gt;Also the range of ages of the students is very broad and you can
2209 not use the same solutions for primary schools and secondary or even
2210 universities. So different strategies are needed.&lt;/p&gt;
2211
2212 &lt;p&gt;But, looking at these differences, and looking back to the things
2213 we&#39;ve done and implemented, and the places were we have spent most of
2214 our forces, I think we should focus as much as possible in free
2215 multi-platform environments, using only standards tools, and moving
2216 more and more to Internet or network solutions that could be deployed
2217 using wireless. I think we&#39;ll see more and more personal devices in
2218 the schools, devices the students and teachers will take home with
2219 them, so the solutions must be able to be taken at home and continue
2220 working there.&lt;/p&gt;
2221 </description>
2222         </item>
2223
2224         <item>
2225                 <title>Debian Edu - some ideas for the future versions</title>
2226                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</link>
2227                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</guid>
2228                 <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
2229                 <description>&lt;p&gt;During my work on
2230 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.nb.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
2231 based on Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;, I came across some issues that should be
2232 addressed in the Wheezy release.  I finally found time to wrap up my
2233 notes and provide quick summary of what I found, with a bit
2234 explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
2235
2236 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
2237
2238 &lt;li&gt;We need to rewrite our package installation framework, as tasksel
2239 changed from using tasksel tasks to using meta packages (aka packages
2240 with dependencies like our education-* packages), and our installation
2241 system depend on tasksel tasks in
2242 /usr/share/tasksel/debian-edu-tasks.desc for package
2243 installation.&lt;/li&gt;
2244
2245 &lt;li&gt;Enable Kerberos login for more services.  Now with the Kerberos
2246 foundation in place, we should use it to get single sign on with more
2247 services, and avoiding unneeded password / login questions.  We should
2248 at least try to enable it for these services:
2249 &lt;ul&gt;
2250
2251   &lt;li&gt;CUPS for admins to add/configure printers and users when using
2252     quotas.&lt;/li&gt;
2253   &lt;li&gt;Nagios for admins checking the system status.&lt;/li&gt;
2254   &lt;li&gt;GOsa for admins updating LDAP and users changing their passwords.&lt;/li&gt;
2255   &lt;li&gt;LDAP for admins updating LDAP.&lt;/li&gt;
2256   &lt;li&gt;Squid for users when exam mode / filtering is active.&lt;/li&gt;
2257   &lt;li&gt;ssh for admins and users to save a password prompt.&lt;/li&gt;
2258
2259 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
2260
2261 &lt;li&gt;When we move GOsa to use Kerberos instead of LDAP bind to
2262 authenticate users, we should try to block or at least limit access to
2263 use LDAP bind for authentication, to ensure Kerberos is used when it
2264 is intended, and nothing fall back to using the less safe LDAP bind&lt;/li&gt;
2265
2266 &lt;li&gt;Merge debian-edu-config and debian-edu-install.  The split made
2267 sense when d-e-install did a lot more, but these days it is just an
2268 inconvenience when we update the debconf preseeding values.&lt;/li&gt;
2269
2270 &lt;li&gt;Fix partman-auto to allow us to abort the installation before
2271 touching the disk if the disk is too small.  This is
2272 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/653305&quot;&gt;BTS report #653305&lt;/a&gt; and the
2273 d-i developers are fine with the patch and someone just need to apply
2274 it and upload.  After this is done we need to adjust
2275 debian-edu-install to use this new hook.&lt;/li&gt;
2276
2277 &lt;li&gt;Adjust to new LTSP framework (boot time config instead of install
2278 time config).  LTSP changed its design, and our hooks to install
2279 packages and update the configuration is most likely not going to work
2280 in Wheezy.
2281
2282 &lt;li&gt;Consider switching to NBD instead of NFS for LTSP root, to allow
2283 the Kernel to cache files in its normal file cache, possibly speeding
2284 up KDE login on slow networks.&lt;/li&gt;
2285
2286 &lt;li&gt;Make it possible to create expired user passwords that need to
2287 change on first login.  This is useful when handing out password on
2288 paper, to make sure only the user know the password.  This require
2289 fixes to the PAM handling of kdm and gdm.&lt;/li&gt;
2290
2291 &lt;li&gt;Make GUI for adding new machines automatically from sitesummary.
2292 The current command line script is not very friendly to people most
2293 familiar with GUIs.  This should probably be integrated into GOsa to
2294 have it available where the admin will be looking for it..&lt;/li&gt;
2295
2296 &lt;li&gt;We should find way for Nagios to check that the DHCP service
2297 actually is working (as in handling out IP addresses).  None of the
2298 Nagios checks I have found so far have been working for me.&lt;/li&gt;
2299
2300 &lt;li&gt;We should switch from libpam-nss-ldapd to sssd for all profiles
2301 using LDAP, and not only on for roaming workstations, to have less
2302 packages to configure and consistent setup across all profiles.&lt;/li&gt;
2303
2304 &lt;li&gt;We should configure Kerberos to update LDAP and Samba password
2305 when changing password using the Kerberos protocol.  The hook was
2306 requested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/588968&quot;&gt;BTS report
2307 #588968&lt;/a&gt; and is now available in Wheezy.  We might need to write a
2308 MIT Kerberos plugin in C to get this.&lt;/li&gt;
2309
2310 &lt;li&gt;We should clean up the set of applications installed by default.
2311 &lt;ul&gt;
2312
2313 &lt;li&gt;reduce the number of chemistry visualisers&lt;/li&gt;
2314 &lt;li&gt;consider dropping xpaint&lt;/li&gt;
2315 &lt;li&gt;and probably more?&lt;/li&gt;
2316 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
2317
2318 &lt;li&gt;Some hardware need external firmware to work properly.  This is
2319 mostly the case for WiFi network cards, but there are some other
2320 examples too.  For popular laptops to work out of the box, such
2321 firmware need to be installed from non-free, and we should provide
2322 some GUI to do this.  Ubuntu already have this implemented, and we
2323 could consider using their packages.  At the moment we have some
2324 command line script to do this (one for the running system, another
2325 for the LTSP chroot).&lt;/li&gt;
2326
2327
2328 &lt;li&gt;In Squeeze, we provide KDE, Gnome and LXDE as desktop options.  We
2329 should extend the list to Xfce and Sugar, and preferably find a way to
2330 install several and allow the admin or the user to select which one to
2331 use.&lt;/li&gt;
2332
2333 &lt;li&gt;The golearn tool from the goplay package make it easy to check out
2334 interesting educational packages.  We should work on the package
2335 tagging in Debian to ensure it represent all the useful educational
2336 packages, and extend the tool to allow it to use packagekit to install
2337 new applications with a simple mouse click.&lt;/li&gt;
2338
2339 &lt;li&gt;The Squeeze version got half a exam solution already in place,
2340 with the introduction of iptable based network blocking, but for it to
2341 be a complete exam solution the Squid proxy need to enable
2342 filtering/blocking as well when the exam mode is enabled.  We should
2343 implement a way to easily enable this for the schools that want it,
2344 instead of the &quot;it is documented&quot; method of today.&lt;/li&gt;
2345
2346 &lt;li&gt;A feature used in several schools is the ability for a teacher to
2347 &quot;take over&quot; the desktop of individual or all computers in the room.
2348 There are at least three implementations,
2349 &lt;a href=&quot;italc.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;italc&lt;/a&gt;,
2350 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itais.net/help/en/&quot;&gt;controlaula&lt;/a&gt; og
2351 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epoptes.org/&quot;&gt;epoptes&lt;/a&gt; and we should pick one of
2352 them and make it trivial to set it up in a school.  The challenges is
2353 how to distribute crypto keys and how to group computers in one room
2354 and how to set up which machine/user can control the machines in a
2355 given room.&lt;/li&gt;
2356
2357 &lt;li&gt;Tablets and surf boards are getting more and more popular, and we
2358 should look into providing a good solution for integrating these into
2359 the Debian Edu network.  Not quite sure how.  Perhaps we should
2360 provide a installation profile with better touch screen support for
2361 them, or add some sync services to allow them to exchange
2362 configuration and data with the central server.  This should be
2363 investigated.&lt;/li&gt;
2364
2365 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2366
2367 &lt;p&gt;I guess we will discover more as we continue to work on the Wheezy
2368 version.&lt;/p&gt;
2369 </description>
2370         </item>
2371
2372         <item>
2373                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
2374                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>
2375                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
2376                 <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
2377                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
2378 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
2379 mailing list.  He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
2380 thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
2381 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
2382 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
2383
2384 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2385
2386 &lt;p&gt;My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
2387 Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
2388 (Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
2389 by Angela).&lt;/p&gt;
2390
2391 &lt;p&gt;During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
2392 and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
2393 touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
2394 the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
2395 becoming an osteopath.&lt;/p&gt;
2396
2397 &lt;p&gt;Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
2398 have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
2399 introducing free software into schools. The project&#39;s name is
2400 &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; (IT future for schools). The project links IT
2401 skills with communication skills.&lt;/p&gt;
2402
2403 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
2404 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2405
2406 &lt;p&gt;While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
2407 &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
2408 reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
2409 people said.  From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
2410 distributions that target being used for school networks.&lt;/p&gt;
2411
2412 &lt;p&gt;At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
2413 commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
2414 Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
2415 went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
2416 and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
2417 Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
2418 got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
2419 attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
2420 the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.&lt;/p&gt;
2421
2422 &lt;p&gt;In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
2423 people.  People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
2424 protection experts, other IT professionals.&lt;/p&gt;
2425
2426 &lt;p&gt;We came to two conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;
2427
2428 &lt;p&gt;First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
2429 bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
2430 by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
2431 whereas most of each school&#39;s requirements could mapped by a standard
2432 IT solution.  The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
2433 customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
2434 possible.  In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
2435 standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
2436 degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
2437 locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
2438 point.&lt;/p&gt;
2439
2440 &lt;p&gt;Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
2441 all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
2442 for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
2443 has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
2444 of people into using IT and teaching with IT. &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot;
2445 tries to provide an approach for this.&lt;/p&gt;
2446
2447 &lt;p&gt;Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
2448 defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
2449 Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school&#39;s IT
2450 equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
2451 teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
2452 spare time.&lt;/p&gt;
2453
2454 &lt;p&gt;We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
2455 networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
2456 here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
2457 teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
2458 non-existent until 2010/2011.&lt;/p&gt;
2459
2460 &lt;p&gt;Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
2461 class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
2462 avoidance do exist.&lt;/p&gt;
2463
2464 &lt;p&gt;We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
2465 social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
2466 for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
2467 several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
2468 they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
2469 at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
2470 and probably a gain for all.&lt;/p&gt;
2471
2472 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2473 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2474
2475 &lt;p&gt;There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
2476 any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
2477 the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
2478 workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
2479 project communication, honest communication within the group of
2480 developers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
2481
2482 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2483 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2484
2485 &lt;p&gt;Every coin has two sides:&lt;/p&gt;
2486
2487 &lt;p&gt;Technically: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/311188&quot;&gt;BTS issue
2488 #311188&lt;/a&gt;, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
2489 client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
2490 should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
2491 about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
2492 several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
2493 contribute).&lt;/p&gt;
2494
2495 &lt;p&gt;Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
2496 find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
2497 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
2498 promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
2499 there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
2500 these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
2501 all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
2502 meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
2503 there being rather disconnected from the development department of
2504 Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
2505
2506 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2507
2508 &lt;p&gt;For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.&lt;/p&gt;
2509
2510 &lt;p&gt;For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
2511 serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
2512 more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.&lt;/p&gt;
2513
2514 &lt;p&gt;I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
2515 development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
2516 PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
2517 is being integrated in Ubuntu&#39;s software center.&lt;/p&gt;
2518
2519 &lt;p&gt;For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
2520 as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
2521 I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
2522 the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
2523 whiteboard.&lt;/p&gt;
2524
2525 &lt;p&gt;My favourite terminal emulator is KDE&#39;s Yakuake.&lt;/p&gt;
2526
2527 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
2528 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2529
2530 &lt;p&gt;Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
2531 enrol people.&lt;/p&gt;
2532 </description>
2533         </item>
2534
2535         <item>
2536                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter</title>
2537                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html</link>
2538                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html</guid>
2539                 <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
2540                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In 2003, a German teacher showed up on the
2541 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
2542 mailing list with interesting problems and reports proving he setting
2543 up Linux for a (for us at the time) lot of pupils.  His name was Ralf
2544 Gesellensetter, and he has been an important tester and contributor
2545 since then, helping to make sure the
2546 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
2547 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; release became as good as it is..&lt;/p&gt;
2548
2549 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2550
2551 &lt;p&gt;I am a teacher from Germany, and my subjects are Geography,
2552 Mathematics, and Computer Science (&quot;Informatik&quot;). During the past 12
2553 years (since 2000), I have been working for a comprehensive (and soon,
2554 also inclusive) school leading to all kind of general levels, such as
2555 O- or A-level (&quot;Abitur&quot;).  For quite as long, I&#39;ve been taking care of
2556 our computer network.&lt;/p&gt;
2557
2558 &lt;p&gt;Now, in my early 40s, I enjoy the privilege of spending a lot of my
2559 spare time together with my wife, our son (3 years) and our daughter
2560 (4 months).&lt;/p&gt;
2561
2562 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
2563 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2564
2565 &lt;p&gt;We had tried different Linux based school servers, when members of
2566 my local Linux User Group (LUG OWL) detected Skolelinux. I remember
2567 very well, being part of a party celebrating the Linux New Media Award
2568 (&quot;Best Newcomer Distribution&quot;, also nominated: Ubuntu) that was given
2569 to Skolelinux at Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt, 2005 (IIRC). Few
2570 months later, I had the chance to join a developer meeting in Ulsrud
2571 (Oslo) and to hand out the award to Knut Yrvin and others.  For more
2572 than 7 years, Skolelinux is part of our schools infrastructure, namely
2573 our main server (tjener), one LTSP (today without thin clients), and
2574 approximately 50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
2575 locally installed Skolelinux image.  As a consequence, I joined quite
2576 a few events dealing with free software or Linux, and met many Debian
2577 (Edu) developers. All of them seemed quite nice and competent to me,
2578 one more reason to stick to Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
2579
2580 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2581 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2582
2583 &lt;p&gt;Debian driven, you are given all the advantages of a community
2584 project including well maintained updates. Once, you are familiar with
2585 the network layout, you can easily roll out an entire educational
2586 computer infrastructure, from just one installation media. As only
2587 free software (FOSS) is used, that supports even elderly hardware,
2588 up-sizing your IT equipment is only limited by space (i.e. available
2589 labs).  Especially if you run a LTSP thin client server, your
2590 administration costs tend towards zero.&lt;/p&gt;
2591
2592 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2593 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2594
2595 &lt;p&gt;While Debian&#39;s stability has loads of advantages for servers, this
2596 might be different in some cases for clients: Schools with unlimited
2597 budget might buy new hardware with components that are not yet
2598 supported by Debian stable, or wish to use more recent versions of
2599 office packages or desktop environments.  These schools have the
2600 option to run Debian testing or other distributions - if they have the
2601 capacity to do so.  Another issue is that Debian release cycles
2602 include a wide range of changes; therefor a high percentage of human
2603 power seems to be absorbed by just keeping the features of Skolelinux
2604 within the new setting of the version to come. During this process,
2605 the cogs of Debian Edu are getting more and more professional,
2606 i.e. harder to understand for novices.&lt;/p&gt;
2607
2608 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2609
2610 &lt;p&gt;LibreOffice, Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, Iceweasel (Mozilla Firefox),
2611 KMail, Gimp, Inkscape - and of course the Linux Kernel (not only on
2612 PC, Laptop, Mobile, but also our SAT receiver)&lt;/p&gt;
2613
2614 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
2615 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2616
2617 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
2618
2619 &lt;li&gt;Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
2620 people really &quot;own&quot; their hardware, to make them understand the
2621 difference between proprietary software products, and free software
2622 developing.&lt;/li&gt;
2623
2624 &lt;li&gt;Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany&#39;s public schools
2625 there are more or less fixed budgets for IT equipment (including
2626 licenses), so schools won&#39;t benefit from any savings here. This
2627 privilege is left to private schools which have consequently a large
2628 share among German Skolelinux schools.&lt;/li&gt;
2629
2630 &lt;li&gt;Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
2631 trained. In many cases, teachers&#39; software customs are respected by
2632 decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.&lt;/li&gt;
2633
2634 &lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t limit ourself to free software run natively. Everybody uses
2635 free software or free licenses (for instance Wikipedia), and this
2636 general concept should get expanded to free educational content to be
2637 shared world wide (school books e.g.).&lt;/li&gt;
2638
2639 &lt;li&gt;Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
2640 office suites is much above 20 p.c. today, and that you pupils don&#39;t
2641 need to know the &quot;ribbon menu&quot; in order to get employed.&lt;/li&gt;
2642
2643 &lt;li&gt;Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.&lt;/li&gt;
2644
2645 &lt;li&gt;Spread free software, or even collections of portable free apps
2646 for USB pen drives. Endorse students to get a legal copy of
2647 Libreoffice rather than accepting them to use illegal serials.  And
2648 keep sending documents in ODF formats.&lt;/li&gt;
2649
2650 &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2651 </description>
2652         </item>
2653
2654         <item>
2655                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Alf Tonny Bätz</title>
2656                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Alf_Tonny_B_tz.html</link>
2657                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Alf_Tonny_B_tz.html</guid>
2658                 <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
2659                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-prosjektets&lt;/a&gt;
2660 musiker og mannen bak
2661 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals/Rosegarden/&quot;&gt;opplæringsdokumentene
2662 i Rosegarden&lt;/a&gt;
2663 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/nb/rosegarden-manual.html&quot;&gt;norsk
2664 utgave&lt;/a&gt;) for musikklærere, Alf Tonny Bätz, er neste mann ut i min
2665 intervjurunde av folkene bak Skolelinux-løsningen.  Jeg har kjent Alf
2666 Tonny siden vi møttes som barn på påskefjellet i Ofoten, og ble
2667 gledelig overrasket da han dukket opp i Skolelinux-prosjektet etter å
2668 ikke ha sett noe til ham på mange år.&lt;/p&gt;
2669
2670 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2671
2672 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er utdannet kokk av yrke, og har utøvet yrket i 12 år.  Men
2673 etter at ryggen sa takk før seg, studerte jeg nettverksadministrasjon
2674 ved Næringsakademiet i Bergen årene 2008-2009 slik at jeg kunne
2675 forfølge en av mine største interesser - data.  Til daglig jobber jeg
2676 ved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.narvikskolen.no/parken/&quot;&gt;Parken
2677 ungdomsskole&lt;/a&gt; med å drifte skolens PC-er. Har også litt
2678 musikkundervisning.&lt;/p&gt;
2679
2680 &lt;p&gt;Mitt mål er å bevisstgjøre musikklærene mulighetene med de frie
2681 programmene som finnes i Skolelinux, blant annet Rosegarden.&lt;/p&gt;
2682
2683 &lt;p&gt;Har i mange år drevet med musikk og en av grunnen til at Rosegarden
2684 falt i smak for min del, var fordi denne fungere og ligner mest på
2685 Windows-programmet (cubase) jeg jobbet mye med da jeg i mine yngre
2686 dager var «Windows fanatiker».  Ble introdusert til Linux av en kompis
2687 av meg for omtrent 14 år siden, og har bare blitt mer og mer glad i
2688 dette operativsystemet.&lt;/p&gt;
2689
2690 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2691
2692 &lt;p&gt;Da jeg ble sykemeldt fra min gamle jobb, og måtte omskoleres,
2693 havnet jeg i 2007 sammen med Viggo Fedreheim på IKT-avdelingen i
2694 Narvik kommune, der ble jeg for første gang introdusert til
2695 Skolelinuxprosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
2696
2697 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2698
2699 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er enkelt å holde i drift og masse flotte programmer som
2700 geogebra, ktouch og kgeografi følger med pakken.  Man kan ta i bruk
2701 gamle PC-er igjen, slik at skoler med dårlig råd får opp en brukbar
2702 PC-park.  PC-er som er ca 6-9 år gamle fungere tilfredstillende, bare
2703 de har 512 MB RAM eller mer.&lt;/p&gt;
2704
2705 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2706
2707 &lt;p&gt;Ulempene er at noen av de pedagogiske programmene som lærene ønsker
2708 å bruke fungere dårlig med Linux.  Mye pga. av at disse programmene
2709 blir ikke laget til Linuxbaserte operativsystemer.&lt;/p&gt;
2710
2711 &lt;p&gt;Video- og bilde-redigering har dessverre en del mangler, mange av
2712 programmene har en tendens til og krasje.  Det gjelder blant annet
2713 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kdenlive.org/&quot;&gt;kdenlive&lt;/a&gt; og
2714 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openshotvideo.com/&quot;&gt;openshot&lt;/a&gt;, for å nevne
2715 noen.  De er ikke stabile nok.  Når elevene kommer med filmsnutter de
2716 ønsker og jobbe med, så godtar ikke programmene filene, og når elevene
2717 jobber med redigering bare krasjer programmene uten forvarsel.  Det er
2718 for vanskelig å få noe som bare fungerer ut av boksen her. Når en elev
2719 plugger inn et videokamera eller fotoapparat så er det alltid noe som
2720 ikke vil fungere.  Programmene godtar ikke format, godtar ikke
2721 kameraet, osv., osv. Det er dessverre med på og dra ned en positiv
2722 opplevelse av bruk av fri programvare.&lt;/p&gt;
2723
2724 &lt;p&gt;Man må ofte bruke flere en et video redigerings program før og få
2725 fullført en ønsket oppgave.&lt;/p&gt;
2726
2727 &lt;p&gt;Eksempel:&lt;/p&gt;
2728
2729 &lt;p&gt;Hvis det ene programmet ikke vil ta i mot videofilen klarer et
2730 annet det, men det programmet som klarer det kan ikke gjøre de samme
2731 oppgavene som det programmet som ikke ville ta i mot filen,
2732 Tilsvarende er det med foto, man må bruke flere programmer for å få
2733 et ferdig resultat. Til dags dato har jeg enda ikke funnet et video-
2734 og fotoprogram som kan tilfredstillende fullføre en oppgave.&lt;/p&gt;
2735
2736 &lt;p&gt;Så man kan klare og fullføre en oppgave, men i verste fall må man
2737 innom 3-4 programmer for å få det til.  Så jeg har enda ikke til dags
2738 dato sett at et program fungere 100% til alt.&lt;/p&gt;
2739
2740 &lt;p&gt;Det programmet jeg har best erfaring til er
2741 &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinelerra.org/&quot;&gt;cinelerra&lt;/a&gt;, men dessverre har det
2742 også tendenser og krasje av og til uten grunn.&lt;/p&gt;
2743
2744 Lydsystemet kan også være et mareritt.  Konkret snakker jeg om når du
2745 bruker for eksempel et smartboard, så følger det med USB-lydkort på
2746 disse.  Problemet ligger her i at systemet ikke vil velge rett
2747 lydkort, så man må inn med padevchooser for å sette opp PulseAudio
2748 til og velge at USB-lydkortet skal brukes.  Det blir for tungvindt for
2749 lærene, de ønsker at ting skal fungere med en gang. (min løsning på
2750 det problemet ble at jeg måtte deaktivere lydkortet som fantes på
2751 maskinen) men da må man bestandig slå på smartboard-tavla.
2752
2753 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2754
2755 Programmene jeg bruker mest av er: Rosegarden, jack, qsynth, audacity,
2756 k3b, openttd og libreoffice.
2757
2758 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
2759 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2760
2761 Jeg tror det må bevisstgjøring av Skolene til, dvs. reklamere høylytt
2762 og fortelle og vise de andre skolene at frie programvarer faktisk
2763 fungere.  Jeg trur faktisk mange ikke vet at det finnes frie
2764 alternativer.
2765 </description>
2766         </item>
2767
2768         <item>
2769                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner</title>
2770                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html</link>
2771                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html</guid>
2772                 <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
2773                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
2774 publish another interview with the people behind
2775 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.
2776 This time it is one of our German developers, who have helped out over the
2777 years to make sure both a lot of major but also a lot of the minor
2778 details get right before release.
2779
2780 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2781
2782 &lt;p&gt;My name is Jürgen Leibner, I&#39;m 49 years old and living in
2783 Bielefeld, a town in northern Germany.  I worked nearly 20 years as
2784 certified engineer in the department for plant design and layout of an
2785 international company for machinery and equipment.  Since 2011 I&#39;m a
2786 certified technical writer (tekom e.V.) and doing technical
2787 documentations for a steam turbine manufacturer.  From April this year
2788 I will manage the department of technical documentation at a
2789 manufacturer of automation and assembly line engineering.&lt;/p&gt;
2790
2791 &lt;p&gt;My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used
2792 it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
2793 home since 2006.&lt;/p&gt;
2794
2795 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
2796 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2797
2798 &lt;p&gt;Once a day in the early year of 2001 when I wanted to fetch my
2799 daughter from primary school, there was a teacher sitting in the
2800 middle of 20 old computers trying to boot them and he failed. I helped
2801 him to get them booting. That was seen by the school director and she
2802 asked me if I would like to manage that the school gets all that old
2803 computers in use. I answered: &quot;Yes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
2804
2805 &lt;p&gt;Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer
2806 running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
2807 gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer
2808 network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time
2809 and with a lot of fun.  About one year later the school was connected
2810 to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school
2811 building.  That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a
2812 Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and
2813 being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra
2814 costs for things like licence and software.  So I searched for a
2815 school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of
2816 people nearby who founded &#39;skolelinux.de&#39;. It was the Skolelinux
2817 prerelease 32 I first tried out for being used at the school.  I
2818 managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over
2819 the IT management and centralised the services for all schools in
2820 Bielefeld in December of 2006.&lt;/p&gt;
2821
2822 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2823 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2824
2825 &lt;p&gt;When I&#39;m looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages
2826 for me as today.&lt;/p&gt;
2827
2828 &lt;p&gt;In the past there were advantages like:&lt;/p&gt;
2829
2830 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
2831
2832 &lt;li&gt;I don&#39;t need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
2833 they had little money to spent for computers and software.&lt;/li&gt;
2834
2835 &lt;li&gt;It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
2836 cost.&lt;/li&gt;
2837
2838 &lt;li&gt;It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
2839 schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
2840 clients because of it&#39;s preconfigured overall concept of being a
2841 infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
2842 server&lt;/li&gt;
2843
2844 &lt;li&gt;I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
2845 school.&lt;/li&gt;
2846
2847 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2848
2849 &lt;p&gt;Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones
2850 came up in this way:&lt;/p&gt;
2851
2852 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
2853
2854 &lt;li&gt;Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
2855 now.&lt;/li&gt;
2856
2857 &lt;li&gt;They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
2858 have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
2859 because they are to close to Microsoft ideology.&lt;/li&gt;
2860
2861 &lt;li&gt;With the Squeeze version of Debian Edu which now uses GOsa² for
2862 management I feel more able to manage the daily tasks than with the
2863 interfaces used in the past.&lt;/li&gt;
2864
2865 &lt;li&gt;It is more modular than in the past and fits even better to the
2866 different needs.&lt;/li&gt;
2867
2868 &lt;li&gt;The documentation is usable and gets better every day.&lt;/li&gt;
2869
2870 &lt;li&gt;More people than ever before are using Debian Edu all over the
2871 world and so the community, which is an very important part I think,
2872 is sharing knowledge and minds.&lt;/li&gt;
2873
2874 &lt;li&gt;Most, maybe all, of the technical requirements for schools are
2875 solved today by Debian Edu. &lt;/li&gt;
2876
2877 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2878
2879 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2880 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2881
2882 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
2883
2884 &lt;li&gt;There are too few IT companies able to integrate Debian Edu into
2885 their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
2886 whole municipality areas.&lt;/li&gt;
2887
2888 &lt;li&gt;Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
2889 enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
2890 politicians.&lt;/li&gt;
2891
2892 &lt;li&gt;Technically there are no disadvantages I&#39;m aware of.&lt;/li&gt;
2893
2894 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2895
2896 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2897
2898 &lt;p&gt;I use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
2899 computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I
2900 use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel,
2901 KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I
2902 need from the KDE environment.  On console I use newsbeuter, mutt,
2903 screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.&lt;/p&gt;
2904
2905 &lt;p&gt;My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
2906 and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS,
2907 rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services
2908 with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me
2909 and the whole family.  I probably forgot something.&lt;/p&gt;
2910
2911 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
2912 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2913
2914 &lt;p&gt;I believe, we should provide concepts for IT companies to integrate
2915 Debian Edu into their product portfolio with use cases for different
2916 countries and areas all over the world.&lt;/p&gt;
2917 </description>
2918         </item>
2919
2920         <item>
2921                 <title>Forskning: &quot;GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker&quot;</title>
2922                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</link>
2923                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</guid>
2924                 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
2925                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
2926 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309&quot;&gt;en
2927 hovedfagsoppgave&lt;/a&gt; ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
2928 av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer.  Jeg ble fascinert
2929 over det som presenteres der.  Her er sammendraget:&lt;/p&gt;
2930
2931 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
2932
2933 &lt;p&gt;Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
2934 over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
2935 økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
2936 for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
2937 fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
2938 økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
2939 programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.&lt;/p&gt;
2940
2941 &lt;p&gt;Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
2942 programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
2943 programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
2944 disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
2945 manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
2946 er:&lt;/p&gt;
2947
2948 &lt;ul&gt;
2949 &lt;li&gt;Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?&lt;/li&gt;
2950 &lt;li&gt;Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? &lt;/li&gt;
2951 &lt;/ul&gt;
2952
2953 &lt;p&gt;Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
2954 modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
2955 kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
2956 frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
2957 dialog med informantene.&lt;/p&gt;
2958
2959 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
2960 ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
2961 for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
2962 fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
2963 delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
2964 operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
2965 OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
2966
2967 &lt;p&gt;Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
2968 av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
2969 begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
2970 vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
2971 økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
2972 stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
2973 omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
2974 til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
2975 eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
2976 inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
2977 formater.&lt;/p&gt;
2978
2979 &lt;p&gt;Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
2980 laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
2981 OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
2982 skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
2983 symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
2984 Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
2985 mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
2986 friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
2987 slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».&lt;/p&gt;
2988 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2989
2990 &lt;p&gt;Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
2991 komplett oppgave tilgjengelig.  På tide å holde et øye med
2992 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-søket&lt;/a&gt;
2993 til DUO...&lt;/p&gt;
2994
2995 </description>
2996         </item>
2997
2998         <item>
2999                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</title>
3000                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</link>
3001                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</guid>
3002                 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
3003                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
3004 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
3005 setting together all the pieces.  This time I present to you Andreas
3006 Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
3007 years.  He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
3008 up in the recently released
3009 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
3010 Edu Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
3011
3012 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3013
3014 &lt;p&gt;My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
3015 studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
3016 Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
3017 Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
3018 teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
3019 information technology and science/technology.&lt;/p&gt;
3020
3021 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
3022 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3023
3024 &lt;p&gt;Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
3025 project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
3026 qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
3027 contributing.&lt;/p&gt;
3028
3029 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3030 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3031
3032 &lt;p&gt;The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
3033 out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
3034 Debian Project!&lt;/p&gt;
3035
3036 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3037 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3038
3039 &lt;p&gt;As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
3040 downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
3041 setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
3042 possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
3043 long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
3044 because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
3045 rather small and often busy elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;
3046
3047 &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN&quot;&gt;Debian LAN&lt;/a&gt;
3048 project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.&lt;/p&gt;
3049
3050 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3051
3052 &lt;p&gt;I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
3053 on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
3054 mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
3055 have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.&lt;/p&gt;
3056
3057 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
3058 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3059
3060 &lt;p&gt;One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
3061 Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
3062 politicians, this works out great for the &quot;market-leader&quot;.  The school
3063 administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
3064 Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
3065 free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
3066 of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.&lt;/p&gt;
3067
3068 &lt;p&gt;To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
3069 political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
3070 However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to &#39;free&#39;
3071 the system.  There is currently some discussion about &quot;Open Data&quot; and
3072 &quot;Free/Open Standards&quot;.  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
3073 a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
3074 fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
3075 software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.&lt;/p&gt;
3076 </description>
3077         </item>
3078
3079         <item>
3080                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</title>
3081                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</link>
3082                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</guid>
3083                 <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
3084                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
3085 like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;,
3086 and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
3087 contributor to the
3088 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
3089 Edu Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&gt;.
3090
3091 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3092
3093 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
3094 occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.&lt;/p&gt;
3095
3096 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
3097 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3098
3099 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
3100 reason my name&#39;s in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
3101 around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
3102 they&#39;d like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
3103 through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
3104 &quot;localisation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
3105
3106 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3107 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3108
3109 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3110 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3111
3112 &lt;p&gt;These questions are too hard for me - I don&#39;t use it!  In fact I
3113 had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I&#39;d got out of the
3114 education system.&lt;/p&gt;
3115
3116 &lt;p&gt;I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
3117 as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
3118 everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
3119 money on the latest hardware.&lt;/p&gt;
3120
3121 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3122
3123 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
3124 software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
3125 words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).&lt;/p&gt;
3126
3127 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
3128 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3129
3130 &lt;p&gt;Well, I don&#39;t know.  I suppose I&#39;d be inclined to try reasoning
3131 with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
3132 you would hardly need a strategy.&lt;/p&gt;
3133 </description>
3134         </item>
3135
3136         <item>
3137                 <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>
3138                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</link>
3139                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</guid>
3140                 <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
3141                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I have spent time with
3142 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; on speeding
3143 up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
3144 Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
3145 process I discovered something very surprising.  The reason the KDE
3146 menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
3147 due to the way KDE find application icons.  I discovered that showing
3148 the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
3149 passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server.  Most of these were
3150
3151 NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response.  Because the
3152 ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
3153 ms, the menus would be very slow.  Looking at the strace of kicker in
3154 Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
3155 the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
3156 non-existing files.  KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
3157 one icon file.  In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
3158 around 230 access(2) calls.&lt;/p&gt;
3159
3160 &lt;p&gt;The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
3161 directories, and the list of possible directories is large.  In
3162 (almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
3163 and .xpm.  The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
3164 mounted.  Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
3165 requests.  I am not the first one to discover this.  I found a
3166 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416&quot;&gt;KDE bug report
3167 from 2009&lt;/a&gt; about this problem, and it is still unsolved.&lt;/p&gt;
3168
3169 &lt;p&gt;My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
3170 kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
3171 used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
3172 for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
3173 icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/.  Finally, I add symlinks to
3174 these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
3175 for them.  This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
3176 one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
3177 almost instantaneous.  I&#39;m not quite sure where to make the package
3178 publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.&lt;/p&gt;
3179
3180 &lt;p&gt;The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
3181 and icon handling, but also the login process.  Not quite sure how to
3182 speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
3183 that is not really an option at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
3184
3185 &lt;p&gt;If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
3186 (at) lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
3187 </description>
3188         </item>
3189
3190         <item>
3191                 <title>Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</title>
3192                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</link>
3193                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</guid>
3194                 <pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
3195                 <description>&lt;p&gt;About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
3196 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; by
3197 Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News.  The result was made public for
3198 non-subscribers today.  I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution
3199 for schools.  Check out his article
3200 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
3201 distribution for education&lt;/a&gt; if you want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
3202 </description>
3203         </item>
3204
3205         <item>
3206                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</title>
3207                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</link>
3208                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</guid>
3209                 <pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
3210                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Germany is a core area for the
3211 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
3212 user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
3213 Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
3214
3215 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3216
3217 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve studied Mathematics at the university &#39;Ruhr-Universität&#39; in
3218 Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I&#39;m working as a teacher at the school
3219 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/&quot;&gt;Westfalen-Kolleg
3220 Dortmund&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
3221 the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
3222 examination &#39;Abitur&#39;, which will allow to study at a university. This
3223 second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
3224 or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.&lt;/p&gt;
3225
3226 &lt;p&gt;Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
3227 blended learning project called &#39;abitur-online.nrw&#39; and in some other
3228 information technology related projects. For about ten years I&#39;ve been
3229 teacher and coordinator for the &#39;abitur-online&#39; project at my
3230 school. Being now in my early sixties, I&#39;ve decided to leave school at
3231 the end of April this year.&lt;/p&gt;
3232
3233 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
3234 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3235
3236 &lt;p&gt;The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
3237 attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
3238 Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
3239 using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
3240 2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
3241 clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
3242 reach. At home I&#39;m using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
3243 Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
3244 two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
3245 known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
3246 Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
3247
3248 &lt;p&gt;Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
3249 better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
3250 clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
3251 was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
3252 and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
3253 the admin teachers.&lt;/p&gt;
3254
3255 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3256 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3257
3258 &lt;p&gt;It&#39;s open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it&#39;s
3259 Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
3260 So it was a perfect choice.&lt;/p&gt;
3261
3262 &lt;p&gt;Being open source, there are no license problems and so it&#39;s
3263 possible to point teachers and students to programs like
3264 OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It&#39;s of
3265 high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
3266 a school and to choose where to get support for this.&lt;/p&gt;
3267
3268 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3269 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3270
3271 &lt;p&gt;Nothing yet.&lt;/p&gt;
3272
3273 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3274
3275 &lt;p&gt;At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
3276 Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
3277 Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
3278 LibreOffice.&lt;/p&gt;
3279
3280 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
3281 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3282
3283 &lt;p&gt;Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
3284 that doesn&#39;t seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
3285 interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.&lt;/p&gt;
3286 </description>
3287         </item>
3288
3289         <item>
3290                 <title>Linux-skoler har høyere PC-tetthet enn landsgjennomsnittet - pressemelding fra FRiSK</title>
3291                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Linux_skoler_har_h_yere_PC_tetthet_enn_landsgjennomsnittet___pressemelding_fra_FRiSK.html</link>
3292                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Linux_skoler_har_h_yere_PC_tetthet_enn_landsgjennomsnittet___pressemelding_fra_FRiSK.html</guid>
3293                 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
3294                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag har &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no&quot;&gt;FRiSK&lt;/a&gt;
3295 sendt ut følgende pressemelding basert på mine beregninger av
3296 PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler:&lt;/p&gt;
3297
3298 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linux-skoler har høyere PC-tetthet enn
3299 landsgjennomsnittet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3300
3301 &lt;p&gt;Oslo, 30 Mars 2012&lt;/p&gt;
3302
3303 &lt;p&gt;Det er store forskjeller på skolenes digitale tilstand, viser
3304 undersøkelsen Monitor 2011 som er laget på oppdrag fra
3305 Kunnskapsdepartementet. Dette har ført til debatt om PC-tilgangen i
3306 skolen, og om de med Linux i skolen gjør det bedre bedre eller
3307 dårligere enn snittet i landet.&lt;/p&gt;
3308
3309 &lt;p&gt;Nå har vi tallene. Skoler med Linux har 36% større PC-tetthet en
3310 landsgjennomsnittet. På spørsmål hvorfor skoler med Linux har større
3311 PC-tetthet, observerer Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken som er IKT-konsulent i
3312 Nord-Odal:&lt;/p&gt;
3313
3314 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;Vi erfarer at klienter med Skolelinux har god funksjon
3315 til de er 8 til 10 år gamle. Dette er omtrent dobbelt så lenge som
3316 andre løsninger, og skolene får mer datautstyr for
3317 pengene.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3318
3319 &lt;p&gt;Undersøkelsen baserer seg på 56 skoler som har gjort det offentlig
3320 at de kjører Skolelinux eller annen Linux-utgave. De kan også ha PC-er
3321 med Windows i skolenettet. Når en sammenligner PC-tetthetene på
3322 skolene i kommunene Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik, Nittedal,
3323 Nord-Odal og Randaberg, er det i snitt 2,28 elev pr. PC på skolene med
3324 Linux. På landsbasis er det 3.11 elev per PC i grunnskolen, i følge
3325 side 95 i Monitor-rapporten for 2011. Målingen viser dermed 36% større
3326 PC-tetthet i skoler med Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
3327
3328 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Om Skolelinux/Debian Edu&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3329
3330 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux har til hensikt å gi alle barn full tilgang til
3331 skoleaktuelle dataprogram på sitt eget morsmål. Derfor følger det med
3332 godt over 100 skoleaktuelle programmene laget for læring. De fleste
3333 programmene er oversatt til over 50 språk. Elevene skal også kunne
3334 studere alle sider av dataprogrammene. Derfor følger også kildekode
3335 med. Elever med interesse kan lære av eksperter som har laget
3336 systemet. Dette med enkelt programmering i læreprogram som KTurtle,
3337 til profesjonelle verktøy som Qt Creator eller Java.&lt;/p&gt;
3338
3339 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er laget for sentralisert drift, der alt teknisk
3340 administrasjon av alle skolene kan gjøres sentralt fra kommunehuset
3341 eller sentralt i en region.  F.eks. drifter to-tre personer 70.000
3342 skoledatamaskiner på 200 skoler i delstaten Extremadura i
3343 Spania. Etter velykket bruk av Debian Edu i skolen, legger delstaten
3344 over til Debian på 40.000 datamaskiner i administrasjonen. Det er idag
3345 mange selskap som tilbyr profesjonell støtte til innføring og drift i
3346 Norge og verden.&lt;/p&gt;
3347
3348 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Om FRiSK&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3349
3350 &lt;p&gt;Medlemsforeningen Fri Programvare i Skolen organiserer
3351 dugnadsprosjektet som står bak Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
3352
3353 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kontaktperson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3354
3355 &lt;p&gt;Knut Yrvin&lt;/p&gt;
3356
3357 &lt;p&gt;Leder av Fri Programvare i Skolen (FRISK)&lt;/p&gt;
3358
3359 &lt;p&gt;Epost: knuty at skolelinux.no
3360 &lt;br&gt;Mobil: +47 93 479 561&lt;/p&gt;
3361
3362 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referanser&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3363
3364 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
3365
3366  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.skolelinux.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3367  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3368  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Download&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3369  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wis.no/gsi&quot;&gt;https://www.wis.no/gsi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3370  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://iktsenteret.no/sites/iktsenteret.no/files/attachments/monitor2011.pdf&quot;&gt;http://iktsenteret.no/sites/iktsenteret.no/files/attachments/monitor2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3371  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html&quot;&gt;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3372  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/linuxiskolen/2012-March/018500.html&quot;&gt;https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/linuxiskolen/2012-March/018500.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3373
3374 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3375 </description>
3376         </item>
3377
3378         <item>
3379                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Roy-Arne Myhre</title>
3380                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Roy_Arne_Myhre.html</link>
3381                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Roy_Arne_Myhre.html</guid>
3382                 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
3383                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
3384 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, får vi
3385 denne gangen høre fra en IKT-ansvarlig som har brukt Skolelinux i
3386 mange år, og vært storfornøyd med erfaringene så langt.&lt;/p&gt;
3387
3388 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3389
3390 &lt;p&gt;Mitt navn er Roy-Arne Myhre og jeg er 42 år.  Jeg er ansatt hos
3391 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sandskole.no/&quot;&gt;Sand skole&lt;/a&gt; (Balsfjord kommune)
3392 og har stort sett vært det siden 1990.  Jeg er IKT ansvarlig ved
3393 skolen i 40% stilling – 10% undervisning – musikk.&lt;/p&gt;
3394
3395 &lt;p&gt;Ved skolen er det ca 100 elever og ca 18 lærere + 4 assistenter i
3396 hele og delte stillinger. Alle lærerne har bærbar PC (dessverre med
3397 Win Vista) – assistenter har tilgang til egne. Vi benytter Fronter i
3398 det daglige arbeidet.  Vi har ca 90 elevmaskiner som fungerer til
3399 daglig opp mot Linux server (XFCE) som driftes av
3400 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bzz.no/&quot;&gt;BzzWare AS&lt;/a&gt; via nett. Maskinparken
3401 består kun av brukt utstyr for elevene – og noe av dette begynner å
3402 bli vel gammelt selv som halvtykke klienter.&lt;/p&gt;
3403
3404 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med
3405 Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3406
3407 &lt;p&gt;Vi kom første gang i kontakt med Skolelinux rundt 1997. Den gang
3408 var det oppstart-disketter i hver maskin, ikke mulighet for lyd og
3409 video, gamle nettverkskort og mye plundring.  Vi hadde en ihuga
3410 forelder med som pådriver, forsker og inspirator for hele opplegget.
3411 Selv ante jeg knapt at Skolelinux fantes, men han var av den
3412 utforskende typen, og fikk både meg og skolelederen i trua på at dette
3413 var ting som kunne fungere.  Etter dette har det gått gradvis
3414 framover; flere maskiner er hentet inn gjennom bl.a
3415 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greentech.no/&quot;&gt;Greentech&lt;/a&gt; og utrangert utstyr
3416 fra høgskole / Avinor og private givere. Når maskinene ble for trege
3417 for nye Windows-versjoner, sto vi klare til å putte dem i nettverket
3418 vårt.  Dette betyr at vi i dag har 1:1 dekning av maskiner på
3419 ungdomstrinnet og bedre enn 1:2 på barnetrinnet. Dette er vi veldig
3420 fornøyd med, og vi kan ikke se for oss hverdagen som ville vært
3421 alternativet ved bruk av Windows med sine lisenser pr. Bruker/maskin.
3422 Da ville vi nok vært tilbake til 1-2 maskiner pr klasserom med de
3423 negative konsekvenser det ville hatt for undervisningsformene våre. Vi
3424 kan ha en hel klasse i prosjektjobbing eller individuell jobbing
3425 samtidig – vi kan avholde tentamen og eksamen uten
3426 logistikkproblemer.&lt;/p&gt;
3427
3428 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3429
3430 Hvor skal jeg begynne... Stabiliteten er et nøkkelord - det bare
3431 virker.  Har du først fått en server med Skolelinux opp og gå, så må
3432 det en maskinarefeil eller sabotasje til for å stoppe den.  Det at man
3433 kan bruke eldre maskiner som normalt sett ville gått på dynga, er også
3434 glimrende - billig for skoler med dårlig økonomi og bra for miljøet
3435 siden vi gjenbruker utstyr i stedet for å skaffe nytt. Vi ville aldri
3436 hatt mulighet til å operere med det maskinantallet vi har pr i dag
3437 hvis det ikke var for Skolelinux - så tilgjengelighet er et annet
3438 nøkkelord. Et tredje moment er sikkerhet og brukertilgang. Alle
3439 brukerer opererer med egne brukernavn og passord, samt egne
3440 brukerområder som kan tilpasses for både enbrukertilgang og for
3441 samarbeid med andre.
3442
3443 Elever har godt av å se at det finnes andre alternativer enn de som
3444 storindustrien selger på lisensbasis - på den måten trenes de opp til
3445 å se flere muligheter og å foreta valg ut fra flere opsjoner.
3446
3447 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3448
3449 &lt;p&gt;Ulempene med Skolelinux er nok utbredelsen og mangelen på kjennskap
3450 til dette i skolenorge.  De som skal ta økonomiske avgjørelser rynker
3451 på nesen og vil gå for det kjente og «sikre» selv om det koster mye
3452 mer. Man får rett og slett litt hetta av å ikke kunne noe – og unngår
3453 dette for enhver pris.&lt;/p&gt;
3454
3455 &lt;p&gt;I tillegg er mye av linux-systemet administrert av tekstkommandoer
3456 og er lite intuitiv/visuell for oss som ikke er «inne i»
3457 kildekodene». Så problemet er nok mye godt at de som
3458 utarbeider/drifter Skolelinux ikke helt klarer å sette seg ned på
3459 skoleadministratorens nivå når det gjelder problemer og
3460 utfordringer. Men dette er nok en utfordring alle administratorer
3461 sliter med uansett OS.&lt;/p&gt;
3462
3463 &lt;p&gt;Derfor har vi valgt å støtte oss til BzzWare AS for assistanse i
3464 drifta slik at jeg har kunnet konsentrere meg mer om kabling, skifting
3465 av komponenter, veiledning av lærere og elever, vedlikehold av
3466 skrivere og annen daglig drift.&lt;/p&gt;
3467
3468 &lt;p&gt;Elevene mestrer Skolelinux helt fint.  Så lenge Internett
3469 (Iceweasel) og Libreoffice (Openoffice) fungerer er 90% av
3470 skolehverdagen velfungerende. I tillegg brukes jo en del av den
3471 pedagogiske programpakken bla. i forhold til matematikk og geografi,
3472 men det er såpass mye bra på nett om dagen, så disse programmene er
3473 mer som krydder å regne.&lt;/p&gt;
3474
3475 &lt;p&gt;Jeg skulle ønske neste versjon av Skolelinux kunne komme litt
3476 mindre stappet med programmer, for halvparten blir aldri brukt, eller
3477 fungerer ikke uansett.  Hva med et pedagogisk panel av lærere/IKT
3478 ansvarlige som kunne sagt: disse programmene skal være standard, så
3479 får resten være slike man kan legge til ved behov – det kan lett bli
3480 en jungel å bevege seg i.&lt;/p&gt;
3481
3482 &lt;p&gt;Jeg ønsker meg også en mer grafisk versjon av
3483 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bzz.no/lwat/trac/trac.cgi&quot;&gt;Lwat&lt;/a&gt; hvor man kan krysse
3484 ut de som f.eks ikke skal ha internett-tilgang en dag pga
3485 eksamen/tentamen, samt en noe enklere brannmurløsning hvor man kan
3486 stenge for en del (få) sider på en enkel måte.  Jeg liker godt
3487 Skolelinux sin ideologi om at filteret skal trenes i hodet på eleven –
3488 men av og til skulle jeg ønske at f.eks Facebook og Youtube kunne vært
3489 koblet vekk en periode for å få bedre utnyttelse av tid og
3490 ressurser. Disse to nettstedene er nok mye av årsaken til at mange
3491 lærere holder igjen databruken noe mer enn man kunne ønske.&lt;/p&gt;
3492
3493 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3494
3495 Jeg benytter nesten bare fri programvare til daglig. LibreOffice,
3496 Iceweasel (Firefox), Thunderbird til e-post og Gimp til
3497 bildebehandling.  Vi har PHP-Nuke-oppsatt hjemmeside. Det eneste som
3498 jeg ikke har fått helt til enda er videoredigering - her må man vel
3499 innrømme at Mac er hakket over, men da er vi igjen over på å se hva
3500 som egner seg best, og ta valg ut fra det. Folk flest lever i
3501 villfarelsen om at regneark HETER Excel og tekstbehandling HETER
3502 Word. Dette er en misforståelse som jeg bruker mye energi på å
3503 diskutere og &quot;åpne sinn&quot; på Microsoft-slaver.  Dessverre er det mange
3504 IKT-ansvarlige som også har låst seg på at det eneste saliggjørende er
3505 Bill G sine produkter.
3506
3507 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
3508 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3509
3510 &lt;p&gt;For å komme lenger i utbredelsen av Skolelinux tror jeg det må mer
3511 fram i nasjonale medier, samt komme bedre fram hva økonomien i dette
3512 valget vil være – samt mulighetene. Fri programvare er en berikelse og
3513 gjør oss i stand til å utføre arbeidet i skolen uten å måtte legge
3514 igjen tusener på tusener i Bill Gates lomme.. Få ETT nettsted med
3515 forståelig veiledning av installasjon/oppgradering og ETT forum med
3516 konkrete feilrettinger og problemer, så tror jeg vi kunne kommet et
3517 par skritt framover. Ellers tror jeg bare at ildsjelene må fortsette å
3518 skinne – kanskje flere enn oss følger etter på veien.&lt;/p&gt;
3519 </description>
3520         </item>
3521
3522         <item>
3523                 <title>Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication</title>
3524                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html</link>
3525                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html</guid>
3526                 <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
3527                 <description>&lt;!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html --&gt;
3528
3529 &lt;p&gt;The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I
3530 published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how
3531 to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos,
3532 allowing users to check their local email account without providing
3533 any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size,
3534 and also available from &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/38601767&quot;&gt;vimeo&lt;/a&gt;
3535 and download as a
3536 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg
3537 Theora&lt;/a&gt; file.  Check it out below.&lt;/p&gt;
3538
3539 &lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;kmail-kerberos-movie&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; preload controls&gt;
3540   &lt;source src=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv&quot; type=&#39;video/ogg; codecs=&quot;theora, vorbis&quot;&#39; /&gt;
3541     &lt;p&gt;Download video as
3542       &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
3543 &lt;/video&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3544 </description>
3545         </item>
3546
3547         <item>
3548                 <title>Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux?</title>
3549                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html</link>
3550                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html</guid>
3551                 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
3552                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store
3553 forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse.
3554 Et eksempel er
3555 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen&quot;&gt;oppslaget
3556 i Digi&lt;/a&gt;.  Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om
3557 Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet.  Grunnlaget
3558 for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen
3559 &lt;a href=&quot;https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand&quot;&gt;Monitor
3560 2011&lt;/a&gt;, som bruker informasjon fra
3561 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wis.no/gsi&quot;&gt;Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem&lt;/a&gt;
3562 (GSI).  GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil
3563 (intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler,
3564 hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de
3565 har rapportert inn.  For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å
3566 vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem
3567 opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.&lt;/p&gt;
3568
3569 &lt;p&gt;Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik,
3570 Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller
3571 andre Linux-varianter.  Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg
3572 har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det
3573 bekreftet med offentlige kilder.&lt;/p&gt;
3574
3575 &lt;p&gt;Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det &quot;ifølge GSI
3576 (20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle
3577 grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)&quot;.  For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å
3578 koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin,
3579 hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn
3580 landsgjennomsnittet.  Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har
3581 notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev
3582 pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).&lt;/p&gt;
3583
3584 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få
3585 flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en
3586 rekke andre fordeler.  Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?&lt;/p&gt;
3587
3588 &lt;p&gt;Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel
3589 feilføringer.  Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9
3590 elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut.  Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0
3591 elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.&lt;/p&gt;
3592
3593 &lt;p&gt;Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og
3594 Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
3595 </description>
3596         </item>
3597
3598         <item>
3599                 <title>Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</title>
3600                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html</link>
3601                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html</guid>
3602                 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
3603                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
3604 users are spread all across the globe.  The second inteview after
3605 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;the
3606 Squeeze release&lt;/a&gt; was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
3607 long time Linux user in United Kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;
3608
3609 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3610
3611 &lt;p&gt;I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
3612 Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
3613 author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
3614 contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
3615 encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
3616 years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
3617 weren&#39;t able to convert many of them into sustainable
3618 installations.&lt;/p&gt;
3619
3620 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
3621 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3622
3623 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
3624 London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
3625 just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
3626 along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
3627 mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
3628 well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
3629 have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
3630 LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
3631 these things we decided to try it.&lt;/p&gt;
3632
3633 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3634 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3635
3636 &lt;p&gt;By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
3637 from that I have always believed in the same &quot;sustainable computing&quot;
3638 goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
3639 would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
3640 low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
3641 that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
3642 Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
3643 proprietary software everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
3644
3645 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3646 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3647
3648 &lt;p&gt;As a newcomer I&#39;m just finding out who&#39;s who in the community and
3649 how you&#39;re organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
3650 various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
3651 English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
3652 users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!&lt;/p&gt;
3653
3654 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3655
3656 &lt;p&gt;Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
3657 OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
3658 desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
3659 use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I&#39;m not sure if
3660 that counts...)&lt;/p&gt;
3661
3662 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
3663 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3664
3665 &lt;p&gt;That&#39;s a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
3666 and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
3667 the notion of &quot;computer&quot; means simply &quot;proprietary office
3668 applications&quot;.  However, schools today are experiencing budget
3669 constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
3670 XP.  At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
3671 iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
3672 longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
3673 realised that we need people with programming skills, so they&#39;re
3674 putting coding back in the curriculum! And it&#39;s encouraging that the
3675 first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;
3676
3677 &lt;p&gt;I don&#39;t really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
3678 free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
3679 Edu users in this country has to be part of it.&lt;/p&gt;
3680 </description>
3681         </item>
3682
3683         <item>
3684                 <title>Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu</title>
3685                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
3686                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
3687                 <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
3688                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and
3689 it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the
3690 translated versions in sync.  To do this we have come up with what we
3691 believe is a very efficient work flow.&lt;/p&gt;
3692
3693 &lt;ol&gt;
3694
3695 &lt;li&gt;The documentation is written in a
3696 &lt;a href=&quot;http://moinmo.in&quot;&gt;moinmoin wiki&lt;/a&gt; (see for example
3697 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;the
3698 Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&gt;) with support for exporting the content as
3699 docbook XML.&lt;/li&gt;
3700
3701 &lt;li&gt;This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style
3702 .pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files
3703 with the translated text.&lt;/li&gt;
3704
3705 &lt;li&gt;The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell
3706 which part of the original wiki document is new or changed.  They can
3707 use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write
3708 the translation.  There is even a system in place to handle translated
3709 images.&lt;/li&gt;
3710
3711 &lt;li&gt;The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook
3712 XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.&lt;/li&gt;
3713
3714 &lt;li&gt;The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and
3715 create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.&lt;/li&gt;
3716
3717 &lt;/ol&gt;
3718
3719 &lt;p&gt;This setup work very well, but have a few issues.  The biggest
3720 issue is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://moinmo.in/DocBook&quot;&gt;the docbook support
3721 we use in moinmoin&lt;/a&gt; is not actively maintained.  The docbook
3722 support is also buggy, and our build system contain workarounds to
3723 make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these bugs.&lt;/p&gt;
3724
3725 &lt;p&gt;If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the
3726 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc&quot;&gt;debian-edu-doc
3727 package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
3728 </description>
3729         </item>
3730
3731         <item>
3732                 <title>NUUG-presentasjon: Skolelinux - ferdig oppsatt skolenettløsning</title>
3733                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html</link>
3734                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html</guid>
3735                 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
3736                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag presenterte jeg ny versjon av Skolelinux for NUUGs medlemmer.
3737 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/20120313-skolelinux-squeeze.html&quot;&gt;Lysark&lt;/a&gt;
3738 er tilgjengelige allerede og
3739 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/&quot;&gt;video-opptak&lt;/a&gt;
3740 kommer så snart videogruppa til NUUG får publisert den.  Jeg kom på
3741 endel punkter om nye ting i Squeeze-utgaven under veis som jeg burde
3742 hatt med, og har sikkert skrevet noe tull på lysarkene som jeg ennå
3743 ikke har oppdaget.  Denne presentasjonen ble smurt ihop på veldig kort
3744 tid, og jeg rakk ikke finpusse den.  Håper den kan være lærerik
3745 likevel.&lt;/p&gt;
3746 </description>
3747         </item>
3748
3749         <item>
3750                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Kåre Nordby</title>
3751                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html</link>
3752                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html</guid>
3753                 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
3754                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Første ut i serien med intervjuer av folk i
3755 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet etter at
3756 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;ny
3757 versjon av Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; ble lansert i helga, er nylig valgte
3758 styremedlem i foreningen
3759 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
3760 Skolen&lt;/a&gt; (FRiSK) som organiserer
3761 Skolelinux-utviklingen og daglig leder i
3762 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt;, selskapet
3763 prosjektet opprettet som et tilbud til skoler som ønsket en
3764 kommersiell samarbeidsparter.  Det bør nevnes at jeg er styremedlem i
3765 Skolelinux Drift AS og styreleder i selskapets hovedeier stiftelsen
3766 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/&quot;&gt;SLX Debian Labs&lt;/a&gt;
3767 som beskytter verdiene til Skolelinux-prosjektet, og kjenner Kåre den
3768 veien.&lt;/p&gt;
3769
3770 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3771
3772 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har siden januar 2010 vært daglig leder i Skolelinux Drift AS,
3773 som leverer support, installasjon, tilpasning, drift, og opplæring på
3774 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. Fra 2012 er jeg valgt inn som styremedlem i
3775 FRiSK.  Min forrige jobb var som KAM i Redpill Linpro (som er en av
3776 eierne i Skolelinux Drift).  Før det var jeg daglig leder i et eget 7
3777 manns konsulent selskap som også startet med fri programvare mot
3778 slutten.&lt;/p&gt;
3779
3780 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3781
3782 &lt;p&gt;Jeg hørte om det først når jeg jobbet i Redpill Linpro.  Men jeg
3783 har også en datter som går på en friskole, som også bruker Skolelinux.
3784 Som kjent har ikke friskoler de samme økonomiske rammebetingelsene som
3785 offentlige skoler, så for dem var det det absolutt beste alternativet.
3786 De anser også Skolelinux som et stabilt system, som bare går og går (i
3787 motsetning til det lille Windows-baserte nettverket de har på
3788 admin-siden).&lt;/p&gt;
3789
3790 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3791
3792 &lt;p&gt;Sentralisert drift av tynne og diskløse arbeidsstasjoner. Således
3793 lydløse og raskere arbeidsstasjoner som er bedre i klasserommet.
3794 Lengre levetid på PC&#39;er.  Store besparelser på maskinvare og drift. Og
3795 så klart fjerning av alle lisenskostnader. Personlig synes jeg også at
3796 mange av programmene er bedre enn alternativene. Men dette er ofte en
3797 smakssak og avhengig om man må ha det man er vant til fra før.&lt;/p&gt;
3798
3799 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3800
3801 &lt;p&gt;For lite kjentskap til løsningen.  Noen ganger for dårlig
3802 kompatibilitet med arbeidsstasjoners/bærbare maskiner sine
3803 nettverksdrivere eller skjermkort. Men dette løser vi i skolene ved
3804 standardisering. Ellers er det få, om nesten ingen, av de kjente
3805 maskinvare / infrastruktur leverandørene til fylkes- / kommuner som
3806 tilbyr denne plattformen.  Skal dette endre seg så må kommunene selv
3807 sette slike krav til leverandørene.&lt;/p&gt;
3808
3809 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3810
3811 &lt;p&gt;Har brukt OpenOffice.org siden starten (2001 ?), Kun Linux på
3812 desktop siden 2005. Bruker i dag Kubuntu, Libreoffice og ymse annet
3813 programvare til ulik kontorbruk som er lett å installere / teste via
3814 alle programarkivene som finnes.&lt;/p&gt;
3815
3816 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
3817 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3818
3819 &lt;p&gt;Fortsette å presentere flere av de gode eksemplene hvor Debian Edu
3820 / Skolelinux brukes i kommuner og enkeltskoler.  Vi må få bedre frem
3821 at det er mulig tilknytte både Windows og Mac klienter på denne
3822 plattformen (selv om det vil øke driftskostnadene).  Dette gjøres
3823 mange steder.  Spesielt er det mange lærere som ønsker å bruke
3824 Windows/Mac-bærbare, gjerne som sin private PC også. Det er også mulig
3825 for kommunen å integrere med Active Directory i stedet for OpenLDAP
3826 som kommer med ut av boksen (selv om også dette øker kostnadene).
3827 Dette vil muligens bidra til å fjerne noe motstand hos noen
3828 potensielle brukere / driftpersonell for å ta i bruk noe
3829 nytt. Fremveksten av mobile brukere og nettbrett går i vår favør.
3830 Brukerne blir kjent og vant til flere nye operativsystemer /
3831 brukergrensesnitt. Så utviklerfellesskapet bør jobbe videre med å
3832 integrere flere nye klienttyper, som ultra lav-kostklienter og
3833 nettbrett (blant annet fri programvare-alternativet
3834 &lt;a href=&quot;http://makeplaylive.com/&quot;&gt;Spark&lt;/a&gt; med
3835 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merproject.org/&quot;&gt;Mer OS&lt;/a&gt; og
3836 &lt;a href=&quot;http://plasma-active.org/&quot;&gt;KDE Active Plasma&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
3837 </description>
3838         </item>
3839
3840         <item>
3841                 <title>Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out!</title>
3842                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html</link>
3843                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html</guid>
3844                 <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
3845                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we finally published the first stable release of
3846 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; based
3847 on Debian/Squeeze.  The full announcement is
3848 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
3849 from the project announcement list.  Now is a good time to test if it
3850 you have not done so already.&lt;/p&gt;
3851
3852 &lt;p&gt;I plan to present the new version at
3853 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/&quot;&gt;a NUUG
3854 meeting&lt;/a&gt; on tuesday.  I look forward to seeing you there if you are
3855 in Oslo, Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
3856 </description>
3857         </item>
3858
3859         <item>
3860                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</title>
3861                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</link>
3862                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</guid>
3863                 <pubDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
3864                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/&quot;&gt;the
3865 interview series&lt;/a&gt; conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
3866 interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
3867 community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
3868 more international audience.&lt;/p&gt;
3869
3870 &lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
3871 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
3872 Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
3873 from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
3874 and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
3875 work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
3876 and am happy to share the response with you. :)
3877
3878
3879 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3880
3881 &lt;p&gt;My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
3882 and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
3883 Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
3884 teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
3885 Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
3886 I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
3887 primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
3888 so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
3889 also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
3890 to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
3891 appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
3892
3893 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
3894 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3895
3896 &lt;p&gt;In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
3897 server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
3898 samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
3899 Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn&#39;t really improve my setup. I
3900 did various desperate searches for things like &quot;school Linux server&quot;
3901 and ended up in a document called &quot;Drift&quot; something or other. Reading
3902 there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
3903 problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
3904 previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
3905 Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
3906 downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
3907 Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
3908 my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.&lt;/p&gt;
3909
3910 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3911 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3912
3913 &lt;p&gt;For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
3914 workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
3915 ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
3916 designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
3917 doesn&#39;t necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
3918 school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
3919 Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
3920
3921 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3922 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3923
3924 &lt;p&gt;The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
3925 have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
3926 make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
3927 who don&#39;t need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
3928 important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
3929 instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
3930 default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
3931 kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
3932 Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
3933 second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
3934 customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
3935 multiplies. For example, backup wasn&#39;t working properly in Lenny. It
3936 took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
3937 I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
3938 help.&lt;/p&gt;
3939
3940 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3941
3942 &lt;p&gt;Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
3943 studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
3944 (customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
3945 still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
3946 house, that&#39;s very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
3947 the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
3948 have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
3949 day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
3950 installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
3951 have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
3952 and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.&lt;/p&gt;
3953
3954 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
3955 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3956
3957 &lt;p&gt;Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
3958 and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
3959 popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
3960 to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
3961 file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
3962 also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
3963 Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
3964 budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
3965 compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
3966 is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
3967 are not impressed when their USB drive doesn&#39;t work, or their browser
3968 doesn&#39;t play flash, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
3969 </description>
3970         </item>
3971
3972         <item>
3973                 <title>Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</title>
3974                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</link>
3975                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</guid>
3976                 <pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
3977                 <description>&lt;!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html --&gt;
3978
3979 &lt;p&gt;One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
3980 screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
3981 Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
3982 also available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/37675399&quot;&gt;vimeo&lt;/a&gt; and
3983 download as a
3984 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg
3985 Theora&lt;/a&gt; file.  Check it out below.&lt;/p&gt;
3986
3987 &lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;gosa-mass-user-create-movie&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; preload controls&gt;
3988   &lt;source src=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot; type=&#39;video/ogg; codecs=&quot;theora, vorbis&quot;&#39; /&gt;
3989     &lt;p&gt;Download video as
3990       &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
3991 &lt;/video&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3992 </description>
3993         </item>
3994
3995         <item>
3996                 <title>Third release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
3997                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
3998                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
3999                 <pubDate>Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
4000                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we wrapped up and published the third release
4001 candidate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
4002 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
4003 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
4004 from the project announcement list.  Check it out if you
4005 need a software solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
4006 </description>
4007         </item>
4008
4009         <item>
4010                 <title>Stopmotion for making stop motion animations on Linux - reloaded</title>
4011                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stopmotion_for_making_stop_motion_animations_on_Linux___reloaded.html</link>
4012                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stopmotion_for_making_stop_motion_animations_on_Linux___reloaded.html</guid>
4013                 <pubDate>Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
4014                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Many years ago, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
4015 / Debian Edu project&lt;/a&gt; initiated a student project to create a tool
4016 for making stop motion movies.  The proposal came from a teacher
4017 needing such tool on Skolelinux.  The project, called &quot;stopmotion&quot;,
4018 was manned by two extraordinary students and won a school award and a
4019 national aware with this great project.  The project was initiated and
4020 mentored by Herman Robak, and manned by the students Bjørn Erik Nilsen
4021 and Fredrik Berg Kjølstad.  They got in touch with people at Aardman
4022 Animation studio and received feedback on how professionals would like
4023 such stopmotion tool to work, and the end result was and is used by
4024 animators around the globe.  But as is usual after studying, both got
4025 jobs and went elsewhere, and did not have time to properly tend to the
4026 project, and it has been lingering for a few years now.  Until last
4027 year...&lt;/p&gt;
4028
4029 &lt;p&gt;Last year some of the users got together with Herman, and moved the
4030 project to Sourceforge and in effect restarted the project under a new
4031 name,
4032 &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxstopmotion/&quot;&gt;linuxstopmotion&lt;/a&gt;.
4033 The name change was done to make it possible to find the project using
4034 Internet search engines (try to search for &#39;stopmotion&#39; to see what I
4035 mean). I&#39;ve been following
4036 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxstopmotion-community&quot;&gt;the
4037 mailing list&lt;/a&gt; and the improvement already in place and planned for
4038 the future is encouraging.  If you want to make stop motion movies.
4039 Check it out. :)&lt;/p&gt;
4040 </description>
4041         </item>
4042
4043         <item>
4044                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Frode Danielsen</title>
4045                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Frode_Danielsen.html</link>
4046                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Frode_Danielsen.html</guid>
4047                 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
4048                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
4049 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet møter vi
4050 denne gangen Frode Danielsen, som er leder for en IT-virksomhet som
4051 passer på IT-løsningen til flere kommuner i Hedmark-området, der noen
4052 av dem bruker Skolelinux i dag.&lt;/p&gt;
4053
4054 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4055
4056 &lt;p&gt;Daglig leder i &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hedmarken-ikt.no/&quot;&gt;Hedmark
4057 IKT&lt;/a&gt;. En interkommunal IKT-virksomhet for Stange, Nord-Odal,
4058 Kongsvinger, Grue, Løten og Hamar kommuner. Vi er 32 ansatte&lt;/p&gt;
4059
4060 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4061
4062 &lt;p&gt;Vi har vært i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet i flere
4063 sammenhenger, blant annet gjennom et par piloter som ikke har ført til
4064 noe konkret resultat.  Nå sist gjennom satsingen på skolelinux i Grue,
4065 Kongsvinger og Nord-Odal.&lt;/p&gt;
4066
4067 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;
4068 &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4069
4070 &lt;p&gt;Jeg tror alle løsninger har fordeler og ulemper, litt avhengig av
4071 hvilket ståsted du selv har, så jeg unnlater å svare på dette.&lt;/p&gt;
4072
4073 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4074
4075 &lt;p&gt;Ingen for min egen del, men vi har noe fri programvare i våre
4076 løsninger.&lt;/p&gt;
4077
4078 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
4079 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4080
4081 &lt;p&gt;Jeg tror ikke man skal ha en slik strategi.  Man bør ha en strategi
4082 basert på å løse fremtidige behov, og velge løsninger som støtter opp
4083 under dette.&lt;/p&gt;
4084 </description>
4085         </item>
4086
4087         <item>
4088                 <title>Second release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
4089                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
4090                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
4091                 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
4092                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we wrapped up and published the second release
4093 candidate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
4094 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based on Squeeze.  The full announcement did for some
4095 reason not make it the project announcement list, but is
4096 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00015.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
4097 from the Debian development announcement list.  Check it out if you
4098 need a software solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
4099 </description>
4100         </item>
4101
4102         <item>
4103                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Knut Yrvin</title>
4104                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Knut_Yrvin.html</link>
4105                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Knut_Yrvin.html</guid>
4106                 <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
4107                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
4108 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, får vi nå
4109 høre fra nyvalgt leder i foreningen
4110 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
4111 Skolen&lt;/a&gt; og en av stifterne av Skolelinux-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
4112
4113 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4114
4115 &lt;p&gt;Knut Yrvin her. Jobber i Nokia med å fremme rammeverket Qt og QML
4116 med tilhørende utviklerverktøy. Rollen er som leder av
4117 friprog-samfunn. I fjor var jeg med å legge om utviklingen av Qt til
4118 åpen forvaltning.  På den måten kan alle som bidrar til Qt gjøre det
4119 på like vilkår.  Nå er det
4120 &lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/12/22/qt-5-%E2%80%93-a-look-back-at-the-numbers/&quot;&gt;over
4121 1000 utviklere&lt;/a&gt; som bidrar til Qt. Med overgangen til åpen
4122 forvaltning er utviklingen av Qt mer åpen enn Linux-kjernen.&lt;/p&gt;
4123
4124 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4125
4126 &lt;p&gt;Jeg var en av initiativtagerne til Skolelinux i 2001. Skolene slet
4127 med både utstyr og Internett-tilgang. De klarte ikke å møte
4128 forventningene til data i skolen. Driften av PC-ene var uholdbar. Som
4129 regel hadde rektor pekt ut en ivrig lærer til å passe på PC-ene,
4130 gjerne naturfaglæreren. Mange lærere jobbet mye ubetalt overtid for å
4131 vedlikeholde 30-40 datamaskiner på hver sin skole. Med 300 elever og
4132 lærere som brukere, blir det fort mye mer arbeid enn de 4-8 timene de
4133 kunne bruke på PC-drift. Skolene hadde kun en femtedel av
4134 IT-budsjettet som ble brukt på PC-ene i rådhuset.&lt;/p&gt;
4135
4136 &lt;p&gt;Vi erfarte at skolene hadde mye datautstyr som stod ubrukt. Skolene
4137 manglet penger til Microsoft-lisenser. Selv med solide skolerabatter,
4138 kostet Microsoft-lisensene gjerne like mye som PC-ene i seg selv over
4139 en periode på 5-6 år.&lt;/p&gt;
4140
4141 &lt;p&gt;Viktigheten av språklig mangfold og pedagogiske programmer var også
4142 viktig for oss. Vi oversatte mange skoleaktuelle programmer til
4143 nynorsk, nordsamisk og bokmål. Dette lenge før andre tok denne
4144 oppgaven seriøst.  Allerede etter ett år hadde vi etablert et helt
4145 arsenal av skoleaktuelle programmer på nynorsk, bokmål og
4146 nordsamisk. Vi spredde vår ide om språklig mangfold til de andre frie
4147 prosjekter internasjonalt. Resultatene ser vi i mange land. Det er de
4148 frie programmene som kommer på brukernes morsmål. Det er en av flere
4149 gode grunner til at fri programvare som LibreOffice, VLC, KDE og
4150 Firefox konkurrerer ut godseid programvare mange steder i verden.&lt;/p&gt;
4151
4152 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4153
4154 &lt;p&gt;Fordelene er at Skolelinux tilbyr over 100 skoleaktuelle programmer
4155 på de norske språkene, uten ett øre i lisenskostnader. Systemet gir
4156 enormt lave driftskostnader med diskløse arbeidsstasjoner og bærbare
4157 med roaming.  Skolelinux krever også mindre av maskinvaren.&lt;/p&gt;
4158
4159 &lt;p&gt;Man kan fint kjøre systemet med 512 MB RAM på en bærbar PC sammen
4160 med en nettvideo i nettleseren og en presentasjon med
4161 LibreOffice. Konkurrerende system krever fort 2 GB RAM for å få til
4162 noe tilsvarende uten at det går ufattelig tregt. Skal man gjøre noe
4163 nyttig, krever konkurrentene til Linux mye større harddisk. Skoler har
4164 rapportert at de fort har fått 50% flere nye maskiner om de velger
4165 Linux. Dette i tillegg til de årlige besparelsene ved å unngå
4166 lisensbetaling til godseid programvare.&lt;/p&gt;
4167
4168 &lt;p&gt;De lave driftskostnadene gjør at delstater i Europa har titusener
4169 av datamaskiner med Skolelinux i skolen. F.eks. er det under ti
4170 personer som drifter 70.000 PC-systemer i skolene i Extremadura i
4171 Spania. Det er slett ikke uvanlig at norske kommuner har 1500-2000
4172 datamaskiner med Skolelinux.  Driften tar ett årsverk. Slår flere
4173 kommuner seg sammen, kan de få samme sentraliserte stordriftsfordeler
4174 som delstater i Tyskland og Spania.  Delstater som kjører Skolelinux
4175 på alle skolene. Bare noen få personer sentraldrifter titusenvis av
4176 PC-er.&lt;/p&gt;
4177
4178 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4179
4180 &lt;p&gt;Den største ulempen for Skolelinux er motstand mot Linux fra
4181 IT-sjefer i det offentlige. Dette er ledere som holder innlegg som
4182 snytt ut av evangelist-håndboka til Microsoft. Dette gjøres i ett
4183 arbeidsmarked med stor vekst i etterspørselen etter Linux-fagfolk i
4184 privat sektor.  Etterspørselen har økt mer enn noe annet tekniske yrke
4185 siste tiåret.  Åtte av ti ledere vil ansette Linux-fagfolk i 2012,
4186 rapporterer jobbnettstedet Dice.com på oppdrag av Linux
4187 Foundation.&lt;/p&gt;
4188
4189 &lt;p&gt;Det mangler 16.000 ingeniører og IKT-fagfolk i Norge rapporterte
4190 arbeids- og velferdsetaten NAV. Linux-fagfolk kan velge svært
4191 interessante jobber med alt fra apps på ledende mobilsystem laget med
4192 Linux, sky- tjenester eller web-applikasjoner. De raskest voksende
4193 teknologiselskapene i verden er ute etter Linux-fagfolk. Det være seg
4194 Amazon, Google, Facebook og IBM for å nevne noen. Linux er kritisk
4195 for å sikre veksten i markedet. Det sier seg selv at lønningene og
4196 jobbmulighetene er bedre enn for andre tekniske yrker.&lt;/p&gt;
4197
4198 &lt;p&gt;Skal man lage apps for mobilen, smart-TV-en eller
4199 underholdningssystemet i bilen eller på flyet, er det Linux som
4200 gjelder. Med en slik konkurranse om Linux-kompetansen, kombinert med
4201 motstanden mot Linux hos mange IT-sjefer i offentlig sektor, så
4202 hindrer kommunene rekruttering av flere Linux- fagfolk. Skolene blir
4203 tvunget til å velge dyrere og mindre komplette IT-system. De har
4204 blitt hengende igjen slik IT var på begynnelsen av 2000- tallet. Dette
4205 fordi IT-ledere ikke har tilpasset seg markedet det siste tiåret.&lt;/p&gt;
4206
4207 &lt;p&gt;Når det er sagt, er Skolelinux svært enkelt å lære seg også for de
4208 som ikke kan. Det viser alle lærerne som drifter systemet for
4209 hundrevis og tusenvis av systemer. Det meste er på plass rett ut av
4210 boksen. I tillegg er det solid med dokumentasjon med god hjelp på
4211 nettet. Det er mange kommuner som har ansatt en lærer som først lærte
4212 Skolelinux på sin skole, for så å drifte alle PC-ene i kommunen med
4213 Skolelinux. Det kan fort være snakk om 1000-3000 datamaskiner på 10-15
4214 skoler som sentraldriftes med en stilling.  Står man ordentlig fast,
4215 kan man også kjøpe profesjonell hjelp fra selskap som støtter
4216 Skolelinux. Det er flere slike selskap i Norge og i utlandet.&lt;/p&gt;
4217
4218 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4219
4220 &lt;p&gt;Qt SDK, LibreOffice, Firefox, VLC og KDE-skrivebordet. Dette på et
4221 Debian-basert GNU/Linux-system. Jeg bruker også noen morsomme
4222 3D-spill. Idag kan jeg velge mellom over 30.000 Linux-programmer. Det
4223 finnes ikke tid i livet å undersøke alle valgmulighetene. Derfor er
4224 det bra med Skolelinux i skolen, da utvalget av programmer er
4225 begrenset til hva som er aktuelt i skolefagene.&lt;/p&gt;
4226
4227 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
4228 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4229
4230 &lt;p&gt;Vi må selge hele Skolelinux forhåndsinstallert på maskinvare i hele
4231 pakker med 50-100-1000 PC-klienter med servere. Dette kan selges til
4232 enkeltskoler eller hele kommuner. Pakken må inneholde tjenermaskiner,
4233 svært rimelige diskløse arbeidsstasjoner, nettbrett med Plasma Active,
4234 og bærbare med roaming. Alt er godt testet med Debian. I et slikt
4235 anbud er det mulig å legge til sentraliserte drifts- og
4236 støttetjenester.&lt;/p&gt;
4237
4238 &lt;p&gt;Man bør også selge sky-tjenester som læreadministrative systemet
4239 Moodle og driftsovervåking. I tillegg så bør man slenge seg på med
4240 presentasjoner de gangene LibreOffice og andre friprog-produkter
4241 selges til kommuner.&lt;/p&gt;
4242 </description>
4243         </item>
4244
4245         <item>
4246                 <title>First release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
4247                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
4248                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
4249                 <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
4250                 <description>&lt;p&gt;One week delayed due to DVD build problems, we managed today to
4251 wrap up and publish the first release candidate for
4252 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
4253 on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
4254 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
4255 on the project announcement list.  Check it out if you need a software
4256 solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
4257 </description>
4258         </item>
4259
4260         <item>
4261                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Olav Dahlum</title>
4262                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Olav_Dahlum.html</link>
4263                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Olav_Dahlum.html</guid>
4264                 <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
4265                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
4266 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, får vi nå
4267 høre fra et nyvalgt medlem i foreningen
4268 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
4269 Skolen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
4270
4271 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4272
4273 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Olav Dahlum, og er frilans oversetter, tester,
4274 prosjektleder og bruker av fri og åpen programvare som
4275 LibreOffice. Jeg er også et av styremedlemmene i FRISK.&lt;/p&gt;
4276
4277 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4278
4279 &lt;p&gt;Jeg kom i kontakt med prosjektet i 2009, da jeg ble ansatt i
4280 stiftelsen Åpne kontorprogram på norsk for å oversette og teste den
4281 norske utgaven av OpenOffice.org. Arbeidet har hele tiden vært
4282 koordinert sammen med Skolelinux, og mange av de samme menneskene er
4283 involvert, så på den måten ble jeg en del av den utvidede
4284 familien.&lt;/p&gt;
4285
4286 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4287
4288 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux handler i likhet med utdanningssektoren om å dele
4289 kunnskap med andre, og det er dette som er hovedstyrken til
4290 prosjektet.  Selv om Skolelinux hovedsaklig er involvert i utvikling
4291 av programvare, er det også et sted der man kan utfolde seg uavhengig
4292 av bakgrunn og ferdigheter.&lt;/p&gt;
4293
4294 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4295
4296 &lt;p&gt;Liten utbredelse og manglende støtte fra leverandører som leverer
4297 pedagogisk programvare til skolebruk.  Kunne kanskje hatt flere
4298 verktøy som letter administrasjonen ytterligere, slik at også mindre
4299 erfarne databrukere kan utføre lett vedlikehold og rutinejobber.&lt;/p&gt;
4300
4301 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4302
4303 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er nesten forpliktet til å si at jeg bruker LibreOffice... Jeg
4304 bruker forøvrig frie og åpne operativsystemer basert på
4305 operativsystemkjernen Linux, for tiden openSUSE 12,1 med KDE4.  Men
4306 hvis jeg skal dra fram noen flere eksempler så er nok Mozilla Firefox
4307 og Thunderbird to av de jeg bruker mest. I tillegg er jeg en flittig
4308 bruker av OpenSSH, Irssi, Midnight Commander, Git, Subversion,
4309 Translation Toolkit og Super Maryo Chronicles (litt gøy skal man ha,
4310 og med to håndkontroller liggende er det ikke til å unngå).&lt;/p&gt;
4311
4312 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
4313 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4314
4315 &lt;p&gt;Vi må få leverandører av pedagogisk programvare med på laget, men
4316 også utvikle vår egen tilpasset det norske markedet.  Det er også
4317 mulig å involvere utdanningssektoren direkte i arbeidet, for eksempel
4318 gjennom studentprosjekter der elevene selv er med å utforme
4319 programvare direkte eller indirekte gjennom aktive bidrag.  Dette gjør
4320 ikke bare samarbeidet tettere, men fokuset på standarder og friheten
4321 til å velge sin egen løsning vil kanskje stimulere interessen for
4322 framtidig deltakelse i bransjen.  Vi som driver med fri og åpen
4323 programvare ønsker oss ikke rene konsumenter, men tenkende og
4324 selvstendige individer som kan være med å skape sin egen fremtid.&lt;/p&gt;
4325 </description>
4326         </item>
4327
4328         <item>
4329                 <title>Automatic proxy configuration with Debian Edu / Skolelinux</title>
4330                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</link>
4331                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</guid>
4332                 <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
4333                 <description>&lt;p&gt;New in the Squeeze version of
4334 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is the
4335 ability for clients to automatically configure their proxy settings
4336 based on their environment.  We want all systems on the client to use
4337 the WPAD based proxy definition fetched from &lt;tt&gt;http://wpad/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt;, to
4338 allow sites to control the proxy setting from a central place and make
4339 sure clients do not have hard coded proxy settings.  The schools can
4340 change the global proxy setting by editing
4341 &lt;tt&gt;tjener:/etc/debian-edu/www/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt; and the change propagate
4342 to all Debian Edu clients in the network.&lt;/p&gt;
4343
4344 &lt;p&gt;The problem is that some systems do not understand the WPAD system.
4345 In other words, how do one get from a WPAD file like this (this is a
4346 simple one, they can run arbitrary code):&lt;/p&gt;
4347
4348 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
4349 function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
4350 {
4351    if (!isResolvable(host) ||
4352        isPlainHostName(host) ||
4353        dnsDomainIs(host, &quot;.intern&quot;))
4354       return &quot;DIRECT&quot;;
4355    else
4356       return &quot;PROXY webcache:3128; DIRECT&quot;;
4357 }
4358 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
4359
4360 &lt;p&gt;to a proxy setting in the process environment looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;
4361
4362 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
4363 http_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
4364 ftp_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
4365 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
4366
4367 &lt;p&gt;To do this conversion I developed a perl script that will execute
4368 the javascript fragment in the WPAD file and return the proxy that
4369 would be used for
4370 &lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;,
4371 and insert this extracted proxy URL in &lt;tt&gt;/etc/environment&lt;/tt&gt; and
4372 &lt;tt&gt;/etc/apt/apt.conf&lt;/tt&gt;.  The perl script wpad-extract work just
4373 fine in Squeeze, but in Wheezy the library it need to run the
4374 javascript code is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/631045&quot;&gt;no longer
4375 able to build&lt;/a&gt; because the C library it depended on is now a C++
4376 library.  I hope someone find a solution to that problem before Wheezy
4377 is frozen.  An alternative would be for us to rewrite wpad-extract to
4378 use some other javascript library currently working in Wheezy, but no
4379 known alternative is known at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
4380
4381 &lt;p&gt;This automatic proxy system allow the roaming workstation (aka
4382 laptop) setup in Debian Edu/Squeeze to use the proxy when the laptop
4383 is connected to the backbone network in a Debian Edu setup, and to
4384 automatically use any proxy present and announced using the WPAD
4385 feature when it is connected to other networks.  And if no proxy is
4386 announced, direct connections will be used instead.&lt;/p&gt;
4387
4388 &lt;p&gt;Silently using a proxy announced on the network might be a privacy
4389 or security problem.  But those controlling DHCP and DNS on a network
4390 could just as easily set up a transparent proxy, and force all HTTP
4391 and FTP connections to use a proxy anyway, so I consider that
4392 distinction to be academic.  If you are afraid of using the wrong
4393 proxy, you should avoid connecting to the network in question in the
4394 first place.  In Debian Edu, the proxy setup is updated using dhcp and
4395 ifupdown hooks, to make sure the configuration is updated every time
4396 the network setup changes.&lt;/p&gt;
4397
4398 &lt;p&gt;The WPAD system is documented in a
4399 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-wrec-wpad-01&quot;&gt;IETF
4400 draft&lt;/a&gt; and a
4401 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol&quot;&gt;Wikipedia
4402 page&lt;/a&gt; for those that want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
4403 </description>
4404         </item>
4405
4406         <item>
4407                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Axel Bojer</title>
4408                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html</link>
4409                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html</guid>
4410                 <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
4411                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
4412 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet har jeg
4413 fått en av oversetterne som har vært med siden starten i tale.&lt;/p&gt;
4414
4415 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4416
4417 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Axel Bojer og er datalærer, tysklærer, oversetter med
4418 mere.&lt;/p&gt;
4419
4420 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4421
4422 &lt;p&gt;Tror jeg så en annonsering på nettet i slutten av 2001 og ville
4423 være med som oversetter.  Jeg kom med på en utviklersamling og
4424 prosjektet var da helt i starten.  Det var spennende å være med mens
4425 prosjektet vokste til og utviklet seg.&lt;/p&gt;
4426
4427 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har «alltid» vært språkinteressert og hadde nettopp startet med
4428 Linux og tror jeg tenkte det passet å bidra.  Var også glad for å få
4429 en Debian-distribusjon, og ville gjerne bruke den selv.  Til å begynne
4430 med brukte jeg først Mandrake og så Debian. Og siden jeg oppdaget at
4431 det ikke var noen mulighet for å bruke den som enkeltstående i lang
4432 tid, så gikk jeg etterhvert over til Kubuntu&lt;/p&gt;
4433
4434 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4435
4436 &lt;p&gt;Løsningen er forholdsvis lett å sette opp, gratis, fri programvare
4437 og gjør det mulig å gjenbruke eldre maskiner.  Det fine med Debian er
4438 at det er stabilt og har en veldig stor mengde programmer. Jeg liker
4439 også apt.  :-) Jeg liker også friheten ved Linux og muligheten til å
4440 delta og forme sin egen datahverdag.&lt;/p&gt;
4441
4442 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4443
4444 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er for lite kjent og for sent ute med å gi ut nye
4445 versjoner.&lt;/p&gt;
4446
4447 &lt;p&gt;Da jeg selv i hovedsak bruker Kubuntu, så kan jeg egentlig ikke
4448 svare så detaljert rundt ulempene med Skolelinux.  Hovedårsaken til at
4449 jeg bruker Kubuntu er nok at da vi begynte med det mener jeg det ikke
4450 var noen annen løsning.  «Vandrende arbeidsstasjon» mener jeg ikke
4451 fantes da.  Dessuten ville jeg ha siste versjon, da den KDE-versjonen
4452 som var i Skolelinux den gangen var en god del enklere (tror det var
4453 KDE 2) var dårligere i mine øyne enn versjon 3.&lt;/p&gt;
4454
4455 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4456
4457 &lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker blant annet Kubuntu, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox,
4458 Kate, &lt;a href=&quot;http://comix.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Comix&lt;/a&gt; og Konsole.  Og
4459 en hel haug andre ved behov :-)&lt;/p&gt;
4460
4461 &lt;p&gt;Har oversatt Comix selv, men det er jo ikke skjedd noe med Comix
4462 siden 2009, så den er det nok bare jeg som har.  Om andre vil ha den
4463 gir jeg den gjerne videre.  Ser at noen har startet på
4464 &lt;a href=&quot;http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;MComix&lt;/a&gt; siden jeg så på så
4465 på dette sist, så nå er jeg igang med å teste og oversette den
4466 også.&lt;/p&gt;
4467
4468 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
4469 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4470
4471 &lt;p&gt;Det viktigste er å forankre beslutningen i kollegiet og med de som
4472 er ansvarlige for å vedlikeholde og bruke datamaskinene.  Flest mulig
4473 bør være med på å holde det (sosialt) vedlike, kjenne og støtte
4474 prinsippene. Som enkeltmannsprosjekt blir det lett veldig sårbart,
4475 særlig når (Skole)linux ennå i stor grad er en motkultur og ikke noe
4476 en stor nok andel av beslutningstakere, brukere osv kjenner til og
4477 bruker.&lt;/p&gt;
4478
4479 &lt;p&gt;Jeg tror det viktigste er å fortsette å holde fri programvare godt,
4480 oppdatert, minimere antall feil, ha en god kontakt med brukerne og
4481 attraktivt og spennende programmer. Beholde alt som er bra og ha det
4482 tilgjengelig samtidig som man tilbyr det nyeste og rareste for de som
4483 vil ha det.&lt;/p&gt;
4484 </description>
4485         </item>
4486
4487         <item>
4488                 <title>Saving power with Debian Edu / Skolelinux using shutdown-at-night</title>
4489                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</link>
4490                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</guid>
4491                 <pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
4492                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since the Lenny version of
4493 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, a
4494 feature to save power have been included.  It is as simple as it is
4495 practical: Shut down unused clients at night, and turn them on again
4496 in the morning.  This is done using the
4497 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shutdown-at-night.html&quot;&gt;shutdown-at-night&lt;/a&gt; Debian package.&lt;/p&gt;
4498
4499 &lt;p&gt;To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to
4500 the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts.  For Debian Edu, this is done in
4501 LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check
4502 every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and
4503 shut it down if it is.  If the hardware in question is supported by
4504 the
4505 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvram-wakeup.html&quot;&gt;nvram-wakeup&lt;/a&gt;
4506 package, the BIOS is told to turn the machine back on around 07:00 +-
4507 10 minutes.  If this isn&#39;t working, one can configure wake-on-lan to
4508 try to turn on the client.  The wake-on-lan option is only documented
4509 and not enabled by default in Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
4510
4511 &lt;p&gt;It is important to not turn all machines on at once, as this can
4512 blow a fuse if several computers are connected to the same fuse like
4513 the common setup for a classroom.  The nvram-wakeup method only work
4514 for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock.  I&#39;ve seen old
4515 machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were
4516 starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot.  If you have one of
4517 those, you have to turn on the computer manually.&lt;/p&gt;
4518
4519 &lt;p&gt;The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can
4520 also be used outside the Debian Edu environment.  For those without a
4521 central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file
4522 &lt;tt&gt;/etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night&lt;/tt&gt; to enable it.
4523 Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?&lt;/p&gt;
4524 </description>
4525         </item>
4526
4527         <item>
4528                 <title>Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
4529                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
4530                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
4531                 <pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
4532                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
4533 publish the third beta version of
4534 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
4535 on Squeeze.  If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
4536 out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
4537 installing new machines, check it out.  If you need a software
4538 solution for your school, check it out too.  The full announcement is
4539 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
4540 on the project announcement list.&lt;/p&gt;
4541
4542 &lt;p&gt;I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
4543 beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):&lt;/p&gt;
4544
4545 &lt;ul&gt;
4546
4547 &lt;li&gt;It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
4548   10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
4549   the installation.&lt;/li&gt;
4550
4551 &lt;li&gt;Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
4552   Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.&lt;/li&gt;
4553
4554 &lt;li&gt;The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
4555   disabled queues are restarted every hour.  This should cut down on
4556   the amount of manual administration needed for printers.&lt;/li&gt;
4557
4558 &lt;li&gt;The set of initial users have been changed.  Now a personal user
4559   for the local system administrator is created during installation
4560   instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
4561   and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
4562   membership.  This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
4563   up to date on the system.&lt;/li&gt;
4564
4565 &lt;/ul&gt;
4566
4567 &lt;p&gt;The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
4568 private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home.  I will use it look
4569 for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
4570 final Squeeze release is published.&lt;/p&gt;
4571
4572 &lt;p&gt;Next weekend the project organise a
4573 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;developer
4574 gathering&lt;/a&gt; in Oslo.  We will continue the work on the Squeeze
4575 version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version.  Perhaps I
4576 will see you there?&lt;/p&gt;
4577 </description>
4578         </item>
4579
4580         <item>
4581                 <title>Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
4582                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
4583                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
4584                 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
4585                 <description>&lt;p&gt;With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
4586 This is the sad fact of todays computers.  In the next version of
4587 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
4588 on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
4589 firmware blobs easier to handle.  The common use case I run into is a
4590 laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
4591 work, but there are other use cases as well.&lt;/p&gt;
4592
4593 &lt;p&gt;First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
4594 with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
4595 included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
4596 during installation.  This take care firmware for network devices used
4597 by the installer when installing from from local media.  But for
4598 example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
4599 not taken care of by this.&lt;/p&gt;
4600
4601 &lt;p&gt;For non-network devices, we provide the script
4602 &lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; which
4603 search through the &lt;tt&gt;dmesg&lt;/tt&gt; output for drivers requesting extra
4604 firmware.  The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
4605 file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
4606 the requested firmware file(s) is installed.  I have proposed to do
4607 something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
4608 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;#655507&lt;/a&gt;), to allow PXE
4609 installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better.  Run the
4610 script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
4611 firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;
4612
4613 &lt;p&gt;Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
4614 because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
4615 working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
4616 included to be able to install at all.  To fill the PXE installation
4617 initrd with extra firmware, the
4618 &lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; script is
4619 provided.  Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
4620 PXE initrd with firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;
4621
4622 &lt;p&gt;Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
4623 network cards working.  For this,
4624 &lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; is
4625 provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs.  It is used
4626 the same way as the other firmware related tools.&lt;/p&gt;
4627
4628 &lt;p&gt;At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation.  We
4629 do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
4630 non-free software, and it is their choice.&lt;/p&gt;
4631
4632 &lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 this weekend.  You might want to give it a
4633 try.&lt;/p&gt;
4634 </description>
4635         </item>
4636
4637         <item>
4638                 <title>Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze</title>
4639                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</link>
4640                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</guid>
4641                 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
4642                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For morro skyld har jeg gjennomført en nordsamisk installasjon for
4643 neste utgave av &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
4644 (Squeeze) og knipset skjermbilder av resultatet.&lt;/p&gt;
4645
4646 &lt;p&gt;Som en kan se der er det noen oversettelser som mangler.  Det hadde
4647 vært hyggelig hvis alle tekstene som vises i Skolelinux-installasjonen
4648 ble oversatt til nordsamisk, men for å få det til må noen som forstår
4649 språket melde seg til dyst.  Det er mangel på nordsamiske oversettere
4650 av fri programvare.  Hvis noen starter raskt, så bør en rekke å
4651 fullføre Wheezy-utgaven før den gis ut. :)&lt;/p&gt;
4652
4653 &lt;p&gt;Se &lt;a href=&quot;http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/&quot;&gt;oversetterstatistikk for
4654 debian installer&lt;/a&gt; for detaljert status.  Jeg har tipset
4655 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lister.ping.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/i18n-sme&quot;&gt;epostlisten for samiskoversettelser&lt;/a&gt;,
4656 men det har vært veldig liten aktivitet der de siste årene.&lt;/p&gt;
4657
4658 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4659 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4660 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4661 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4662 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4663 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4664 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4665 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4666 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4667 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4668 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4669 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4670 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4671 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4672 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4673 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4674 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4675 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4676 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4677 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4678 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
4679 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4680 </description>
4681         </item>
4682
4683         <item>
4684                 <title>Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
4685                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
4686                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
4687                 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
4688                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The next version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
4689 / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; will include a new tool
4690 &lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp&lt;/tt&gt;, which can be used to quickly set up all
4691 the computers in a school without much manual labour.  Here is a short
4692 summary on how to use it to set up a new school.&lt;/p&gt;
4693
4694 &lt;p&gt;First, install a combined Main Server and Thin Client Server as the
4695 central server in the network.  Next, PXE boot all the client machines
4696 as thin clients and wait 5 minutes after the last client booted to
4697 allow the clients to report their existence to the central server.  When
4698 this is done, log on to the central server and run
4699 &lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a&lt;/tt&gt; in the &lt;tt&gt;konsole&lt;/tt&gt; to use the
4700 collected information to generate system objects in LDAP.  The output
4701 will look similar to this:&lt;/p&gt;
4702
4703 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
4704 % sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a
4705 info: Updating machine tjener.intern [10.0.2.2] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:05.
4706 info: Create GOsa machine for auto-mac-00-01-02-03-04-06 [10.0.16.20] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:06.
4707
4708 Enter password if you want to activate these changes, and ^c to abort.
4709
4710 Connecting to LDAP as cn=admin,ou=ldap-access,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
4711 enter password: *******
4712 %
4713 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4714
4715 &lt;p&gt;After providing the LDAP administrative password (the same as the
4716 root password set during installation), the LDAP database will be
4717 populated with system objects for each PXE booted machine with
4718 automatically generated names.  The final step to set up the school is
4719 then to log into &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa&lt;/a&gt;,
4720 the web based user, group and system administration system to change
4721 system names, add systems to the correct host groups and finally
4722 enable DHCP and DNS for the systems.  All clients that should be used
4723 as diskless workstations should be added to the workstation-hosts
4724 group.  After this is done, all computers can be booted again via PXE
4725 and get their assigned names and group based configuration
4726 automatically.&lt;/p&gt;
4727
4728 &lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
4729 enabled this weekend.  You might want to give it a try.&lt;/p&gt;
4730
4731 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-01-28: When calling sitesummary2ldapdhcp to add new
4732 hosts, one need to add the option -a.  I forgot to mention this in my
4733 original text, and have added it to the text now.&lt;/p&gt;
4734 </description>
4735         </item>
4736
4737         <item>
4738                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken</title>
4739                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</link>
4740                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</guid>
4741                 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
4742                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
4743 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, har jeg nå
4744 lyktes med å få tak i en skolemann som ikke er aktiv med utviklingen,
4745 men likevel har vært med nesten siden starten av prosjektet.  Jeg
4746 ønsker derfor velkommen til Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken, en mann med
4747 mange års erfaring i bruk av Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
4748
4749 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4750
4751 &lt;p&gt;Jeg driftet tidligere IKT løsningen for skolene i
4752 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nord-odal.kommune.no/&quot;&gt;Nord-Odal&lt;/a&gt;.  I dag er jeg
4753 IKT-konsulent for hele kommunen og samarbeider med
4754 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hedmarken-ikt.no/&quot;&gt;Hedmark-IKT&lt;/a&gt; for best mulig
4755 tjenester til kommunen. Jeg har bakgrunn som elektronikkreparatør og
4756 grunnskolelærer og har tatt en del fag innen IKT, i hovedsak
4757 driftsfag. IKT i Nord-Odal kommune blir i dag driftet av Hedmark IKT
4758 som er et samarbeid mellom Løten, Stange, Grue, Hamar, Kongsvinger og
4759 Nord-Odal. Jeg er fortsatt &quot;IKT-personen&quot; på skolene i kommunen og
4760 følger opp og gjør enkelte mindre endringer der.&lt;/p&gt;
4761
4762 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4763
4764 &lt;p&gt;Kommunen satset på Skolelinux i 2004.  Jeg var ikke med i
4765 beslutningsprosessen den gang, men ble likevel med fra starten når
4766 dette ble levert.&lt;/p&gt;
4767
4768 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4769
4770 &lt;p&gt;Fordelene med Skolelinux er rask oppstart, sentral drift av
4771 klientene, klienter som jobber raskt og effektivt, bedre
4772 funksjonalitet på eldre utstyr og en ganske god programpakke med fri
4773 programvare som følger med.  Løsningen med halvtykke klienter gjør at
4774 prosessering skjer lokalt med alltid ferske maskiner.&lt;/p&gt;
4775
4776 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux kan fungere godt på gammelt utstyr, men det er klart at
4777 utstyr også blir for gammelt selv for Skolelinux.  I forbindelese med
4778 at vi nylig fikk nye servere og ny installasjon kastet jeg ut ca 60
4779 klienter som fortsatt var i drift etter at de var kjøpt godt brukt i
4780 2004.  Noe var rundt 15 år gammelt, men var fortsatt i bruk. Noen
4781 klaget på at det nå gikk veldig tregt på en del pedagogiske nettsider
4782 med flash o.l. Det er fullt forståelig.&lt;/p&gt;
4783
4784 &lt;p&gt;Jeg fikk nylig et spørsmål fra ungdomsskolens rektor om jeg kunne
4785 legge inn &lt;a href=&quot;http://freemind.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;FreeMind&lt;/a&gt;, et
4786 tankekartprogram , på skolens elev-Windowsmaskiner. Lærerne hadde
4787 vært på kurs og ville ta dette i bruk. Skolen har ca halvparten av
4788 elevmaskinene på bærbare Windowsmaskiner. Da kunne jeg fortelle at
4789 dette programmet allerede lå inne på den nye Skolelinuxløsningen
4790 som nettopp var satt i drift, klart til bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
4791
4792 &lt;p&gt;Vi har de bærbare maskinene på ungdomsskolen i domene med
4793 Skolelinux.  Dette fungerer også meget bra nå. Elevene får opp en
4794 midlertidig windowsprofil når de logger på.  Denne profilen slettes
4795 etter at de logger av, noe som medfører rene profiler hver gang de
4796 starter opp en maskin.  De må lagre i sin Skolelinprofil, noe som
4797 medfører at de får tak i sine filer uavhengig av om de starter en
4798 Windowsmaskin eller en Skolelinuxklient. Det er mye mindre trafikk i
4799 det trådløse nettet etter at ikke hele profiler blir lastet opp til de
4800 enkelte Windowsmaskinene og tilbake når man avslutter. Jeg vet ikke om
4801 dette er standardoppsett i Skolelinux, men slik er vårt oppsett
4802 nå.&lt;/p&gt;
4803
4804 &lt;p&gt;Vi har i flere år satt opp vår løsning slik at skriverkøer slettes
4805 og skrivere startes hver natt.  Hyggelig å høre at dette nå skal bli
4806 en standard i Skolelinuxløsningen.  Dette har vært en god hjelp for
4807 oss.&lt;/p&gt;
4808
4809 &lt;p&gt;Elevene er lite opptatt av om de jobber på en Skolelinux eller en
4810 Windowsmaskin bare de har de programmene de trenger og at det virker
4811 når det skal brukes. Vi kjører mest mulig de samme programmene på
4812 Windows som i Skolelinux, som f.eks Audacity og LibreOffice.&lt;/p&gt;
4813
4814 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4815
4816 &lt;p&gt;Lærere bruker hos oss Windows. Dette fordi de da selv har mer
4817 kontroll over sin maskin, kan bruke den overalt, og kan legge inn
4818 programmer selv når de trenger noe i forhold til kurs o.l de er
4819 på. Jeg tror lærernes selvstendighet her gjør dem tryggere på IKT-bruk
4820 generelt. Det at de av og til får opp advarsler og lignende gjør også
4821 at de må tenke igjennom og spørre om ting rundt datasikkerhet.&lt;/p&gt;
4822
4823 &lt;p&gt;Det er en del programmer vi bruker som ikke finnes for Linux.  Mest
4824 brukt er nok Photostory3 som brukes i mange sammenhenger, særlig på
4825 ungdomsskolen, bl.a. til å lage herbarier (plantesamling) .  Dette
4826 finnes gratis for Windows, men er ikke fri programvare.  Vi er opptatt
4827 av at programmer elevene bruker på skolen også kan brukes gratis
4828 hjemme. Det er også en del programmer som brukes til spesielle elever
4829 som bare går i Windows. Det er viktig med fokus på funksjoner og ikke
4830 på hvilket OS man bruker.&lt;/p&gt;
4831
4832 &lt;p&gt;For oss er det kombinasjonen mellom Skolelinux og Windows som gir
4833 oss en god og hel løsning. Skolelinux er best der de er gode.&lt;/p&gt;
4834
4835 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4836
4837 &lt;p&gt;Selv er det LibreOffice jeg bruker til daglig.  Jeg bruker selv en
4838 Windowsmaskin. Jeg har benyttet en del fri programvare i forbindelse
4839 med sjekking av trafikk i nettverk, slik som Wireshark, men dette er
4840 jo ikke aktuelt for skolene. Jeg er generelt glad i programmer som
4841 fungerer på både Linux og Windows og gjerne MAC.&lt;/p&gt;
4842
4843 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
4844 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4845
4846 &lt;p&gt;Det er viktig at det benyttes programmer som elevene også kan ta i
4847 bruk hjemme.  Det skal da være enkelt, lovlig og gratis for
4848 elevene. Da er jeg ikke lenger veldig opptatt av om det kalles &quot;fri
4849 programvare&quot;.  For skolene tror jeg &quot;gratis&quot; og &quot;funksjonelt&quot; er bedre
4850 begreper enn &quot;fri&quot; i forhold til programmer.  De fleste skiller nok
4851 ikke mellom &quot;fri&quot; og &quot;gratis&quot;. Det er nå svært mange elever som
4852 benytter OpenOffice eller LibreOffice som sin primære kontorpakke
4853 hjemme.&lt;/p&gt;
4854 </description>
4855         </item>
4856
4857         <item>
4858                 <title>Changing the default Iceweasel start page in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
4859                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
4860                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
4861                 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
4862                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the Squeeze version of
4863 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; soon
4864 to be released, users of the system will get their default browser
4865 start page set from LDAP, allowing the system administrator to point
4866 all users to the school web page by updating one setting in LDAP.  In
4867 addition to setting the default start page when a machine boots, users
4868 are shown the same page as a welcome page when they log in for the
4869 first time.&lt;/p&gt;
4870
4871 &lt;p&gt;The LDAP object dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no have an attribute
4872 labeledURI with &quot;http://www/ LDAP for Debian Edu/Skolelinux&quot; as the
4873 default content.  By changing this value to another URL, all users get
4874 to see the page behind this new URL.&lt;/p&gt;
4875
4876 &lt;p&gt;An easy way to update it is by using the ldapvi tool.  It can be
4877 called as &quot;&lt;tt&gt;ldapvi -ZD &#39;(cn=admin)&#39;&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to update LDAP with the
4878 new setting.&lt;/p&gt;
4879
4880 &lt;p&gt;We have written the code to adjust the default start page and show
4881 the welcome page, and I wonder if there is an easier way to do this
4882 from within Iceweasel instead.&lt;/p&gt;
4883 </description>
4884         </item>
4885
4886         <item>
4887                 <title>Second beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
4888                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
4889                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
4890                 <pubDate>Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
4891                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to announce that today we managed to wrap up and publish
4892 the second beta version of
4893 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  If
4894 you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with out of the box PXE
4895 configuration for running diskless machines and installing new
4896 machines, check it out.  If you need a software solution for your
4897 school, check it out too.  The full announcement is
4898 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
4899 on the project announcement list.&lt;/p&gt;
4900 </description>
4901         </item>
4902
4903         <item>
4904                 <title>Fixing an hanging debian installer for Debian Edu</title>
4905                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_an_hanging_debian_installer_for_Debian_Edu.html</link>
4906                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_an_hanging_debian_installer_for_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
4907                 <pubDate>Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
4908                 <description>&lt;p&gt;During christmas, I have been working getting the next version of
4909 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; ready
4910 for release.  The initial problem I looked at was particularly
4911 interesting.&lt;/p&gt;
4912
4913 &lt;P&gt;The installer would hang at the end when it was doing it
4914 post-installation configuration, and whatevery I did to try to find
4915 the cause and fix it always worked while I tested it, but never when I
4916 integrated it into the installer and ran the installation from
4917 scratch.  I would try to restart processes, close file descriptors,
4918 remove or create files, and the installer would always unblock and
4919 wrap up its tasks.&lt;/p&gt;
4920
4921 &lt;p&gt;Eventually the cause was found.  The kernel was simply running out
4922 of entropy, causing the Kerberos setup to hang waiting for more.
4923 Pressing keys was adding entropy to the kernel, and thus all my tries
4924 to fix the problem worked not because what I was typing to fix it, but
4925 because I was typing.&lt;/P&gt;
4926
4927 &lt;p&gt;The fix I implemented was to add a background process looking at
4928 the level of entropy in the kernel (by checking
4929 /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail), and if it was too small, the
4930 installer will flush the kernel file buffers and do &#39;find /&#39; to
4931 generate some disk IO.  Disk IO generate entropy in the kernel, and is
4932 one of the few things that can be initated from within the system to
4933 generate entropy.&lt;/p&gt;
4934
4935 &lt;p&gt;The fix is in
4936 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/Installation&quot;&gt;beta1
4937 of the Debian Edu/Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version, and we
4938 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu&quot;&gt;welcome more testers and
4939 developers&lt;/a&gt;.  We plan to release beta2 this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
4940 </description>
4941         </item>
4942
4943         <item>
4944                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Peter Hansteen</title>
4945                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Peter_Hansteen.html</link>
4946                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Peter_Hansteen.html</guid>
4947                 <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
4948                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter en lang pause er det klart for neste mann ut i min serie med
4949 intervjuer av
4950 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-relaterte personer.
4951
4952 Denne gangen har jeg besøk av et avtroppende styremedlem i
4953 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt;, og en mann
4954 som har vært aktiv i Linux-miljøet i Bergen siden 90-tallet.&lt;/p&gt;
4955
4956 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4957
4958 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Peter Hansteen, og jobber til daglig som seniorkonsulent
4959 i EDB ErgoGroup i Bergen.  I praksis betyr det systemadministrasjon på
4960 Unix (primært Solaris, men en viss komponent av Linux).  Men Solaris
4961 er for meg et relativt nytt bekjentskap, hovedplattformen min har
4962 generelt vært OpenBSD og til dels FreeBSD.&lt;/p&gt;
4963
4964 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4965
4966 &lt;p&gt;Jeg husker ikke helt alle detaljene mer ;) - men jeg tror det var
4967 gjennom news-gruppen no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse, efn-listen og
4968 etterhvert også BLUG-miljøet her i Bergen.  Vi hadde et par
4969 Skolelinux-sentrerte BLUG-møter for noen år siden, og det har vært et
4970 par Skolelinux-utviklersamlinger her.&lt;/p&gt;
4971
4972 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4973
4974 &lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker dessverre ikke Skolelinux daglig. Men slik jeg kjenner
4975 prosjektet har det vært i stand til å ta opp i seg det beste av fri
4976 programvare i mange kategorier, så fra et sysadmin-perspektiv ser det
4977 ut som en svært behagelig sak.  For brukerne er det vel både en fordel
4978 og en ulempe at det ikke er Windows. Men vi håper at fordelene med et
4979 fritt system etterhvert vil bli åpenbare for både elever, lærekrefter
4980 og foreldre.&lt;/p&gt;
4981
4982 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4983
4984 &lt;p&gt;Vel, ulempen er vel først og fremst at andre aktører med mer
4985 kapitalmuskel har klart å etablere seg som det både lærere og foreldre
4986 føler seg trygge på, selv om det etter mitt hode ikke er noen grunn
4987 til å være spesielt trygg på de kommersielle alternativene.&lt;/p&gt;
4988
4989 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4990
4991 &lt;p&gt;Når jeg får bestemme helt selv, bruker jeg kun fri programvare. Da
4992 helst med vekt på ting som kjører greit på OpenBSD.  Hjemme er det
4993 OpenBSD, Ubuntu eller FreeBSD vi bruker.  På skrivebordet er det en
4994 avveining mellom Gnome, KDE eller hva-det-nå-heter som er
4995 standardvalget i Ubuntu, ellers er det de kjente tingene som
4996 LibreOffice, Emacs, mplayer.  På server er det selvfølgelig Apache,
4997 for overvåking både OpenNMS og Nagios (det bare ble sånn, og
4998 forskjellige siter).  Jeg skriver til tider om slikt jeg holder på med
4999 på
5000 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bsdly.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;http://bsdly.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
5001
5002 &lt;p&gt;Men vi må nevne at selv vi har en Microsoft-ting som vi slår på når
5003 vi av en eller annen grunn må. Det betyr igjen vanligvis når en
5004 mobiltelefon eller en annen lukket elektronisk dings krever kontakt
5005 via en slik for å få oppdateringene sine.&lt;/p&gt;
5006
5007 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5008 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5009
5010 &lt;p&gt;Hadde vi hatt det rette svaret på det spørsmålet, så hadde vi
5011 gjerne hatt Skolelinux som førstevalg på alle skoler ;)&lt;/p&gt;
5012
5013 &lt;p&gt;Men jeg tror vi må legge vekt på flere forskjellige ting.  En helt
5014 sentral sak er å fokusere på fri programvare og åpne standarder som de
5015 demokratiske verdiene de faktisk er.  Det har kanskje kommet litt for
5016 mye i bakgrunnen i forhold til strevet etter å lage det mest mulig
5017 &#39;brukervennlige&#39; systemet.  Det er en tung vei å gå, så det er
5018 forståelig at freenix-aktivister heller velger å skrive kode og annet
5019 som er mer lystbetont. Mer praktisk tror jeg vi må gjøre i alle fall
5020 to ting: For det første sørge for å fortsette med å levere det best
5021 mulige frie produktet, slik at det er lett å både komme i gang og
5022 holde systemene i daglig drift, og for det andre 2) spore opp mulige
5023 aktivister der de finnes, via lokale brukergrupper, sosiale medier
5024 eller annet og sørge for at de fortsetter å være aktive.  Mer og
5025 mindre uformelle treff kan være nyttig i tillegg til de mer
5026 organiserte møtene med foredrag, konferanser og utviklersamlinger.&lt;/p&gt;
5027 </description>
5028         </item>
5029
5030         <item>
5031                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Frode Jemtland</title>
5032                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Frode_Jemtland.html</link>
5033                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Frode_Jemtland.html</guid>
5034                 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
5035                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Neste mann ut i min serie med intervjuer av Skolelinux-relaterte
5036 personer er en tidligere styreleder i
5037 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt; som var med
5038 fra starten av
5039 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
5040
5041 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5042
5043 &lt;p&gt;Mitt navn er Frode Jemtland, og jeg jobber i Hedmark IKT, som er et
5044 driftsselskap for Grue, Hamar, Kongsvinger, Løten, Nord-Odal og Stange
5045 kommuner. Her er jeg leder for avdelingen Løsninger og Arkitektur. Vi
5046 har i hovedansvar for servere, infrastruktur og løsninger som
5047 helhet.&lt;/p&gt;
5048
5049 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5050
5051 &lt;p&gt;Jobbet i IBM fra 2000, og da spesielt med Linux. Dette var da et av
5052 de mest tydelige linux prosjektene i Norge, og her ønsket jeg å
5053 bidra. Var aktivt med i prosjektet i 4-5 år.&lt;/p&gt;
5054
5055 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5056
5057 &lt;p&gt;Fordelene slik jeg ser det er den sentraliserte driftmodellen, og
5058 alle de vel gjennomtenkte løsningene som er inkludert i denne
5059 løsningen. Samtidig er det basert på en stabil, og godt kjent
5060 plattform. Dette vil si at man har en løsning som skal være mye
5061 tilgjengelig, og hvor det er relativt enkelt å få tak i personer som
5062 kan mye om den grunnleggende plattformen.&lt;/p&gt;
5063
5064 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5065
5066 &lt;p&gt;De største utfordringene med en løsningen er at den er intensiv på f.eks
5067 nettverk. I seg selv ikke et problem for en enkelt skole, men skal løsningen
5068 kjøres i større skala, med sentraliserte servere, så gir dette noen
5069 utfordringer.&lt;/p&gt;
5070
5071 &lt;p&gt;Utifra hva jeg har sett på større installasjoner så er det ikke så
5072 enkelt å skjønne, hva som bør gjøres for at den skal skaleres opp, og
5073 da ta godt vare på alle sider av dette, ikke bare mer server å fordele
5074 last/trykk, men hvordan også beholde robustheten og fleksibiliteten i
5075 løsningen.&lt;/p&gt;
5076
5077 &lt;p&gt;En annen utfordring er at stadig flere produkter som skal brukes i
5078 skoleløsningen ikke er laget til å kunne brukes i en
5079 skolelinuxløsning. Det blir derfor fort mye skreddersøm i de
5080 forskjellige installasjonene, for å få diverse pedagogiske programmer,
5081 webløsninger, smartboards, m.m. til å fungere.  Man er også en for
5082 liten kundebase til at leverandørene ønsker å gjøre noe med
5083 utfordringen. Problemet overlates til oss.&lt;/p&gt;
5084
5085 &lt;p&gt;Det er også en kontinuerlig utfordring rundt problemet med å holde
5086 programvare på stabile versjoner, kontra å få ny funksjonalitet. Dette
5087 er jo en konflikt mellom oss som ønsker å drifte en stabil, og
5088 kostnadseffektiv løsning, mot sluttbrukerne som ønsker seg funksjoner
5089 det er vant med fra andre løsninger, eller som de må ha for at et
5090 eller annet nytt produkt skal fungere i løsningen. Dette er en
5091 utfordring også for andre plattformer.&lt;/p&gt;
5092
5093 &lt;p&gt;En siste utfordring som ikke har noe med løsningen å gjøre, men med
5094 det omkringliggende miljøet denne skal kjøre i, er at de enhetene som
5095 skal drifte dataløsninger for kommuner og fylkeskommuner begynner å
5096 profesjonaliseres, og er da avhengig av å ha standard løsninger for å
5097 drifte store brukermasser. MS er selvsagt klar over dette, og har jo
5098 nå flere områder de begynner å bli veldig dominerende på. Den største,
5099 og mest problematiske er katalogtjenesten.  Man får snart ikke tak i
5100 større løsninger som ikke krever en AD. Når man da har store enheter
5101 som drifter både kommunalt ansatte og skoler, så vil det være et
5102 stordriftargument å standardisere på en katalog tjeneste, og da har
5103 man ikke noe valg. Her er alle slike driftsenheter for små til å få
5104 gjort om på dette. Her burde konkurransemyndighetene kommet på
5105 banen. Men konkurransetilsynet i USA griper sjeldent (og ikke før det
5106 har gått veldig lang tid) inn i monopolsituasjoner så lenge
5107 monopolisten er et amerikansk firma, så da har vel ikke andre
5108 myndigheter så mye de skulle ha sagt....&lt;/p&gt;
5109
5110 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5111
5112 &lt;p&gt;Privat kjører jeg Debian på alle mine datamaskiner. Det gjør jeg
5113 også på min jobbmaskin. Vi har også 15-20 linux servere av typene
5114 SuSE, Debian, Redhat, CentOS m.m. Jeg bruker derfor mye fri
5115 programvare. Av enkelt programmer kan sikkert masse nevnes. Hvis vi
5116 skal begrense oss til daglig, så må jeg si: OpenOffice, Firefox,
5117 Kontact, Kopete, Amarok,
5118 &lt;a href=&quot;http://gramps-project.org/&quot;&gt;Gramps&lt;/a&gt;, Kate, ssh, bash,
5119 rsync, backuppc m.m.&lt;/p&gt;
5120
5121 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5122 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5123
5124 &lt;p&gt;Det er et godt spørsmål, som jeg har lurt på selv.&lt;/p&gt;
5125
5126 &lt;p&gt;Argumentene som ofte har vært brukt om at ting koster mindre holder
5127 ikke mål når man ser på hva som faktisk koster penger. Det er de
5128 ansatte som er en kostnadsdriver. Det vil si at hvis man har et system
5129 som den ansatte kan, så vil en kostnad på dette systemet kunne
5130 forsvares ganske mye ved at den ansatte gjør dette raskere og
5131 effektivt. Også uten å måtte eventuelt leie inn folk.&lt;/p&gt;
5132
5133 &lt;p&gt;Jeg syns det er viktigere å fokusere på prinsippet med å velge fri
5134 programvare, men det er også et felt hvor man fort møter lite
5135 forståelse blant de ansatte i skolen.&lt;/p&gt;
5136
5137 &lt;p&gt;Her må nok strategien fortsette å være at de sentrale myndighetene
5138 må sende tydelige signaler for hva de ønsker at offentlige enheter
5139 skal gjøre. Det var mye positivt på gang ang. dette for et par år
5140 siden. Både med eNorge og eKommune planene, men dette syns jeg har
5141 stoppet opp. En del av dette kan jo kanskje være usikkerheten som
5142 etter hvert har blitt, når man har sett kompleksiteten i de
5143 prosjektene som har blitt igangsatt. Det har også blitt noe usikkerhet
5144 i markedet ref. Sun, Oracle, Novell, Microsoft m.m.  Samtidig har jo
5145 også de proprietære programleverandørene sørget for å endre sine
5146 lisenser slik at man uansett ikke slipper unna kostnaden til deres
5147 produkter, selv om man skulle velge alternativer. Da er det økonomiske
5148 argumentet, som jeg nevnte tidligere, spilt ganske godt ut over
5149 sidelinjen.&lt;/p&gt;
5150 </description>
5151         </item>
5152
5153         <item>
5154                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Marius Kotsbak</title>
5155                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</link>
5156                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</guid>
5157                 <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
5158                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Neste mann ut er Marius Kotsbak, styremedlem i
5159 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt; og mangeårig
5160 bidragsyter i
5161 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
5162
5163 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5164
5165 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er en systemutvikler/kybernetiker og jobber med dette til
5166 daglig. På fritiden tester jeg ut/bruker mye fri programvare, og
5167 bidrar med testing og utvikling når jeg ser stort nok behov for det og
5168 jeg har noe å bidra med.&lt;/p&gt;
5169
5170 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5171
5172 &lt;p&gt;Hmm, det er lenge siden, så det er nesten så jeg ikke husker. Jeg
5173 hadde vel hørt om prosjektet i media før en gjeng i Trondheim startet
5174 opp SPIST, Skolelinux-prosjektet i Sør-Trøndelag, hvor vi hjalp noen
5175 skoler i nærområdet med å installere Skolelinux og finne brukt
5176 IT-utstyr til disse. Det var moro å gjøre noe praktisk for å spre
5177 Skolelinux, og å se hvor fort gjort det var å sette opp utrangerte
5178 klientmaskiner og få disse opp som tynnklienter på helt nye datasaler
5179 på skolene, kun med kostnaden til servere.&lt;/p&gt;
5180
5181 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5182
5183 &lt;p&gt;Det er et system spesielt skreddersydd for drift av et stort antall
5184 klienter mot servere, og da spesielt i henhold til skolers behov.  Det
5185 er enkelt og billig å installere og drifte, og det trenger ikke ny
5186 maskinvare for god ytelse.&lt;/p&gt;
5187
5188 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5189
5190 &lt;p&gt;Hardwarestøtten kunne vært bedre og i enda større grad
5191 installerbart rett ut av boksen.  Distribusjonen har til tider hatt
5192 litt gammel programvare pga. at den følger Debian sine utgivelser.
5193 Kanskje man skulle vurdert en versjon basert på Ubuntu eller andre
5194 distribusjoner i tillegg?&lt;/p&gt;
5195
5196 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5197
5198 &lt;p&gt;Oi, det er ikke lite. Her er det jeg kommer på i farta.  Jeg bruker
5199 Linux og Ubuntu, og på Ubuntu programene Firefox, Thunderbird,
5200 Chromium, Pidgin, Digikam, OpenOffice, Wireshark, git og irssi.
5201 Telefonen min er en Android, og der bruker jeg programmene K-9 Mail,
5202 OI Shopping list, Shuffle, ZXing, OI Notepad og ADW Desktop.  På jobb
5203 bruker jeg JBoss, Eclipse, uCLinux for Blackfin, RCF-CPP, Qt, Maven,
5204 og boost-bibliotekene for C++.&lt;/p&gt;
5205
5206 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5207 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5208
5209 &lt;p&gt;En bør fokusere på totalkostnader inkludert driftsbehov,
5210 fleksibilitet, åpenhet og ikke låsing til en leverandør framfor sparte
5211 lisenskostnader, samt programvarens kvalitet og fortrinn, og at den
5212 fritt kan brukes på et ubegrenset antall PC-er, også hjemme hos
5213 elevene.  En bør også forbedre den fri programvaren ved testing,
5214 bugrapportering og kodebidrag om man kan, og ikke anbefale programvare
5215 uten at man har forsikret seg at den har tilstrekkelig kvalitet,
5216 ellers kan man lett oppnå det motsatte.  Tror en bør selge inn
5217 konseptet til fylkes-/statsnivå, kanskje med bidrag til
5218 utviklingsarbeid fra disse som alle landets skoler kan få glede
5219 av.&lt;/p&gt;
5220 </description>
5221         </item>
5222
5223         <item>
5224                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Odin Hetland Nøsen</title>
5225                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Odin_Hetland_N_sen.html</link>
5226                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Odin_Hetland_N_sen.html</guid>
5227                 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
5228                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Mine bloggposter om Linux i skolene i Norge førte til at inspektør
5229 og ildsjel på Harestad skole tok kontakt og fortalte at de bruker
5230 Linux på sin skole, og lurte på om de kunne bidra til å gjøre
5231 fordelene kjent.  Riktig nok bruker de ikke
5232 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; på denne skolen,
5233 men jeg synes dette er en god anledning til å gjøre flere fasetter
5234 rundt Linux-økosystemet kjent, og tok et lite intervju.&lt;/p&gt;
5235
5236 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5237
5238 &lt;p&gt;Mitt navn er Odin Hetland Nøsen og er en 70-modell. Jeg er bosatt i
5239 Stavanger og jobber nå på 9. året som undervisninginspektør på
5240 Harestad skole i Randaberg kommune (nabokommune til Stavanger).&lt;/p&gt;
5241
5242 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5243
5244 &lt;p&gt;I 2002 begynte daværende IKT-ansvarlige og jeg et arbeid på skolen
5245 med å gå over fra Win98 til... noe annet. Vi testet en rekke
5246 forskjellige løsninger, deriblant Skolelinux, men endte opp med
5247 RedHat. Skolelinux var den gang ikke modent for det vi ville ha.  Jeg
5248 har siden fulgt jevnlig med på hva skolelinux holder på med, men har
5249 hele tiden vært bedre fornøyd med vår egen &quot;standardiserte&quot; løsning på
5250 RedHat/CentOS og Fedora. Vi snuser for tiden på Ubuntu som løsning på
5251 klientsiden.&lt;/p&gt;
5252
5253 &lt;p&gt;I dag har vi på skolen vår en større linux-løsning med 400 klienter
5254 som kjører en blanding av LTSP (tynnklient) og DRBL (tykk klient uten
5255 harddisk) med en masse tjenere på serverrommet. Vi drifter hele
5256 sulamitten selv med webtjener, eposttjener, webmail, filtjenere,
5257 virtuelle tjenere osv.  Og IT-ansvarlig har en 80% stilling som
5258 IT-ansvarlig - og så er han KoH-lærer i de resterende 20% :-)&lt;/p&gt;
5259
5260 &lt;p&gt;Du kan få en ide om hva vi holder på med om du går inn på
5261 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnuskole.no/&quot;&gt;http://www.gnuskole.no/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
5262
5263 &lt;p&gt;For å ta brodden av frykten for at ildsjeler gjør skolen sårbar om
5264 ildsjelene falle fra, har jeg forsikret kommunen og skolesjefen i
5265 Randaberg om at det finnes godt kommersielle tjenester vi kan benytte
5266 oss av - om det skulle bli nødvendig. Vi er tre stykker i kommunen som
5267 nå har &lt;strong&gt;god&lt;/strong&gt; linux-kompetanse ift. å drifte et større
5268 system.  IT-avdelingen i kommunen vil ikke ta på oss med ildtang -
5269 selv om vi nok har større IT-kompetanse mot linux enn det de selv har
5270 mot windows (de kjøper en &lt;strong&gt;masse&lt;/strong&gt; konsulenttjenester
5271 fra ErgoGroup).&lt;/p&gt;
5272
5273 &lt;p&gt;I kvantitet er Harestad og Grødem skole tilsammen et større
5274 IT-system enn resten av Randaberg kommune + Kvitsøy og Rennesøy, som
5275 kommunen også har driftsansvar for.  Vi har som sagt rundt 800
5276 maskiner, mens kommunen med sitt driftsansvar har ansvar for rundt 500
5277 maskiner. Det er selvfølgelig litt forskjell i hvor kritiske
5278 tjenestene våre er, men det gir allikevel et litt rart bilde når
5279 IT-avdelingen overhode ikke er interessert i å snakke med oss om
5280 hvordan vi gjør ting :-)&lt;/p&gt;
5281
5282 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5283
5284 &lt;p&gt;Fra linux-perspektivet (ikke bare Skolelinux) er det en fordel av
5285 systemet er basert på fri programvare - og dermed fritt i ordets mange
5286 betydninger. Det er alt vi trenger: stabilt, relativt enkelt å drifte
5287 (tross alt - et større windowssystem er ikke enkelt å holde live det
5288 heller), rimelig i innkjøp og drift, og sist, men ikke minst, det er
5289 moderne for sluttbruker! Linux, i sine mange varianter,
5290 &lt;strong&gt;ser&lt;/strong&gt; nytt ut, fordi det hele tiden blir
5291 oppdatert. Derfor lever systemet opp til hvordan elever forventer at
5292 et moderne GUI skal være (i motsetning til WinXP :-).&lt;/p&gt;
5293
5294 &lt;p&gt;Vi var veldig pragmatiske da vi begynte med linux i skolen. Det var
5295 billig, det fungerte og kunne bruke alle de gamle windows-maskinene
5296 som &quot;nye&quot; tynne klienter.  I dag er vi mer bevisste fri
5297 programvare-tilhengere.  Vi har oppdaget hva det er - og vi liker
5298 det!&lt;/p&gt;
5299
5300 &lt;p&gt;En av de &lt;strong&gt;store&lt;/strong&gt; fordelene med fri programvare er at
5301 vi kan installere tjenester vi ønsker å tilby brukerne våre - uten å
5302 måtte tenke på om vi har råd til lisensene (fordi det er ingen). Alt
5303 vi setter i produksjon er ut i fra brukernes behov og vår kapasitet
5304 til å drifte dem. Vi skreddersyr tjenestene etter behovet og dermed
5305 trenger vi ikke ende opp med å kjøpe en pakke der vi egentlig bare var
5306 interessert i en liten del av den.&lt;/p&gt;
5307
5308 &lt;p&gt;Bruk av linux frigjør ikke økonomiske midler, fordi midlene til IKT
5309 i skole er for få i utgangspunktet - men vi får så
5310 &lt;strong&gt;mye&lt;/strong&gt; mer igjen for dem når vi bruker en linux-løsning
5311 fremfor en windows-løsning. I praksis ser vi at vi måtte ut med det
5312 dobbelte på budsjettet vårt om vi skulle hatt en tilsvarende
5313 windows-løsning, som det vi i dag drifter med linux.&lt;/p&gt;
5314
5315 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5316
5317 &lt;p&gt;Ikke all pedagogisk programvare er tilgjengelig. Det er en del
5318 programvare i skolen som er laget med utviklerverktøy som bare virker
5319 i windows, f.eks. Drillpro, LingDys/LingWrite. Det er også
5320 &quot;programmer&quot; som bare virker om du har tilgang til Microsoft Office,
5321 f.eks. AskiRaski.&lt;/p&gt;
5322
5323 &lt;p&gt;Vi sliter også litt med at video-codecer ikke alltid er like lett å
5324 få opp å gå på klientene. Det er alltid en eller annen videosnutt fra
5325 nrk.no som ikke er så samarbeidsvillig, uansett mediaplayer.&lt;/p&gt;
5326
5327 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5328
5329 &lt;p&gt;Alt :-) På skolen bruker vi det som finnes og som er nyttig. Det vi
5330 bruker mest er Firefox (jobber med Chrome, fordi det er
5331 &lt;strong&gt;mye&lt;/strong&gt; raskere med Flash enn Firefox), OpenOffice (skal
5332 over til LibreOffice), GIMP osv. Standardpakken av
5333 sluttbrukerprogrammer.&lt;/p&gt;
5334
5335 &lt;p&gt;På tjenernivå bruker vi OpenWebMail (skal over til Zimbra), Exim
5336 osv.&lt;/p&gt;
5337
5338 &lt;p&gt;Personlig bruker jeg de fleste programmer over flere plattformer,
5339 men jeg har lagt meg til en vane å prioritere bruken av fri
5340 programvare også i Windows 7 og OSX.&lt;/p&gt;
5341
5342 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5343 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5344
5345 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er langt i fra sikker. For det første handler det mye om at
5346 IKT-avdelingen i kommunen ofte er de som styrer hva som er IKT på
5347 skolene - og de liker å bruke avtalene med Microsoft, som de garantert
5348 har fra før.  Dessuten - Select 6-avtalen til skolene gjør Microsoft
5349 skvettbillig.&lt;/p&gt;
5350
5351 &lt;p&gt;Vi la vekt på effektiv drift av systemet - og at vi kunne øke
5352 antall maskiner uten å måtte øke budsjett for utstyr eller personell
5353 særlig mye, enn om vi hadde gått for en Microsoft-løsning. I praksis
5354 ser vi at en ren linux-installasjon driftes til halve prisen av en
5355 Microsoft-løsning.&lt;/p&gt;
5356
5357 &lt;p&gt;Vi har i praksis også sett at det lærerne (og elevene) liker er at
5358 vi tilbyr &lt;strong&gt;veldig&lt;/strong&gt; mange tjenester som ikke er så
5359 vanlige i en Microsoft-løsning. Det er ikke så vanlig at
5360 &lt;strong&gt;elevene&lt;/strong&gt; også har epost, hjemmekontor osv. Det har vi
5361 også brukt som et vellykket argument mot Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;
5362
5363 &lt;p&gt;Den beste måten er selvfølgelig at noen bare bestemmer
5364 det. Problemet er å få dem som har makt til å bestemme det til faktisk
5365 å gjøre det ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
5366 </description>
5367         </item>
5368
5369         <item>
5370                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Astri Sletteng</title>
5371                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Astri_Sletteng.html</link>
5372                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Astri_Sletteng.html</guid>
5373                 <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
5374                 <description>&lt;p&gt;En dame som har bidratt lenge til fri programvare i skoleverket og
5375 i foreningen som organiserer skolelinux-utviklersamlinger,
5376 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt;, er neste
5377 intervjuoffer.  Det er en glede å her presentere en lærer fra Håkvik.&lt;/p&gt;
5378
5379 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5380
5381 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Astri Sletteng. Jeg er lærer og IKT veileder ved Håkvik
5382 skole i Narvik kommune.  Min bakgrunn når det gjelder IKT: Av formell
5383 utdannelse har jeg lærerutdanning, Master i skoleledelse og IKT for
5384 lærere. Har jobba som IKT veileder siden 2002.&lt;/p&gt;
5385
5386 &lt;p&gt;Det viktigste for meg som IKT veileder er å få fundamentert den
5387 5. basisferdigheten, digital kompetanse ved skolen min på en god måte
5388 slik at hele skolesamfunnet tar i bruk IKT i alle fag. Dette arbeidet
5389 gjøres i nært samarbeid med skolens ledelse.&lt;/p&gt;
5390
5391 &lt;p&gt;Min viktigste jobb som IKT veileder er å være motivator og pådriver
5392 i IKT arbeidet ved skolen.&lt;/p&gt;
5393
5394 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5395
5396 &lt;p&gt;Jobber i en kommune hvor vi satser på Fri programvare. I 2004 ble
5397 det gjort et politisk vedtak om at vi skulle innføre Skolelinux ved
5398 alle skolene i kommunen. Jeg har dermed en god del erfaring med
5399 Skolelinux, samt annen fri programvare som Open Office, Joomla, Moodle
5400 etc.&lt;/p&gt;
5401
5402 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5403
5404 &lt;p&gt;Siden vi jobber med åpen kildekode kan vi få programmene og
5405 produktene tilpasset vår bruk. Det er jo heller ikke en ulempe at
5406 skolen kommer bedre ut økonomisk, men først og fremst er det viktig
5407 for oss at vi har digitale systemer som gjør at vi kan følge
5408 læreplanen i alle fag. Det syns jeg at vi kan gjøre gjennom
5409 Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
5410
5411 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5412
5413 &lt;p&gt;Skolen er avhengige av å ha folk på IT avdelinga i kommunen som kan
5414 drive support, og være tilgjengelige når vi trenger hjelp. Det er en
5415 ulempe at ikke alle på denne avdelingen nødvendigvis er god på
5416 Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
5417
5418 &lt;p&gt;Vi har også noen utfordringer når det kommer til spesielle
5419 programmer som enkelte elever er avhengige av ? og som ikke er
5420 plattform uavhengige. Her har vi i Friprog-verden, men også
5421 departement en jobb å gjøre.&lt;/p&gt;
5422
5423 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5424
5425 &lt;p&gt;Skolen vår bruker Skolelinux, Open Office, Iceweazel (Mozilla),
5426 VLC, Tux paint, Scribus, FreeMind, GIMP, digiKam, Ksnapshot, GeoGebra,
5427 Moodle (innført på alle klassetrinn + som et administrativt verktøy)
5428 og Joomla som hjemmeside.&lt;p&gt;
5429
5430 &lt;p&gt;Det er de jeg kommer på i farten. I tillegg har vi Smartboard
5431 installert på server, men det regnes vel ikke som fri programvare?&lt;/p&gt;
5432
5433 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5434 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5435
5436 &lt;p&gt;Først og fremst trenger skolen oppetider på sine datasystemer. Syns
5437 også at det at vi kan få tilpasset plattform og systemer til vår bruk
5438 er en god strategi å bruke.&lt;/p&gt;
5439 </description>
5440         </item>
5441
5442         <item>
5443                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Rubén Romero y Cordero</title>
5444                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Rub_n_Romero_y_Cordero.html</link>
5445                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Rub_n_Romero_y_Cordero.html</guid>
5446                 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
5447                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Styret i foreningen som organiserer skolelinux-utviklersamlinger,
5448 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt;, er fullt av
5449 flinke folk.  Denne gangen har jeg fått et ferskt styremedlem som
5450 kommer fra Ubuntu-miljøet i tale.&lt;/p&gt;
5451
5452 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5453
5454 &lt;p&gt;Rubén Romero y Cordero, 81-modell, deltidspappa (50%) for en jente
5455 på 6 år. Jobber i Oslo som Global Sales Executive hos Varnish Software
5456 og til daglig har jeg kontakt med kunder fra hele verden. Min
5457 forkjærlighet for fri programvare har gjort at jeg har nå flere års
5458 erfaring med salg av slike løsninger (bl.a. fra Redpill Linpro og
5459 Freecode) og mye innsikt og kunnskap om det globale IT-markedet.
5460 Ellers er jeg involvert i flere prosjekter bl.a. er jeg Ubuntu
5461 Community medlem, kontaktpersonen for Ubuntu Norge og driveren av
5462 SpreadUbuntu marketing prosjektet og nå fersk styremedlem i FRISK. Jeg
5463 har brukt GNU/Linux siden 1997.&lt;/p&gt;
5464
5465 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5466
5467 &lt;p&gt;Som Debian bruker siden slutten av 90-tallet var det uunngåelig å
5468 ikke komme bort i Skolelinux. Dette var vel i slutten av 2001 når jeg
5469 var student ved UiO. Flere år senere fikk jeg lastet og testet Venus
5470 (Skolelinux 1.0) på release dagen.&lt;/p&gt;
5471
5472 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5473
5474 &lt;p&gt;Fri programvare bygges sten for sten i det åpne, slik at koden og
5475 prosessen den lages på kan gjennomskues av andre enn de som har laget
5476 det. Det er et vitenskapelig og gjennomsiktig måte å lage programvare
5477 på.&lt;/p&gt;
5478
5479 &lt;p&gt;Skoler i vårt samfunn skal være steder hvor vitenskapelig kunnskap
5480 deles til alle.  I dag har vi ikke et vitenskapelig tilnærming til
5481 hvordan programvaren som brukes på skolen lages. Skolelinux bringer
5482 inn at slik tilnærming i skoleverkets klasserom, siden
5483 operativsystemet er en åpent platform som gir skolene muligheten til å
5484 dra nytte av programvare som er laget av tusenvis av mennesker verden
5485 rundt og som gir elevene så vel som lærerne muligheten til å bruke,
5486 dele, forandre og forbedre OSet sitt uten begrensninger. I den
5487 forbindelsen representerer Skolelinux også konkrete resultater utfra
5488 samhandling på tvers av grenser.&lt;/p&gt;
5489
5490 &lt;p&gt;Når det gjelder de tekniske fordelene av Skolelinux er jeg sikker
5491 på at andre enn meg har allerede beskrevet disse bedre enn det jeg
5492 kan.  Men jeg kan likevel tilføye noe: Skolelinux som sådan er en
5493 community-drevet operativsystemplatform. Som i ethvert
5494 community-prosjekt har alle Skolelinux brukere muligheten til å
5495 påvirke retning av prosjektet og resultatet som gjenspeiles i
5496 programvaren. Dette kommer sjeldent frem og jeg mener at det er noe
5497 som burde fokuseres mer på.&lt;/p&gt;
5498
5499 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5500
5501 &lt;p&gt;De største ulempene er:&lt;/p&gt;
5502
5503 &lt;ul&gt;
5504 &lt;li&gt;Mangel på kompetanse&lt;/li&gt;
5505 &lt;li&gt;Mangel av administrative verktøy som kunne hjelpe lokale IT
5506   avdelinger å bruke Skolelinux til mer enn bare en tjener for
5507   terminalklienter. Et eksempel: Zentyal sin web-dashboard.&lt;/li&gt;
5508 &lt;/ul&gt;
5509
5510 &lt;p&gt;Bedre og mer intuitive administrative verktøy kunne løst deler av
5511 problemet, men det er unektelig at ved bruk av Skolelinux må
5512 IT-personalet vite hva de gjør for å få ting gjort riktig, eller i det
5513 hele tatt. Med andre platformer er kompetansen enklere tilgjengelig og
5514 løsningene kan fungere på en tilfredstillende, om ikke riktig
5515 måte.&lt;/p&gt;
5516
5517 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5518
5519 &lt;p&gt;Har brukt GNU/Linux utelukkende sommitt skrivebord OS siden 2000. I
5520 dag bruker jeg Ubuntu og gjør det meste med friprogramvare verktøyene
5521 som er tilgjengelige der. Med over 20.000 programmer å velge mellom er
5522 dette mer enn nok for de fleste brukerne.&lt;/p&gt;
5523
5524 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5525 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5526
5527 &lt;p&gt;Opplysning og pragmatikk.  Vi prøver å løse problemer med bruk av
5528 programvare. De fleste utfordringene skolene har på IKT-siden kan
5529 løses ved hjelp av friprogramvareverktøy i dag. Det som trenges er
5530 opplysning, kunnskap og kompetanse.&lt;/p&gt;
5531 </description>
5532         </item>
5533
5534         <item>
5535                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Morten Amundsen</title>
5536                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Morten_Amundsen.html</link>
5537                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Morten_Amundsen.html</guid>
5538                 <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
5539                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Denne gangen er det Tromsøkontoret til Friprog-senteret, og nyvalgt
5540 styremedlem i &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;foreningen
5541 FRISK&lt;/a&gt; jeg har fått i tale i min intervjuserie med
5542 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-folk.&lt;/p&gt;
5543
5544 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5545
5546 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Morten Amundsen og jobber i
5547 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprog.no/&quot;&gt;Friprog.no&lt;/a&gt;, men er for tiden leid
5548 ut til &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bredbandsfylket.no/&quot;&gt;Bredbåndsfylket
5549 Troms&lt;/a&gt; der jeg jobber med ett prosjekt som heter
5550 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bredbandsfylket.no/skolefjoela.157417.no.html&quot;&gt;Skolefjøla&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
5551 Vi ser på en åpen løsning som integrerer eksisterende lukkete
5552 løsninger sammen med fri programvare. Målet er å gi elever og lærere
5553 en plattform som de kan tilpasse utfra behov.&lt;/p&gt;
5554
5555 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5556
5557 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux har jeg møtt ved flere anledninger opp gjennom åra, både gjennom
5558 entusiastiske skolelinuxbrukere og skeptiske &quot;forståsegpåere&quot; :-)&lt;/p&gt;
5559
5560 &lt;p&gt;Jeg husker en leverandør av et stort OS for noen år siden mente at
5561 Skolelinux var kun for hackere og nerder og at ingen seriøse skoler
5562 kunne ta dette i bruk.  Heldigvis er kunnskapen større nå og
5563 skikkelige &quot;IT-folk&quot; søker alltid å utvide sin kunnskap.
5564
5565 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5566
5567 &lt;p&gt;Ja det er mange fordeler. Uavhengighet, stabilitet, åpenhet, standarder
5568 osv. Tror det er viktig at man ikke begrenser mulighetene på den plattformen
5569 elevene skal jobbe.&lt;/p&gt;
5570
5571 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5572
5573 &lt;p&gt;Det største hinderet er det vi opplever på andre områder rundt
5574 fri programvare, nemlig kunnskap. For mange er det trygt å velge det vi
5575 alltid har valgt. Fordi leverandørene rundt oss sitter på den kunnskapen og
5576 de vi støtter oss på har den samme.  Hvis vi klarer å riste løs litt og
5577 glemme gamle kriger mellom operativsystemer og  leverandører, men sette ned
5578 hva som er viktig og velge ut fra det, så hadde man kanskje kommet ut med
5579 litt andre resultat. Jeg tror IT-folk er konservative og velger tradisjonelt
5580 og det er synd.&lt;/p&gt;
5581
5582 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5583
5584 &lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker Ubuntu, Android, Jolicloud, Open Office, Zimbra, Picasa
5585 og Firefox samt en bråte med tjenester som er webbasert. Det eneste
5586 som er betalingslisens for er OSX.  Ser at jeg jobber mer og mer i
5587 skyen og setter pris på alt jeg slipper egen klient til.  Derfor er
5588 jeg veldig sjarmert av små kjappe operativsystemer som krever minimalt
5589 av maskinvaren.&lt;/p&gt;
5590
5591 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5592 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5593
5594 &lt;p&gt;Tror en blanding av krav og informasjon er veien å gå. Krav om
5595 sikkerhet, oppetid og åpne standarder.  Informasjon om muligheter og
5596 alternativer. Her har leverandører, IT-avdelinger og pedagoger en vei
5597 å gå sammen. Det er til slutt LÆRING det dreier seg om, og da må man
5598 få mest mulig læring for pengene man har.&lt;/p&gt;
5599 </description>
5600         </item>
5601
5602         <item>
5603                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Sturle Sunde</title>
5604                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Sturle_Sunde.html</link>
5605                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Sturle_Sunde.html</guid>
5606                 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
5607                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Denne gang har jeg fått tak i en mangeårig unix-mann som etter
5608 mange år ved Universitetet i Oslo, der jeg først traff ham, har
5609 flyttet tilbake til vestlandet, og der bidratt til å revitalisere
5610 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-oppsettet i
5611 Florø.&lt;/p&gt;
5612
5613 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5614
5615 &lt;p&gt;Sturle Sunde, ansvarleg for skulenettet i Flora kommune.  Eg driv,
5616 vidareutviklar og er andrelinje brukarstøtte for datanettet ved
5617 skulane i Flora kommune.  10 skular og meir enn 700 maskiner med
5618 Linux, medrekna tynnklientar.  Tidlegare jobba eg i mange år med
5619 unix-drift ved Universitetets senter for informasjonsteknologi ved
5620 Universitetet i Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;
5621
5622 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5623
5624 &lt;p&gt;Det er vanskeleg å svare konkret på.  Eg har drive med Unix og Linux i
5625 alle år, og Skulelinux er eit godt kjent prosjekt i miljøet.  Det var
5626 først i 2008, då eg tok til i min noverande jobb, at eg fekk bruk for
5627 Skulelinux for alvor.&lt;/p&gt;
5628
5629 &lt;p&gt;Jobben min skulle vere drift av eit nytt skulenett i Flora kommune,
5630 levert av eit firma eg ikkje vil reklamere for.  Systemet skulle vere
5631 ferdig levert i september året før.  Dette viste seg å ta mykje lenger
5632 tid, og i haustferien 2008 hadde dei endå ikkje klart å få opp ei
5633 fungerande løysing.  Situasjonen var prekær for den største skulen i
5634 kommunen med meir enn 500 elevar på ungdomssteget.  Skulen hadde brukt
5635 Skulelinux før, og var tilfredse med det.  No hadde dei vore utan
5636 fungerande datasystem i nesten eit år.  Difor fekk eg opp ein ny tenar
5637 utanfor prosjektet og installerte Skulelinux på den.  Etter litt
5638 justering av konfigurasjonen med god hjelp av #skolelinux på IRC, var
5639 den nye tenaren oppe og gjekk med både tynne og halv-tjukke klientar.
5640 Autentisering gjekk mot det nye systemet, slik at elevar og lærarar
5641 framleis har same brukarnamn og passord over alt.  Dette berre
5642 fungerte, og vi bestemte oss for å erstatte delar av løysinga vi
5643 skulle få levert med Skulelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
5644
5645 &lt;p&gt;Det høyrer med til historia at det nye systemet eg skulle drive frå
5646 januar 2008 endå ikkje er ferdig levert.  Dei jobbar med saka, seier
5647 dei, og har von om å fullføre leveransen i løpet av 2011.&lt;/p&gt;
5648
5649 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5650
5651 &lt;p&gt;Det er veldig mange.  Eg skal ta nokre få.&lt;/p&gt;
5652
5653 &lt;p&gt;Den viktigaste fordelen er at det igrunn berre er ei maskin å passe
5654 på, og det er tenaren.  Med andre løysingar har ein gjerne programvare
5655 og anna som skal vedlikehaldast på kvar enkelt maskin.  Med Skulelinux
5656 kan alle feil rettast og alle program oppgraderast på alle maskiner
5657 samstundes ved å gjere endringa som må til på tenaren.  Eg kan sitje
5658 på kontoret og passe på alle tenarane i kommunen derifrå.&lt;/p&gt;
5659
5660 &lt;ul&gt;
5661
5662 &lt;li&gt;Tynne klientar gjer det mogleg å bruke eldre utstyr lenge, so lenge
5663 tenaren er sterk nok.  Ein liten tenar med eit par halv-moderne CPUar
5664 og 2 GiB RAM held lenge for eit typisk klasserom med 30 tynnklientar,
5665 og det er lett å utvide med fleire.
5666
5667 &lt;li&gt;Halvtjukke klientar gjer det mogleg å utnytte kapasiteten i litt
5668 nyare maskiner betre, og avlaste tenaren.  Ingenting vert installert
5669 lokalt på desse heller, og harddisken kan gjerne koblast frå.  Gode
5670 halvtjukke klientar kan kjøpast brukt for under 1000-lappen, og det er
5671 heile kostnaden.  Ingen lisensar eller anna på toppen, og det er ikkje
5672 krav til kraftigare tenar heller.
5673
5674 &lt;li&gt;Det er Linux.  Vi har ikkje noko kluss med drivarar, dei berre er
5675 der.  Heller ikkje med virus, dei finst i realiteten ikkje.  Eller med
5676 elevar som klussar med installert programvare, for dei klarar ikkje å
5677 øydeleggje for nokon andre enn seg sjølve.
5678
5679 &lt;/ul&gt;
5680
5681 &lt;p&gt;Skulelinux er lagt opp til å vere veldig lett å installere rett ut
5682 av boksen på ein heil skule av ein interessert lærar.  Det er ofte ei
5683 god løysing for skulen.  Å ha nokon til stades som kjenner systemet og
5684 kan forklare enkle ting eller løyse problem der og då, er uvurderleg
5685 viktig for ein stressa lærar fem minutt før det ringer inn.&lt;/p&gt;
5686
5687 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5688
5689 &lt;p&gt;All den ferdige konfigurasjonen gjer det tungvint å tilpasse
5690 Skulelinux til eit system som skal fungere saman med mange andre
5691 installasjonar i eit felles datanett for skulane i ein kommune.  Det
5692 heile er prekonfigurert for ein skule, og utviding til mange skular
5693 med eigne tenarar er ikkje berre enkelt.&lt;/p&gt;
5694
5695 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5696
5697 &lt;p&gt;Eg brukar mest alle små hjelpeprogram som føl med operativsystemet,
5698 samt scriptspråket perl.  Elles er Firefox/Iceweasel, Gnome-terminal
5699 og ssh i kontinuerleg bruk.  Av Linux-distribusjonar brukar eg både
5700 Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE og RedHat dagleg.  Eg prøvar å finne det verktyet
5701 som passar best til kvar del av jobben.&lt;/p&gt;
5702
5703 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5704 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5705
5706 &lt;p&gt;Det er to målgrupper ein må sikte mot.  Det eine er alle skulane som
5707 manglar eller har eit lite tilfredsstillande opplegg i dag, og ikkje
5708 har råd til å kjøpe noko nytt og blankpussa opplegg.  Der er det om å
5709 gjere å gjere det enkelt for skulane å finne Skulelinux, og gjere det
5710 enkelt for dei å få hjelp til installasjon på skulen.  Gjerne med
5711 lokale kontaktpersonar.  Her er det dugnadsinnsats som må til, for
5712 desse skulane har ikkje råd til å betale for dette.&lt;/p&gt;
5713
5714 &lt;p&gt;Den andre og kanskje viktigare målgruppa er dei meir eller mindre
5715 profesjonelle kundane.  Alle store offentlege innkjøp, inkludert
5716 innkjøp av nytt datasystem for skular, må ut på offentleg anbod.
5717 Offentlege anbod er mykje meir lukka enn dei gjev inntrykk av, og både
5718 regelboka og boka med triks for å sminke tilbodet er tjukk.  Det er
5719 vanskeleg å komme inn utan eit solid salsapparat i ryggen.  Kanskje
5720 Skulelinux skulle prøve aktivt å få seg eit partnarskap med eit av dei
5721 store som gjerne vil sterkare inn på den offentlege IT-marknaden?
5722 Nokon som kjenner triksa og har krefter til å ta opp kampen mot både
5723 dårlege anbod og Rudolf Blostrupmoen IT AS.  Leveranse til skulane i
5724 ein kommune er ein god måte å få ein fot inn døra som leverandør til
5725 ein lukrativ kommunemarknad som kjøper alle tenester.  Ta kontakt med
5726 nokon som er passeleg store og ikkje er Microsoft-partnar, og fortell:
5727 «Vi har eit ferdig produkt som du kan selje.  Nei vi skal ikkje ha for
5728 det.  Du kan gjerne gjere kva du vil med det, berre vi får lov til å
5729 hjelpe deg.  Målgruppa er alle kommunar, og det er noko dei vil ha.
5730 Det er eit godt produkt, brukt av mange og godt likt.»&lt;/p&gt;
5731 </description>
5732         </item>
5733
5734         <item>
5735                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Embrik Kaslegard</title>
5736                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Embrik_Kaslegard.html</link>
5737                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Embrik_Kaslegard.html</guid>
5738                 <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
5739                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Neste ut i min intervjuserie med folk i
5740 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinuxprosjektet&lt;/a&gt; er
5741 lærer, mangeårig bidragsyter på epostlistene og tidligere
5742 Skolelinux-administrator på en skole i Hemsedal.&lt;/p&gt;
5743
5744 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5745
5746 &lt;p&gt;Embrik Kaslegard, 1964-modell, fire barn (7-20 år). Begynte som
5747 lærer i 1989 - har hatt IKT-ansvar siden første året i jobb. Har
5748 jobbet som lærer/IKT-ansvarlig uavbrutt siden 1989. Jobbet med
5749 Skolelinux fra 2004 til 2010. Nå har jeg fått ny arbeidsplass og er
5750 40% lærer og 60% IKT med Windows XP, Win2003 server og et regionalt
5751 IKT-regime som legger premissene og begrensingene for hva vi kan gjøre
5752 på skolen.&lt;/p&gt;
5753
5754 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5755
5756 &lt;p&gt;Jeg leste en artikkel om en dugnadsinstallasjon av Skolelinux på en
5757 skole på Jæren et sted. Tanken om dugnad og frihet appellerte til
5758 meg. Da vi skulle bygge ny skole var det en del vi måtte spare på,
5759 fordi vi beveget oss mot en kostnadssprekk. Kabling og investering i
5760 PC-er var en av tingene vi sparte på. Derfor kjøpe vi 72 pc-er for 390
5761 pr stk. En filtjener og en applikasjonsserver.&lt;/p&gt;
5762
5763 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5764
5765 &lt;p&gt;Fordelen er at så mye er satt opp fra starten. I tillegg er det
5766 tydelig at pakka er laga for skoleverket. Brukerne har egne
5767 skrivebord, tilgang på mange gode verktøyprogrammer. Vi slipper å
5768 tenke på virus. Brukerne har ikke mulighet til å ødelegge
5769 klientoppsett, men har gode muligheter til å endre eget oppsett. Dette
5770 tror jeg er inspirerende og kjekt for mange brukere.  Mappestrukturen
5771 er ferdig og det er &quot;enkelt&quot; å designe lokale mappestrukturer via
5772 skeleton.  Noen av oss i skoleverket mener skolen skal være en
5773 &quot;mot-kultur&quot;. Da er Skolelinux et av valgene man kan ta. Et annet er å
5774 spise på indisk restaurant i stedet for Mc Donald&#39;s når vi er på bytur
5775 osv.. Ordene deling, frihet, dugnad osv er positive ord i
5776 skoleverket. Det er viktig at elevene blir bevisst dette.&lt;/p&gt;
5777
5778 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5779
5780 &lt;p&gt;Kompabiliteten er selvsagt et problem, selv om det er mindre nå enn
5781 før.  For IKT-personer på skolene som skal drifte dette er det
5782 problematisk med kommandoer i terminalen.  I tillegg er det alt for
5783 mange programmer i Skolelinux som ikke blir brukt.  Jeg tror
5784 Skolelinux er tjent med å tone ned begrepet pedagogisk programvare.
5785 Slik jeg ser det finnes ikke denne kategorien programmer lengre slik
5786 de gjorde før, som frittsående programmer som installeres på en
5787 datamaskin eller på serveren.  Det finnes en del spesialpedagogiske
5788 programmer, som Textpilot, LingDys, LingRight, AskiRaski, Ny i Norge
5789 osv.  Men dette er programmer for enkelt-elever eller små grupper av
5790 elever.  Det som bør være fokus er at alle undervisningsressurser som
5791 lages for nettet skal være nettleseruavhengig.&lt;/p&gt;
5792
5793 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5794
5795 &lt;p&gt;OpenOffice bruker jeg til vanlig kontorarbeide.  VLC bruker jeg som
5796 videoavspiller og av og til streaming av film.  Gimp bruker jeg i
5797 undervisningen til bildemanipulering. Firefox og Chrome er mine
5798 favoritt-nettlesere.  Firefox har lenge vært førstevalget mitt, nå
5799 bruker jeg mest Chrome.  Opplever den som raskere og smidigere enn
5800 Firefox.  Ubuntu bruker jeg som dualboot på jobb-maskinen min i
5801 tillegg til at alle PCer hjemme har en eller annen Ubuntu-distribusjon
5802 installert.  Jeg bruker Clonezilla på Ubuntu 10.04 til kloning av
5803 datamaskiner på jobb.  Det er selvsagt en haug andre frie programmer
5804 jeg bruker men jeg bruker dem ikke daglig.  Jeg kan ramse opp:
5805 recordmydesktop, cinelerra, acidrip, soundjuicer, audacity, NX
5806 (no-machine), Kino, Rythmbox...&lt;/p&gt;
5807
5808 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5809 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5810
5811 &lt;p&gt;Jeg tror oppsøkende virksomhet er den rette strategien.
5812 Ressurspersoner gjør avtaler med rådmenn, skolesjefer, rektorer.  Det
5813 er slik konkurrentene gjør det.  Fokuset i slike samtaler bør være
5814 kost-nytte.  Dersom personer med økonomisk ansvar ser at de kan få
5815 like godt tilbud til mindre utgifter, tror jeg det er mulighet til å
5816 få innpass.  Dersom de også kan få konkrete tilbud på drift i slike
5817 samtaler, vil de kanskje bli litt mer interesserte i hvor mye penger
5818 som faktisk går til IKT i skolene.  Det er også viktig at vi ikke
5819 firer for mye på krav til datamaskiner.  Det er flott at Skolelinux
5820 går på &quot;utrangert&quot; utstyr, men dette bør bare presenteres som et
5821 alternativ.  Skolelinux-installasjoner med utrangert utstyr er ikke å
5822 foretrekke dersom man kan unngå det. Det skaper ikke entusiasme hos
5823 brukerne (elever og lærere) når de bruker gamle datamaskiner som går
5824 tregt.  Det er kjempefint med skoler som har kommet seg frem til
5825 Skolelinux og fri programvare av seg selv, men de lever på nåde.
5826 Slike valg må fundamenteres hos skoleeier.&lt;/p&gt;
5827
5828 &lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2011-01-16 22:40: Oppdatert svarene for de tre siste
5829 spørsmålene litt mer tekst fra Embrik.&lt;/p&gt;
5830 </description>
5831         </item>
5832
5833         <item>
5834                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Viggo Fedreheim</title>
5835                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Viggo_Fedreheim.html</link>
5836                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Viggo_Fedreheim.html</guid>
5837                 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
5838                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg fortsetter min intervjuserie med folk i
5839 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinuxprosjektet&lt;/a&gt;.  Denne
5840 gang er det en av folkene som har vært med lenge og som har tatt i
5841 bruk Skolelinux på alle skolene i Narvik kommune som skal i ilden.
5842 Han er styremedlem i
5843 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;foreningen
5844 FRISK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
5845
5846 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5847
5848 &lt;p&gt;Mitt navn er Viggo Fedreheim, og jeg er pedagogisk og teknisk
5849 IKT-veileder for alle skoler i Narvik kommune.  Jeg drifter totalt 17
5850 servere basert på Skolelinux og Debian. Jeg holder i tillegg noen kurs
5851 mellom all driftingen. For tiden arbeider jeg med en sentral
5852 LDAP-tjener for alle skoleservere samt våre Moodle- og
5853 Joomla-installasjoner.&lt;/p&gt;
5854
5855 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5856
5857 &lt;p&gt;Gjennom en eller annen nettavis i 2001 der var det skrevet om
5858 Skolelinux.  Artikkelen ga meg lyst til å prøve ut systemet.&lt;/p&gt;
5859
5860 &lt;p&gt;Det startet i 2002 ved at jeg installerte en av de første utgavene
5861 av Skolelinux på en standard pc på Solneset skole i Tromsø.  Denne var
5862 oppe fram til desember 2003 da jeg sluttet på den skolen og begynte i
5863 ny jobb i Narvik kommune.&lt;/p&gt;
5864
5865 &lt;p&gt; I Narvik kommune var det i 2004 kun 2 servere på da totalt 15
5866 skoler. Disse var Windows NT baserte. På disse to skolene var det lite
5867 med maskiner.  Jobben med å få Narvik Kommune opp på akseptabelt nivå
5868 virket å være formidabel.  Men med hjelp av gode kollegaer og leder
5869 skrev jeg en IKT plan for Narvik kommune som ble vedtatt av politikere
5870 i august 2004. I denne planen ble det bestemt at Narvik kommune skulle
5871 bruke Skolelinux.  Her ble det også satt av midler til kabling av god
5872 infrastruktur på alle skoler samt innkjøp av nye datamaskiner.  Så i
5873 dag har vi 17 servere hvorav 13 er på Skolelinux, med ca 1500 klienter
5874 basert på tynne, &quot;halvtykke&quot; og et stort antall bærbare pcer basert på
5875 Kubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;
5876
5877 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5878
5879 &lt;p&gt;Lisenskostnader, driftkostnader og hardwarekrav som er mye lavere
5880 enn for andre systemer.&lt;/p&gt;
5881
5882 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5883
5884 &lt;p&gt;Pedagogiske programvare som ikke fungerer mot Linux. En Stoooor
5885 flaskehals og som gjør at Linux kanskje ikke blir valgt andre
5886 plasser.&lt;/p&gt;
5887
5888 &lt;p&gt;Eksempler er Relemo, Lindys (lingit sine programmer), 5plus
5889 (matematikk).  Disse er programmer som ikke lar seg kjøre i Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
5890
5891 &lt;p&gt; Men det ser ut for at mange leverandører går over til mer
5892 nettbaserte programmer istedet for å installere lokalt.  Dette med
5893 enkelte leverandører som ikke kan levere programmer til Linux er et
5894 lite problem og over tid tror jeg at denne barrieren er borte.&lt;/p&gt;
5895
5896 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5897
5898 &lt;p&gt;Kjører Kubuntu på laptoper, Debian squeeze på stasjonær
5899 kontorpc. Ut over dette arbeder jeg svært mye via konsoll mot andre
5900 servere.&lt;/p&gt;
5901 </description>
5902         </item>
5903
5904         <item>
5905                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Arnt Ove Gregersen</title>
5906                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Arnt_Ove_Gregersen.html</link>
5907                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Arnt_Ove_Gregersen.html</guid>
5908                 <pubDate>Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
5909                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Inspirert av
5910 &lt;a href=&quot;http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/&quot;&gt;intervjurunden&lt;/a&gt;
5911 som Raphael Hertzog har startet med folk i Debianprosjektet, fikk jeg
5912 lyst til å gjøre det samme med folk i
5913 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinuxprosjektet&lt;/a&gt;.  Håpet
5914 er at de som til daglig bidrar til å fremme fri programvare i
5915 skoleverket og utvikler en linux-distribusjon spesiallaget for
5916 skolebruk kan bli bedre kjent og kanskje inspirere flere til å bidra
5917 til Skolelinux-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
5918
5919 &lt;p&gt;Først ut er nyvalgt leder i
5920 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;foreningen FRISK&lt;/a&gt; som
5921 organiserer utviklingen av Skolelinux-distribusjonen.  FRISK trenger
5922 alltid flere medlemmer, så
5923 &lt;a href=&quot;http://medlem.friprogramvareiskolen.no/index.php?page=signup&quot;&gt;meld
5924 deg gjerne inn&lt;/a&gt; hvis du vil støtte oss.&lt;/p&gt;
5925
5926 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5927
5928 &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- Mitt navn er Arnt Ove Gregersen, jeg er en småbarnfar på 32 år som
5929 for tiden bor Trondheim. --&gt;
5930 Mitt navn er Arnt Ove Gregersen, jeg er 32 år og bor for tiden i Trondheim.
5931
5932 Her jobber jeg som systemutvikler i et firma
5933 som heter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geomatikk-ikt.no/&quot;&gt;Geomatikk IKT AS&lt;/a&gt;,
5934 hvor jeg er på et Vegmeldings-prosjekt for Statens Vegvesen. På
5935 fritiden er jeg styreleder i FRISK (Fri programvare i skolen) og
5936 bidrar til bl.a. Skolelinux-prosjektet når jeg får tid til det. Det er
5937 primært hjemmesiden til Skolelinux-prosjektet og
5938 &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxveiviseren.no/&quot;&gt;Linux-veiviseren&lt;/a&gt; jeg har
5939 jobbet med her, men jeg har også gjort en del arbeid i forhold til
5940 FRISK sin hjemmeside.&lt;/p&gt;
5941
5942 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5943
5944 &lt;p&gt;Jeg var på en presentasjon av prosjektet i regi av Knut Yrvin på
5945 Gløshaugen i Trondheim, hvor jeg fattet stor interesse for prosjektet
5946 og ville hjelpe til så godt jeg kunne.  Dette var vel i 2002 eller
5947 2003.&lt;/p&gt;
5948
5949 &lt;p&gt;Jeg hadde fra før hørt om prosjektet fra før og syntes tanken bak var
5950 ganske fin, men hadde ikke noen interesse av bruke min egen fritid på
5951 det selv.&lt;/p&gt;
5952
5953 &lt;p&gt;I etterkant av presentasjonen startet jeg og noen andre fra
5954 Trondheim &quot;Skolelinux-prosjektet i Sør-Trøndelag&quot; . Hvor vi var med å
5955 bidra til at Trondheim kommune satte igang Selsbakk ungdomskole som et
5956 pilotprosjekt med Skolelinux, som egentlig var og er en stor suksess,
5957 men det virker ut som det ikke skjer noe mer på. I tillegg var vi med
5958 på dugnad på Brundalen videregående skole hvor vi installerte
5959 Skolelinux som såvidt jeg vet fortsatt kjører på Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
5960
5961 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5962
5963 &lt;p&gt;Det bygger på fri programvare og har lav kostnad i forhold til
5964 nytteverdien. Dette fordi det har forholdsvis lav inngangsum og bruker
5965 en arkitektur med sentral-drift som gir mange driftfordeler.  I
5966 tillegg vil det kunne frigjøre kostnader for skolene slik at de kan
5967 bruke dem til å ansette f,eks flere lærere om det er ønskelig.&lt;/p&gt;
5968
5969 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5970
5971 &lt;P&gt;Ikke all pedagogisk programvare er tilgjengelig der, som f.eks
5972 Drillpro om jeg ikke husker feil.&lt;/p&gt;
5973
5974 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5975
5976 &lt;p&gt;Til utvikling av Java-applikasjoner og Android bruker jeg Eclipse og
5977 Quanta til web-utvikling via php. For all bildebehandling bruker jeg
5978 GIMP og Blender til 3d-modellering . Dessverre har Blender en bratt
5979 læringskurve i starten, men det er absolutt verdt det.
5980
5981 &lt;p&gt;Til musikk bruker jeg stort Rhytmbox. Firefox til surfing på nettet og
5982 Thunderbird og Evolution til e-post,
5983
5984 &lt;p&gt;På database-siden bruker jeg PostgreSQL, Postgis og av og til Mysql.
5985
5986 &lt;p&gt;Når jeg får tid til å spille bruker jeg som regel et strategi-spill
5987 som er basert på TA Spring-motoren (springrts.com), her er det et
5988 veldig bra utvalg av gratis spill som er av høy kvalitet. Veldig lett
5989 å bli hektet :)&lt;/p&gt;
5990 </description>
5991         </item>
5992
5993         <item>
5994                 <title>Inspirerende fra en ukjent Skolelinux-skole</title>
5995                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Inspirerende_fra_en_ukjent_Skolelinux_skole.html</link>
5996                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Inspirerende_fra_en_ukjent_Skolelinux_skole.html</guid>
5997                 <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2011 07:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
5998                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Følgende inspirerende historie fant jeg i
5999 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/php/ny_debatt.php?id=858869#innlegg_770926&quot;&gt;kommentarfeltet
6000 hos digi.no&lt;/a&gt; i forbindelse med en trist sak om hvordan
6001 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/858869/datakaos-etter-linux-satsing&quot;&gt;skolen
6002 i Hemsedal har fått ødelagt&lt;/a&gt; sin Skolelinux-installasjon.  Jeg har
6003 fikset endel åpenbare skrivefeil for lesbarhetens skyld.&lt;/p&gt;
6004
6005 &lt;blockquote&gt;
6006 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lignende situasjon i annen kommune, se bare her:&lt;/strong&gt;
6007 &lt;br&gt;av Inspektør Siri (gjest)
6008
6009 &lt;p&gt;Kommunen min har to omtrent jevnstore tettsteder, og en
6010 ungdomsskole i hvert av tettstedene. Den minste av disse har ca 300
6011 elever og til denne sogner det 3 barneskoler. Den største har ca 350
6012 elever og til denne sogner det 4 barneskoler.&lt;/p&gt;
6013
6014 &lt;ul&gt;
6015
6016 &lt;li&gt;Kommunen har i veldig lang tid forsømt IKT i skolen, og det har
6017 bare blitt gitt smuler i ny og ne. Det er kun den største av
6018 ungdomsskolene som har hatt en skikkelig datapark, og dette takket
6019 være en naturfaglærer som ble lei av å vente på kommunen. Det gjorde
6020 at vi bestemte oss for å ta ting i egne hender, og da vha
6021 skolelinux. En testinstallasjon med 10 gamle PCer ble gjort, og vi så
6022 raskt at dette var veldig lovende. Neste etappe var å gi alle lærere
6023 egen PC på arbeidsplassene sine (2004), og så sette opp 16 PCer på to
6024 datarom. Vi har kun basert oss på å kjøpe inn brukte maskiner, og
6025 aldri dyrere enn 1000 kr pr klient. For to år siden så hadde vi
6026 klienter i alle klasserom, og totalt hadde vi da rundt 250 stk. Rundt
6027 40 klienter brukes av lærerne og kjører på en egen server. Elvene har
6028 resten, og kjører også en egen server. Servere har vi også kjøpt
6029 brukt, 2 år gamle servere koster 6-7000 kroner.&lt;/li&gt;
6030
6031 &lt;li&gt;Skolen vår er et relativt gammelt bygg, men en meget dyktig
6032 vaktmester har sammen med IKT-ansvarlig/Naturfaglærer lagt kabler til alle
6033 rom. Gradvis har vi byttet ut billige svitsjer med mer solide saker
6034 som er mulig å fjernstyre.&lt;/li&gt;
6035
6036 &lt;li&gt;Vi har i all hovedsak greid å få dette til over eget budsjett, men
6037 vi har også passet på å få penger når de andre skolene har fått
6038 bærbare PCer til lærere osv.&lt;/li&gt;
6039
6040 &lt;li&gt;Vår IKT-ansvarlig har gjort (og gjør) en fenomenal jobb, og vi har
6041 en maskinpark som de andre av kommunens skoler bare kan drømme
6042 om.&lt;/li&gt;
6043
6044 &lt;/ul&gt;
6045
6046 &lt;p&gt;Så skjer det som ofte skjer. Det kommer en eller annen
6047 selger/blåruss og skal fikse ALT. I vårt tilfelle betyr dette også
6048 sentralisering av drift. Den ny-ansatte på kommunens IT-avdelingen
6049 skal også ha jobb, og ser for seg å ta over skoledriften. Kommunen
6050 kjøper inn eksterne driftstjenester, og nekter i samme slengen å ta
6051 hensyn til skolen vår. Dette til tross for at vi alene har like mange
6052 datamaskiner som de andre til sammen. &lt;/p&gt;
6053
6054 &lt;ul&gt;
6055
6056 &lt;li&gt;Det blir krevd at vi skal innlemmes i de kommunale systemet, og
6057 det er VI som får ansvar for at dette kommer på plass. Og det er her
6058 de horrible tingene begynner å skje. &lt;/li&gt;
6059
6060 &lt;li&gt;Det settes opp en lukket Exchange server som gjør av vi ikke kan
6061 hente epost for våre ansatte. Og det kreves at vi finner løsning på
6062 dette.&lt;/li&gt;
6063
6064 &lt;li&gt;Det velges sak arkivsystem som vi pålegges å bruke, noe som gjør
6065 at vi må bruke en terminalløsning mot kommunal server. Ikke i seg selv
6066 et problem i følge IKT-ansvarlig hos oss. Men kommunens IT-avd nektet
6067 faktisk å åpne de porter OSV som vi måtte bruke.&lt;/li&gt;
6068
6069 &lt;li&gt;Vi blir pålagt å flytte på innsiden av det kommunale
6070 nettverket. Dette gjorde at vi mistet hjemmekontor for lærere og
6071 elever. Å få åpnet porter i kommunal brannmur var ikke
6072 aktuelt. Mulighet for fjerndrift ble også vekk i samme slengen. &lt;/li&gt;
6073
6074 &lt;li&gt;Vår LMS Moodle er ikke mulig å nå for elevene og lærerne.
6075
6076 &lt;/ul&gt;
6077
6078 &lt;p&gt;Den andre ungdomsskolen i kommunen begynner så å kreve at de skal
6079 få bedre datatetthet, og komme opp på et nivå som ligner det vi
6080 har. De ser at vi kan avholde eksamen hvor alle 10. klassingene får
6081 sitte ved hver sin PC. Og de har fått tilbakemelding (klager) fra VGS
6082 om manglende datakompetanse på elevene som kommer fra dem. Dette fører
6083 videre til at kommunen endelig innser at de må ta grep. &lt;/p&gt;
6084
6085 &lt;p&gt;Grepet betyr sentralisering, og farvel til vår plattform får vi
6086 høre. Det blir gjort en rekke bestemmelser og vedtak som vi ikke får
6087 være en del av. Det blir helt klart at vi må redusere antall maskiner,
6088 og det skal satses på bærbare maskiner. Siden vi ikke har fått tatt
6089 del i prosessene som angår oss, så bruker vi fagforening. Vi har ikke
6090 blitt hørt i forbindelse med endringer som er betydelig for vår
6091 hverdag, og greier å stoppe omlegging. I tillegg så har vi et politisk
6092 vedtak i kommunen på at vi skal kjøre Linux på elevnett, og dette
6093 vedtaket kan ikke administrasjonen i kommunene helt uten videre
6094 tilsidesette. &lt;/p&gt;
6095
6096 &lt;p&gt;I sum har dette gjort at vi har fått jobbe videre i fred. Og en del
6097 runder i kommunens kontrollutvalg har gjort det tydelig at vi har blitt
6098 systematisk motarbeidet. &lt;/p&gt;
6099
6100 &lt;p&gt;I dag har de andre skolene fått sine bærbare maskiner til elever og
6101 lærere, men etter 2 år med innkjøring er det fremdeles problemer
6102 her. &lt;/p&gt;
6103
6104 &lt;ul&gt;
6105
6106 &lt;li&gt;Ungdomsskolen med windows kan ikke kjøre eksamen med sine bærbare,
6107 det er for mye arbeid å renske disse for innhold slik at juks ikke er
6108 mulig.&lt;/li&gt;
6109
6110 &lt;li&gt;Utskrift er et mareritt, etter sigende pga at utskrift først
6111 sendes til sentral server, og så sendes ut til rett skriver. I snitt
6112 så tar det 7-8 minutter før utskrift starter på enkelte av
6113 skolene.&lt;/li&gt;
6114
6115 &lt;li&gt;Trådløst skaper store problemer, og det er i perioder helt umulig
6116 å komme seg på nett. Og lagring på felles server er bare å glemme i
6117 perioder.&lt;/li&gt;
6118
6119 &lt;/ul&gt;
6120
6121 &lt;p&gt;Vi har slitt mye, kranglet og sloss. Ikke med tekniske problemer,
6122 men med omgivelsene rundt som vil oss til livs. Men det har vært verdt
6123 hver dråpe med svette, og timer med irritasjon. Men vi har begynt å få
6124 rutine her nå. &lt;/p&gt;
6125
6126 &lt;ul&gt;
6127
6128 &lt;li&gt;Vi har fremdeles et system som vi styrer helt selv. &lt;/li&gt;
6129 &lt;li&gt;Vi har vist at argumentet med at vår IKT-ansvarlig kan finne seg annen jobb ikke holder mål. Vi har kjøpt driftskonto hos et firma i tilfelle krise, og vi har kjørt opplæring på flere av de yngre lærerne. &lt;/li&gt;
6130 &lt;li&gt;Vi har til enhver tid en lærling IKT driftsfag, og velger selvsagt ut dem som satser på Linux. Vi har nå begynt å få tilbake av våre tidligere elever som vil til oss nettopp fordi vi har Linux.&lt;/li&gt;
6131 &lt;li&gt;Vi har vist at vi greier å opprettholde en dobbelt så stor datapark som naboskolen, og det til en billigere penge. &lt;/li&gt;
6132 &lt;li&gt;Vi har datastøtte og support på huset, ALLTID tilgjengelig. De andre skolene må vente flere dager hvis det ikke er noe kritisk. &lt;/li&gt;
6133 &lt;li&gt;Vår IKT-ansvarlig har 50% stilling som lærer og 50% som IKT-ansvarlig. &lt;/li&gt;
6134 &lt;li&gt;Vi har en lærer på hvert trinn som har 3 timer i uka til å drive support/støtte til de andre lærerne. &lt;/li&gt;
6135 &lt;li&gt;Vi opplever at de yngste lærerne ved den andre ungdomsskolen ønsker seg over til oss. &lt;/li&gt;
6136
6137 &lt;/ul&gt;
6138
6139 &lt;p&gt;Vi skal i løpet av året starte prosess med å planlegge ny skole, og vi har fått gjennomslag for at jeg (inspektør) og IKT-ansvarlig skal ha det fulle og hele ansvar for IKT/Infrastruktur. Begrunnelsen vår som ble avgjørende her, var at IT-avd i kommunen ikke kan noe om data i skolen. &lt;/p&gt;
6140
6141 &lt;p&gt;Beklager hvis dette ble litt usammenhengende, men det ble tastet i
6142 fei, og jeg har ikke lest gjennom&lt;/p&gt;
6143 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
6144
6145 &lt;p&gt;Det kom raskt et lite svar:&lt;/p&gt;
6146
6147 &lt;blockquote&gt;
6148 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SV: Lignende situasjon i annen kommune, se bare her:&lt;/strong&gt;
6149 &lt;br&gt;av captain_obvious&lt;/p&gt;
6150
6151 &lt;p&gt;Inspirerende å lese. Har dere gjort noe for å fortelle denne
6152 historien videre?&lt;/p&gt;
6153
6154 &lt;p&gt;Hadde vært svært interessant om dere tok kontakt med dokument 2 eller
6155 lignende for å fortelle hvordan det egentlig står til med
6156 IT-satsningen i kommune-Norge. Om ikke annet kan du begynner med å
6157 raffinere innlegget ditt og få en gjesteartikkel på digi.no&lt;/p&gt;
6158 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
6159
6160 &lt;p&gt;Og deretter en lengre oppfølging.&lt;/p&gt;
6161
6162 &lt;blockquote&gt;
6163 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SV: Lignende situasjon i annen kommune, se bare her:&lt;/strong&gt;
6164 &lt;br&gt;av Inspektør Siri (gjest)
6165
6166 &lt;p&gt;Joda, vi har lekt med tanken, og vi har t.o.m skrevet flere lengre
6167 leserinnlegg myntet på aviser. Disse er ikke sendt til aviser, men
6168 brukt internt i forbindelse med møter med kommune. Vår IKT-ansvarlig
6169 har også truet med å si opp jobben sin hvis det ikke ble tatt hensyn i
6170 større grad enn hva som har vært tilfelle. VI kan også dokumentere
6171 flere brudd på anbudsregler, og vi kjenner til at relativt store
6172 IT-leverandører som ikke har fått tatt del i disse anbudene, rett og
6173 slett ikke tør melde fra av redsel for å få et dårlig rykte. &lt;/p&gt;
6174
6175 &lt;p&gt;Alt ser ut til å roe seg ned, og vi har fått opp øynene på
6176 politikerne. I sum gjør dette at vi ikke ønsker for mye publisitet nå,
6177 det vil bare rote til igjen. &lt;/p&gt;
6178
6179 &lt;p&gt;Jeg glemte å nevne at vi nå nesten ikke bruker tid på å drifte
6180 systemet vårt, noe som gjør at det aller meste av tid blir brukt til å
6181 støtte lærerne og elevene. F.eks så bruker vår IKT-ansvarlig den
6182 første timen på jobb, 0730-0830 kun til å gå ute på arbeidsplassene
6183 til læreren. Dette for å kunne svare på små og store problem, gi tips
6184 og råd, eller bare for å plukke opp hva som er behovet ute i
6185 undervisningsarealene. Det er dessverre ikke slik at alle lærerne har
6186 nok digital kompetanse til å kunne formulere alle spørsmålene de har,
6187 men ved å kunne få vise eller lufte tanker med IKT-ansvarlig så er det
6188 utrolig hva som kommer fram. &lt;/p&gt;
6189
6190 &lt;ul&gt;
6191
6192 &lt;li&gt;Jeg ser at mange bruker økonomi som argument i forhold til å bruke
6193 SkoleLinux, og jeg skal ikke legge skjul på at det var dette som i
6194 utgangspunktet var årsaken til vårt valg. Men diskusjonene og kampen
6195 med kommunens IT-avdeling har gjort at vi har fått et noe annet
6196 fokus. Fordelene med drift og stabilitet, gjør at vi ville ha valgt
6197 samme løsning selv om den var dyrere. At vi slipper langt billigere
6198 unna, som følge av 0,- lisenskostnader og lave maskinvarekostnader, er
6199 bare en bonus. &lt;/li&gt;
6200
6201 &lt;li&gt;Etter å ha kranglet oss til å få skikkelig oversikt over hva de
6202 andre skolene i kommunen bruker på IT, så har vi fått gehør for å få
6203 samme midler til innkjøp. Dette har gjort at vi nå kan kjøpe inn
6204 utstyr som de andre skolene bare kan se langt etter. Vi har nettopp
6205 kjøpt inn 3 videokamera i semiproff-klassen for å kunne lage film,
6206 samt sende live fra skoleteater/konserter. Vi har kjøpt inn digitale
6207 kompaktkamera til alle klassene. Vi har et team av lærere som skal i
6208 gang med å teste ut tablets på svake elever. Håpet et at teknologien
6209 kan være med på å gi noen av elevene litt mer motivasjon. Vi har kjøpt
6210 inn et halvt klassesett med pulsklokker, noe som har vist seg å være
6211 overraskende inspirerende for en del av elevene. Vi har også oss på
6212 fag på en høyskole litt lengre sør for oss, slik at 3 av oss nå skal
6213 ta faget &quot;Linux tjenestedrift&quot;. Som inspektør og en del av skolens
6214 administrasjon er det veldig praktisk å kunne trå til hvis det
6215 kniper. Men IKT-ansvarlig har vært UTROLIG flink til å lage rene
6216 smørbrødlister for hvordan de mest vanlige driftsproblem løses, så det
6217 er lett for flere av oss å ta del i den daglige driften. Vi har svært
6218 stor nytte av lærling (som også hjelper to av naboskolene), men det er
6219 nesten blitt slik at det er om å gjøre å komme til først for å få løse
6220 problem. Det å få fingrene på problem og utfordringer er den aller
6221 beste læremester. &lt;/li&gt;
6222
6223 &lt;/ul&gt;
6224
6225 &lt;p&gt;Når vi nå tar til med planlegging av ny skole, så vil det være med
6226 tanke på at det skal være mulig med datautstyr på alle plasser. Vi
6227 kommer i all hovedsak til å legge kabel til alle tenkelige og
6228 utenkelige plasser. WiFi koster tilnærmet NULL å sette opp i
6229 ettertid.&lt;/p&gt;
6230
6231 &lt;p&gt;Vi har ikke vært noe flink til å bidra til SkoleLinux-prosjektet,
6232 vi har rett og slett vært for opptatt med vår egen kamp. Vi har hentet
6233 mye inspirasjon fra diskusjoner som har gått i det miljøet, og vi
6234 håper at vi nå framover kan få tid til å bidra. Vi er i ferd med å
6235 bytte ut en av serverne våre, og da vil denne trolig bli satt opp som
6236 testserver for neste versjon av Skolelinux. På den måten vil vi i alle
6237 fall kunne gi tilbakemeldinger og rapportere feil. I tillegg så vil
6238 det kanskje gi oss noen nye utfordringer, for som lærlingen vår sier:
6239 &quot;Skolelinux er noe herk, det skjer jo ikke noe galt og hvordan skal
6240 jeg da lære?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
6241
6242 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
6243
6244 &lt;p&gt;Det er veldig hyggelig å høre at
6245 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; fungerer så bra i
6246 skoleverdagen etter å ha jobbet med det i 10 år.&lt;/p&gt;
6247 </description>
6248         </item>
6249
6250         <item>
6251                 <title>How to test if a laptop is working with Linux</title>
6252                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_if_a_laptop_is_working_with_Linux.html</link>
6253                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_if_a_laptop_is_working_with_Linux.html</guid>
6254                 <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
6255                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have spent at work here at the &lt;a
6256 href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt; testing if the new
6257 batch of computers will work with Linux.  Every year for the last few
6258 years the university have organised shared bid of a few thousand
6259 computers, and this year HP won the bid.  Two different desktops and
6260 five different laptops are on the list this year.  We in the UNIX
6261 group want to know which one of these computers work well with RHEL
6262 and Ubuntu, the two Linux distributions we currently handle at the
6263 university.&lt;/p&gt;
6264
6265 &lt;p&gt;My test method is simple, and I share it here to get feedback and
6266 perhaps inspire others to test hardware as well.  To test, I PXE
6267 install the OS version of choice, and log in as my normal user and run
6268 a few applications and plug in selected pieces of hardware.  When
6269 something fail, I make a note about this in the test matrix and move
6270 on.  If I have some spare time I try to report the bug to the OS
6271 vendor, but as I only have the machines for a short time, I rarely
6272 have the time to do this for all the problems I find.&lt;/p&gt;
6273
6274 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, to get to the point of this post.  Here is the simple tests
6275 I perform on a new model.&lt;/p&gt;
6276
6277 &lt;ul&gt;
6278
6279 &lt;li&gt;Is PXE installation working?  I&#39;m testing with RHEL6, Ubuntu Lucid
6280 and Ubuntu Maverik at the moment.  If I feel like it, I also test with
6281 RHEL5 and Debian Edu/Squeeze.&lt;/li&gt;
6282
6283 &lt;li&gt;Is X.org working?  If the graphical login screen show up after
6284 installation, X.org is working.&lt;/li&gt;
6285
6286 &lt;li&gt;Is hardware accelerated OpenGL working?  Running glxgears (in
6287 package mesa-utils on Ubuntu) and writing down the frames per second
6288 reported by the program.&lt;/li&gt;
6289
6290 &lt;li&gt;Is sound working?  With Gnome and KDE, a sound is played when
6291 logging in, and if I can hear this the test is successful.  If there
6292 are several audio exits on the machine, I try them all and check if
6293 the Gnome/KDE audio mixer can control where to send the sound.  I
6294 normally test this by playing
6295 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20101012-chef/ &quot;&gt;a HTML5
6296 video&lt;/a&gt; in Firefox/Iceweasel.&lt;/li&gt;
6297
6298 &lt;li&gt;Is the USB subsystem working?  I test this by plugging in a USB
6299 memory stick and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.&lt;/li&gt;
6300
6301 &lt;li&gt;Is the CD/DVD player working?  I test this by inserting any CD/DVD
6302 I have lying around, and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.&lt;/li&gt;
6303
6304 &lt;li&gt;Is any built in camera working?  Test using cheese, and see if a
6305 picture from the v4l device show up.&lt;/li&gt;
6306
6307 &lt;li&gt;Is bluetooth working?  Use the Gnome/KDE browsing tool to see if
6308 any bluetooth devices are discovered.  In my office, I normally see a
6309 few.&lt;/li&gt;
6310
6311 &lt;li&gt;For laptops, is the SD or Compaq Flash reader working.  I have
6312 memory modules lying around, and stick them in and see if Gnome/KDE
6313 notice this.&lt;/li&gt;
6314
6315 &lt;li&gt;For laptops, is suspend/hibernate working?  I&#39;m testing if the
6316 special button work, and if the laptop continue to work after
6317 resume.&lt;/li&gt;
6318
6319 &lt;li&gt;For laptops, is the extra buttons working, like audio level,
6320 adjusting background light, switching on/off external video output,
6321 switching on/off wifi, bluetooth, etc?  The set of buttons differ from
6322 laptop to laptop, so I just write down which are working and which are
6323 not.&lt;/li&gt;
6324
6325 &lt;li&gt;Some laptops have smart card readers, finger print readers,
6326 acceleration sensors etc.  I rarely test these, as I do not know how
6327 to quickly test if they are working or not, so I only document their
6328 existence.&lt;/li&gt;
6329
6330 &lt;/ul&gt;
6331
6332 &lt;p&gt;By now I suspect you are really curious what the test results are
6333 for the HP machines I am testing.  I&#39;m not done yet, so I will report
6334 the test results later.  For now I can report that HP 8100 Elite work
6335 fine, and hibernation fail with HP EliteBook 8440p on Ubuntu Lucid,
6336 and audio fail on RHEL6.  Ubuntu Maverik worked with 8440p.  As you
6337 can see, I have most machines left to test.  One interesting
6338 observation is that Ubuntu Lucid has almost twice the frame rate than
6339 RHEL6 with glxgears.  No idea why.&lt;/p&gt;
6340 </description>
6341         </item>
6342
6343         <item>
6344                 <title>Debian Edu development gathering and General Assembly for FRiSK</title>
6345                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html</link>
6346                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html</guid>
6347                 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
6348                 <description>&lt;p&gt;On friday, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux
6349 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2010-12-03-05-Oslo&quot;&gt;development
6350 gathering&lt;/a&gt; in a long time take place here in Oslo, Norway.  I
6351 really look forward to seeing all the good people working on the
6352 Squeeze release.  The gathering is open for everyone interested in
6353 learning more about Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
6354
6355 &lt;p&gt;On Saturday, the Norwegian member organization taking care of
6356 organizing these development gatherings, Fri Programvare i Skolen,
6357 will hold its
6358 &lt;a href=&quot;http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Genfors/2010&quot;&gt;General Assembly
6359 for 2010&lt;/a&gt;.  Membership is open for all, and currently there are 388
6360 people registered as members.  Last year 32 members cast their vote in
6361 the memberdb based election system.  I hope more people find time to
6362 vote this year.&lt;/p&gt;
6363 </description>
6364         </item>
6365
6366         <item>
6367                 <title>Why isn&#39;t Debian Edu using VLC?</title>
6368                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html</link>
6369                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html</guid>
6370                 <pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
6371                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
6372 presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
6373 Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
6374 to play a video file or stream.  Only if VLC fail will I drag out
6375 gmplayer to see if it can do better.  The reason is mostly the failure
6376 model and trust.  When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
6377 reporting the problem.  When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
6378 just hangs.  The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.&lt;p&gt;
6379
6380 &lt;p&gt;But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
6381 mplayer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian
6382 Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  The reason is simple.  We need a good browser
6383 plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
6384 not very good.  For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
6385 is no way for the user to pause the video.  Also, when I
6386 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;last
6387 tested the browser plugins&lt;/a&gt; available in Debian, the VLC plugin
6388 failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked.  If
6389 the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
6390 package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.&lt;/P&gt;
6391
6392 &lt;p&gt;While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
6393 annoying.  The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
6394 keyboard shortcuts.  When the player is in full screen mode, its
6395 shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
6396 For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode.  I
6397 wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
6398 window mode.  Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
6399 the current video.  It is very nice when playing short videos from the
6400 web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
6401 what is going on.&lt;/p&gt;
6402 </description>
6403         </item>
6404
6405         <item>
6406                 <title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades of the Gnome and KDE desktop, now with apt-get autoremove</title>
6407                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html</link>
6408                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html</guid>
6409                 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
6410                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Michael Biebl suggested to me on IRC, that I changed my automated
6411 upgrade testing of the
6412 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&quot;&gt;Lenny
6413 Gnome and KDE Desktop&lt;/a&gt; to do &lt;tt&gt;apt-get autoremove&lt;/tt&gt; when using apt-get.
6414 This seem like a very good idea, so I adjusted by test scripts and
6415 can now present the updated result from today:&lt;/p&gt;
6416
6417 &lt;p&gt;This is for Gnome:&lt;/p&gt;
6418
6419 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
6420
6421 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6422   apache2.2-bin
6423   aptdaemon
6424   baobab
6425   binfmt-support
6426   browser-plugin-gnash
6427   cheese-common
6428   cli-common
6429   cups-pk-helper
6430   dmz-cursor-theme
6431   empathy
6432   empathy-common
6433   freedesktop-sound-theme
6434   freeglut3
6435   gconf-defaults-service
6436   gdm-themes
6437   gedit-plugins
6438   geoclue
6439   geoclue-hostip
6440   geoclue-localnet
6441   geoclue-manual
6442   geoclue-yahoo
6443   gnash
6444   gnash-common
6445   gnome
6446   gnome-backgrounds
6447   gnome-cards-data
6448   gnome-codec-install
6449   gnome-core
6450   gnome-desktop-environment
6451   gnome-disk-utility
6452   gnome-screenshot
6453   gnome-search-tool
6454   gnome-session-canberra
6455   gnome-system-log
6456   gnome-themes-extras
6457   gnome-themes-more
6458   gnome-user-share
6459   gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
6460   gstreamer0.10-tools
6461   gtk2-engines
6462   gtk2-engines-pixbuf
6463   gtk2-engines-smooth
6464   hamster-applet
6465   libapache2-mod-dnssd
6466   libapr1
6467   libaprutil1
6468   libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
6469   libaprutil1-ldap
6470   libart2.0-cil
6471   libboost-date-time1.42.0
6472   libboost-python1.42.0
6473   libboost-thread1.42.0
6474   libchamplain-0.4-0
6475   libchamplain-gtk-0.4-0
6476   libcheese-gtk18
6477   libclutter-gtk-0.10-0
6478   libcryptui0
6479   libdiscid0
6480   libelf1
6481   libepc-1.0-2
6482   libepc-common
6483   libepc-ui-1.0-2
6484   libfreerdp-plugins-standard
6485   libfreerdp0
6486   libgconf2.0-cil
6487   libgdata-common
6488   libgdata7
6489   libgdu-gtk0
6490   libgee2
6491   libgeoclue0
6492   libgexiv2-0
6493   libgif4
6494   libglade2.0-cil
6495   libglib2.0-cil
6496   libgmime2.4-cil
6497   libgnome-vfs2.0-cil
6498   libgnome2.24-cil
6499   libgnomepanel2.24-cil
6500   libgpod-common
6501   libgpod4
6502   libgtk2.0-cil
6503   libgtkglext1
6504   libgtksourceview2.0-common
6505   libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
6506   libmono-addins0.2-cil
6507   libmono-cairo2.0-cil
6508   libmono-corlib2.0-cil
6509   libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil
6510   libmono-posix2.0-cil
6511   libmono-security2.0-cil
6512   libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
6513   libmono-system2.0-cil
6514   libmtp8
6515   libmusicbrainz3-6
6516   libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil
6517   libndesk-dbus1.0-cil
6518   libopal3.6.8
6519   libpolkit-gtk-1-0
6520   libpt2.6.7
6521   libpython2.6
6522   librpm1
6523   librpmio1
6524   libsdl1.2debian
6525   libsrtp0
6526   libssh-4
6527   libtelepathy-farsight0
6528   libtelepathy-glib0
6529   libtidy-0.99-0
6530   media-player-info
6531   mesa-utils
6532   mono-2.0-gac
6533   mono-gac
6534   mono-runtime
6535   nautilus-sendto
6536   nautilus-sendto-empathy
6537   p7zip-full
6538   pkg-config
6539   python-aptdaemon
6540   python-aptdaemon-gtk
6541   python-axiom
6542   python-beautifulsoup
6543   python-bugbuddy
6544   python-clientform
6545   python-coherence
6546   python-configobj
6547   python-crypto
6548   python-cupshelpers
6549   python-elementtree
6550   python-epsilon
6551   python-evolution
6552   python-feedparser
6553   python-gdata
6554   python-gdbm
6555   python-gst0.10
6556   python-gtkglext1
6557   python-gtksourceview2
6558   python-httplib2
6559   python-louie
6560   python-mako
6561   python-markupsafe
6562   python-mechanize
6563   python-nevow
6564   python-notify
6565   python-opengl
6566   python-openssl
6567   python-pam
6568   python-pkg-resources
6569   python-pyasn1
6570   python-pysqlite2
6571   python-rdflib
6572   python-serial
6573   python-tagpy
6574   python-twisted-bin
6575   python-twisted-conch
6576   python-twisted-core
6577   python-twisted-web
6578   python-utidylib
6579   python-webkit
6580   python-xdg
6581   python-zope.interface
6582   remmina
6583   remmina-plugin-data
6584   remmina-plugin-rdp
6585   remmina-plugin-vnc
6586   rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
6587   rhythmbox-plugins
6588   rpm-common
6589   rpm2cpio
6590   seahorse-plugins
6591   shotwell
6592   software-center
6593   system-config-printer-udev
6594   telepathy-gabble
6595   telepathy-mission-control-5
6596   telepathy-salut
6597   tomboy
6598   totem
6599   totem-coherence
6600   totem-mozilla
6601   totem-plugins
6602   transmission-common
6603   xdg-user-dirs
6604   xdg-user-dirs-gtk
6605   xserver-xephyr
6606 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6607
6608 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
6609
6610 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6611   cheese
6612   ekiga
6613   eog
6614   epiphany-extensions
6615   evolution-exchange
6616   fast-user-switch-applet
6617   file-roller
6618   gcalctool
6619   gconf-editor
6620   gdm
6621   gedit
6622   gedit-common
6623   gnome-games
6624   gnome-games-data
6625   gnome-nettool
6626   gnome-system-tools
6627   gnome-themes
6628   gnuchess
6629   gucharmap
6630   guile-1.8-libs
6631   libavahi-ui0
6632   libdmx1
6633   libgalago3
6634   libgtk-vnc-1.0-0
6635   libgtksourceview2.0-0
6636   liblircclient0
6637   libsdl1.2debian-alsa
6638   libspeexdsp1
6639   libsvga1
6640   rhythmbox
6641   seahorse
6642   sound-juicer
6643   system-config-printer
6644   totem-common
6645   transmission-gtk
6646   vinagre
6647   vino
6648 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6649
6650 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
6651
6652 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6653   gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
6654 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6655
6656 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
6657
6658 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6659 [nothing]
6660 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6661
6662 &lt;p&gt;This is for KDE:&lt;/p&gt;
6663
6664 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
6665
6666 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6667   ksmserver
6668 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6669
6670 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
6671
6672 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6673   kwin
6674   network-manager-kde
6675 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6676
6677 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
6678
6679 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6680   arts
6681   dolphin
6682   freespacenotifier
6683   google-gadgets-gst
6684   google-gadgets-xul
6685   kappfinder
6686   kcalc
6687   kcharselect
6688   kde-core
6689   kde-plasma-desktop
6690   kde-standard
6691   kde-window-manager
6692   kdeartwork
6693   kdeartwork-emoticons
6694   kdeartwork-style
6695   kdeartwork-theme-icon
6696   kdebase
6697   kdebase-apps
6698   kdebase-workspace
6699   kdebase-workspace-bin
6700   kdebase-workspace-data
6701   kdeeject
6702   kdelibs
6703   kdeplasma-addons
6704   kdeutils
6705   kdewallpapers
6706   kdf
6707   kfloppy
6708   kgpg
6709   khelpcenter4
6710   kinfocenter
6711   konq-plugins-l10n
6712   konqueror-nsplugins
6713   kscreensaver
6714   kscreensaver-xsavers
6715   ktimer
6716   kwrite
6717   libgle3
6718   libkde4-ruby1.8
6719   libkonq5
6720   libkonq5-templates
6721   libnetpbm10
6722   libplasma-ruby
6723   libplasma-ruby1.8
6724   libqt4-ruby1.8
6725   marble-data
6726   marble-plugins
6727   netpbm
6728   nuvola-icon-theme
6729   plasma-dataengines-workspace
6730   plasma-desktop
6731   plasma-desktopthemes-artwork
6732   plasma-runners-addons
6733   plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets
6734   plasma-scriptengine-python
6735   plasma-scriptengine-qedje
6736   plasma-scriptengine-ruby
6737   plasma-scriptengine-webkit
6738   plasma-scriptengines
6739   plasma-wallpapers-addons
6740   plasma-widget-folderview
6741   plasma-widget-networkmanagement
6742   ruby
6743   sweeper
6744   update-notifier-kde
6745   xscreensaver-data-extra
6746   xscreensaver-gl
6747   xscreensaver-gl-extra
6748   xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
6749 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6750
6751 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
6752
6753 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6754   ark
6755   google-gadgets-common
6756   google-gadgets-qt
6757   htdig
6758   kate
6759   kdebase-bin
6760   kdebase-data
6761   kdepasswd
6762   kfind
6763   klipper
6764   konq-plugins
6765   konqueror
6766   ksysguard
6767   ksysguardd
6768   libarchive1
6769   libcln6
6770   libeet1
6771   libeina-svn-06
6772   libggadget-1.0-0b
6773   libggadget-qt-1.0-0b
6774   libgps19
6775   libkdecorations4
6776   libkephal4
6777   libkonq4
6778   libkonqsidebarplugin4a
6779   libkscreensaver5
6780   libksgrd4
6781   libksignalplotter4
6782   libkunitconversion4
6783   libkwineffects1a
6784   libmarblewidget4
6785   libntrack-qt4-1
6786   libntrack0
6787   libplasma-geolocation-interface4
6788   libplasmaclock4a
6789   libplasmagenericshell4
6790   libprocesscore4a
6791   libprocessui4a
6792   libqalculate5
6793   libqedje0a
6794   libqtruby4shared2
6795   libqzion0a
6796   libruby1.8
6797   libscim8c2a
6798   libsmokekdecore4-3
6799   libsmokekdeui4-3
6800   libsmokekfile3
6801   libsmokekhtml3
6802   libsmokekio3
6803   libsmokeknewstuff2-3
6804   libsmokeknewstuff3-3
6805   libsmokekparts3
6806   libsmokektexteditor3
6807   libsmokekutils3
6808   libsmokenepomuk3
6809   libsmokephonon3
6810   libsmokeplasma3
6811   libsmokeqtcore4-3
6812   libsmokeqtdbus4-3
6813   libsmokeqtgui4-3
6814   libsmokeqtnetwork4-3
6815   libsmokeqtopengl4-3
6816   libsmokeqtscript4-3
6817   libsmokeqtsql4-3
6818   libsmokeqtsvg4-3
6819   libsmokeqttest4-3
6820   libsmokeqtuitools4-3
6821   libsmokeqtwebkit4-3
6822   libsmokeqtxml4-3
6823   libsmokesolid3
6824   libsmokesoprano3
6825   libtaskmanager4a
6826   libtidy-0.99-0
6827   libweather-ion4a
6828   libxklavier16
6829   libxxf86misc1
6830   okteta
6831   oxygencursors
6832   plasma-dataengines-addons
6833   plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba
6834   plasma-widget-lancelot
6835   plasma-widgets-addons
6836   plasma-widgets-workspace
6837   polkit-kde-1
6838   ruby1.8
6839   systemsettings
6840   update-notifier-common
6841 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6842
6843 &lt;p&gt;Running apt-get autoremove made the results using apt-get and
6844 aptitude a bit more similar, but there are still quite a lott of
6845 differences.  I have no idea what packages should be installed after
6846 the upgrade, but hope those that do can have a look.&lt;/p&gt;
6847 </description>
6848         </item>
6849
6850         <item>
6851                 <title>Migrating Xen virtual machines using LVM to KVM using disk images</title>
6852                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html</link>
6853                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html</guid>
6854                 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
6855                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Most of the computers in use by the
6856 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux project&lt;/a&gt;
6857 are virtual machines.  And they have been Xen machines running on a
6858 fairly old IBM eserver xseries 345 machine, and we wanted to migrate
6859 them to KVM on a newer Dell PowerEdge 2950 host machine.  This was a
6860 bit harder that it could have been, because we set up the Xen virtual
6861 machines to get the virtual partitions from LVM, which as far as I
6862 know is not supported by KVM.  So to migrate, we had to convert
6863 several LVM logical volumes to partitions on a virtual disk file.&lt;/p&gt;
6864
6865 &lt;p&gt;I found
6866 &lt;a href=&quot;http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/35011-Six-steps-for-migrating-Xen-virtual-machines-to-KVM&quot;&gt;a
6867 nice recipe&lt;/a&gt; to do this, and wrote the following script to do the
6868 migration.  It uses qemu-img from the qemu package to make the disk
6869 image, parted to partition it, losetup and kpartx to present the disk
6870 image partions as devices, and dd to copy the data.  I NFS mounted the
6871 new servers storage area on the old server to do the migration.&lt;/p&gt;
6872
6873 &lt;pre&gt;
6874 #!/bin/sh
6875
6876 # Based on
6877 # http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/35011-Six-steps-for-migrating-Xen-virtual-machines-to-KVM
6878
6879 set -e
6880 set -x
6881
6882 if [ -z &quot;$1&quot; ] ; then
6883     echo &quot;Usage: $0 &amp;lt;hostname&amp;gt;&quot;
6884     exit 1
6885 else
6886     host=&quot;$1&quot;
6887 fi
6888
6889 if [ ! -e /dev/vg_data/$host-disk ] ; then
6890     echo &quot;error: unable to find LVM volume for $host&quot;
6891     exit 1
6892 fi
6893
6894 # Partitions need to be a bit bigger than the LVM LVs.  not sure why.
6895 disksize=$( lvs --units m | grep $host-disk | awk &#39;{sum = sum + $4} END { print int(sum * 1.05) }&#39;)
6896 swapsize=$( lvs --units m | grep $host-swap | awk &#39;{sum = sum + $4} END { print int(sum * 1.05) }&#39;)
6897 totalsize=$(( ( $disksize + $swapsize ) ))
6898
6899 img=$host.img
6900 #dd if=/dev/zero of=$img bs=1M count=$(( $disksize + $swapsize ))
6901 qemu-img create $img ${totalsize}MMaking room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD
6902
6903 parted $img mklabel msdos
6904 parted $img mkpart primary linux-swap 0 $disksize
6905 parted $img mkpart primary ext2 $disksize $totalsize
6906 parted $img set 1 boot on
6907
6908 modprobe dm-mod
6909 losetup /dev/loop0 $img
6910 kpartx -a /dev/loop0
6911
6912 dd if=/dev/vg_data/$host-disk of=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 bs=1M
6913 fsck.ext3 -f /dev/mapper/loop0p1 || true
6914 mkswap /dev/mapper/loop0p2
6915
6916 kpartx -d /dev/loop0
6917 losetup -d /dev/loop0
6918 &lt;/pre&gt;
6919
6920 &lt;p&gt;The script is perhaps so simple that it is not copyrightable, but
6921 if it is, it is licenced using GPL v2 or later at your discretion.&lt;/p&gt;
6922
6923 &lt;p&gt;After doing this, I booted a Debian CD in rescue mode in KVM with
6924 the new disk image attached, installed grub-pc and linux-image-686 and
6925 set up grub to boot from the disk image.  After this, the KVM machines
6926 seem to work just fine.&lt;/p&gt;
6927 </description>
6928         </item>
6929
6930         <item>
6931                 <title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades, apt vs aptitude with the Gnome and KDE desktop</title>
6932                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop.html</link>
6933                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop.html</guid>
6934                 <pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
6935                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m still running upgrade testing of the
6936 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&quot;&gt;Lenny
6937 Gnome and KDE Desktop&lt;/a&gt;, but have not had time to spend on reporting the
6938 status.  Here is a short update based on a test I ran 20101118.&lt;/p&gt;
6939
6940 &lt;p&gt;I still do not know what a correct migration should look like, so I
6941 report any differences between apt and aptitude and hope someone else
6942 can see if anything should be changed.&lt;/p&gt;
6943
6944 &lt;p&gt;This is for Gnome:&lt;/p&gt;
6945
6946 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
6947
6948 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
6949   apache2.2-bin aptdaemon at-spi baobab binfmt-support
6950   browser-plugin-gnash cheese-common cli-common cpp-4.3 cups-pk-helper
6951   dmz-cursor-theme empathy empathy-common finger
6952   freedesktop-sound-theme freeglut3 gconf-defaults-service gdm-themes
6953   gedit-plugins geoclue geoclue-hostip geoclue-localnet geoclue-manual
6954   geoclue-yahoo gnash gnash-common gnome gnome-backgrounds
6955   gnome-cards-data gnome-codec-install gnome-core
6956   gnome-desktop-environment gnome-disk-utility gnome-screenshot
6957   gnome-search-tool gnome-session-canberra gnome-spell
6958   gnome-system-log gnome-themes-extras gnome-themes-more
6959   gnome-user-share gs-common gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
6960   gstreamer0.10-tools gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf
6961   gtk2-engines-smooth hal-info hamster-applet libapache2-mod-dnssd
6962   libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap
6963   libart2.0-cil libatspi1.0-0 libboost-date-time1.42.0
6964   libboost-python1.42.0 libboost-thread1.42.0 libchamplain-0.4-0
6965   libchamplain-gtk-0.4-0 libcheese-gtk18 libclutter-gtk-0.10-0
6966   libcryptui0 libcupsys2 libdiscid0 libeel2-data libelf1 libepc-1.0-2
6967   libepc-common libepc-ui-1.0-2 libfreerdp-plugins-standard
6968   libfreerdp0 libgail-common libgconf2.0-cil libgdata-common libgdata7
6969   libgdl-1-common libgdu-gtk0 libgee2 libgeoclue0 libgexiv2-0 libgif4
6970   libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgmime2.4-cil libgnome-vfs2.0-cil
6971   libgnome2.24-cil libgnomepanel2.24-cil libgnomeprint2.2-data
6972   libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomevfs2-bin libgpod-common libgpod4
6973   libgtk2.0-cil libgtkglext1 libgtksourceview-common
6974   libgtksourceview2.0-common libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
6975   libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo2.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil
6976   libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil libmono-posix2.0-cil
6977   libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
6978   libmono-system2.0-cil libmtp8 libmusicbrainz3-6
6979   libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil libndesk-dbus1.0-cil libopal3.6.8
6980   libpolkit-gtk-1-0 libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa
6981   libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libpt2.6.7 libpython2.6 librpm1 librpmio1
6982   libsdl1.2debian libservlet2.4-java libsrtp0 libssh-4
6983   libtelepathy-farsight0 libtelepathy-glib0 libtidy-0.99-0
6984   libxalan2-java libxerces2-java media-player-info mesa-utils
6985   mono-2.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime nautilus-sendto
6986   nautilus-sendto-empathy openoffice.org-writer2latex
6987   openssl-blacklist p7zip p7zip-full pkg-config python-4suite-xml
6988   python-aptdaemon python-aptdaemon-gtk python-axiom
6989   python-beautifulsoup python-bugbuddy python-clientform
6990   python-coherence python-configobj python-crypto python-cupshelpers
6991   python-cupsutils python-eggtrayicon python-elementtree
6992   python-epsilon python-evolution python-feedparser python-gdata
6993   python-gdbm python-gst0.10 python-gtkglext1 python-gtkmozembed
6994   python-gtksourceview2 python-httplib2 python-louie python-mako
6995   python-markupsafe python-mechanize python-nevow python-notify
6996   python-opengl python-openssl python-pam python-pkg-resources
6997   python-pyasn1 python-pysqlite2 python-rdflib python-serial
6998   python-tagpy python-twisted-bin python-twisted-conch
6999   python-twisted-core python-twisted-web python-utidylib python-webkit
7000   python-xdg python-zope.interface remmina remmina-plugin-data
7001   remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-vnc rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
7002   rhythmbox-plugins rpm-common rpm2cpio seahorse-plugins shotwell
7003   software-center svgalibg1 system-config-printer-udev
7004   telepathy-gabble telepathy-mission-control-5 telepathy-salut tomboy
7005   totem totem-coherence totem-mozilla totem-plugins
7006   transmission-common xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-gtk xserver-xephyr
7007   zip
7008 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
7009
7010 Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
7011
7012 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
7013   arj bluez-utils cheese dhcdbd djvulibre-desktop ekiga eog
7014   epiphany-extensions epiphany-gecko evolution-exchange
7015   fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool gconf-editor gdm gedit
7016   gedit-common gnome-app-install gnome-games gnome-games-data
7017   gnome-nettool gnome-system-tools gnome-themes gnome-utils
7018   gnome-vfs-obexftp gnome-volume-manager gnuchess gucharmap
7019   guile-1.8-libs hal libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5
7020   libavahi-ui0 libbind9-50 libbluetooth2 libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7
7021   libcucul0 libcurl3 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdmx1 libdvdread3
7022   libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libeel2-2.20 libepc-1.0-1
7023   libepc-ui-1.0-1 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libfaad0 libgadu3
7024   libgalago3 libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libggz2 libggzcore9
7025   libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0 libgnome-desktop-2
7026   libgnome-pilot2 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0
7027   libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtk-vnc-1.0-0
7028   libgtkhtml2-0 libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgtksourceview2.0-0
7029   libgucharmap6 libhesiod0 libicu38 libisccc50 libisccfg50 libiw29
7030   libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libkpathsea4 liblircclient0 libltdl3 liblwres50
7031   libmagick++10 libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmozjs1d libmpfr1ldbl libmtp7
7032   libmysqlclient15off libnautilus-burn4 libneon27 libnm-glib0
7033   libnm-util0 libopal-2.2 libosp5 libparted1.8-10 libpisock9
7034   libpisync1 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpt-1.10.10 libraw1394-8
7035   libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsensors3 libsexy2 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8
7036   libspeexdsp1 libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libsvga1
7037   libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1 libtotem-plparser10 libtrackerclient0
7038   libvoikko1 libxalan2-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12
7039   libxtrap6 libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3 mysql-common rhythmbox seahorse
7040   sound-juicer swfdec-gnome system-config-printer totem-common
7041   totem-gstreamer transmission-gtk vinagre vino w3c-dtd-xhtml wodim
7042 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
7043
7044 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
7045
7046 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
7047   gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
7048 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
7049
7050 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
7051
7052 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
7053 [nothing]
7054 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
7055
7056 &lt;p&gt;This is for KDE:&lt;/p&gt;
7057
7058 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
7059
7060 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
7061   autopoint bomber bovo cantor cantor-backend-kalgebra cpp-4.3 dcoprss
7062   edict espeak espeak-data eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext
7063   ghostscript-x git gnome-audio gnugo granatier gs-common
7064   gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio indi kaddressbook-plugins kalgebra
7065   kalzium-data kanjidic kapman kate-plugins kblocks kbreakout kbstate
7066   kde-icons-mono kdeaccessibility kdeaddons-kfile-plugins
7067   kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window
7068   kdeedu kdeedu-data kdeedu-kvtml-data kdegames kdegames-card-data
7069   kdegames-mahjongg-data kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc
7070   kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
7071   kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdessh kdetoys kdewebdev
7072   kdiamond kdnssd kfilereplace kfourinline kgeography-data kigo
7073   killbots kiriki klettres-data kmoon kmrml knewsticker-scripts
7074   kollision kpf krosspython ksirk ksmserver ksquares kstars-data
7075   ksudoku kubrick kweather libasound2-plugins libboost-python1.42.0
7076   libcfitsio3 libconvert-binhex-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdb4.6++
7077   libdjvulibre-text libdotconf1.0 liberror-perl libespeak1
7078   libfinance-quote-perl libgail-common libgsl0ldbl libhtml-parser-perl
7079   libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl
7080   libio-stringy-perl libkdeedu4 libkdegames5 libkiten4 libkpathsea5
7081   libkrossui4 libmailtools-perl libmime-tools-perl
7082   libnews-nntpclient-perl libopenbabel3 libportaudio2 libpulse-browse0
7083   libservlet2.4-java libspeechd2 libtiff-tools libtimedate-perl
7084   libunistring0 liburi-perl libwww-perl libxalan2-java libxerces2-java
7085   lirc luatex marble networkstatus noatun-plugins
7086   openoffice.org-writer2latex palapeli palapeli-data parley
7087   parley-data poster psutils pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat
7088   pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils quanta-data rocs rsync
7089   speech-dispatcher step svgalibg1 texlive-binaries texlive-luatex
7090   ttf-sazanami-gothic
7091 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
7092
7093 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
7094
7095 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
7096   amor artsbuilder atlantik atlantikdesigner blinken bluez-utils cvs
7097   dhcdbd djvulibre-desktop imlib-base imlib11 kalzium kanagram kandy
7098   kasteroids katomic kbackgammon kbattleship kblackbox kbounce kbruch
7099   kcron kdat kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdeprint kdict kdvi kedit
7100   keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfouleggs kgeography kghostview
7101   kgoldrunner khangman khexedit kiconedit kig kimagemapeditor
7102   kitchensync kiten kjumpingcube klatin klettres klickety klines
7103   klinkstatus kmag kmahjongg kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmines
7104   kmousetool kmouth kmplot knetwalk kodo kolf kommander konquest kooka
7105   kpager kpat kpdf kpercentage kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler krec
7106   kregexpeditor kreversi ksame ksayit kshisen ksig ksim ksirc ksirtet
7107   ksmiletris ksnake ksokoban kspaceduel kstars ksvg ksysv kteatime
7108   ktip ktnef ktouch ktron kttsd ktuberling kturtle ktux kuickshow
7109   kverbos kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kwordquiz
7110   kworldclock kxsldbg libakode2 libarts1-akode libarts1-audiofile
7111   libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
7112   libavahi-core5 libavc1394-0 libbind9-50 libbluetooth2
7113   libboost-python1.34.1 libcucul0 libcurl3 libcvsservice0
7114   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdvdread3 libfaad0 libfreebob0
7115   libgd2-noxpm libgraphviz4 libgsmme1c2a libgtkhtml2-0 libicu38
7116   libiec61883-0 libindex0 libisccc50 libisccfg50 libiw29
7117   libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libk3b3 libkcal2b libkcddb1 libkdeedu3
7118   libkdegames1 libkdepim1a libkgantt0 libkleopatra1 libkmime2
7119   libkpathsea4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1
7120   libksieve0 libktnef1 liblockdev1 libltdl3 liblwres50 libmagick10
7121   libmimelib1c2a libmodplug0c2 libmozjs1d libmpcdec3 libmpfr1ldbl
7122   libneon27 libnm-util0 libopensync0 libpisock9 libpoppler-glib3
7123   libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler3 libraw1394-8 librss1 libsensors3
7124   libsmbios2 libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90
7125   libtalloc1 libxalan2-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj libxtrap6 lskat
7126   mpeglib network-manager-kde noatun pmount tex-common texlive-base
7127   texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended tidy
7128   ttf-dustin ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sjfonts
7129 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
7130
7131 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
7132
7133 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
7134   dolphin kde-core kde-plasma-desktop kde-standard kde-window-manager
7135   kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-apps kdebase-workspace
7136   kdebase-workspace-bin kdebase-workspace-data kdeutils kscreensaver
7137   kscreensaver-xsavers libgle3 libkonq5 libkonq5-templates libnetpbm10
7138   netpbm plasma-widget-folderview plasma-widget-networkmanagement
7139   xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra
7140   xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
7141 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
7142
7143 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
7144
7145 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
7146   kdebase-bin konq-plugins konqueror
7147 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
7148 </description>
7149         </item>
7150
7151         <item>
7152                 <title>Gnash buildbot slave and Debian kfreebsd</title>
7153                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_buildbot_slave_and_Debian_kfreebsd.html</link>
7154                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_buildbot_slave_and_Debian_kfreebsd.html</guid>
7155                 <pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
7156                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Answering
7157 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listware.net/201011/gnash-dev/67431-gnash-dev-buildbot-looking-for-slaves.html&quot;&gt;the
7158 call from the Gnash project&lt;/a&gt; for
7159 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnashdev.org:8010&quot;&gt;buildbot&lt;/a&gt; slaves to test the
7160 current source, I have set up a virtual KVM machine on the Debian
7161 Edu/Skolelinux virtualization host to test the git source on
7162 Debian/Squeeze.  I hope this can help the developers in getting new
7163 releases out more often.&lt;/p&gt;
7164
7165 &lt;p&gt;As the developers want less main-stream build platforms tested to,
7166 I have considered setting up a &lt;a
7167 href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/&quot;&gt;Debian/kfreebsd&lt;/a&gt;
7168 machine as well.  I have also considered using the kfreebsd
7169 architecture in Debian as a file server in NUUG to get access to the 5
7170 TB zfs volume we currently use to store DV video.  Because of this, I
7171 finally got around to do a test installation of Debian/Squeeze with
7172 kfreebsd.  Installation went fairly smooth, thought I noticed some
7173 visual glitches in the cdebconf dialogs (black cursor left on the
7174 screen at random locations).  Have not gotten very far with the
7175 testing.  Noticed cfdisk did not work, but fdisk did so it was not a
7176 fatal problem.  Have to spend some more time on it to see if it is
7177 useful as a file server for NUUG.  Will try to find time to set up a
7178 gnash buildbot slave on the Debian Edu/Skolelinux this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
7179 </description>
7180         </item>
7181
7182         <item>
7183                 <title>Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD</title>
7184                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html</link>
7185                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html</guid>
7186                 <pubDate>Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
7187                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Prioritising packages for the Debian Edu /
7188 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; DVD, which is
7189 supposed provide a school with all the services and user applications
7190 needed on the pupils computer network has always been hard.  Even
7191 schools without Internet connections should be able to get Debian Edu
7192 working using this DVD.&lt;/p&gt;
7193
7194 &lt;p&gt;The job became a lot harder when apt and aptitude started
7195 installing recommended packages by default.  We want the same set of
7196 packages to be installed when using the DVD and the netinst CD, and
7197 that means all recommended packages need to be on the DVD.  I created
7198 a patch for debian-cd in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/601203&quot;&gt;BTS
7199 report #601203&lt;/a&gt; to do this, and since this change was applied to
7200 the Debian Edu DVD build, we have been seriously short on space.&lt;/p&gt;
7201
7202 &lt;p&gt;A few days ago we decided to drop blender, wxmaxima and kicad from
7203 the default installation to save space on the DVD, believing that
7204 those needing these applications are few and can get them from the
7205 Debian archive.&lt;/p&gt;
7206
7207 &lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I had a look what source packages to see which packages
7208 were using most space.  A few large packages are well know;
7209 openoffice.org, openclipart and fluid-soundfont.  But I also
7210 discovered that lilypond used 106 MiB and fglrx-driver used 53 MiB.
7211 The lilypond package is pulled in as a dependency for rosegarden, and
7212 when looking a bit closer I discovered that 99 MiB of the 106 MiB were
7213 the documentation package, which is recommended by the binary package.
7214 I decided to drop this documentation package from our DVD, as most of
7215 our users will use the GUI front-ends and do not need the lilypond
7216 documentation.  Similarly, I dropped the non-free fglrx-driver package
7217 which might be installed by d-i when its hardware is detected, as the
7218 free X driver should work.&lt;/p&gt;
7219
7220 &lt;p&gt;With this change, we finally got space for the LXDE and Gnome
7221 desktop packages as well as the language specific packages making the
7222 DVD more useful again.&lt;/p&gt;
7223 </description>
7224         </item>
7225
7226         <item>
7227                 <title>Software updates 2010-10-24</title>
7228                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html</link>
7229                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html</guid>
7230                 <pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
7231                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Some updates.&lt;/p&gt;
7232
7233 &lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2&quot;&gt;gnash pledge&lt;/a&gt; to
7234 raise money for the project is going well.  The lower limit of 10
7235 signers was reached in 24 hours, and so far 13 people have signed it.
7236 More signers and more funding is most welcome, and I am really curious
7237 how far we can get before the time limit of December 24 is reached.
7238 :)&lt;/p&gt;
7239
7240 &lt;p&gt;On the #gnash IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, I was just tipped
7241 about what appear to be a great code coverage tool capable of
7242 generating code coverage stats without any changes to the source code.
7243 It is called
7244 &lt;a href=&quot;http://simonkagstrom.github.com/kcov/index.html&quot;&gt;kcov&lt;/a&gt;,
7245 and can be used using &lt;tt&gt;kcov &amp;lt;directory&amp;gt; &amp;lt;binary&amp;gt;&lt;/tt&gt;.
7246 It is missing in Debian, but the git source built just fine in Squeeze
7247 after I installed libelf-dev, libdwarf-dev, pkg-config and
7248 libglib2.0-dev.  Failed to build in Lenny, but suspect that is
7249 solvable.  I hope kcov make it into Debian soon.&lt;/p&gt;
7250
7251 &lt;p&gt;Finally found time to wrap up the release notes for &lt;a
7252 href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2010/10/msg00002.html&quot;&gt;a
7253 new alpha release of Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt;, and just published the second
7254 alpha test release of the Squeeze based Debian Edu /
7255 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
7256 release.  Give it a try if you need a complete linux solution for your
7257 school, including central infrastructure server, workstations, thin
7258 client servers and diskless workstations.  A nice touch added
7259 yesterday is RDP support on the thin client servers, for windows
7260 clients to get a Linux desktop on request.&lt;/p&gt;
7261 </description>
7262         </item>
7263
7264         <item>
7265                 <title>Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu</title>
7266                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html</link>
7267                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
7268                 <pubDate>Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
7269                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote&quot;&gt;Debian
7270 popularity-contest numbers&lt;/a&gt;, the adobe-flashplugin package the
7271 second most popular used package that is missing in Debian.  The sixth
7272 most popular is flashplayer-mozilla.  This is a clear indication that
7273 working flash is important for Debian users.  Around 10 percent of the
7274 users submitting data to popcon.debian.org have this package
7275 installed.&lt;/p&gt;
7276
7277 &lt;p&gt;In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008
7278 («&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/Rapporter?action=AttachFile&amp;do=view&amp;target=Skolelinux_i_bruk_rapport_1.0.pdf&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
7279 i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og
7280 stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs&lt;/a&gt;»), one of the most important problems
7281 schools experienced with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian
7282 Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; was the lack of working Flash.  A lot of educational
7283 web sites require Flash to work, and lacking working Flash support in
7284 the web browser and the problems with installing it was perceived as a
7285 good reason to stay with Windows.&lt;/p&gt;
7286
7287 &lt;p&gt;I once saw a funny and sad comment in a web forum, where Linux was
7288 said to be the retarded cousin that did not really understand
7289 everything you told him but could work fairly well.  This was a
7290 comment regarding the problems Linux have with proprietary formats and
7291 non-standard web pages, and is sad because it exposes a fairly common
7292 understanding of whose fault it is if web pages that only work in for
7293 example Internet Explorer 6 fail to work on Firefox, and funny because
7294 it explain very well how annoying it is for users when Linux
7295 distributions do not work with the documents they receive or the web
7296 pages they want to visit.&lt;/p&gt;
7297
7298 &lt;p&gt;This is part of the reason why I believe it is important for Debian
7299 and Debian Edu to have a well working Flash implementation in the
7300 distribution, to get at least popular sites as Youtube and Google
7301 Video to working out of the box.  For Squeeze, Debian have the chance
7302 to include the latest version of Gnash that will make this happen, as
7303 the new release 0.8.8 was published a few weeks ago and is resting in
7304 unstable.  The new version work with more sites that version 0.8.7.
7305 The Gnash maintainers have asked for a freeze exception, but the
7306 release team have not had time to reply to it yet.  I hope they agree
7307 with me that Flash is important for the Debian desktop users, and thus
7308 accept the new package into Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
7309 </description>
7310         </item>
7311
7312         <item>
7313                 <title>Broken hard link handling with sshfs</title>
7314                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_hard_link_handling_with_sshfs.html</link>
7315                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_hard_link_handling_with_sshfs.html</guid>
7316                 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
7317                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Just got an email from Tobias Gruetzmacher as a followup on my
7318 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html&quot;&gt;previous
7319 post about sshfs&lt;/a&gt;.  He reported another problem with sshfs.  It
7320 fail to handle hard links properly.  A simple way to spot this is to
7321 look at the . and .. entries in the directory tree.  These should have
7322 a link count &gt;1, but on sshfs the count is 1.  I just tested to see
7323 what happen when trying to hardlink, and this fail as well:&lt;/p&gt;
7324
7325 &lt;pre&gt;
7326 % ln foo bar
7327 ln: creating hard link `bar&#39; =&gt; `foo&#39;: Function not implemented
7328 %
7329 &lt;/pre&gt;
7330
7331 &lt;p&gt;I have not yet found time to implement a test for this in my file
7332 system test code, but believe having working hard links is useful to
7333 avoid surprised unix programs.  Not as useful as working file locking
7334 and symlinks, which are required to get a working desktop, but useful
7335 nevertheless. :)&lt;/p&gt;
7336
7337 &lt;p&gt;The latest version of the file system test code is available via
7338 git from
7339 &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7340 </description>
7341         </item>
7342
7343         <item>
7344                 <title>Skolelinux i Osloskolen</title>
7345                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_i_Osloskolen.html</link>
7346                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_i_Osloskolen.html</guid>
7347                 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
7348                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Denne høsten skal endelig alle Osloskolene få mulighet til å bruke
7349 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  Ny IT-løsning
7350 har vært rullet ut i noen måneder nå, og så vidt jeg fikk vite før
7351 sommeren skulle alle skoler ha nytt opplegg på plass før oppstart nå i
7352 høst.  På alle skolene skal en kunne velge ved installasjon om en skal
7353 ha Windows eller Skolelinux på maskinene, og en kan i tillegg
7354 PXE-boote maskinene over nett som tynne klienter eller diskløse
7355 arbeidsstasjoner. Jeg er spent på hvor mange skoler som velger å ta i
7356 bruk Skolelinux, og gleder meg til å se hvordan dette utvikler seg.
7357 Løsningen leveres av
7358 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.logica.no/&quot;&gt;Logica&lt;/a&gt; med
7359 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; som
7360 underleverandør, og jeg har vært involvert i utviklingen av løsningen
7361 via Skolelinux Drift AS siden prosjektet starter.  Jeg synes det er
7362 fantastisk at Skolelinux er kommet så langt siden vi startet i 2001 at
7363 alle elevene i Osloskolene nå skal få mulighet til å bruke
7364 løsningen.  Jeg håper de vil sette pris på alle de
7365 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.no/linux-signpost/&quot;&gt;fantastiske
7366 brukerprogrammene&lt;/a&gt; som er tilgjengelig i Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
7367 </description>
7368         </item>
7369
7370         <item>
7371                 <title>Broken umask handling with sshfs</title>
7372                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html</link>
7373                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html</guid>
7374                 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
7375                 <description>&lt;p&gt;My file system sematics program
7376 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html&quot;&gt;presented
7377 a few days ago&lt;/a&gt; is very useful to verify that a file system can
7378 work as a unix home directory,and today I had to extend it a bit.  I&#39;m
7379 looking into alternatives for home directory access here at the
7380 University of Oslo, and one of the options is sshfs.  My friend
7381 Finn-Arne mentioned a while back that they had used sshfs with Debian
7382 Edu, but stopped because of problems.  I asked today what the problems
7383 where, and he mentioned that sshfs failed to handle umask properly.
7384 Trying to detect the problem I wrote this addition to my fs testing
7385 script:&lt;/p&gt;
7386
7387 &lt;pre&gt;
7388 mode_t touch_get_mode(const char *name, mode_t mode) {
7389   mode_t retval = 0;
7390   int fd = open(name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, mode);
7391   if (-1 != fd) {
7392     unlink(name);
7393     struct stat statbuf;
7394     if (-1 != fstat(fd, &amp;statbuf)) {
7395       retval = statbuf.st_mode &amp; 0x1ff;
7396     }
7397     close(fd);
7398   }
7399   return retval;
7400 }
7401
7402 /* Try to detect problem discovered using sshfs */
7403 int test_umask(void) {
7404   printf(&quot;info: testing umask effect on file creation\n&quot;);
7405
7406   mode_t orig_umask = umask(000);
7407   mode_t newmode;
7408   if (0666 != (newmode = touch_get_mode(&quot;foobar&quot;, 0666))) {
7409     printf(&quot;  error: Wrong file mode %o when creating using mode 666 and umask 000\n&quot;,
7410            newmode);
7411   }
7412   umask(007);
7413   if (0660 != (newmode = touch_get_mode(&quot;foobar&quot;, 0666))) {
7414     printf(&quot;  error: Wrong file mode %o when creating using mode 666 and umask 007\n&quot;,
7415            newmode);
7416   }
7417
7418   umask (orig_umask);
7419   return 0;
7420 }
7421
7422 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
7423   [...]
7424   test_umask();
7425   return 0;
7426 }
7427 &lt;/pre&gt;
7428
7429 &lt;p&gt;Sure enough.  On NFS to a netapp, I get this result:&lt;/p&gt;
7430
7431 &lt;pre&gt;
7432 Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
7433 info: testing symlink creation
7434 info: testing subdirectory creation
7435 info: testing fcntl locking
7436   Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
7437   Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
7438   Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
7439   Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
7440   Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
7441   Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
7442 info: testing umask effect on file creation
7443 &lt;/pre&gt;
7444
7445 &lt;p&gt;When mounting the same directory using sshfs, I get this
7446 result:&lt;/p&gt;
7447
7448 &lt;pre&gt;
7449 Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
7450 info: testing symlink creation
7451 info: testing subdirectory creation
7452 info: testing fcntl locking
7453   Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
7454   Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
7455   Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
7456   Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
7457   Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
7458   Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
7459 info: testing umask effect on file creation
7460   error: Wrong file mode 644 when creating using mode 666 and umask 000
7461   error: Wrong file mode 640 when creating using mode 666 and umask 007
7462 &lt;/pre&gt;
7463
7464 &lt;p&gt;So, I can conclude that sshfs is better than smb to a Netapp or a
7465 Windows server, but not good enough to be used as a home
7466 directory.&lt;/p&gt;
7467
7468 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-26: Reported the issue in
7469 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/594498&quot;&gt;BTS report #594498&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7470
7471 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-27: Michael Gebetsroither report that he found the
7472 script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in
7473 &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
7474 </description>
7475         </item>
7476
7477         <item>
7478                 <title>No hardcoded config on Debian Edu clients</title>
7479                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/No_hardcoded_config_on_Debian_Edu_clients.html</link>
7480                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/No_hardcoded_config_on_Debian_Edu_clients.html</guid>
7481                 <pubDate>Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
7482                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As reported earlier, the last few days I have looked at how Debian
7483 Edu clients are configured, and tried to get rid of all hardcoded
7484 configuration settings on the clients.  I believe the work to be
7485 mostly done, and the clients seem to work just fine with dynamically
7486 generated configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
7487
7488 &lt;p&gt;What is the point, you might ask?  The point is to allow a Debian
7489 Edu desktop to integrate into an existing network infrastructure
7490 without any manual configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
7491
7492 &lt;p&gt;This is what happens when installing a Debian Edu client here at
7493 the University of Oslo using PXE.  With the PXE installation, I am
7494 asked for language (Norwegian Bokmål), locality (Norway) and keyboard
7495 layout (no-latin1), Debian Edu profile (Roaming Workstation), if I
7496 accept to reformat the hard drive (yes), if I want to submit info to
7497 popcon.debian.org (no) and root password (secret).  After answering
7498 these questions, the installer goes ahead and does its thing, and
7499 after around 50 minutes it is done.  I press enter to finish the
7500 installation, and the machine reboots into KDE.  When the machine is
7501 ready and kdm asks for login information, I enter my university
7502 username and password, am told by kdm that a local home directory has
7503 been created and that I must log in again, and finally log in with the
7504 same username and password to the KDE 4.4 desktop.  At no point during
7505 this process did it ask for university specific settings, and all the
7506 required configuration was dynamically detected using information
7507 fetched via DHCP and DNS.  The roaming workstation is now ready for
7508 use.&lt;/p&gt;
7509
7510 &lt;p&gt;How was this done, you might wonder?  First of all, here is the
7511 list of things that need to be configured on the client to get it
7512 working properly out of the box:&lt;/p&gt;
7513
7514 &lt;ul&gt;
7515 &lt;li&gt;IP address/netmask and DNS server.&lt;/li&gt;
7516 &lt;li&gt;Web proxy URL.&lt;/li&gt;
7517 &lt;li&gt;LDAP server for NSS directory information (user, group, etc).&lt;/li&gt;
7518 &lt;li&gt;Kerberos server for PAM password checking.&lt;/li&gt;
7519 &lt;li&gt;SMB mount point to access the network home directory. (*)&lt;/li&gt;
7520 &lt;li&gt;Central syslog server to send syslog messages to. (*)&lt;/li&gt;
7521 &lt;li&gt;Sitesummary collector URL to submit info to central server. (*)&lt;/li&gt;
7522 &lt;/ul&gt;
7523
7524 &lt;p&gt;(Hm, did I forget anything?  Let me knew if I did.)&lt;/p&gt;
7525
7526 &lt;p&gt;The points marked (*) are not required to be able to use the
7527 machine, but needed to provide central storage and allowing system
7528 administrators to track their machines.  Since yesterday, everything
7529 but the sitesummary collector URL is dynamically discovered at boot
7530 and installation time in the svn version of Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
7531
7532 &lt;p&gt;The IP and DNS setup is fetched during boot using DHCP as usual.
7533 When a DHCP update arrives, the proxy setup is updated by looking for
7534 http://wpat/wpad.dat and using the content of this WPAD file to
7535 configure the http and ftp proxy in /etc/environment and
7536 /etc/apt/apt.conf.  I decided to update the proxy setup using a DHCP
7537 hook to ensure that the client stops using the Debian Edu proxy when
7538 it is moved outside the Debian Edu network, and instead uses any local
7539 proxy present on the new network when it moves around.&lt;/p&gt;
7540
7541 &lt;p&gt;The DNS names of the LDAP, Kerberos and syslog server and related
7542 configuration are generated using DNS information at boot.  First the
7543 installer looks for a host named ldap in the current DNS domain.  If
7544 not found, it looks for _ldap._tcp SRV records in DNS instead.  If an
7545 LDAP server is found, its root DSE entry is requested and the
7546 attributes namingContexts and defaultNamingContext are used to
7547 determine which LDAP base to use for NSS.  If there are several
7548 namingContexts attibutes and the defaultNamingContext is present, that
7549 LDAP subtree is used as the base.  If defaultNamingContext is missing,
7550 the subtrees listed as namingContexts are searched in sequence for any
7551 object with class posixAccount or posixGroup, and the first one with
7552 such an object is used as the LDAP base.  For Kerberos, a similar
7553 search is done by first looking for a host named kerberos, and then
7554 for the _kerberos._tcp SRV record.  I&#39;ve been unable to find a way to
7555 look up the Kerberos realm, so for this the upper case string of the
7556 current DNS domain is used.&lt;/p&gt;
7557
7558 &lt;p&gt;For the syslog server, the hosts syslog and loghost are searched
7559 for, and the _syslog._udp SRV record is consulted if no such host is
7560 found.  This algorithm works for both Debian Edu and the University of
7561 Oslo.  A similar strategy would work for locating the sitesummary
7562 server, but have not been implemented yet.  I decided to fetch and
7563 save these settings during installation, to make sure moving to a
7564 different network does not change the set of users being allowed to
7565 log in nor the passwords required to log in.  Usernames and passwords
7566 will be cached by sssd when the user logs in on the Debian Edu
7567 network, and will not change as the laptop move around.  For a
7568 non-roaming machine, there is no caching, but given that it is
7569 supposed to stay in place it should not matter much.  Perhaps we
7570 should switch those to use sssd too?&lt;/p&gt;
7571
7572 &lt;p&gt;The user&#39;s SMB mount point for the network home directory is
7573 located when the user logs in for the first time.  The LDAP server is
7574 consulted to look for the user&#39;s LDAP object and the sambaHomePath
7575 attribute is used if found.  If it isn&#39;t found, the home directory
7576 path fetched from NSS is used instead.  Assuming the path is of the
7577 form /site/server/directory/username, the second part is looked up in
7578 DNS and used to generate a SMB URL of the form
7579 smb://server.domain/username.  This algorithm works for both Debian
7580 edu and the University of Oslo.  Perhaps there are better attributes
7581 to use or a better algorithm that works for more sites, but this will
7582 do for now. :)&lt;/p&gt;
7583
7584 &lt;p&gt;This work should make it easier to integrate the Debian Edu clients
7585 into any LDAP/Kerberos infrastructure, and make the current setup even
7586 more flexible than before.  I suspect it will also work for thin
7587 client servers, allowing one to easily set up LTSP and hook it into a
7588 existing network infrastructure, but I have not had time to test this
7589 yet.&lt;/p&gt;
7590
7591 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing these things for Debian
7592 Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
7593
7594 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-09: Simon Farnsworth gave me a heads-up on how to
7595 detect Kerberos realm from DNS, by looking for _kerberos TXT entries
7596 before falling back to the upper case DNS domain name.  Will have to
7597 implement it for Debian Edu. :)&lt;/p&gt;
7598 </description>
7599         </item>
7600
7601         <item>
7602                 <title>Testing if a file system can be used for home directories...</title>
7603                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html</link>
7604                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html</guid>
7605                 <pubDate>Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
7606                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I was involved in a project planning to use
7607 Windows file servers as home directory servers for Debian
7608 Edu/Skolelinux machines.  This was thought to be no problem, as the
7609 access would be through the SMB network file system protocol, and we
7610 knew other sites used SMB with unix and samba as the file server to
7611 mount home directories without any problems.  But, after months of
7612 struggling, we had to conclude that our goal was impossible.&lt;/p&gt;
7613
7614 &lt;p&gt;The reason is simply that while SMB can be used for home
7615 directories when the file server is Samba running on Unix, this only
7616 work because of Samba have some extensions and the fact that the
7617 underlying file system is a unix file system.  When using a Windows
7618 file server, the underlying file system do not have POSIX semantics,
7619 and several programs will fail if the users home directory where they
7620 want to store their configuration lack POSIX semantics.&lt;/p&gt;
7621
7622 &lt;p&gt;As part of this work, I wrote a small C program I want to share
7623 with you all, to replicate a few of the problematic applications (like
7624 OpenOffice.org and GCompris) and see if the file system was working as
7625 it should.  If you find yourself in spooky file system land, it might
7626 help you find your way out again.  This is the fs-test.c source:&lt;/p&gt;
7627
7628 &lt;pre&gt;
7629 /*
7630  * Some tests to check the file system sematics.  Used to verify that
7631  * CIFS from a windows server do not work properly as a linux home
7632  * directory.
7633  * License: GPL v2 or later
7634  *
7635  * needs libsqlite3-dev and build-essential installed
7636  * compile with: gcc -Wall -lsqlite3 -DTEST_SQLITE fs-test.c -o fs-test
7637 */
7638
7639 #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
7640 #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE 1
7641 #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE 1
7642
7643 #define _GNU_SOURCE /* for asprintf() */
7644
7645 #include &amp;lt;errno.h&gt;
7646 #include &amp;lt;fcntl.h&gt;
7647 #include &amp;lt;stdio.h&gt;
7648 #include &amp;lt;string.h&gt;
7649 #include &amp;lt;stdlib.h&gt;
7650 #include &amp;lt;sys/file.h&gt;
7651 #include &amp;lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
7652 #include &amp;lt;sys/types.h&gt;
7653 #include &amp;lt;unistd.h&gt;
7654
7655 #ifdef TEST_SQLITE
7656 /*
7657  * Test sqlite open, as done by gcompris require the libsqlite3-dev
7658  * package and linking with -lsqlite3.  A more low level test is
7659  * below.
7660  * See also &amp;lt;URL: http://www.sqlite.org./faq.html#q5 &gt;.
7661  */
7662 #include &amp;lt;sqlite3.h&gt;
7663 #define CREATE_TABLE_USERS                                              \
7664   &quot;CREATE TABLE users (user_id INT UNIQUE, login TEXT, lastname TEXT, firstname TEXT, birthdate TEXT, class_id INT ); &quot;
7665 int test_sqlite_open(void) {
7666   char *zErrMsg;
7667   char *name = &quot;testsqlite.db&quot;;
7668   sqlite3 *db=NULL;
7669   unlink(name);
7670   int rc = sqlite3_open(name, &amp;db);
7671   if( rc ){
7672     printf(&quot;error: sqlite open of %s failed: %s\n&quot;, name, sqlite3_errmsg(db));
7673     sqlite3_close(db);
7674     return -1;
7675   }
7676
7677   /* create tables */
7678   rc = sqlite3_exec(db,CREATE_TABLE_USERS, NULL,  0, &amp;zErrMsg);
7679   if( rc != SQLITE_OK ){
7680     printf(&quot;error: sqlite table create failed: %s\n&quot;, zErrMsg);
7681     sqlite3_close(db);
7682     return -1;
7683   }
7684   printf(&quot;info: sqlite worked\n&quot;);
7685   sqlite3_close(db);
7686   return 0;
7687 }
7688 #endif /* TEST_SQLITE */
7689
7690 /*
7691  * Demonstrate locking issue found in gcompris using sqlite3.  This
7692  * work with ext3, but not with cifs server on Windows 2003.  This is
7693  * done in the sqlite3 library.
7694  * See also
7695  * &amp;lt;URL:http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00854.html&gt; and the
7696  * POSIX specification
7697  * &amp;lt;URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fcntl.html&gt;.
7698  */
7699 int test_gcompris_locking(void) {
7700   struct flock fl;
7701   char *name = &quot;testsqlite.db&quot;;
7702   unlink(name);
7703   int fd = open(name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644);
7704   printf(&quot;info: testing fcntl locking\n&quot;);
7705
7706   fl.l_whence = SEEK_SET;
7707   fl.l_pid    = getpid();
7708   printf(&quot;  Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824&quot;);
7709   fl.l_start  = 1073741824;
7710   fl.l_len    = 1;
7711   fl.l_type   = F_RDLCK;
7712   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
7713
7714   printf(&quot;  Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826&quot;);
7715   fl.l_start  = 1073741826;
7716   fl.l_len    = 510;
7717   fl.l_type   = F_RDLCK;
7718   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
7719
7720   printf(&quot;  Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824&quot;);
7721   fl.l_start  = 1073741824;
7722   fl.l_len    = 1;
7723   fl.l_type   = F_UNLCK;
7724   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
7725
7726   printf(&quot;  Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824&quot;);
7727   fl.l_start  = 1073741824;
7728   fl.l_len    = 1;
7729   fl.l_type   = F_WRLCK;
7730   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
7731
7732   printf(&quot;  Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826&quot;);
7733   fl.l_start  = 1073741826;
7734   fl.l_len    = 510;
7735   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
7736
7737   printf(&quot;  Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824&quot;);
7738   fl.l_start  = 1073741824;
7739   fl.l_len    = 2;
7740   fl.l_type   = F_UNLCK;
7741   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
7742
7743   close(fd);
7744   return 0;
7745 }
7746
7747 /*
7748  * Test if permissions of freshly created directories allow entries
7749  * below them.  This was a problem with OpenOffice.org and gcompris.
7750  * Mounting with option &#39;sync&#39; seem to solve this problem while
7751  * slowing down file operations.
7752  */
7753 int test_subdirectory_creation(void) {
7754 #define LEVELS 5
7755   char *path = strdup(&quot;test&quot;);
7756   char *dirs[LEVELS];
7757   int level;
7758   printf(&quot;info: testing subdirectory creation\n&quot;);
7759   for (level = 0; level &amp;lt; LEVELS; level++) {
7760     char *newpath = NULL;
7761     if (-1 == mkdir(path, 0777)) {
7762       printf(&quot;  error: Unable to create directory &#39;%s&#39;: %s\n&quot;,
7763              path, strerror(errno));
7764       break;
7765     }
7766     asprintf(&amp;newpath, &quot;%s/%s&quot;, path, &quot;test&quot;);
7767     free(path);
7768     path = newpath;
7769   }
7770   return 0;
7771 }
7772
7773 /*
7774  * Test if symlinks can be created.  This was a problem detected with
7775  * KDE.
7776  */
7777 int test_symlinks(void) {
7778   printf(&quot;info: testing symlink creation\n&quot;);
7779   unlink(&quot;symlink&quot;);
7780   if (-1 == symlink(&quot;file&quot;, &quot;symlink&quot;))
7781     printf(&quot;  error: Unable to create symlink\n&quot;);
7782   return 0;
7783 }
7784
7785 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
7786   printf(&quot;Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system\n&quot;);
7787   test_symlinks();
7788   test_subdirectory_creation();
7789 #ifdef TEST_SQLITE
7790   test_sqlite_open();
7791 #endif /* TEST_SQLITE */
7792   test_gcompris_locking();
7793   return 0;
7794 }
7795 &lt;/pre&gt;
7796
7797 &lt;p&gt;When everything is working, it should print something like
7798 this:&lt;/p&gt;
7799
7800 &lt;pre&gt;
7801 Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
7802 info: testing symlink creation
7803 info: testing subdirectory creation
7804 info: sqlite worked
7805 info: testing fcntl locking
7806   Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
7807   Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
7808   Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
7809   Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
7810   Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
7811   Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
7812 &lt;/pre&gt;
7813
7814 &lt;p&gt;I do not remember the exact details of the problems we saw, but one
7815 of them was with locking, where if I remember correctly, POSIX allow a
7816 read-only lock to be upgraded to a read-write lock without unlocking
7817 the read-only lock (while Windows do not).  Another was a bug in the
7818 CIFS/SMB client implementation in the Linux kernel where directory
7819 meta information would be wrong for a fraction of a second, making
7820 OpenOffice.org fail to create its deep directory tree because it was
7821 not allowed to create files in its freshly created directory.&lt;/p&gt;
7822
7823 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, here is a nice tool for your tool box, might you never need
7824 it. :)&lt;/p&gt;
7825
7826 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-27: Michael Gebetsroither report that he found the
7827 script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in
7828 &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
7829 </description>
7830         </item>
7831
7832         <item>
7833                 <title>Autodetecting Client setup for roaming workstations in Debian Edu</title>
7834                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Autodetecting_Client_setup_for_roaming_workstations_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
7835                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Autodetecting_Client_setup_for_roaming_workstations_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
7836                 <pubDate>Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
7837                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I
7838 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html&quot;&gt;tried
7839 to install&lt;/a&gt; a Roaming workation profile from Debian Edu/Squeeze
7840 while on the university network here at the University of Oslo, and
7841 noticed how much had to change to get it operational using the
7842 university infrastructure.  It was fairly easy, but it occured to me
7843 that Debian Edu would improve a lot if I could get the client to
7844 connect without any changes at all, and thus let the client configure
7845 itself during installation and first boot to use the infrastructure
7846 around it.  Now I am a huge step further along that road.&lt;/p&gt;
7847
7848 &lt;p&gt;With our current squeeze-test packages, I can select the roaming
7849 workstation profile and get a working laptop connecting to the
7850 university LDAP server for user and group and our active directory
7851 servers for Kerberos authentication.  All this without any
7852 configuration at all during installation.  My users home directory got
7853 a bookmark in the KDE menu to mount it via SMB, with the correct URL.
7854 In short, openldap and sssd is correctly configured.  In addition to
7855 this, the client look for http://wpad/wpad.dat to configure a web
7856 proxy, and when it fail to find it no proxy settings are stored in
7857 /etc/environment and /etc/apt/apt.conf.  Iceweasel and KDE is
7858 configured to look for the same wpad configuration and also do not use
7859 a proxy when at the university network.  If the machine is moved to a
7860 network with such wpad setup, it would automatically use it when DHCP
7861 gave it a IP address.&lt;/p&gt;
7862
7863 &lt;p&gt;The LDAP server is located using DNS, by first looking for the DNS
7864 entry ldap.$domain.  If this do not exist, it look for the
7865 _ldap._tcp.$domain SRV records and use the first one as the LDAP
7866 server.  Next, it connects to the LDAP server and search all
7867 namingContexts entries for posixAccount or posixGroup objects, and
7868 pick the first one as the LDAP base.  For Kerberos, a similar
7869 algorithm is used to locate the LDAP server, and the realm is the
7870 uppercase version of $domain.&lt;/p&gt;
7871
7872 &lt;p&gt;So, what is not working, you might ask.  SMB mounting my home
7873 directory do not work.  No idea why, but suspected the incorrect
7874 Kerberos settings in /etc/krb5.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf might be
7875 the cause.  These are not properly configured during installation, and
7876 had to be hand-edited to get the correct Kerberos realm and server,
7877 but SMB mounting still do not work. :(&lt;/p&gt;
7878
7879 &lt;p&gt;With this automatic configuration in place, I expect a Debian Edu
7880 roaming profile installation would be able to automatically detect and
7881 connect to any site using LDAP and Kerberos for NSS directory and PAM
7882 authentication.  It should also work out of the box in a Active
7883 Directory environment providing posixAccount and posixGroup objects
7884 with UID and GID values.&lt;/p&gt;
7885
7886 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing these things for Debian
7887 Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
7888 </description>
7889         </item>
7890
7891         <item>
7892                 <title>Debian Edu roaming workstation - at the university of Oslo</title>
7893                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html</link>
7894                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html</guid>
7895                 <pubDate>Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
7896                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The new roaming workstation profile in Debian Edu/Squeeze is fairly
7897 similar to the laptop setup am I working on using Ubuntu for the
7898 University of Oslo, and just for the heck of it, I tested today how
7899 hard it would be to integrate that profile into the university
7900 infrastructure.  In this case, it is the university LDAP server,
7901 Active Directory Kerberos server and SMB mounting from the Netapp file
7902 servers.&lt;/p&gt;
7903
7904 &lt;p&gt;I was pleasantly surprised that the only three files needed to be
7905 changed (/etc/sssd/sssd.conf, /etc/ldap.conf and
7906 /etc/mklocaluser.d/20-debian-edu-config) and one file had to be added
7907 (/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Edu_Local.pm), to get the client working.
7908 Most of the changes were to get the client to use the university LDAP
7909 for NSS and Kerberos server for PAM, but one was to change a hard
7910 coded DNS domain name in the mklocaluser hook from .intern to
7911 .uio.no.&lt;/p&gt;
7912
7913 &lt;p&gt;This testing was so encouraging, that I went ahead and adjusted the
7914 Debian Edu scripts and setup in subversion to centralise the roaming
7915 workstation setup a bit more and avoid the hardcoded DNS domain name,
7916 so that when I test this tomorrow, I expect to get away with modifying
7917 only /etc/sssd/sssd.conf and /etc/ldap.conf to get it to use the
7918 university servers.&lt;/p&gt;
7919
7920 &lt;p&gt;My goal is to get the clients to have no hardcoded settings and
7921 fetch all their initial setup during installation and first boot, to
7922 allow them to be inserted also into environments where the default
7923 setup in Debian Edu has been changed or as with the university, where
7924 the environment is different but provides the protocols Debian Edu
7925 uses.&lt;/p&gt;
7926 </description>
7927         </item>
7928
7929         <item>
7930                 <title>First Debian Edu test release (alpha0) based on Squeeze is released</title>
7931                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu_test_release__alpha0__based_on_Squeeze_is_released.html</link>
7932                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu_test_release__alpha0__based_on_Squeeze_is_released.html</guid>
7933                 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
7934                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I just posted this announcement culminating several months of work
7935 with the next Debian Edu release.  Not nearly done, but one major step
7936 completed.&lt;/p&gt;
7937
7938 &lt;blockquote&gt;
7939 &lt;p&gt;This is the first test release based on Squeeze. The focus of this
7940 release is to test the user application selection. To have a look,
7941 install the standalone profile and let the developers know if the set
7942 of installed packages i.e. applications should be modified. If some
7943 user application is missing, or if there are some applications that no
7944 longer make sense to be included in Debian Edu, please let us know.
7945 Also, if a useful application is missing the translation for your
7946 language of choice, please let us know too.&lt;/p&gt;
7947
7948 &lt;p&gt;In addition, feedback and help to polish the desktop (menus,
7949 artwork, starters, etc.) is appreciated. We would like to ship a nice
7950 and handy KDE4 desktop targeted for schools out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;
7951
7952 &lt;p&gt;The other profiles should be installable, but there is a lot more
7953 work left to be done before they are ready, so do not expect to
7954 much.&lt;/p&gt;
7955
7956 &lt;p&gt;Changes compared to the lenny based version&lt;/p&gt;
7957
7958 &lt;ul&gt;
7959 &lt;li&gt;Everything from Debian Squeeze
7960 &lt;ul&gt;
7961   &lt;li&gt;Desktop environment KDE 4.4 =&gt; the new KDE desktop in
7962          combination with some new artwork
7963   &lt;li&gt;Web browser Iceweasel 3.5
7964   &lt;li&gt;OpenOffice.org 3.2
7965   &lt;li&gt;Educational toolbox GCompris 9.3
7966   &lt;li&gt;Music creator Rosegarden 10.04.2
7967   &lt;li&gt;Image editor Gimp 2.6.10
7968   &lt;li&gt;Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.0
7969   &lt;li&gt;Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.10.4
7970   &lt;li&gt;3D modeler Blender 2.49.2 (new application)
7971   &lt;li&gt;Video editor Kdenlive 0.7.7 (new application)
7972 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
7973 &lt;li&gt;Now using Kerberos for password checking (migration not finished).
7974     Enabled for:
7975 &lt;ul&gt;
7976   &lt;li&gt;PAM
7977   &lt;li&gt;LDAP
7978   &lt;li&gt;IMAP
7979   &lt;li&gt;SMTP (sender verification)
7980 &lt;/ul&gt;
7981 &lt;/li&gt;
7982 &lt;li&gt;New experimental roaming workstation profile for laptops.&lt;/li&gt;
7983 &lt;li&gt;Show welcome page to users when they first log in. The URL is
7984     fetched from LDAP.&lt;/li&gt;
7985 &lt;li&gt;New LXDE desktop option, in addition to KDE (default) and Gnome.&lt;/li&gt;
7986 &lt;li&gt;General cleanup (not finished)&lt;/li&gt;
7987 &lt;/ul&gt;
7988 &lt;p&gt;The following features are not working as they should&lt;/p&gt;
7989
7990 &lt;ul&gt;
7991 &lt;li&gt;No web based administration tool for creating users and groups. The
7992     scripts ldap-createuser-krb and ldap-add-user-to-group can be used
7993     for testing.&lt;/li&gt;
7994 &lt;li&gt;DVD installs are missing debian-installer images for the PXE boot,
7995     and do not set up the PXE menu on eth0 because of this. LTSP
7996     clients should still boot from eth1 on thin client servers.&lt;/li&gt;
7997 &lt;li&gt;The restructured KDE menu is not implemented.&lt;/li&gt;
7998 &lt;li&gt;The LDAP server setup need to be reviewed for security.&lt;/li&gt;
7999 &lt;li&gt;The LDAP directory structure need to be reworked.&lt;/li&gt;
8000 &lt;li&gt;Different sets of packages are installed when using the DVD and the
8001     netinst CD. More packages are installed using the netinst CD.&lt;/li&gt;
8002 &lt;li&gt;The jackd package fail to install. This is believed to be caused by
8003     some ongoing transition, and hopefully should be solved soon. The
8004     jackd1 package can be installed manually for those that need it.&lt;/li&gt;
8005 &lt;li&gt;Some packages lack translations. See
8006     http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Squeeze for updated status,
8007     and help out with translations.&lt;/li&gt;
8008 &lt;/ul&gt;
8009
8010 &lt;p&gt;To download this multiarch netinstall release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
8011
8012 &lt;ul&gt;
8013 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
8014 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
8015 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
8016 &lt;/ul&gt;
8017 &lt;p&gt;To download this multiarch dvd release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
8018
8019 &lt;ul&gt;
8020 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
8021 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
8022 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
8023 &lt;/ul&gt;
8024
8025 &lt;p&gt;There is no source DVD available yet. It will be prepared when we
8026 get closer to the final release.&lt;/p&gt;
8027
8028 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of these images are&lt;/p&gt;
8029
8030 &lt;ul&gt;
8031 &lt;li&gt;3dbf45d59f42a53518b6e3c9ec3b5eb6 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
8032 &lt;li&gt;22f2cbfce281d1c6e478be452638675d debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
8033 &lt;/ul&gt;
8034
8035 &lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of these images are&lt;/p&gt;
8036 &lt;ul&gt;
8037 &lt;li&gt;c53d1b69b40cf37cd27aefaf33f6f6a3821bedf0 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
8038 &lt;li&gt;2ec29d7db676d59d32197b05c277ffe16348376c debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
8039 &lt;/ul&gt;
8040 &lt;p&gt;How to report bugs:
8041 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugsInBugzilla&lt;/p&gt;
8042
8043 &lt;p&gt;Please direct replies to debian-edu@lists.debian.org&lt;/p&gt;
8044 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
8045 </description>
8046         </item>
8047
8048         <item>
8049                 <title>One step closer to single signon in Debian Edu</title>
8050                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_step_closer_to_single_signon_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
8051                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_step_closer_to_single_signon_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
8052                 <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
8053                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few months me and the other Debian Edu developers have
8054 been working hard to get the Debian/Squeeze based version of Debian
8055 Edu/Skolelinux into shape.  This future version will use Kerberos for
8056 authentication, and services are slowly migrated to single signon,
8057 getting rid of password questions one at the time.&lt;/p&gt;
8058
8059 &lt;p&gt;It will also feature a roaming workstation profile with local home
8060 directory, for laptops that are only some times on the Skolelinux
8061 network, and for this profile a shortcut is created in Gnome and KDE
8062 to gain access to the users home directory on the file server.  This
8063 shortcut uses SMB at the moment, and yesterday I had time to test if
8064 SMB mounting had started working in KDE after we added the cifs-utils
8065 package.  I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked.&lt;/p&gt;
8066
8067 &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the recent changes to our samba configuration to get it
8068 to use Kerberos for authentication, there were no question about user
8069 password when mounting the SMB volume.  A simple click on the shortcut
8070 in the KDE menu, and a window with the home directory popped
8071 up. :)&lt;/p&gt;
8072
8073 &lt;p&gt;One step closer to a single signon solution out of the box in
8074 Debian Edu.  We already had PAM, LDAP, IMAP and SMTP in place, and now
8075 also Samba.  Next step is Cups and hopefully also NFS.&lt;/p&gt;
8076
8077 &lt;p&gt;We had planned a alpha0 release of Debian Edu for today, but thanks
8078 to the autobuilder administrators for some architectures being slow to
8079 sign packages, we are still missing the fixed LTSP package we need for
8080 the release.  It was uploaded three days ago with urgency=high, and if
8081 it had entered testing yesterday we would have been able to test it in
8082 time for a alpha0 release today.  As the binaries for ia64 and powerpc
8083 still not uploaded to the Debian archive, we need to delay the alpha
8084 release another day.&lt;/p&gt;
8085
8086 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing Kerberos for Debian Edu,
8087 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
8088 </description>
8089         </item>
8090
8091         <item>
8092                 <title>What are they searching for - PowerDNS and ISC DHCP in LDAP</title>
8093                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_are_they_searching_for___PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_in_LDAP.html</link>
8094                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_are_they_searching_for___PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_in_LDAP.html</guid>
8095                 <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
8096                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This is a
8097 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_new__LDAP_schemas_replacing_RFC_2307_.html&quot;&gt;followup&lt;/a&gt;
8098 on my
8099 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_a_change_to_LDAP_schemas_allowing_DNS_and_DHCP_info_to_be_combined_into_one_object.html&quot;&gt;previous
8100 work&lt;/a&gt; on
8101 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Combining_PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_LDAP_objects.html&quot;&gt;merging
8102 all&lt;/a&gt; the computer related LDAP objects in Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
8103
8104 &lt;p&gt;As a step to try to see if it possible to merge the DNS and DHCP
8105 LDAP objects, I have had a look at how the packages pdns-backend-ldap
8106 and dhcp3-server-ldap in Debian use the LDAP server.  The two
8107 implementations are quite different in how they use LDAP.&lt;/p&gt;
8108
8109 To get this information, I started slapd with debugging enabled and
8110 dumped the debug output to a file to get the LDAP searches performed
8111 on a Debian Edu main-server.  Here is a summary.
8112
8113 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;powerdns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8114
8115 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/PowerDNS_LDAP_Backend&quot;&gt;Clues
8116 on how to&lt;/a&gt; set up PowerDNS to use a LDAP backend is available on
8117 the web.
8118
8119 &lt;p&gt;PowerDNS have two modes of operation using LDAP as its backend.
8120 One &quot;strict&quot; mode where the forward and reverse DNS lookups are done
8121 using the same LDAP objects, and a &quot;tree&quot; mode where the forward and
8122 reverse entries are in two different subtrees in LDAP with a structure
8123 based on the DNS names, as in tjener.intern and
8124 2.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa.&lt;/p&gt;
8125
8126 &lt;p&gt;In tree mode, the server is set up to use a LDAP subtree as its
8127 base, and uses a &quot;base&quot; scoped search for the DNS name by adding
8128 &quot;dc=tjener,dc=intern,&quot; to the base with a filter for
8129 &quot;(associateddomain=tjener.intern)&quot; for the forward entry and
8130 &quot;dc=2,dc=2,dc=0,dc=10,dc=in-addr,dc=arpa,&quot; with a filter for
8131 &quot;(associateddomain=2.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa)&quot; for the reverse entry.  For
8132 forward entries, it is looking for attributes named dnsttl, arecord,
8133 nsrecord, cnamerecord, soarecord, ptrrecord, hinforecord, mxrecord,
8134 txtrecord, rprecord, afsdbrecord, keyrecord, aaaarecord, locrecord,
8135 srvrecord, naptrrecord, kxrecord, certrecord, dsrecord, sshfprecord,
8136 ipseckeyrecord, rrsigrecord, nsecrecord, dnskeyrecord, dhcidrecord,
8137 spfrecord and modifytimestamp.  For reverse entries it is looking for
8138 the attributes dnsttl, arecord, nsrecord, cnamerecord, soarecord,
8139 ptrrecord, hinforecord, mxrecord, txtrecord, rprecord, aaaarecord,
8140 locrecord, srvrecord, naptrrecord and modifytimestamp.  The equivalent
8141 ldapsearch commands could look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
8142
8143 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8144 ldapsearch -h ldap \
8145   -b dc=tjener,dc=intern,ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no \
8146   -s base -x &#39;(associateddomain=tjener.intern)&#39; dNSTTL aRecord nSRecord \
8147   cNAMERecord sOARecord pTRRecord hInfoRecord mXRecord tXTRecord \
8148   rPRecord aFSDBRecord KeyRecord aAAARecord lOCRecord sRVRecord \
8149   nAPTRRecord kXRecord certRecord dSRecord sSHFPRecord iPSecKeyRecord \
8150   rRSIGRecord nSECRecord dNSKeyRecord dHCIDRecord sPFRecord modifyTimestamp
8151
8152 ldapsearch -h ldap \
8153   -b dc=2,dc=2,dc=0,dc=10,dc=in-addr,dc=arpa,ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no \
8154   -s base -x &#39;(associateddomain=2.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa)&#39;
8155   dnsttl, arecord, nsrecord, cnamerecord soarecord ptrrecord \
8156   hinforecord mxrecord txtrecord rprecord aaaarecord locrecord \
8157   srvrecord naptrrecord modifytimestamp
8158 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8159
8160 &lt;p&gt;In Debian Edu/Lenny, the PowerDNS tree mode is used with
8161 ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no as the base, and these are two
8162 example LDAP objects used there.  In addition to these objects, the
8163 parent objects all th way up to ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8164 also exist.&lt;/p&gt;
8165
8166 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8167 dn: dc=tjener,dc=intern,ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8168 objectclass: top
8169 objectclass: dnsdomain
8170 objectclass: domainrelatedobject
8171 dc: tjener
8172 arecord: 10.0.2.2
8173 associateddomain: tjener.intern
8174
8175 dn: dc=2,dc=2,dc=0,dc=10,dc=in-addr,dc=arpa,ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8176 objectclass: top
8177 objectclass: dnsdomain2
8178 objectclass: domainrelatedobject
8179 dc: 2
8180 ptrrecord: tjener.intern
8181 associateddomain: 2.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa
8182 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8183
8184 &lt;p&gt;In strict mode, the server behaves differently.  When looking for
8185 forward DNS entries, it is doing a &quot;subtree&quot; scoped search with the
8186 same base as in the tree mode for a object with filter
8187 &quot;(associateddomain=tjener.intern)&quot; and requests the attributes dnsttl,
8188 arecord, nsrecord, cnamerecord, soarecord, ptrrecord, hinforecord,
8189 mxrecord, txtrecord, rprecord, aaaarecord, locrecord, srvrecord,
8190 naptrrecord and modifytimestamp.  For reverse entires it also do a
8191 subtree scoped search but this time the filter is &quot;(arecord=10.0.2.2)&quot;
8192 and the requested attributes are associateddomain, dnsttl and
8193 modifytimestamp.  In short, in strict mode the objects with ptrrecord
8194 go away, and the arecord attribute in the forward object is used
8195 instead.&lt;/p&gt;
8196
8197 &lt;p&gt;The forward and reverse searches can be simulated using ldapsearch
8198 like this:&lt;/p&gt;
8199
8200 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8201 ldapsearch -h ldap -b ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no -s sub -x \
8202   &#39;(associateddomain=tjener.intern)&#39; dNSTTL aRecord nSRecord \
8203   cNAMERecord sOARecord pTRRecord hInfoRecord mXRecord tXTRecord \
8204   rPRecord aFSDBRecord KeyRecord aAAARecord lOCRecord sRVRecord \
8205   nAPTRRecord kXRecord certRecord dSRecord sSHFPRecord iPSecKeyRecord \
8206   rRSIGRecord nSECRecord dNSKeyRecord dHCIDRecord sPFRecord modifyTimestamp
8207
8208 ldapsearch -h ldap -b ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no -s sub -x \
8209   &#39;(arecord=10.0.2.2)&#39; associateddomain dnsttl modifytimestamp
8210 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8211
8212 &lt;p&gt;In addition to the forward and reverse searches , there is also a
8213 search for SOA records, which behave similar to the forward and
8214 reverse lookups.&lt;/p&gt;
8215
8216 &lt;p&gt;A thing to note with the PowerDNS behaviour is that it do not
8217 specify any objectclass names, and instead look for the attributes it
8218 need to generate a DNS reply.  This make it able to work with any
8219 objectclass that provide the needed attributes.&lt;/p&gt;
8220
8221 &lt;p&gt;The attributes are normally provided in the cosine (RFC 1274) and
8222 dnsdomain2 schemas.  The latter is used for reverse entries like
8223 ptrrecord and recent DNS additions like aaaarecord and srvrecord.&lt;/p&gt;
8224
8225 &lt;p&gt;In Debian Edu, we have created DNS objects using the object classes
8226 dcobject (for dc), dnsdomain or dnsdomain2 (structural, for the DNS
8227 attributes) and domainrelatedobject (for associatedDomain).  The use
8228 of structural object classes make it impossible to combine these
8229 classes with the object classes used by DHCP.&lt;/p&gt;
8230
8231 &lt;p&gt;There are other schemas that could be used too, for example the
8232 dnszone structural object class used by Gosa and bind-sdb for the DNS
8233 attributes combined with the domainrelatedobject object class, but in
8234 this case some unused attributes would have to be included as well
8235 (zonename and relativedomainname).&lt;/p&gt;
8236
8237 &lt;p&gt;My proposal for Debian Edu would be to switch PowerDNS to strict
8238 mode and not use any of the existing objectclasses (dnsdomain,
8239 dnsdomain2 and dnszone) when one want to combine the DNS information
8240 with DHCP information, and instead create a auxiliary object class
8241 defined something like this (using the attributes defined for
8242 dnsdomain and dnsdomain2 or dnszone):&lt;/p&gt;
8243
8244 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8245 objectclass ( some-oid NAME &#39;dnsDomainAux&#39;
8246     SUP top
8247     AUXILIARY
8248     MAY ( ARecord $ MDRecord $ MXRecord $ NSRecord $ SOARecord $ CNAMERecord $
8249           DNSTTL $ DNSClass $ PTRRecord $ HINFORecord $ MINFORecord $
8250           TXTRecord $ SIGRecord $ KEYRecord $ AAAARecord $ LOCRecord $
8251           NXTRecord $ SRVRecord $ NAPTRRecord $ KXRecord $ CERTRecord $
8252           A6Record $ DNAMERecord
8253     ))
8254 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8255
8256 &lt;p&gt;This will allow any object to become a DNS entry when combined with
8257 the domainrelatedobject object class, and allow any entity to include
8258 all the attributes PowerDNS wants.  I&#39;ve sent an email to the PowerDNS
8259 developers asking for their view on this schema and if they are
8260 interested in providing such schema with PowerDNS, and I hope my
8261 message will be accepted into their mailing list soon.&lt;/p&gt;
8262
8263 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ISC dhcp&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8264
8265 &lt;p&gt;The DHCP server searches for specific objectclass and requests all
8266 the object attributes, and then uses the attributes it want.  This
8267 make it harder to figure out exactly what attributes are used, but
8268 thanks to the working example in Debian Edu I can at least get an idea
8269 what is needed without having to read the source code.&lt;/p&gt;
8270
8271 &lt;p&gt;In the DHCP server configuration, the LDAP base to use and the
8272 search filter to use to locate the correct dhcpServer entity is
8273 stored.  These are the relevant entries from
8274 /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf:&lt;/p&gt;
8275
8276 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8277 ldap-base-dn &quot;dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no&quot;;
8278 ldap-dhcp-server-cn &quot;dhcp&quot;;
8279 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8280
8281 &lt;p&gt;The DHCP server uses this information to nest all the DHCP
8282 configuration it need.  The cn &quot;dhcp&quot; is located using the given LDAP
8283 base and the filter &quot;(&amp;(objectClass=dhcpServer)(cn=dhcp))&quot;.  The
8284 search result is this entry:&lt;/p&gt;
8285
8286 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8287 dn: cn=dhcp,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8288 cn: dhcp
8289 objectClass: top
8290 objectClass: dhcpServer
8291 dhcpServiceDN: cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8292 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8293
8294 &lt;p&gt;The content of the dhcpServiceDN attribute is next used to locate the
8295 subtree with DHCP configuration.  The DHCP configuration subtree base
8296 is located using a base scope search with base &quot;cn=DHCP
8297 Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no&quot; and filter
8298 &quot;(&amp;(objectClass=dhcpService)(|(dhcpPrimaryDN=cn=dhcp,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no)(dhcpSecondaryDN=cn=dhcp,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no)))&quot;.
8299 The search result is this entry:&lt;/p&gt;
8300
8301 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8302 dn: cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8303 cn: DHCP Config
8304 objectClass: top
8305 objectClass: dhcpService
8306 objectClass: dhcpOptions
8307 dhcpPrimaryDN: cn=dhcp, dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8308 dhcpStatements: ddns-update-style none
8309 dhcpStatements: authoritative
8310 dhcpOption: smtp-server code 69 = array of ip-address
8311 dhcpOption: www-server code 72 = array of ip-address
8312 dhcpOption: wpad-url code 252 = text
8313 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8314
8315 &lt;p&gt;Next, the entire subtree is processed, one level at the time.  When
8316 all the DHCP configuration is loaded, it is ready to receive requests.
8317 The subtree in Debian Edu contain objects with object classes
8318 top/dhcpService/dhcpOptions, top/dhcpSharedNetwork/dhcpOptions,
8319 top/dhcpSubnet, top/dhcpGroup and top/dhcpHost.  These provide options
8320 and information about netmasks, dynamic range etc.  Leaving out the
8321 details here because it is not relevant for the focus of my
8322 investigation, which is to see if it is possible to merge dns and dhcp
8323 related computer objects.&lt;/p&gt;
8324
8325 &lt;p&gt;When a DHCP request come in, LDAP is searched for the MAC address
8326 of the client (00:00:00:00:00:00 in this example), using a subtree
8327 scoped search with &quot;cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no&quot; as
8328 the base and &quot;(&amp;(objectClass=dhcpHost)(dhcpHWAddress=ethernet
8329 00:00:00:00:00:00))&quot; as the filter.  This is what a host object look
8330 like:&lt;/p&gt;
8331
8332 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8333 dn: cn=hostname,cn=group1,cn=THINCLIENTS,cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8334 cn: hostname
8335 objectClass: top
8336 objectClass: dhcpHost
8337 dhcpHWAddress: ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00
8338 dhcpStatements: fixed-address hostname
8339 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8340
8341 &lt;p&gt;There is less flexiblity in the way LDAP searches are done here.
8342 The object classes need to have fixed names, and the configuration
8343 need to be stored in a fairly specific LDAP structure.  On the
8344 positive side, the invidiual dhcpHost entires can be anywhere without
8345 the DN pointed to by the dhcpServer entries.  The latter should make
8346 it possible to group all host entries in a subtree next to the
8347 configuration entries, and this subtree can also be shared with the
8348 DNS server if the schema proposed above is combined with the dhcpHost
8349 structural object class.
8350
8351 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8352
8353 &lt;p&gt;The PowerDNS implementation seem to be very flexible when it come
8354 to which LDAP schemas to use.  While its &quot;tree&quot; mode is rigid when it
8355 come to the the LDAP structure, the &quot;strict&quot; mode is very flexible,
8356 allowing DNS objects to be stored anywhere under the base cn specified
8357 in the configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
8358
8359 &lt;p&gt;The DHCP implementation on the other hand is very inflexible, both
8360 regarding which LDAP schemas to use and which LDAP structure to use.
8361 I guess one could implement ones own schema, as long as the
8362 objectclasses and attributes have the names used, but this do not
8363 really help when the DHCP subtree need to have a fairly fixed
8364 structure.&lt;/p&gt;
8365
8366 &lt;p&gt;Based on the observed behaviour, I suspect a LDAP structure like
8367 this might work for Debian Edu:&lt;/p&gt;
8368
8369 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8370 ou=services
8371   cn=machine-info (dhcpService) - dhcpServiceDN points here
8372     cn=dhcp (dhcpServer)
8373     cn=dhcp-internal (dhcpSharedNetwork/dhcpOptions)
8374       cn=10.0.2.0 (dhcpSubnet)
8375         cn=group1 (dhcpGroup/dhcpOptions)
8376     cn=dhcp-thinclients (dhcpSharedNetwork/dhcpOptions)
8377       cn=192.168.0.0 (dhcpSubnet)
8378         cn=group1 (dhcpGroup/dhcpOptions)
8379     ou=machines - PowerDNS base points here
8380       cn=hostname (dhcpHost/domainrelatedobject/dnsDomainAux)
8381 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8382
8383 &lt;P&gt;This is not tested yet.  If the DHCP server require the dhcpHost
8384 entries to be in the dhcpGroup subtrees, the entries can be stored
8385 there instead of a common machines subtree, and the PowerDNS base
8386 would have to be moved one level up to the machine-info subtree.&lt;/p&gt;
8387
8388 &lt;p&gt;The combined object under the machines subtree would look something
8389 like this:&lt;/p&gt;
8390
8391 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8392 dn: dc=hostname,ou=machines,cn=machine-info,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8393 dc: hostname
8394 objectClass: top
8395 objectClass: dhcpHost
8396 objectclass: domainrelatedobject
8397 objectclass: dnsDomainAux
8398 associateddomain: hostname.intern
8399 arecord: 10.11.12.13
8400 dhcpHWAddress: ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00
8401 dhcpStatements: fixed-address hostname.intern
8402 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8403
8404 &lt;/p&gt;One could even add the LTSP configuration associated with a given
8405 machine, as long as the required attributes are available in a
8406 auxiliary object class.&lt;/p&gt;
8407 </description>
8408         </item>
8409
8410         <item>
8411                 <title>Combining PowerDNS and ISC DHCP LDAP objects</title>
8412                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Combining_PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_LDAP_objects.html</link>
8413                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Combining_PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_LDAP_objects.html</guid>
8414                 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
8415                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For a while now, I have wanted to find a way to change the DNS and
8416 DHCP services in Debian Edu to use the same LDAP objects for a given
8417 computer, to avoid the possibility of having a inconsistent state for
8418 a computer in LDAP (as in DHCP but no DNS entry or the other way
8419 around) and make it easier to add computers to LDAP.&lt;/p&gt;
8420
8421 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve looked at how powerdns and dhcpd is using LDAP, and using this
8422 information finally found a solution that seem to work.&lt;/p&gt;
8423
8424 &lt;p&gt;The old setup required three LDAP objects for a given computer.
8425 One forward DNS entry, one reverse DNS entry and one DHCP entry.  If
8426 we switch powerdns to use its strict LDAP method (ldap-method=strict
8427 in pdns-debian-edu.conf), the forward and reverse DNS entries are
8428 merged into one while making it impossible to transfer the reverse map
8429 to a slave DNS server.&lt;/p&gt;
8430
8431 &lt;p&gt;If we also replace the object class used to get the DNS related
8432 attributes to one allowing these attributes to be combined with the
8433 dhcphost object class, we can merge the DNS and DHCP entries into one.
8434 I&#39;ve written such object class in the dnsdomainaux.schema file (need
8435 proper OIDs, but that is a minor issue), and tested the setup.  It
8436 seem to work.&lt;/p&gt;
8437
8438 &lt;p&gt;With this test setup in place, we can get away with one LDAP object
8439 for both DNS and DHCP, and even the LTSP configuration I suggested in
8440 an earlier email.  The combined LDAP object will look something like
8441 this:&lt;/p&gt;
8442
8443 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8444   dn: cn=hostname,cn=group1,cn=THINCLIENTS,cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8445   cn: hostname
8446   objectClass: dhcphost
8447   objectclass: domainrelatedobject
8448   objectclass: dnsdomainaux
8449   associateddomain: hostname.intern
8450   arecord: 10.11.12.13
8451   dhcphwaddress: ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00
8452   dhcpstatements: fixed-address hostname
8453   ldapconfigsound: Y
8454 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8455
8456 &lt;p&gt;The DNS server uses the associateddomain and arecord entries, while
8457 the DHCP server uses the dhcphwaddress and dhcpstatements entries
8458 before asking DNS to resolve the fixed-adddress.  LTSP will use
8459 dhcphwaddress or associateddomain and the ldapconfig* attributes.&lt;/p&gt;
8460
8461 &lt;p&gt;I am not yet sure if I can get the DHCP server to look for its
8462 dhcphost in a different location, to allow us to put the objects
8463 outside the &quot;DHCP Config&quot; subtree, but hope to figure out a way to do
8464 that.  If I can&#39;t figure out a way to do that, we can still get rid of
8465 the hosts subtree and move all its content into the DHCP Config tree
8466 (which probably should be renamed to be more related to the new
8467 content.  I suspect cn=dnsdhcp,ou=services or something like that
8468 might be a good place to put it.&lt;/p&gt;
8469
8470 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
8471 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
8472 </description>
8473         </item>
8474
8475         <item>
8476                 <title>Idea for storing LTSP configuration in LDAP</title>
8477                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_LTSP_configuration_in_LDAP.html</link>
8478                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_LTSP_configuration_in_LDAP.html</guid>
8479                 <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
8480                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Vagrant mentioned on IRC today that ltsp_config now support
8481 sourcing files from /usr/share/ltsp/ltsp_config.d/ on the thin
8482 clients, and that this can be used to fetch configuration from LDAP if
8483 Debian Edu choose to store configuration there.&lt;/p&gt;
8484
8485 &lt;p&gt;Armed with this information, I got inspired and wrote a test module
8486 to get configuration from LDAP.  The idea is to look up the MAC
8487 address of the client in LDAP, and look for attributes on the form
8488 ltspconfigsetting=value, and use this to export SETTING=value to the
8489 LTSP clients.&lt;/p&gt;
8490
8491 &lt;p&gt;The goal is to be able to store the LTSP configuration attributes
8492 in a &quot;computer&quot; LDAP object used by both DNS and DHCP, and thus
8493 allowing us to store all information about a computer in one place.&lt;/p&gt;
8494
8495 &lt;p&gt;This is a untested draft implementation, and I welcome feedback on
8496 this approach.  A real LDAP schema for the ltspClientAux objectclass
8497 need to be written.  Comments, suggestions, etc?&lt;/p&gt;
8498
8499 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8500 # Store in /opt/ltsp/$arch/usr/share/ltsp/ltsp_config.d/ldap-config
8501 #
8502 # Fetch LTSP client settings from LDAP based on MAC address
8503 #
8504 # Uses ethernet address as stored in the dhcpHost objectclass using
8505 # the dhcpHWAddress attribute or ethernet address stored in the
8506 # ieee802Device objectclass with the macAddress attribute.
8507 #
8508 # This module is written to be schema agnostic, and only depend on the
8509 # existence of attribute names.
8510 #
8511 # The LTSP configuration variables are saved directly using a
8512 # ltspConfig prefix and uppercasing the rest of the attribute name.
8513 # To set the SERVER variable, set the ltspConfigServer attribute.
8514 #
8515 # Some LDAP schema should be created with all the relevant
8516 # configuration settings.  Something like this should work:
8517 #
8518 # objectclass ( 1.1.2.2 NAME &#39;ltspClientAux&#39;
8519 #     SUP top
8520 #     AUXILIARY
8521 #     MAY ( ltspConfigServer $ ltsConfigSound $ ... )
8522
8523 LDAPSERVER=$(debian-edu-ldapserver)
8524 if [ &quot;$LDAPSERVER&quot; ] ; then
8525     LDAPBASE=$(debian-edu-ldapserver -b)
8526     for MAC in $(LANG=C ifconfig |grep -i hwaddr| awk &#39;{print $5}&#39;|sort -u) ; do
8527         filter=&quot;(|(dhcpHWAddress=ethernet $MAC)(macAddress=$MAC))&quot;
8528         ldapsearch -h &quot;$LDAPSERVER&quot; -b &quot;$LDAPBASE&quot; -v -x &quot;$filter&quot; | \
8529             grep &#39;^ltspConfig&#39; | while read attr value ; do
8530             # Remove prefix and convert to upper case
8531             attr=$(echo $attr | sed &#39;s/^ltspConfig//i&#39; | tr a-z A-Z)
8532             # bass value on to clients
8533             eval &quot;$attr=$value; export $attr&quot;
8534         done
8535     done
8536 fi
8537 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8538
8539 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m not sure this shell construction will work, because I suspect
8540 the while block might end up in a subshell causing the variables set
8541 there to not show up in ltsp-config, but if that is the case I am sure
8542 the code can be restructured to make sure the variables are passed on.
8543 I expect that can be solved with some testing. :)&lt;/p&gt;
8544
8545 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
8546 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
8547
8548 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-07-17: I am aware of another effort to store LTSP
8549 configuration in LDAP that was created around year 2000 by
8550 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pcxperience.com/thinclient/documentation/ldap.html&quot;&gt;PC
8551 Xperience, Inc., 2000&lt;/a&gt;.  I found its
8552 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.redhat.com/alikins/ltsp/ldap/&quot;&gt;files&lt;/a&gt; on a
8553 personal home page over at redhat.com.&lt;/p&gt;
8554 </description>
8555         </item>
8556
8557         <item>
8558                 <title>jXplorer, a very nice LDAP GUI</title>
8559                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/jXplorer__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html</link>
8560                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/jXplorer__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html</guid>
8561                 <pubDate>Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
8562                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since
8563 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html&quot;&gt;my
8564 last post&lt;/a&gt; about available LDAP tools in Debian, I was told about a
8565 LDAP GUI that is even better than luma.  The java application
8566 &lt;a href=&quot;http://jxplorer.org/&quot;&gt;jXplorer&lt;/a&gt; is claimed to be capable of
8567 moving LDAP objects and subtrees using drag-and-drop, and can
8568 authenticate using Kerberos.  I have only tested the Kerberos
8569 authentication, but do not have a LDAP setup allowing me to rewrite
8570 LDAP with my test user yet.  It is
8571 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jxplorer.html&quot;&gt;available in
8572 Debian&lt;/a&gt; testing and unstable at the moment.  The only problem I
8573 have with it is how it handle errors.  If something go wrong, its
8574 non-intuitive behaviour require me to go through some query work list
8575 and remove the failing query.  Nothing big, but very annoying.&lt;/p&gt;
8576 </description>
8577         </item>
8578
8579         <item>
8580                 <title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades, apt vs aptitude with the Gnome desktop</title>
8581                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_desktop.html</link>
8582                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_desktop.html</guid>
8583                 <pubDate>Sat, 3 Jul 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
8584                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a short update on my &lt;a
8585 href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&quot;&gt;my
8586 Debian Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrade testing&lt;/a&gt;.  Here is a summary of the
8587 difference for Gnome when it is upgraded by apt-get and aptitude.  I&#39;m
8588 not reporting the status for KDE, because the upgrade crashes when
8589 aptitude try because of missing conflicts
8590 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584861&quot;&gt;#584861&lt;/a&gt; and
8591 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/585716&quot;&gt;#585716&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
8592
8593 &lt;p&gt;At the end of the upgrade test script, dpkg -l is executed to get a
8594 complete list of the installed packages.  Based on this I see these
8595 differences when I did a test run today.  As usual, I do not really
8596 know what the correct set of packages would be, but thought it best to
8597 publish the difference.&lt;/p&gt;
8598
8599 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
8600
8601 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
8602   at-spi cpp-4.3 finger gnome-spell gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
8603   libatspi1.0-0 libcupsys2 libeel2-data libgail-common libgdl-1-common
8604   libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomevfs2-bin
8605   libgtksourceview-common libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa
8606   libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libservlet2.4-java libxalan2-java
8607   libxerces2-java openoffice.org-writer2latex openssl-blacklist p7zip
8608   python-4suite-xml python-eggtrayicon python-gtkhtml2
8609   python-gtkmozembed svgalibg1 xserver-xephyr zip
8610 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8611
8612 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
8613
8614 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
8615   bluez-utils dhcdbd djvulibre-desktop epiphany-gecko
8616   gnome-app-install gnome-mount gnome-vfs-obexftp gnome-volume-manager
8617   libao2 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5 libbind9-50
8618   libbluetooth2 libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7 libcucul0 libcurl3
8619   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdvdread3 libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9
8620   libeel2-2.20 libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libexchange-storage1.2-3
8621   libfaad0 libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libggz2 libggzcore9
8622   libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0 libgnome-desktop-2
8623   libgnome-pilot2 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0
8624   libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtkhtml2-0
8625   libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6 libhesiod0 libicu38 libisccc50
8626   libisccfg50 libiw29 libkpathsea4 libltdl3 liblwres50 libmagick++10
8627   libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmtp7 libmysqlclient15off libnautilus-burn4
8628   libneon27 libnm-glib0 libnm-util0 libopal-2.2 libosp5
8629   libparted1.8-10 libpisock9 libpisync1 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3
8630   libpt-1.10.10 libraw1394-8 libsensors3 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8
8631   libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1
8632   libtotem-plparser10 libtrackerclient0 libvoikko1 libxalan2-java-gcj
8633   libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12 libxtrap6 libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3
8634   mysql-common swfdec-gnome totem-gstreamer wodim
8635 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8636
8637 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
8638
8639 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
8640   gnome gnome-desktop-environment hamster-applet python-gnomeapplet
8641   python-gnomekeyring python-wnck rhythmbox-plugins xorg
8642   xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
8643   xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
8644   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-all
8645   xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati
8646   xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
8647   xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
8648   xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
8649   xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-mach64
8650   xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
8651   xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nv
8652   xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
8653   xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-rendition
8654   xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
8655   xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
8656   xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb
8657   xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga
8658   xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng
8659   xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
8660   xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
8661 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8662
8663 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
8664
8665 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
8666   deskbar-applet xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
8667   xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-intel
8668   xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
8669 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8670
8671 &lt;p&gt;I was told on IRC that the xorg-xserver package was
8672 &lt;a href=&quot;http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/xserver/xorg-server.git;a=commit;h=9c8080d06c457932d3bfec021c69ac000aa60120&quot;&gt;changed
8673 in git&lt;/a&gt; today to try to get apt-get to not remove xorg completely.
8674 No idea when it hits Squeeze, but when it does I hope it will reduce
8675 the difference somewhat.
8676 </description>
8677         </item>
8678
8679         <item>
8680                 <title>Caching password, user and group on a roaming Debian laptop</title>
8681                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Caching_password__user_and_group_on_a_roaming_Debian_laptop.html</link>
8682                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Caching_password__user_and_group_on_a_roaming_Debian_laptop.html</guid>
8683                 <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
8684                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For a laptop, centralized user directories and password checking is
8685 a bit troubling.  Laptops are typically used also when not connected
8686 to the network, and it is vital for a user to be able to log in or
8687 unlock the screen saver also when a central server is unavailable.
8688 This is possible by caching passwords and directory information (user
8689 and group attributes) locally, and the packages to do so are available
8690 in Debian.  Here follow two recipes to set this up in Debian/Squeeze.
8691 It is also possible to set up in Debian/Lenny, but require more manual
8692 setup there because pam-auth-update is missing in Lenny.&lt;/p&gt;
8693
8694 &lt;h2&gt;LDAP/Kerberos + nscd + libpam-ccreds + libpam-mklocaluser/pam_mkhomedir&lt;/h2&gt;
8695
8696 This is the traditional method with a twist.  The password caching is
8697 provided by libpam-ccreds (version 10-4 or later is needed on
8698 Squeeze), and the directory caching is done by nscd.  The directory
8699 lookup and password checking is done using LDAP.  If one want to use
8700 Kerberos for password checking the libpam-ldapd package can be
8701 replaced with libpam-krb5 or libpam-heimdal.  If one is happy having a
8702 local home directory with the path listed in LDAP, one can use the
8703 pam_mkhomedir module from pam-modules to make this happen instead of
8704 using libpam-mklocaluser.  A setup for pam-auth-update to enable
8705 pam_mkhomedir will have to be written until a fix for
8706 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/568577&quot;&gt;bug #568577&lt;/a&gt; is in the
8707 archive.  Because I believe it is a bad idea to have local home
8708 directories using misleading paths like /site/server/partition/, I
8709 prefer to create a local user with the home directory in /home/.  This
8710 is done using the libpam-mklocaluser package.&lt;/p&gt;
8711
8712 &lt;p&gt;These packages need to be installed and configured&lt;/p&gt;
8713
8714 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8715 libnss-ldapd libpam-ldapd nscd libpam-ccreds libpam-mklocaluser
8716 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8717
8718 &lt;p&gt;The ldapd packages will ask for LDAP connection information, and
8719 one have to fill in the values that fits ones own site.  Make sure the
8720 PAM part uses encrypted connections, to make sure the password is not
8721 sent in clear text to the LDAP server.  I&#39;ve been unable to get TLS
8722 certificate checking for a self signed certificate working, which make
8723 LDAP authentication unsafe for Debian Edu (nslcd is not checking if it
8724 is talking to the correct LDAP server), and very much welcome feedback
8725 on how to get this working.&lt;/p&gt;
8726
8727 &lt;p&gt;Because nscd do not have a default configuration fit for offline
8728 caching until &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/485282&quot;&gt;bug #485282&lt;/a&gt;
8729 is fixed, this configuration should be used instead of the one
8730 currently in /etc/nscd.conf.  The changes are in the fields
8731 reload-count and positive-time-to-live, and is based on the
8732 instructions I found in the
8733 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flyn.org/laptopldap/&quot;&gt;LDAP for Mobile Laptops&lt;/a&gt;
8734 instructions by Flyn Computing.&lt;/p&gt;
8735
8736 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8737         debug-level             0
8738         reload-count            unlimited
8739         paranoia                no
8740
8741         enable-cache            passwd          yes
8742         positive-time-to-live   passwd          2592000
8743         negative-time-to-live   passwd          20
8744         suggested-size          passwd          211
8745         check-files             passwd          yes
8746         persistent              passwd          yes
8747         shared                  passwd          yes
8748         max-db-size             passwd          33554432
8749         auto-propagate          passwd          yes
8750
8751         enable-cache            group           yes
8752         positive-time-to-live   group           2592000
8753         negative-time-to-live   group           20
8754         suggested-size          group           211
8755         check-files             group           yes
8756         persistent              group           yes
8757         shared                  group           yes
8758         max-db-size             group           33554432
8759         auto-propagate          group           yes
8760
8761         enable-cache            hosts           no
8762         positive-time-to-live   hosts           2592000
8763         negative-time-to-live   hosts           20
8764         suggested-size          hosts           211
8765         check-files             hosts           yes
8766         persistent              hosts           yes
8767         shared                  hosts           yes
8768         max-db-size             hosts           33554432
8769
8770         enable-cache            services        yes
8771         positive-time-to-live   services        2592000
8772         negative-time-to-live   services        20
8773         suggested-size          services        211
8774         check-files             services        yes
8775         persistent              services        yes
8776         shared                  services        yes
8777         max-db-size             services        33554432
8778 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8779
8780 &lt;p&gt;While we wait for a mechanism to update /etc/nsswitch.conf
8781 automatically like the one provided in
8782 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/496915&quot;&gt;bug #496915&lt;/a&gt;, the file
8783 content need to be manually replaced to ensure LDAP is used as the
8784 directory service on the machine.  /etc/nsswitch.conf should normally
8785 look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
8786
8787 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8788 passwd:         files ldap
8789 group:          files ldap
8790 shadow:         files ldap
8791 hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
8792 networks:       files
8793 protocols:      files
8794 services:       files
8795 ethers:         files
8796 rpc:            files
8797 netgroup:       files ldap
8798 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8799
8800 &lt;p&gt;The important parts are that ldap is listed last for passwd, group,
8801 shadow and netgroup.&lt;/p&gt;
8802
8803 &lt;p&gt;With these changes in place, any user in LDAP will be able to log
8804 in locally on the machine using for example kdm, get a local home
8805 directory created and have the password as well as user and group
8806 attributes cached.
8807
8808 &lt;h2&gt;LDAP/Kerberos + nss-updatedb + libpam-ccreds +
8809   libpam-mklocaluser/pam_mkhomedir&lt;/h2&gt;
8810
8811 &lt;p&gt;Because nscd have had its share of problems, and seem to have
8812 problems doing proper caching, I&#39;ve seen suggestions and recipes to
8813 use nss-updatedb to copy parts of the LDAP database locally when the
8814 LDAP database is available.  I have not tested such setup, because I
8815 discovered sssd.&lt;/p&gt;
8816
8817 &lt;h2&gt;LDAP/Kerberos + sssd + libpam-mklocaluser&lt;/h2&gt;
8818
8819 &lt;p&gt;A more flexible and robust setup than the nscd combination
8820 mentioned earlier that has shown up recently, is the
8821 &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/&quot;&gt;sssd&lt;/a&gt; package from Redhat.
8822 It is part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freeipa.org/&quot;&gt;FreeIPA&lt;/A&gt; project
8823 to provide a Active Directory like directory service for Linux
8824 machines.  The sssd system combines the caching of passwords and user
8825 information into one package, and remove the need for nscd and
8826 libpam-ccreds.  It support LDAP and Kerberos, but not NIS.  Version
8827 1.2 do not support netgroups, but it is said that it will support this
8828 in version 1.5 expected to show up later in 2010.  Because the
8829 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sssd.html&quot;&gt;sssd package&lt;/a&gt;
8830 was missing in Debian, I ended up co-maintaining it with Werner, and
8831 version 1.2 is now in testing.
8832
8833 &lt;p&gt;These packages need to be installed and configured to get the
8834 roaming setup I want&lt;/p&gt;
8835
8836 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8837 libpam-sss libnss-sss libpam-mklocaluser
8838 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8839
8840 The complete setup of sssd is done by editing/creating
8841 &lt;tt&gt;/etc/sssd/sssd.conf&lt;/tt&gt;.
8842
8843 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
8844 [sssd]
8845 config_file_version = 2
8846 reconnection_retries = 3
8847 sbus_timeout = 30
8848 services = nss, pam
8849 domains = INTERN
8850
8851 [nss]
8852 filter_groups = root
8853 filter_users = root
8854 reconnection_retries = 3
8855
8856 [pam]
8857 reconnection_retries = 3
8858
8859 [domain/INTERN]
8860 enumerate = false
8861 cache_credentials = true
8862
8863 id_provider = ldap
8864 auth_provider = ldap
8865 chpass_provider = ldap
8866
8867 ldap_uri = ldap://ldap
8868 ldap_search_base = dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
8869 ldap_tls_reqcert = never
8870 ldap_tls_cacert = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
8871 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8872
8873 &lt;p&gt;I got the same problem here with certificate checking.  Had to set
8874 &quot;ldap_tls_reqcert = never&quot; to get it working.&lt;/p&gt;
8875
8876 &lt;p&gt;With the libnss-sss package in testing at the moment, the
8877 nsswitch.conf file is update automatically, so there is no need to
8878 modify it manually.&lt;/p&gt;
8879
8880 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
8881 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
8882 </description>
8883         </item>
8884
8885         <item>
8886                 <title>LUMA, a very nice LDAP GUI</title>
8887                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html</link>
8888                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html</guid>
8889                 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
8890                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP
8891 directory in Debian Edu, and in the process I started to miss a GUI
8892 tool to browse the LDAP tree.  The only one I was able to find in
8893 Debian/Squeeze and Lenny is
8894 &lt;a href=&quot;http://luma.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;LUMA&lt;/a&gt;, which has proved to
8895 be a great tool to get a overview of the current LDAP directory
8896 populated by default in Skolelinux.  Thanks to it, I have been able to
8897 find empty and obsolete subtrees, misplaced objects and duplicate
8898 objects.  It will be installed by default in Debian/Squeeze.  If you
8899 are working with LDAP, give it a go. :)&lt;/p&gt;
8900
8901 &lt;p&gt;I did notice one problem with it I have not had time to report to
8902 the BTS yet.  There is no .desktop file in the package, so the tool do
8903 not show up in the Gnome and KDE menus, but only deep down in in the
8904 Debian submenu in KDE.  I hope that can be fixed before Squeeze is
8905 released.&lt;/p&gt;
8906
8907 &lt;p&gt;I have not yet been able to get it to modify the tree yet.  I would
8908 like to move objects and remove subtrees directly in the GUI, but have
8909 not found a way to do that with LUMA yet.  So in the mean time, I use
8910 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lichteblau.com/ldapvi/&quot;&gt;ldapvi&lt;/a&gt; for that.&lt;/p&gt;
8911
8912 &lt;p&gt;If you have tips on other GUI tools for LDAP that might be useful
8913 in Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
8914
8915 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-06-29: Ross Reedstrom tipped us about the
8916 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gq.html&quot;&gt;gq&lt;/a&gt; package as a
8917 useful GUI alternative.  It seem like a good tool, but is unmaintained
8918 in Debian and got a RC bug keeping it out of Squeeze.  Unless that
8919 changes, it will not be an option for Debian Edu based on Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
8920 </description>
8921         </item>
8922
8923         <item>
8924                 <title>Idea for a change to LDAP schemas allowing DNS and DHCP info to be combined into one object</title>
8925                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_a_change_to_LDAP_schemas_allowing_DNS_and_DHCP_info_to_be_combined_into_one_object.html</link>
8926                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_a_change_to_LDAP_schemas_allowing_DNS_and_DHCP_info_to_be_combined_into_one_object.html</guid>
8927                 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
8928                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A while back, I
8929 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_new__LDAP_schemas_replacing_RFC_2307_.html&quot;&gt;complained
8930 about the fact&lt;/a&gt; that it is not possible with the provided schemas
8931 for storing DNS and DHCP information in LDAP to combine the two sets
8932 of information into one LDAP object representing a computer.&lt;/p&gt;
8933
8934 &lt;p&gt;In the mean time, I discovered that a simple fix would be to make
8935 the dhcpHost object class auxiliary, to allow it to be combined with
8936 the dNSDomain object class, and thus forming one object for one
8937 computer when storing both DHCP and DNS information in LDAP.&lt;/p&gt;
8938
8939 &lt;p&gt;If I understand this correctly, it is not safe to do this change
8940 without also changing the assigned number for the object class, and I
8941 do not know enough about LDAP schema design to do that properly for
8942 Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
8943
8944 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, for future reference, this is how I believe we could change
8945 the
8946 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-ldap-schema-00&quot;&gt;DHCP
8947 schema&lt;/a&gt; to solve at least part of the problem with the LDAP schemas
8948 available today from IETF.&lt;/p&gt;
8949
8950 &lt;pre&gt;
8951 --- dhcp.schema    (revision 65192)
8952 +++ dhcp.schema    (working copy)
8953 @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
8954  objectclass ( 2.16.840.1.113719.1.203.6.6
8955         NAME &#39;dhcpHost&#39;
8956         DESC &#39;This represents information about a particular client&#39;
8957 -       SUP top
8958 +       SUP top AUXILIARY
8959         MUST cn
8960         MAY  (dhcpLeaseDN $ dhcpHWAddress $ dhcpOptionsDN $ dhcpStatements $ dhcpComments $ dhcpOption)
8961         X-NDS_CONTAINMENT (&#39;dhcpService&#39; &#39;dhcpSubnet&#39; &#39;dhcpGroup&#39;) )
8962 &lt;/pre&gt;
8963
8964 &lt;p&gt;I very much welcome clues on how to do this properly for Debian
8965 Edu/Squeeze.  We provide the DHCP schema in our debian-edu-config
8966 package, and should thus be free to rewrite it as we see fit.&lt;/p&gt;
8967
8968 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
8969 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
8970 </description>
8971         </item>
8972
8973         <item>
8974                 <title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades, removals by apt and aptitude</title>
8975                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html</link>
8976                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html</guid>
8977                 <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
8978                 <description>&lt;p&gt;My
8979 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html&quot;&gt;testing
8980 of Debian upgrades&lt;/a&gt; from Lenny to Squeeze continues, and I&#39;ve
8981 finally made the upgrade logs available from
8982 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&quot;&gt;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&lt;/a&gt;.
8983 I am now testing dist-upgrade of Gnome and KDE in a chroot using both
8984 apt and aptitude, and found their differences interesting.  This time
8985 I will only focus on their removal plans.&lt;/p&gt;
8986
8987 &lt;p&gt;After installing a Gnome desktop and the laptop task, apt-get wants
8988 to remove 72 packages when dist-upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze.  The
8989 surprising part is that it want to remove xorg and all
8990 xserver-xorg-video* drivers.  Clearly not a good choice, but I am not
8991 sure why.  When asking aptitude to do the same, it want to remove 129
8992 packages, but most of them are library packages I suspect are no
8993 longer needed.  Both of them want to remove bluetooth packages, which
8994 I do not know.  Perhaps these bluetooth packages are obsolete?&lt;/p&gt;
8995
8996 &lt;p&gt;For KDE, apt-get want to remove 82 packages, among them kdebase
8997 which seem like a bad idea and xorg the same way as with Gnome. Asking
8998 aptitude for the same, it wants to remove 192 packages, none which are
8999 too surprising.&lt;/p&gt;
9000
9001 &lt;p&gt;I guess the removal of xorg during upgrades should be investigated
9002 and avoided, and perhaps others as well.  Here are the complete list
9003 of planned removals.  The complete logs is available from the URL
9004 above.  Note if you want to repeat these tests, that the upgrade test
9005 for kde+apt-get hung in the tasksel setup because of dpkg asking
9006 conffile questions.  No idea why.  I worked around it by using
9007 &#39;&lt;tt&gt;echo &gt;&gt; /proc/&lt;em&gt;pidofdpkg&lt;/em&gt;/fd/0&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to tell dpkg to
9008 continue.&lt;/p&gt;
9009
9010 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;apt-get gnome 72&lt;/b&gt;
9011 &lt;br&gt;bluez-gnome cupsddk-drivers deskbar-applet gnome
9012   gnome-desktop-environment gnome-network-admin gtkhtml3.14
9013   iceweasel-gnome-support libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libgdl-1-0
9014   libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libmetacity0 libslab0 libxcb-xlib0
9015   nautilus-cd-burner python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras
9016   serpentine swfdec-mozilla update-manager xorg xserver-xorg
9017   xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
9018   xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
9019   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
9020   xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
9021   xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
9022   xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
9023   xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
9024   xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
9025   xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt
9026   xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
9027   xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
9028   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
9029   xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
9030   xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
9031   xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
9032   xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
9033   xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
9034   xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
9035   xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident
9036   xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
9037   xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
9038   xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9
9039   xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support&lt;/p&gt;
9040
9041 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;aptitude gnome 129&lt;/b&gt;
9042
9043 &lt;br&gt;bluez-gnome bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers dhcdbd
9044   djvulibre-desktop finger gnome-app-install gnome-mount
9045   gnome-network-admin gnome-spell gnome-vfs-obexftp
9046   gnome-volume-manager gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gtkhtml3.14 libao2
9047   libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2
9048   libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7 libcucul0 libcupsys2 libcurl3 libdatrie0
9049   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdvdread3 libedataserver1.2-9 libeel2-2.20
9050   libeel2-data libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libfaad0 libgail-common
9051   libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common
9052   libggz2 libggzcore9 libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0
9053   libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libgnomeprint2.2-0
9054   libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
9055   libgnomevfs2-bin libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtkhtml2-0
9056   libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6
9057   libhesiod0 libicu38 libiw29 libkpathsea4 libltdl3 libmagick++10
9058   libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmetacity0 libmtp7 libmysqlclient15off
9059   libnautilus-burn4 libneon27 libnm-glib0 libnm-util0 libopal-2.2
9060   libosp5 libparted1.8-10 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpt-1.10.10
9061   libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libraw1394-8
9062   libsensors3 libslab0 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8 libssh2-1
9063   libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1 libtotem-plparser10
9064   libtrackerclient0 libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0
9065   libxerces2-java libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12 libxtrap6
9066   libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3 mysql-common nautilus-cd-burner
9067   openoffice.org-writer2latex openssl-blacklist p7zip
9068   python-4suite-xml python-eggtrayicon python-gnome2-desktop
9069   python-gnome2-extras python-gtkhtml2 python-gtkmozembed
9070   python-numeric python-sexy serpentine svgalibg1 swfdec-gnome
9071   swfdec-mozilla totem-gstreamer update-manager wodim
9072   xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt
9073   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
9074   zip&lt;/p&gt;
9075
9076 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;apt-get kde 82&lt;/b&gt;
9077
9078 &lt;br&gt;cupsddk-drivers karm kaudiocreator kcoloredit kcontrol kde kde-core
9079   kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-bin-kde3
9080   kdebase-kio-plugins kdesktop kdeutils khelpcenter kicker
9081   kicker-applets knewsticker kolourpaint konq-plugins konqueror korn
9082   kpersonalizer kscreensaver ksplash libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libkiten1
9083   libxcb-xlib0 quanta superkaramba texlive-base-bin xorg xserver-xorg
9084   xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
9085   xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
9086   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
9087   xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
9088   xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
9089   xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
9090   xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
9091   xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
9092   xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt
9093   xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
9094   xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
9095   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
9096   xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
9097   xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
9098   xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
9099   xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
9100   xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
9101   xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
9102   xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident
9103   xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
9104   xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
9105   xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9&lt;/p&gt;
9106
9107 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;aptitude kde 192&lt;/b&gt;
9108 &lt;br&gt;bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers cvs dcoprss dhcdbd
9109   djvulibre-desktop dosfstools eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext
9110   ghostscript-x imlib-base imlib11 indi kandy karm kasteroids
9111   kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbstate kcoloredit kcontrol kcron kdat
9112   kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window
9113   kdebase-bin-kde3 kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu-data
9114   kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data
9115   kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
9116   kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdeprint kdesktop kdessh
9117   kdict kdnssd kdvi kedit keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfouleggs
9118   kghostview khelpcenter khexedit kiconedit kitchensync klatin
9119   klickety kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmoon kmrml kodo kolourpaint
9120   kooka korn kpager kpdf kpercentage kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler
9121   krec kregexpeditor ksayit ksim ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver
9122   ksnake ksokoban ksplash ksvg ksysv ktip ktnef kuickshow kverbos
9123   kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kworldclock
9124   kxsldbg libakode2 libao2 libarts1-akode libarts1-audiofile
9125   libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
9126   libavahi-core5 libavc1394-0 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2
9127   libboost-python1.34.1 libcucul0 libcurl3 libcvsservice0 libdatrie0
9128   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdvdread3 libfaad0 libfreebob0
9129   libgail-common libgd2-noxpm libgraphviz4 libgsmme1c2a libgtkhtml2-0
9130   libicu38 libiec61883-0 libindex0 libiw29 libk3b3 libkcal2b libkcddb1
9131   libkdeedu3 libkdepim1a libkgantt0 libkiten1 libkleopatra1 libkmime2
9132   libkpathsea4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1
9133   libksieve0 libktnef1 liblockdev1 libltdl3 libmagick10 libmimelib1c2a
9134   libmozjs1d libmpcdec3 libneon27 libnm-util0 libopensync0 libpisock9
9135   libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler3 libraw1394-8 libsmbios2
9136   libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libtalloc1 libtiff-tools
9137   libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0 libxerces2-java
9138   libxerces2-java-gcj libxtrap6 mpeglib networkstatus
9139   openoffice.org-writer2latex pmount poster psutils quanta quanta-data
9140   superkaramba svgalibg1 tex-common texlive-base texlive-base-bin
9141   texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
9142   xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt
9143   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
9144   xulrunner-1.9&lt;/p&gt;
9145
9146 </description>
9147         </item>
9148
9149         <item>
9150                 <title>Automatic upgrade testing from Lenny to Squeeze</title>
9151                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html</link>
9152                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html</guid>
9153                 <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
9154                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have done some upgrade testing in Debian, to
9155 see if the upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze will go smoothly.  A few bugs
9156 have been discovered and reported in the process
9157 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/585410&quot;&gt;#585410&lt;/a&gt; in nagios3-cgi,
9158 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584879&quot;&gt;#584879&lt;/a&gt; already fixed in
9159 enscript and &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584861&quot;&gt;#584861&lt;/a&gt; in
9160 kdebase-workspace-data), and to get a more regular testing going on, I
9161 am working on a script to automate the test.&lt;/p&gt;
9162
9163 &lt;p&gt;The idea is to create a Lenny chroot and use tasksel to install a
9164 Gnome or KDE desktop installation inside the chroot before upgrading
9165 it.  To ensure no services are started in the chroot, a policy-rc.d
9166 script is inserted.  To make sure tasksel believe it is to install a
9167 desktop on a laptop, the tasksel tests are replaced in the chroot
9168 (only acceptable because this is a throw-away chroot).&lt;/p&gt;
9169
9170 &lt;p&gt;A naive upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze using aptitude dist-upgrade
9171 currently always fail because udev refuses to upgrade with the kernel
9172 in Lenny, so to avoid that problem the file /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade
9173 is created.  The bug report
9174 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/566000&quot;&gt;#566000&lt;/a&gt; make me suspect
9175 this problem do not trigger in a chroot, but I touch the file anyway
9176 to make sure the upgrade go well.  Testing on virtual and real
9177 hardware have failed me because of udev so far, and creating this file
9178 do the trick in such settings anyway.  This is a
9179 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/failed-dist-upgrade-due-to-udev-config_sysfs_deprecated-nonsense-804130/&quot;&gt;known
9180 issue&lt;/a&gt; and the current udev behaviour is intended by the udev
9181 maintainer because he lack the resources to rewrite udev to keep
9182 working with old kernels or something like that.  I really wish the
9183 udev upstream would keep udev backwards compatible, to avoid such
9184 upgrade problem, but given that they fail to do so, I guess
9185 documenting the way out of this mess is the best option we got for
9186 Debian Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
9187
9188 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, back to the task at hand, testing upgrades.  This test
9189 script, which I call &lt;tt&gt;upgrade-test&lt;/tt&gt; for now, is doing the
9190 trick:&lt;/p&gt;
9191
9192 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
9193 #!/bin/sh
9194 set -ex
9195
9196 if [ &quot;$1&quot; ] ; then
9197     desktop=$1
9198 else
9199     desktop=gnome
9200 fi
9201
9202 from=lenny
9203 to=squeeze
9204
9205 exec &amp;lt; /dev/null
9206 unset LANG
9207 mirror=http://ftp.skolelinux.org/debian
9208 tmpdir=chroot-$from-upgrade-$to-$desktop
9209 fuser -mv .
9210 debootstrap $from $tmpdir $mirror
9211 chroot $tmpdir aptitude update
9212 cat &gt; $tmpdir/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
9213 #!/bin/sh
9214 exit 101
9215 EOF
9216 chmod a+rx $tmpdir/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
9217 exit_cleanup() {
9218     umount $tmpdir/proc
9219 }
9220 mount -t proc proc $tmpdir/proc
9221 # Make sure proc is unmounted also on failure
9222 trap exit_cleanup EXIT INT
9223
9224 chroot $tmpdir aptitude -y install debconf-utils
9225
9226 # Make sure tasksel autoselection trigger.  It need the test scripts
9227 # to return the correct answers.
9228 echo tasksel tasksel/desktop multiselect $desktop | \
9229     chroot $tmpdir debconf-set-selections
9230
9231 # Include the desktop and laptop task
9232 for test in desktop laptop ; do
9233     echo &gt; $tmpdir/usr/lib/tasksel/tests/$test &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
9234 #!/bin/sh
9235 exit 2
9236 EOF
9237     chmod a+rx $tmpdir/usr/lib/tasksel/tests/$test
9238 done
9239
9240 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
9241 DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical
9242 export DEBIAN_FRONTEND DEBIAN_PRIORITY
9243 chroot $tmpdir tasksel --new-install
9244
9245 echo deb $mirror $to main &gt; $tmpdir/etc/apt/sources.list
9246 chroot $tmpdir aptitude update
9247 touch $tmpdir/etc/udev/kernel-upgrade
9248 chroot $tmpdir aptitude -y dist-upgrade
9249 fuser -mv
9250 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9251
9252 &lt;p&gt;I suspect it would be useful to test upgrades with both apt-get and
9253 with aptitude, but I have not had time to look at how they behave
9254 differently so far.  I hope to get a cron job running to do the test
9255 regularly and post the result on the web.  The Gnome upgrade currently
9256 work, while the KDE upgrade fail because of the bug in
9257 kdebase-workspace-data&lt;/p&gt;
9258
9259 &lt;p&gt;I am not quite sure what kind of extract from the huge upgrade logs
9260 (KDE 167 KiB, Gnome 516 KiB) it make sense to include in this blog
9261 post, so I will refrain from trying.  I can report that for Gnome,
9262 aptitude report 760 packages upgraded, 448 newly installed, 129 to
9263 remove and 1 not upgraded and 1024MB need to be downloaded while for
9264 KDE the same numbers are 702 packages upgraded, 507 newly installed,
9265 193 to remove and 0 not upgraded and 1117MB need to be downloaded&lt;/p&gt;
9266
9267 &lt;p&gt;I am very happy to notice that the Gnome desktop + laptop upgrade
9268 is able to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing and parallel
9269 booting without a hitch.  Was unsure if there were still bugs with
9270 packages failing to clean up their obsolete init.d script during
9271 upgrades, and no such problem seem to affect the Gnome desktop+laptop
9272 packages.&lt;/p&gt;
9273 </description>
9274         </item>
9275
9276         <item>
9277                 <title>Skolelinux er laget for sentraldrifting, naturligvis</title>
9278                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html</link>
9279                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html</guid>
9280                 <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
9281                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Det er merkelig hvordan myter om Skolelinux overlever.  En slik
9282 myte er at Skolelinux ikke kan sentraldriftes og ha sentralt plasserte
9283 tjenermaskiner.  I siste Computerworld Norge er
9284 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article169432.ece&quot;&gt;IT-sjef
9285 Viggo Billdal i Steinkjer intervjuet&lt;/a&gt;, og forteller uten
9286 blygsel:&lt;/p&gt;
9287
9288 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vi hadde Skolelinux, men det har vi sluttet med. Vi testet
9289 om det lønte seg med Microsoft eller en åpen plattform. Vi fant ut at
9290 Microsoft egentlig var totalt sett bedre egnet. Det var store
9291 driftskostnader med Skolelinux, blant annet på grunn av
9292 desentraliserte servere. Det var komplisert, så vi gikk vekk fra det
9293 og bruker nå bare Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9294
9295 &lt;p&gt;En &lt;a
9296 href=&quot;https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/bruker/2010-June/009101.html&quot;&gt;rask
9297 sjekk&lt;/a&gt; mot den norske brukerlista i Skolelinuxprosjektet forteller
9298 at Steinkjers forsøk foregikk fram til 2004/2005, og at Røysing skole
9299 i Steinkjer skal ha vært svært fornøyd med Skolelinux men at kommunen
9300 overkjørte skolen og krevde at de gikk over til Windows.  Et søk på
9301 nettet sendte meg til
9302 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dn.no/multimedia/archive/00090/Dagens_it_nr__18_90826a.pdf&quot;&gt;Dagens
9303 IT nr. 18 2005&lt;/a&gt; hvor en kan lese på side 18:&lt;/p&gt;
9304
9305 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inge Tømmerås ved Røysing skole i Steinkjer kjører ennå
9306 Microsoft, men forteller at kompetanseutfordringen med Skolelinux ikke
9307 var så stor.   Jeg syntes Skolelinux var utrolig lett å drifte uten
9308 forkunnskaper. Men man må jo selvsagt ha tilgang på ekstern kompetanse
9309 til installasjoner og maskinvarefeil, sier Tømmerås.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9310
9311 &lt;p&gt;Som systemarkitekten bak Skolelinux, kan jeg bare riste på hodet
9312 over påstanden om at Skolelinux krever desentraliserte tjenere.
9313 Skolelinux-arkitekturen er laget for sentralisert drift og plassering
9314 av tjenerne lokalt eller sentralt alt etter behov og nettkapasitet.
9315 Den er modellert på nettverks- og tjenerløsningen som brukes på
9316 Universitetet i Tromsø og Oslo, der jeg jobber med utvikling av
9317 driftstjenester.  Dette er det heldigvis noen som har fått med seg, og
9318 jeg er glad for å kunne sitere fra en kommentar på den overnevnte
9319 artikkelen.  Min venn og gamle kollega Sturle Sunde forteller der:
9320
9321 &lt;blockquote&gt;
9322 &lt;p&gt;I Flora kommune køyrer vi Skulelinux på skular med alt frå 15 til
9323 meir enn 500 elevar. Dei store skulane har eigen tenar, for det er
9324 mest praktisk. Eg, som er driftsansvarleg for heile nettet, ser
9325 sjeldan dei tenarane fysisk, men at dei står der gjer skulane mindre
9326 avhengige av eksterne linjer som er trege eller dyre. Dei minste
9327 skulane har ikkje eigen tenar. Å bruke sentral tenar er heller ikkje
9328 noko problem. Småskulane klarar seg fint med 1 mbit-linje til ein
9329 sentral tenar eller tenaren på ein større skule.&lt;/p&gt;
9330
9331 &lt;p&gt;Det beste med Skulelinux er halvtjukke klientar. Dei treng ikkje
9332 harddisk og brukar minimalt med ressursar på tenaren fordi dei køyrer
9333 programma lokalt. Eit klasserom med 30 sju-åtte år gamle maskiner har
9334 mykje meir CPU og RAM totalt enn nokon moderne tenar til under
9335 millionen. Det trengst to kommandoar på den sentrale tenaren for å
9336 oppdatere alle klientane, både tynne og halvtjukke. Vi har ingen
9337 problem med diskar som ryk heller, som var eit problem før fordi
9338 elevane sat og sparka i maskinene. Og dei krev lite bandbreidde i
9339 nettet, so det er fullt mogleg å køyre slike på småskular med trege
9340 linjer mot tenaren på ein større skule.&lt;/p&gt;
9341
9342 &lt;p&gt;Flora kommune har nesten 800 Linux-maskiner i sitt skulenett, og
9343 ein person som tek seg av drift av heile nettet, inkludert tenarar,
9344 klientar, operativsystem, programvare, heimekontorløysing og
9345 administrasjon av brukarar.&lt;/p&gt;
9346
9347 &lt;p&gt;No skal det seiast at vi ikkje køyrer rein Skulelinux ut av
9348 boksen. Vi har gjort ein del tilpassingar mot noko Novell-greier som
9349 var der frå før, og som har komplisert installasjonen vår. Etter at
9350 oppsettet var gjort har løysinga vore stabil og kravd minimalt med
9351 arbeid.&lt;/p&gt;
9352 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
9353
9354 &lt;p&gt;Jeg vet at Narvik, Harstad og Oslo er kommuner der Skolelinux
9355 sentraldriftes med sentrale tjenere.  Det forteller meg at Steinkjers
9356 IT-sjef neppe bør skylde på Skolelinux-løsningen for sine 5 år gamle
9357 minner.&lt;/p&gt;
9358 </description>
9359         </item>
9360
9361         <item>
9362                 <title>A manual for standards wars...</title>
9363                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html</link>
9364                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html</guid>
9365                 <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jun 2010 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
9366                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Via the
9367 &lt;a href=&quot;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/QzU4RgoAGMg/weekly-links-10.html&quot;&gt;blog
9368 of Rob Weir&lt;/a&gt; I came across the very interesting essay named
9369 &lt;a href=&quot;http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/wars.pdf&quot;&gt;The Art of
9370 Standards Wars&lt;/a&gt; (PDF 25 pages).  I recommend it for everyone
9371 following the standards wars of today.&lt;/p&gt;
9372 </description>
9373         </item>
9374
9375         <item>
9376                 <title>Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site</title>
9377                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html</link>
9378                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html</guid>
9379                 <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
9380                 <description>&lt;p&gt;When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible
9381 to get a list of the machine types in use thanks to the DMI
9382 information extracted from each machine.  The script to do so is
9383 included in the sitesummary package, and here is example output from
9384 the Skolelinux build servers:&lt;/p&gt;
9385
9386 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
9387 maintainer:~# /usr/lib/sitesummary/hardware-model-summary
9388   vendor                    count
9389   Dell Computer Corporation     1
9390     PowerEdge 1750              1
9391   IBM                           1
9392     eserver xSeries 345 -[8670M1X]-     1
9393   Intel                         2
9394   [no-dmi-info]                 3
9395 maintainer:~#
9396 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9397
9398 &lt;p&gt;The quality of the report depend on the quality of the DMI tables
9399 provided in each machine.  Here there are Intel machines without model
9400 information listed with Intel as vendor and no model, and virtual Xen
9401 machines listed as [no-dmi-info].  One can add -l as a command line
9402 option to list the individual machines.&lt;/p&gt;
9403
9404 &lt;p&gt;A larger list is
9405 &lt;a href=&quot;http://narvikskolen.no/sitesummary/&quot;&gt;available from the the
9406 city of Narvik&lt;/a&gt;, which uses Skolelinux on all their shools and also
9407 provide the basic sitesummary report publicly.  In their report there
9408 are ~1400 machines. I know they use both Ubuntu and Skolelinux on
9409 their machines, and as sitesummary is available in both distributions,
9410 it is trivial to get all of them to report to the same central
9411 collector.&lt;/p&gt;
9412 </description>
9413         </item>
9414
9415         <item>
9416                 <title>KDM fail at boot with NVidia cards - and no one try to fix it?</title>
9417                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html</link>
9418                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html</guid>
9419                 <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
9420                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to
9421 start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled.  The
9422 problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to
9423 initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to
9424 wait.&lt;/p&gt;
9425
9426 &lt;p&gt;I came across two bugs related to this issue,
9427 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/583312&quot;&gt;#583312&lt;/a&gt; initially filed
9428 against initscripts and passed on to nvidia-glx when it became obvious
9429 that the nvidia drivers were involved, and
9430 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/524751&quot;&gt;#524751&lt;/a&gt; initially filed against
9431 kdm and passed on to src:nvidia-graphics-drivers for unknown reasons.&lt;/p&gt;
9432
9433 &lt;p&gt;To me, it seem that no-one is interested in actually solving the
9434 problem nvidia video card owners experience and make sure the Debian
9435 distribution work out of the box for these users.  The nvidia driver
9436 maintainers expect kdm to be set up to wait longer, while kdm expect
9437 the nvidia driver maintainers to fix the driver to start faster, and
9438 while they wait for each other I guess the users end up switching to a
9439 distribution that work for them.  I have no idea what the solution is,
9440 but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.&lt;/p&gt;
9441
9442 &lt;p&gt;I wonder why we end up handling bugs this way.&lt;/p&gt;
9443 </description>
9444         </item>
9445
9446         <item>
9447                 <title>Parallellized boot seem to hold up well in Debian/testing</title>
9448                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html</link>
9449                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html</guid>
9450                 <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
9451                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, parallel booting was enabled in Debian/testing.
9452 The feature seem to hold up pretty well, but three fairly serious
9453 issues are known and should be solved:
9454
9455 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
9456
9457 &lt;li&gt;The wicd package seen to
9458 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/508289&quot;&gt;break NFS mounting&lt;/a&gt; and
9459 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/581586&quot;&gt;network setup&lt;/a&gt; when
9460 parallel booting is enabled.  No idea why, but the wicd maintainer
9461 seem to be on the case.&lt;/li&gt;
9462
9463 &lt;li&gt;The nvidia X driver seem to
9464 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/583312&quot;&gt;have a race condition&lt;/a&gt;
9465 triggered more easily when parallel booting is in effect.  The
9466 maintainer is on the case.&lt;/li&gt;
9467
9468 &lt;li&gt;The sysv-rc package fail to properly enable dependency based boot
9469 sequencing (the shutdown is broken) when old file-rc users
9470 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/575080&quot;&gt;try to switch back&lt;/a&gt; to
9471 sysv-rc.  One way to solve it would be for file-rc to create
9472 /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering, and another is to try to make
9473 sysv-rc more robust.  Will investigate some more and probably upload a
9474 workaround in sysv-rc to help those trying to move from file-rc to
9475 sysv-rc get a working shutdown.&lt;/li&gt;
9476
9477 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
9478
9479 &lt;p&gt;All in all not many surprising issues, and all of them seem
9480 solvable before Squeeze is released.  In addition to these there are
9481 some packages with bugs in their dependencies and run level settings,
9482 which I expect will be fixed in a reasonable time span.&lt;/p&gt;
9483
9484 &lt;p&gt;If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
9485 the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
9486 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
9487 list of usertagged bugs related to this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
9488
9489 &lt;p&gt;Update: Correct bug number to file-rc issue.&lt;/p&gt;
9490 </description>
9491         </item>
9492
9493         <item>
9494                 <title>More flexible firmware handling in debian-installer</title>
9495                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/More_flexible_firmware_handling_in_debian_installer.html</link>
9496                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/More_flexible_firmware_handling_in_debian_installer.html</guid>
9497                 <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
9498                 <description>&lt;p&gt;After a long break from debian-installer development, I finally
9499 found time today to return to the project.  Having to spend less time
9500 working dependency based boot in debian, as it is almost complete now,
9501 definitely helped freeing some time.&lt;/p&gt;
9502
9503 &lt;p&gt;A while back, I ran into a problem while working on Debian Edu.  We
9504 include some firmware packages on the Debian Edu CDs, those needed to
9505 get disk and network controllers working.  Without having these
9506 firmware packages available during installation, it is impossible to
9507 install Debian Edu on the given machine, and because our target group
9508 are non-technical people, asking them to provide firmware packages on
9509 an external medium is a support pain.  Initially, I expected it to be
9510 enough to include the firmware packages on the CD to get
9511 debian-installer to find and use them.  This proved to be wrong.
9512 Next, I hoped it was enough to symlink the relevant firmware packages
9513 to some useful location on the CD (tried /cdrom/ and
9514 /cdrom/firmware/).  This also proved to not work, and at this point I
9515 found time to look at the debian-installer code to figure out what was
9516 going to work.&lt;/p&gt;
9517
9518 &lt;p&gt;The firmware loading code is in the hw-detect package, and a closer
9519 look revealed that it would only look for firmware packages outside
9520 the installation media, so the CD was never checked for firmware
9521 packages.  It would only check USB sticks, floppies and other
9522 &quot;external&quot; media devices.  Today I changed it to also look in the
9523 /cdrom/firmware/ directory on the mounted CD or DVD, which should
9524 solve the problem I ran into with Debian edu.  I also changed it to
9525 look in /firmware/, to make sure the installer also find firmware
9526 provided in the initrd when booting the installer via PXE, to allow us
9527 to provide the same feature in the PXE setup included in Debian
9528 Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
9529
9530 &lt;p&gt;To make sure firmware deb packages with a license questions are not
9531 activated without asking if the license is accepted, I extended
9532 hw-detect to look for preinst scripts in the firmware packages, and
9533 run these before activating the firmware during installation.  The
9534 license question is asked using debconf in the preinst, so this should
9535 solve the issue for the firmware packages I have looked at so far.&lt;/p&gt;
9536
9537 &lt;p&gt;If you want to discuss the details of these features, please
9538 contact us on debian-boot@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
9539 </description>
9540         </item>
9541
9542         <item>
9543                 <title>Pieces of the roaming laptop puzzle in Debian</title>
9544                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pieces_of_the_roaming_laptop_puzzle_in_Debian.html</link>
9545                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pieces_of_the_roaming_laptop_puzzle_in_Debian.html</guid>
9546                 <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
9547                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, the last piece of the puzzle for roaming laptops in Debian
9548 Edu finally entered the Debian archive.  Today, the new
9549 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-mklocaluser.html&quot;&gt;libpam-mklocaluser&lt;/a&gt;
9550 package was accepted.  Two days ago, two other pieces was accepted
9551 into unstable.  The
9552 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pam-python.html&quot;&gt;pam-python&lt;/a&gt;
9553 package needed by libpam-mklocaluser, and the
9554 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sssd.html&quot;&gt;sssd&lt;/a&gt; package
9555 passed NEW on Monday.  In addition, the
9556 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-ccreds.html&quot;&gt;libpam-ccreds&lt;/a&gt;
9557 package we need is in experimental (version 10-4) since Saturday, and
9558 hopefully will be moved to unstable soon.&lt;/p&gt;
9559
9560 &lt;p&gt;This collection of packages allow for two different setups for
9561 roaming laptops.  The traditional setup would be using libpam-ccreds,
9562 nscd and libpam-mklocaluser with LDAP or Kerberos authentication,
9563 which should work out of the box if the configuration changes proposed
9564 for nscd in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/485282&quot;&gt;BTS report
9565 #485282&lt;/a&gt; is implemented.  The alternative setup is to use sssd with
9566 libpam-mklocaluser to connect to LDAP or Kerberos and let sssd take
9567 care of the caching of passwords and group information.&lt;/p&gt;
9568
9569 &lt;p&gt;I have so far been unable to get sssd to work with the LDAP server
9570 at the University, but suspect the issue is some SSL/GnuTLS related
9571 problem with the server certificate.  I plan to update the Debian
9572 package to version 1.2, which is scheduled for next week, and hope to
9573 find time to make sure the next release will include both the
9574 Debian/Ubuntu specific patches.  Upstream is friendly and responsive,
9575 and I am sure we will find a good solution.&lt;/p&gt;
9576
9577 &lt;p&gt;The idea is to set up the roaming laptops to authenticate using
9578 LDAP or Kerberos and create a local user with home directory in /home/
9579 when a usre in LDAP logs in via KDM or GDM for the first time, and
9580 cache the password for offline checking, as well as caching group
9581 memberhips and other relevant LDAP information.  The
9582 libpam-mklocaluser package was created to make sure the local home
9583 directory is in /home/, instead of /site/server/directory/ which would
9584 be the home directory if pam_mkhomedir was used.  To avoid confusion
9585 with support requests and configuration, we do not want local laptops
9586 to have users in a path that is used for the same users home directory
9587 on the home directory servers.&lt;/p&gt;
9588
9589 &lt;p&gt;One annoying problem with gdm is that it do not show the PAM
9590 message passed to the user from libpam-mklocaluser when the local user
9591 is created.  Instead gdm simply reject the login with some generic
9592 message.  The message is shown in kdm, ssh and login, so I guess it is
9593 a bug in gdm.  Have not investigated if there is some other message
9594 type that can be used instead to get gdm to also show the message.&lt;/p&gt;
9595
9596 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
9597 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
9598 </description>
9599         </item>
9600
9601         <item>
9602                 <title>Parallellized boot is now the default in Debian/unstable</title>
9603                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html</link>
9604                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html</guid>
9605                 <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
9606                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in
9607 Debian/unstable for machines using dependency based boot sequencing.
9608 Apparently the testing of concurrent booting has been wider than
9609 expected, if I am to believe the
9610 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html&quot;&gt;input
9611 on debian-devel@&lt;/a&gt;, and I concluded a few days ago to move forward
9612 with the feature this weekend, to give us some time to detect any
9613 remaining problems before Squeeze is frozen.  If serious problems are
9614 detected, it is simple to change the default back to sequential boot.
9615 The upload of the new sysvinit package also activate a new upstream
9616 version.&lt;/p&gt;
9617
9618 More information about
9619 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot&quot;&gt;dependency
9620 based boot sequencing&lt;/a&gt; is available from the Debian wiki.  It is
9621 currently possible to disable parallel booting when one run into
9622 problems caused by it, by adding this line to /etc/default/rcS:&lt;/p&gt;
9623
9624 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
9625 CONCURRENCY=none
9626 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9627
9628 &lt;p&gt;If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
9629 the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
9630 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
9631 list of usertagged bugs related to this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
9632 </description>
9633         </item>
9634
9635         <item>
9636                 <title>Sitesummary tip: Listing MAC address of all clients</title>
9637                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_MAC_address_of_all_clients.html</link>
9638                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_MAC_address_of_all_clients.html</guid>
9639                 <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
9640                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the recent Debian Edu versions, the
9641 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary&quot;&gt;sitesummary
9642 system&lt;/a&gt; is used to keep track of the machines in the school
9643 network.  Each machine will automatically report its status to the
9644 central server after boot and once per night.  The network setup is
9645 also reported, and using this information it is possible to get the
9646 MAC address of all network interfaces in the machines.  This is useful
9647 to update the DHCP configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
9648
9649 &lt;p&gt;To give some idea how to use sitesummary, here is a one-liner to
9650 ist all MAC addresses of all machines reporting to sitesummary.  Run
9651 this on the collector host:&lt;/p&gt;
9652
9653 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
9654 perl -MSiteSummary -e &#39;for_all_hosts(sub { print join(&quot; &quot;, get_macaddresses(shift)), &quot;\n&quot;; });&#39;
9655 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9656
9657 &lt;p&gt;This will list all MAC addresses assosiated with all machine, one
9658 line per machine and with space between the MAC addresses.&lt;/p&gt;
9659
9660 &lt;p&gt;To allow system administrators easier job at adding static DHCP
9661 addresses for hosts, it would be possible to extend this to fetch
9662 machine information from sitesummary and update the DHCP and DNS
9663 tables in LDAP using this information.  Such tool is unfortunately not
9664 written yet.&lt;/p&gt;
9665 </description>
9666         </item>
9667
9668         <item>
9669                 <title>Forcing new users to change their password on first login</title>
9670                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forcing_new_users_to_change_their_password_on_first_login.html</link>
9671                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forcing_new_users_to_change_their_password_on_first_login.html</guid>
9672                 <pubDate>Sun, 2 May 2010 13:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
9673                 <description>&lt;p&gt;One interesting feature in Active Directory, is the ability to
9674 create a new user with an expired password, and thus force the user to
9675 change the password on the first login attempt.&lt;/p&gt;
9676
9677 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m not quite sure how to do that with the LDAP setup in Debian
9678 Edu, but did some initial testing with a local account.  The account
9679 and password aging information is available in /etc/shadow, but
9680 unfortunately, it is not possible to specify an expiration time for
9681 passwords, only a maximum age for passwords.&lt;/p&gt;
9682
9683 &lt;p&gt;A freshly created account (using adduser test) will have these
9684 settings in /etc/shadow:&lt;/p&gt;
9685
9686 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
9687 root@tjener:~# chage -l test
9688 Last password change                                    : May 02, 2010
9689 Password expires                                        : never
9690 Password inactive                                       : never
9691 Account expires                                         : never
9692 Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
9693 Maximum number of days between password change          : 99999
9694 Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7
9695 root@tjener:~#
9696 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9697
9698 &lt;p&gt;The only way I could come up with to create a user with an expired
9699 account, is to change the date of the last password change to the
9700 lowest value possible (January 1th 1970), and the maximum password age
9701 to the difference in days between that date and today.  To make it
9702 simple, I went for 30 years (30 * 365 = 10950) and January 2th (to
9703 avoid testing if 0 is a valid value).&lt;/p&gt;
9704
9705 &lt;p&gt;After using these commands to set it up, it seem to work as
9706 intended:&lt;/p&gt;
9707
9708 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
9709 root@tjener:~# chage -d 1 test; chage -M 10950 test
9710 root@tjener:~# chage -l test
9711 Last password change                                    : Jan 02, 1970
9712 Password expires                                        : never
9713 Password inactive                                       : never
9714 Account expires                                         : never
9715 Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
9716 Maximum number of days between password change          : 10950
9717 Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7
9718 root@tjener:~#
9719 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9720
9721 &lt;p&gt;So far I have tested this with ssh and console, and kdm (in
9722 Squeeze) login, and all ask for a new password before login in the
9723 user (with ssh, I was thrown out and had to log in again).&lt;/p&gt;
9724
9725 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should set up something similar for Debian Edu, to make
9726 sure only the user itself have the account password?&lt;/p&gt;
9727
9728 &lt;p&gt;If you want to comment on or help out with implementing this for
9729 Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
9730
9731 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-05-02 17:20: Paul Tötterman tells me on IRC that the
9732 shadow(8) page in Debian/testing now state that setting the date of
9733 last password change to zero (0) will force the password to be changed
9734 on the first login.  This was not mentioned in the manual in Lenny, so
9735 I did not notice this in my initial testing.  I have tested it on
9736 Squeeze, and &#39;&lt;tt&gt;chage -d 0 username&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; do work there.  I have not
9737 tested it on Lenny yet.&lt;/p&gt;
9738
9739 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-05-02-19:05: Jim Paris tells me via email that an
9740 equivalent command to expire a password is &#39;&lt;tt&gt;passwd -e
9741 username&lt;/tt&gt;&#39;, which insert zero into the date of the last password
9742 change.&lt;/p&gt;
9743 </description>
9744         </item>
9745
9746         <item>
9747                 <title>Thoughts on roaming laptop setup for Debian Edu</title>
9748                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thoughts_on_roaming_laptop_setup_for_Debian_Edu.html</link>
9749                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thoughts_on_roaming_laptop_setup_for_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
9750                 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
9751                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For some years now, I have wondered how we should handle laptops in
9752 Debian Edu.  The Debian Edu infrastructure is mostly designed to
9753 handle stationary computers, and less suited for computers that come
9754 and go.&lt;/p&gt;
9755
9756 &lt;p&gt;Now I finally believe I have an sensible idea on how to adjust
9757 Debian Edu for laptops, by introducing a new profile for them, for
9758 example called Roaming Workstations.  Here are my thought on this.
9759 The setup would consist of the following:&lt;/p&gt;
9760
9761 &lt;ul&gt;
9762
9763  &lt;li&gt;During installation, the user name of the owner / primary user of
9764    the laptop is requested and a local home directory is set up for
9765    the user, with uid and gid information fetched from the LDAP
9766    server.  This allow the user to work also when offline.  The
9767    central home directory can be available in a subdirectory on
9768    request, for example mounted via CIFS.  It could be mounted
9769    automatically when a user log in while on the Debian Edu network,
9770    and unmounted when the machine is taken away (network down,
9771    hibernate, etc), it can be set up to do automatic mounting on
9772    request (using autofs), or perhaps some GUI button on the desktop
9773    can be used to access it when needed.  Perhaps it is enough to use
9774    the fish protocol in KDE?&lt;/li&gt;
9775
9776  &lt;li&gt;Password checking is set up to use LDAP or Kerberos
9777    authentication when the machine is on the Debian Edu network, and
9778    to cache the password for offline checking when the machine unable
9779    to reach the LDAP or Kerberos server.  This can be done using
9780    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ccreds.html&quot;&gt;libpam-ccreds&lt;/a&gt;
9781    or the Fedora developed
9782    &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSD&quot;&gt;System
9783    Security Services Daemon&lt;/a&gt; packages.&lt;/li&gt;
9784
9785  &lt;li&gt;File synchronisation with the central home directory is set up
9786    using a shared directory in both the local and the central home
9787    directory, using unison.&lt;/li&gt;
9788
9789  &lt;li&gt;Printing should be set up to print to all printers broadcasting
9790    their existence on the local network, and should then work out of
9791    the box with CUPS.  For sites needing accurate printer quotas, some
9792    system with Kerberos authentication or printing via ssh could be
9793    implemented.&lt;/li&gt;
9794
9795  &lt;li&gt;For users that should have local root access to their laptop,
9796    sudo should be used to allow this to the local user.&lt;/li&gt;
9797
9798  &lt;li&gt;It would be nice if user and group information from LDAP is
9799    cached on the client, but given that there are entries for the
9800    local user and primary group in /etc/, it should not be needed.&lt;/li&gt;
9801
9802 &lt;/ul&gt;
9803
9804 &lt;p&gt;I believe all the pieces to implement this are in Debian/testing at
9805 the moment.  If we work quickly, we should be able to get this ready
9806 in time for the Squeeze release to freeze.  Some of the pieces need
9807 tweaking, like libpam-ccreds should get support for pam-auth-update
9808 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/566718&quot;&gt;#566718&lt;/a&gt;) and nslcd (or
9809 perhaps debian-edu-config) should get some integration code to stop
9810 its daemon when the LDAP server is unavailable to avoid long timeouts
9811 when disconnected from the net.  If we get Kerberos enabled, we need
9812 to make sure we avoid long timeouts there too.&lt;/p&gt;
9813
9814 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
9815 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
9816 </description>
9817         </item>
9818
9819         <item>
9820                 <title>Kerberos for Debian Edu/Squeeze?</title>
9821                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html</link>
9822                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html</guid>
9823                 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
9824                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20100413-kerberos/&quot;&gt;Yesterdays
9825 NUUG presentation&lt;/a&gt; about Kerberos was inspiring, and reminded me
9826 about the need to start using Kerberos in Skolelinux.  Setting up a
9827 Kerberos server seem to be straight forward, and if we get this in
9828 place a long time before the Squeeze version of Debian freezes, we
9829 have a chance to migrate Skolelinux away from NFSv3 for the home
9830 directories, and over to an architecture where the infrastructure do
9831 not have to trust IP addresses and machines, and instead can trust
9832 users and cryptographic keys instead.&lt;/p&gt;
9833
9834 &lt;p&gt;A challenge will be integration and administration.  Is there a
9835 Kerberos implementation for Debian where one can control the
9836 administration access in Kerberos using LDAP groups?  With it, the
9837 school administration will have to maintain access control using flat
9838 files on the main server, which give a huge potential for errors.&lt;/p&gt;
9839
9840 &lt;p&gt;A related question I would like to know is how well Kerberos and
9841 pam-ccreds (offline password check) work together.  Anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;
9842
9843 &lt;p&gt;Next step will be to use Kerberos for access control in Lwat and
9844 Nagios.  I have no idea how much work that will be to implement.  We
9845 would also need to document how to integrate with Windows AD, as such
9846 shared network will require two Kerberos realms that need to cooperate
9847 to work properly.&lt;/p&gt;
9848
9849 &lt;p&gt;I believe a good start would be to start using Kerberos on the
9850 skolelinux.no machines, and this way get ourselves experience with
9851 configuration and integration.  A natural starting point would be
9852 setting up ldap.skolelinux.no as the Kerberos server, and migrate the
9853 rest of the machines from PAM via LDAP to PAM via Kerberos one at the
9854 time.&lt;/p&gt;
9855
9856 &lt;p&gt;If you would like to contribute to get this working in Skolelinux,
9857 I recommend you to see the video recording from yesterdays NUUG
9858 presentation, and start using Kerberos at home.  The video show show
9859 up in a few days.&lt;/p&gt;
9860 </description>
9861         </item>
9862
9863         <item>
9864                 <title>After 6 years of waiting, the Xreset.d feature is implemented</title>
9865                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html</link>
9866                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html</guid>
9867                 <pubDate>Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
9868                 <description>&lt;p&gt;6 years ago, as part of the Debian Edu development I am involved
9869 in, I asked for a hook in the kdm and gdm setup to run scripts as root
9870 when the user log out.  A bug was submitted against the xfree86-common
9871 package in 2004 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/230422&quot;&gt;#230422&lt;/a&gt;),
9872 and revisited every time Debian Edu was working on a new release.
9873 Today, this finally paid off.&lt;/p&gt;
9874
9875 &lt;p&gt;The framework for this feature was today commited to the git
9876 repositry for the xorg package, and the git repository for xdm has
9877 been updated to use this framework.  Next on my agenda is to make sure
9878 kdm and gdm also add code to use this framework.&lt;/p&gt;
9879
9880 &lt;p&gt;In Debian Edu, we want to ability to run commands as root when the
9881 user log out, to get rid of runaway processes and do general cleanup
9882 after a user.  With this framework in place, we finally can do that in
9883 a generic way that work with all display managers using this
9884 framework.  My goal is to get all display managers in Debian use it,
9885 similar to how they use the Xsession.d framework today.&lt;p&gt;
9886 </description>
9887         </item>
9888
9889         <item>
9890                 <title>Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Lenny released, work continues</title>
9891                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html</link>
9892                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html</guid>
9893                 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
9894                 <description>&lt;p&gt;On Tuesday, the Debian/Lenny based version of
9895 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; was finally
9896 shipped.  This was a major leap forward for the project, and I am very
9897 pleased that we finally got the release wrapped up.  Work on the first
9898 point release starts imediately, as we plan to get that one out a
9899 month after the major release, to include all fixes for bugs we found
9900 and fixed too late in the release process to include last Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;
9901
9902 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps it even is time for some partying?&lt;/p&gt;
9903
9904 &lt;p&gt;After this first point release, my plan is to focus again on the
9905 next major release, based on Squeeze.  We will try to get as many of
9906 the fixes we need into the official Debian packages before the freeze,
9907 and have just a few weeks or months to make it happen.&lt;/p&gt;
9908 </description>
9909         </item>
9910
9911         <item>
9912                 <title>Automatic Munin and Nagios configuration</title>
9913                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html</link>
9914                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html</guid>
9915                 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
9916                 <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the new features in the next Debian/Lenny based release of
9917 Debian Edu/Skolelinux, which is scheduled for release in the next few
9918 days, is automatic configuration of the service monitoring system
9919 Nagios.  The previous release had automatic configuration of trend
9920 analysis using Munin, and this Lenny based release take that a step
9921 further.&lt;/p&gt;
9922
9923 &lt;p&gt;When installing a Debian Edu Main-server, it is automatically
9924 configured as a Munin and Nagios server.  In addition, it is
9925 configured to be a server for the
9926 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary&quot;&gt;SiteSummary
9927 system&lt;/a&gt; I have written for use in Debian Edu.  The SiteSummary
9928 system is inspired by a system used by the University of Oslo where I
9929 work.  In short, the system provide a centralised collector of
9930 information about the computers on the network, and a client on each
9931 computer submitting information to this collector.  This allow for
9932 automatic information on which packages are installed on each machine,
9933 which kernel the machines are using, what kind of configuration the
9934 packages got etc.  This also allow us to automatically generate Munin
9935 and Nagios configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
9936
9937 &lt;p&gt;All computers reporting to the sitesummary collector with the
9938 munin-node package installed is automatically enabled as a Munin
9939 client and graphs from the statistics collected from that machine show
9940 up automatically on http://www/munin/ on the Main-server.&lt;/p&gt;
9941
9942 &lt;p&gt;All non-laptop computers reporting to the sitesummary collector are
9943 automatically monitored for network presence (ping and any network
9944 services detected).  In addition, all computers (also laptops) with
9945 the nagios-nrpe-server package installed and configured the way
9946 sitesummary would configure it, are monitored for full disks, software
9947 raid status, swap free and other checks that need to run locally on
9948 the machine.&lt;/p&gt;
9949
9950 &lt;p&gt;The result is that the administrator on a school using Debian Edu
9951 based on Lenny will be able to check the health of his installation
9952 with one look at the Nagios settings, without having to spend any time
9953 keeping the Nagios configuration up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;
9954
9955 &lt;p&gt;The only configuration one need to do to get Nagios up and running
9956 is to set the password used to get access via HTTP.  The system
9957 administrator need to run &quot;&lt;tt&gt;htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
9958 nagiosadmin&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; to create a nagiosadmin user and set a password for
9959 it to be able to log into the Nagios web pages.  After that,
9960 everything is taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;
9961 </description>
9962         </item>
9963
9964         <item>
9965                 <title>Opphavet til Skolelinux-prosjektet</title>
9966                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html</link>
9967                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html</guid>
9968                 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
9969                 <description>&lt;p&gt;De færreste er klar over at Skolelinux-prosjektet kom som et resultat
9970 av en avgjørelse på årsmøtet i
9971 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; i 2000-06-29, der Håkon Wium
9972 Lie, da varamedlem i styret, tok på seg oppdraget om å starte et
9973 initiativ kalt &quot;Teach the Teacher&quot;, som skulle være et initiativ for
9974 å få fri programvare og unix-lignende operativsystemer inn i Skolen.
9975 Tanken var at en måtte starte med lærerne for at ungene skulle få
9976 mulighet til å møte en bedre IT-hverdag.  Jeg var tilstede på
9977 møtet, og hadde sans for ideen, men intet skjedde.  På vårparten
9978 2001 ble det arrangert en demonstrasjon i anledning at First Tuesday
9979 hadde invitert Microsoft til et møte for å fortelle om fremtidens
9980 Internet.  Dette provoserte endel av oss, og EFN og NUUG tok initiativ
9981 til å arrangere
9982 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/60982/first-tuesday-mote-med-microsoft-protest&quot;&gt;en
9983 demonstrasjon utenfor lokalene 2001-05-21&lt;/a&gt;.  Blant de som sto bak
9984 demonstrasjonen var Vidar Bakke fra NUUG og Håkon W. Lie fra EFN.
9985 Etter demonstrasjonen arrangerte Håkon en fest hjemme hos seg der alle
9986 som hadde vært aktive i demonstrasjonsplanlegging og gjennomføringen
9987 deltok.  Før festen var jeg blitt lei av å vente på at Håkon skulle ta
9988 initiativ til &quot;Teach the Teacher&quot;, og for å forsøke å få litt fremgang
9989 besteme jeg meg for å benytte anledningen hos Håkon til å snakke om
9990 behovet for å hjelpe skolene i gang med bedre datasystemer bestående
9991 av fri programvare og unix-lignende operativsystemer.  Flere var
9992 interessert, og Knut Yrvin tenkte på ideen.  Han
9993 &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.skolelinux.no/brev/2001-06-28-invitasjon-skolelinux.txt&quot;&gt;ropte
9994 sammen&lt;/a&gt; til et stiftelsesmøte i prosjektet i sin arbeidsgivers
9995 Objectwares lokaler ved Ullevål stadion 2001-07-02, og jeg ble med.
9996 Resten er historie. :)&lt;/p&gt;
9997 </description>
9998         </item>
9999
10000         <item>
10001                 <title>Endelig operativt webbasert medlemsregister for Fri programvare i skolen</title>
10002                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_operativt_webbasert_medlemsregister_for_Fri_programvare_i_skolen.html</link>
10003                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_operativt_webbasert_medlemsregister_for_Fri_programvare_i_skolen.html</guid>
10004                 <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
10005                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Under helgens utviklersamling i
10006 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; fikk jeg endelig
10007 satt meg ned sammen med Ronny Aasen i styret for å få et webbasert
10008 medlemsregister tilbake på plass for foreningen som passer på
10009 skolelinuxprosjektet.  Etter flere års knot og problemer, er nå
10010 memberdb satt opp og klart til bruk.  Import av det gamle
10011 medlemsregisteret har vist seg vanskelig, så alle medlemmer bes om å
10012 registrere seg på nytt.  Hvis du støtter FRiSKs formål så er du
10013 hjertelig velkommen til
10014 &lt;a href=&quot;http://medlem.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;å melde deg
10015 inn&lt;/a&gt;. Formålet lyder:&lt;/p&gt;
10016
10017 &lt;blockquote&gt;Linux i skolen skal tilrettelegge for og informere om bruk
10018 av fri programvare, i henhold til Debian Free Software Guidelines av
10019 2002-02-03, i den norske skolen, slik som f.eks. Linux og
10020 GNU.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10021 </description>
10022         </item>
10023
10024         <item>
10025                 <title>Returning from Skolelinux developer gathering</title>
10026                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Returning_from_Skolelinux_developer_gathering.html</link>
10027                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Returning_from_Skolelinux_developer_gathering.html</guid>
10028                 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
10029                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m sitting on the train going home from this weekends Debian
10030 Edu/Skolelinux development gathering.  I got a bit done tuning the
10031 desktop, and looked into the dynamic service location protocol
10032 implementation avahi.  It look like it could be useful for us.  Almost
10033 30 people participated, and I believe it was a great environment to
10034 get to know the Skolelinux system.  Walter Bender, involved in the
10035 development of the Sugar educational platform, presented his stuff and
10036 also helped me improve my OLPC installation.  He also showed me that
10037 his Turtle Art application can be used in standalone mode, and we
10038 agreed that I would help getting it packaged for Debian.  As a
10039 standalone application it would be great for Debian Edu.  We also
10040 tried to get the video conferencing working with two OLPCs, but that
10041 proved to be too hard for us.  The application seem to need more work
10042 before it is ready for me.  I look forward to getting home and relax
10043 now. :)&lt;/p&gt;
10044 </description>
10045         </item>
10046
10047         <item>
10048                 <title>Time for new  LDAP schemas replacing RFC 2307?</title>
10049                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_new__LDAP_schemas_replacing_RFC_2307_.html</link>
10050                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_new__LDAP_schemas_replacing_RFC_2307_.html</guid>
10051                 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
10052                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The state of standardized LDAP schemas on Linux is far from
10053 optimal.  There is RFC 2307 documenting one way to store NIS maps in
10054 LDAP, and a modified version of this normally called RFC 2307bis, with
10055 some modifications to be compatible with Active Directory.  The RFC
10056 specification handle the content of a lot of system databases, but do
10057 not handle DNS zones and DHCP configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
10058
10059 &lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;,
10060 we would like to store information about users, SMB clients/hosts,
10061 filegroups, netgroups (users and hosts), DHCP and DNS configuration,
10062 and LTSP configuration in LDAP.  These objects have a lot in common,
10063 but with the current LDAP schemas it is not possible to have one
10064 object per entity.  For example, one need to have at least three LDAP
10065 objects for a given computer, one with the SMB related stuff, one with
10066 DNS information and another with DHCP information.  The schemas
10067 provided for DNS and DHCP are impossible to combine into one LDAP
10068 object.  In addition, it is impossible to implement quick queries for
10069 netgroup membership, because of the way NIS triples are implemented.
10070 It just do not scale.  I believe it is time for a few RFC
10071 specifications to cleam up this mess.&lt;/p&gt;
10072
10073 &lt;p&gt;I would like to have one LDAP object representing each computer in
10074 the network, and this object can then keep the SMB (ie host key), DHCP
10075 (mac address/name) and DNS (name/IP address) settings in one place.
10076 It need to be efficently stored to make sure it scale well.&lt;/p&gt;
10077
10078 &lt;p&gt;I would also like to have a quick way to map from a user or
10079 computer and to the net group this user or computer is a member.&lt;/p&gt;
10080
10081 &lt;p&gt;Active Directory have done a better job than unix heads like myself
10082 in this regard, and the unix side need to catch up.  Time to start a
10083 new IETF work group?&lt;/p&gt;
10084 </description>
10085         </item>
10086
10087         <item>
10088                 <title>Endelig er Debian Lenny gitt ut</title>
10089                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_er_Debian_Lenny_gitt_ut.html</link>
10090                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_er_Debian_Lenny_gitt_ut.html</guid>
10091                 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
10092                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Endelig er &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;
10093 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214&quot;&gt;Lenny&lt;/a&gt; gitt ut.
10094 Et langt steg videre for Debian-prosjektet, og en rekke nye
10095 programpakker blir nå tilgjengelig for de av oss som bruker den
10096 stabile utgaven av Debian.  Neste steg er nå å få
10097 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; /
10098 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; ferdig
10099 oppdatert for den nye utgaven, slik at en oppdatert versjon kan
10100 slippes løs på skolene.  Takk til alle debian-utviklerne som har
10101 gjort dette mulig.  Endelig er f.eks. fungerende avhengighetsstyrt
10102 bootsekvens tilgjengelig i stabil utgave, vha pakken
10103 &lt;tt&gt;insserv&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
10104 </description>
10105         </item>
10106
10107         <item>
10108                 <title>Endelig norsk stavekontroll med støtte for ord med bindestrek</title>
10109                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_norsk_stavekontroll_med_st_tte_for_ord_med_bindestrek.html</link>
10110                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_norsk_stavekontroll_med_st_tte_for_ord_med_bindestrek.html</guid>
10111                 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
10112                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter flere års mislykkede forsøk på å skrive om byggesystemet for
10113 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/&quot;&gt;den norske stavekontrollen for bokmål
10114 og nynorsk&lt;/a&gt; til å ikke bruke bindestrek som ordskillemarkør, lyktes jeg
10115 endelig første juledag.  Bruken av bindestrek som ordskillemarkør har
10116 gjort det umulig å få med ord med bindestrek i
10117 stavekontrolldatagrunnlaget, slik at ord som e-post og CD-spiller ikke
10118 kunne godtas av stavekontrollen.  Hadde litt tid til overs å bruke på
10119 stavekontrollen, og satte meg ned med to kopier av byggsystemet og en
10120 liten testdatafil, og byttet ut - med = på utvalgte steder i
10121 byggsystemet og datafilen helt til jeg fikk samme resultat med det
10122 gamle og det nye byggsystemet.  Dette tror jeg var forsøk 4, der de
10123 foregående har feilet uten at jeg klarte å forstå hvorfor.  Det sier
10124 kanskje litt om kompleksiteten i det originale byggsystemet som Rune
10125 Kleveland laget i sin tid.&lt;/p&gt;
10126
10127 &lt;p&gt;Etter å ha endret byggsystemet, var neste steg å importere ordene
10128 med bindestrek.  Vi har en rekke slike i databasene for
10129 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tyge.sslug.dk/~korsvoll/nb.speling.org/htdocs/&quot;&gt;bokmål&lt;/a&gt;
10130 og
10131 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tyge.sslug.dk/~korsvoll/nn.speling.org/htdocs/&quot;&gt;nynorsk&lt;/a&gt;
10132 for korrektur av datagrunnlaget for stavekontrollen, og etter importen
10133 skulle nå 10350 nye ord bli godkjent som korrekt stavede ord av
10134 stavekontrollen.&lt;/p&gt;
10135 </description>
10136         </item>
10137
10138         <item>
10139                 <title>Devcamp brought us closer to the Lenny based Debian Edu release</title>
10140                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Devcamp_brought_us_closer_to_the_Lenny_based_Debian_Edu_release.html</link>
10141                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Devcamp_brought_us_closer_to_the_Lenny_based_Debian_Edu_release.html</guid>
10142                 <pubDate>Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
10143                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we had a small developer gathering for Debian Edu in
10144 Oslo.  Most of Saturday was used for the general assemly for the
10145 member organization, but the rest of the weekend I used to tune the
10146 LTSP installation.  LTSP now work out of the box on the 10-network.
10147 Acer Aspire One proved to be a very nice thin client, with both
10148 screen, mouse and keybard in a small box.  Was working on getting the
10149 diskless workstation setup configured out of the box, but did not
10150 finish it before the weekend was up.&lt;/p&gt;
10151
10152 &lt;p&gt;Did not find time to look at the 4 VGA cards in one box we got from
10153 the Brazilian group, so that will have to wait for the next
10154 development gathering.  Would love to have the Debian Edu installer
10155 automatically detect and configure a multiseat setup when it find one
10156 of these cards.&lt;/p&gt;
10157 </description>
10158         </item>
10159
10160         <item>
10161                 <title>The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</title>
10162                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html</link>
10163                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html</guid>
10164                 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
10165                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
10166 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
10167 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
10168 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
10169 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
10170 notes are available on
10171 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;the
10172 Debian wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
10173 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
10174 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
10175 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
10176 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
10177 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn&#39;t supported by the
10178 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
10179 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.&lt;/p&gt;
10180
10181 &lt;p&gt;For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
10182 be the only one fitting our needs. :/&lt;/p&gt;
10183 </description>
10184         </item>
10185
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