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  10                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Shirish Agarwal</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Mon, 6 Apr 2015 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It was a surprise to me to learn that the computer system for
  15 schools I&#39;ve involved in, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian
  16 Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, was being used in India.  But apparently it is,
  17 and I managed to get an interview with one of the friends of the
  18 project there, Shirish Agarwal.&lt;/p&gt;
  19
  20 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;My name is Shirish Agarwal. Based out of the educational and
  23 historical city of Pune, from the western state of Maharashtra, India.
  24 My bread comes from giving training, giving policy tips,
  25 installations on free software to mom and pop shops in different
  26 fields from Desktop publishing to retail shops as well as work with
  27 few software start-ups as well.&lt;/p&gt;
  28
  29 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
  30 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  31
  32 &lt;p&gt;It started innocently enough. I have been using Debian for a few
  33 years and in one local minidebconf / debutsav I was asked if there was
  34 anything for schools or education. I had worked / played with free
  35 educational softwares such as Gcompris and Stellarium for my many
  36 nieces and nephews so researched and found Debian Edu or Skolelinux as
  37 it was known then.  Since then I have started using the various
  38 education meta-packages provided by the project.
  39
  40 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
  41 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  42
  43 &lt;p&gt;It&#39;s closest I have seen where a package full of educational
  44 software are packed, which are free and open (both literally and
  45 figuratively).  Even if I take the simplest software which is
  46 gcompris, the number of activities therein are amazing. Another one of
  47 the softwares that I have liked for a long time is stellarium. Even
  48 pysycache is cool except for couple of issues I encountered
  49 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/781841&quot;&gt;#781841&lt;/a&gt; and
  50 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/781842&quot;&gt;#781842&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  51
  52 &lt;p&gt;I prefer software installed on the system over web based solutions,
  53 as a web site can disappear any time but the software on disk has the
  54 possibility of a larger life span.  Of course with both it&#39;s more a
  55 question if it has enough users who make it fun or sustainable or both
  56 for the developer per-se.&lt;/p&gt;
  57
  58 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
  59 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  60
  61 &lt;p&gt;I do see that the Debian Edu team seems to be short-handed and I
  62 think more efforts should be made to make it popular and ask and take
  63 help from people and the larger community wherever possible.&lt;/p&gt;
  64
  65 &lt;p&gt;I don&#39;t see any disadvantage to use Skolelinux apart from the fact
  66 that most apps. are generic which is good or bad how you see it.
  67 However, saying that I do acknowledge the fact that the canvas is
  68 pretty big and there are lot of interesting ideas that could be done
  69 but for reasons not known not done or if done I don&#39;t know about them.
  70 Let me share some of the ideas (these are more upstream based but
  71 still) I have had for a long time :&lt;/p&gt;
  72
  73 &lt;p&gt;1. Classical maths question of two trains in opposing directions
  74 each running @x kmph/mph at y distance, when they will meet and how
  75 far would each travel and similar questions like these.
  76
  77 &lt;p&gt;The computer is a fantastic system where questions like these can
  78 be drawn, animated and the methodology and answers teased out in
  79 interactive manner. While sites such as the
  80 &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.two.trains.html&quot;&gt;Ask
  81 Dr. Math FAQ on The Two Trains problem&lt;/a&gt; (as an example or point of
  82 inspiration) can be used there is lot more that can be done.  I dunno
  83 if there is a free software which does something like this.  The idea
  84 being a blend of objects + animation + interaction which does
  85 this. The whole interaction could be gamified with points or sounds or
  86 colourful celebration whenever the user gets even part of the question
  87 or/and methodology right. That would help reinforce good behaviour.
  88 This understanding could be used to share/showcase everything from how
  89 the first wheel came to be, to evolution to how astronomy started,
  90 psychics and everything in-between.&lt;/p&gt;
  91
  92 &lt;p&gt;One specific idea in the train part was having the Linux mascot on
  93 one train and the BSD or GNU mascot on the other train and they
  94 meeting somewhere in-between. Characters from blender movies could
  95 also be used.&lt;/p&gt;
  96
  97 &lt;p&gt;2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects: We have
  98 enormous data sets in Wikipedia and Wikitionary.  I don&#39;t think it
  99 should be a big job to design crossword puzzles. Using categories and
 100 sub-categories it should be doable to have Q&amp;A single word answers
 101 from the existing data-sets. What would make it easy or hard could be
 102 the length of the word + existence of many or few vowels depending on
 103 the user&#39;s input.&lt;/p&gt;
 104
 105 &lt;p&gt;3. Jigsaw puzzles - We already have a great software called
 106 palapeli with number of slicers making it pretty interesting. What
 107 needs to be done is to download large number of public domain and
 108 copyleft images, tease and use IPTC tags to categorise them into
 109 nature, history etc.  and let it loose. This could turn to be really
 110 huge collection of images. One source could be taken from
 111 commons.wikimedia.org, others could be huge collection of royalty-free
 112 stock photos. Potential is immense.&lt;/p&gt;
 113
 114 &lt;p&gt;Apart from this, free software suffers in two directions, we lag
 115 both in development (of using new features per-se) and maintenance a
 116 lot.  This is more so in educational software as these applications
 117 need to be timely and the opportunity cost of missing deadlines is
 118 immense. If we are able to solve issues of funding for development and
 119 maintenance of such software I don&#39;t see any big difficulties. I know
 120 of few start-ups in and around India who would love to develop and
 121 maintain such software if funding issues could be solved.&lt;/p&gt;
 122
 123 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 124
 125 &lt;p&gt;That would be huge list. Some of the softwares are obviously apt,
 126 aptitude, debdelta, leafpad, the shell of course (zsh nowadays),
 127 quassel for IRC. In games I use shisen-sho while card-games are evenly
 128 between kpat and Aiselriot.  In desktops it&#39;s a tie between
 129 gnome-flashback and mate.&lt;/p&gt;
 130
 131 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 132 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 133
 134 &lt;p&gt;I think it should first start with using specific FOSS apps. in
 135 whatever environment they are. If it&#39;s MS-Windows or Mac so be it.
 136 Once they are habitual with the apps. and there is buy-in from the
 137 school management then it could be installed anywhere. Most of the
 138 people now understand the concept of a repository because of the
 139 various online stores so it isn&#39;t hard to convince on that front.&lt;/p&gt;
 140
 141 &lt;p&gt;What is harder is having enough people with technical skills and
 142 passion to service them. If you get buy-in from one or two teachers
 143 then ideas like above could also be asked to be done as a project as
 144 well.&lt;/p&gt;
 145
 146 &lt;p&gt;I think where we fall short more than anything is in marketing. For
 147 instance, Debian has this whole range of fonts in its archive but
 148 there isn&#39;t even a page where all those different fonts in the La
 149 Ipsum format could be tried out for newcomers.&lt;/p&gt;
 150
 151 &lt;p&gt;One of the issues faced constantly in installations is with updates
 152 and upgrades.  People have this myth that each update and upgrade
 153 means the user interface will / has to change. I have seen this
 154 innumerable times.  That perhaps is one of the reasons which browsers
 155 like Iceweasel / Firefox change user interfaces so much, not because
 156 it might be needed or be functional but because people believe that
 157 changed user interfaces are better. This, can easily be pointed with
 158 the user interfaces changed with almost every MS-Windows and Mac OS
 159 releases.&lt;/p&gt;
 160
 161 &lt;p&gt;The problems with Debian Edu for deployment are many. The biggest
 162 is the huge gap between what is taught in schools and what Debian Edu
 163 is aimed at.
 164
 165 &lt;p&gt;Me and my friends did teach on week-ends in a government school for
 166 around 2 years, and
 167 &lt;a href=&quot;https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/sharings/&quot;&gt;gathered
 168 some experience&lt;/a&gt; there.  Some of the things we learnt/discovered
 169 there was :&lt;/p&gt;
 170
 171 &lt;ol&gt;
 172
 173   &lt;li&gt;Most of the teachers are very territorial about their subjects
 174    and they do not want you to teach anything out of the
 175    portion/syllabus given.&lt;/li&gt;
 176
 177   &lt;li&gt;They want any activity on the system in accordance to whatever
 178    is in the syllabus.&lt;/li&gt;
 179
 180   &lt;li&gt;There are huge barriers both with the English language and at
 181    times with objects or whatever. An example, let&#39;s say in gcompris
 182    you have objects falling down and you have to name them and let&#39;s
 183    say the falling object is a hat or a fedora hat, this would not be
 184    as recognizable as say a
 185    &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puneri_Pagadi&quot;&gt;Puneri
 186    Pagdi&lt;/a&gt; so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever
 187    possible. Especially for word-games there are so many hindi words
 188    which have become part of english vocabulary (for instance in
 189    parley), those could be made into a hinglish collection or
 190    something but that is something for upstream to do.&lt;/li&gt;
 191
 192 &lt;/ol&gt;
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 197                 <title>First Jessie based Debian Edu released (alpha0)</title>
 198                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_released__alpha0_.html</link>
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 200                 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
 201                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to report that I on behalf of the Debian Edu team just
 202 sent out
 203 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2014/10/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;this
 204 announcement&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
 205
 206 &lt;pre&gt;
 207 The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu
 208 Jessie 8.0+edu0~alpha0
 209
 210 Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its
 211 various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations
 212 and laptops which will work together on the school network. With
 213 Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can
 214 roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within
 215 hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications
 216 pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian.
 217
 218 For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
 219 installation instructions are available, including detailed
 220 instructions in the manual[1] explaining the first steps, such as
 221 setting up a network or adding users. Please note that the password
 222 for the user your prompted for during installation must have a length
 223 of at least 5 characters!
 224
 225  [1] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie&quot;&gt;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 226
 227 Would you like to give your school&#39;s computer a longer life? Are you
 228 tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer
 229 reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all
 230 the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week?
 231 Check out Debian Edu Jessie!
 232
 233 Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world,
 234 mostly in Germany and Norway.
 235
 236 About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
 237 ===============================
 238
 239 Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux[2], is a Linux distribution based
 240 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 241 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
 242 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 243 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 244 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 245 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
 246 machines can be installed via the network.  The provided school server
 247 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
 248 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
 249 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
 250 packages[3] and more are available from the Debian archive, and
 251 schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
 252 environment.
 253
 254  [2] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.skolelinux.org/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 255  [3] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 256
 257 Full release notes and manual
 258 =============================
 259
 260 Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features
 261 and bugfixes of Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie. The full
 262 list is part of the manual. (See the feature list in the manual[4] for
 263 the English version.) For some languages manual translations are
 264 available, see the manual translation overview[5].
 265
 266  [4] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features&quot;&gt;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 267  [5] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/&quot;&gt;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 268
 269 Where to get it
 270 ---------------
 271
 272 To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (624 MiB) you can use
 273
 274  * &lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;
 275  * &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;
 276  * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso .
 277
 278 The SHA1SUM of this image is: 361188818e036ce67280a572f757de82ebfeb095
 279
 280 New features for Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie released 2014-10-27
 281 ===============================================================================
 282
 283
 284 Installation changes
 285 --------------------
 286
 287  * PXE installation now installs firmware automatically for the hardware present.
 288
 289 Software updates
 290 ----------------
 291
 292 Everything which is new in Debian Jessie 8.0, eg:
 293
 294  * Linux kernel 3.16.x
 295  * Desktop environments KDE &quot;Plasma&quot; 4.11.12, GNOME 3.14, Xfce 4.10,
 296    LXDE 0.5.6 and MATE 1.8 (KDE &quot;Plasma&quot; is installed by default; to
 297    choose one of the others see manual.)
 298  * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 38
 299  * !LibreOffice 4.3.3
 300  * GOsa 2.7.4
 301  * LTSP 5.5.4
 302  * CUPS print system 1.7.5
 303  * new boot framework: systemd
 304  * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.07
 305  * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02
 306  * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14
 307  * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.0
 308  * golearn 0.9
 309  * tuxpaint 0.9.22
 310  * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
 311  * Debian Jessie includes about 42000 packages available for
 312    installation.
 313  * More information about Debian Jessie 8.0 is provided in the release
 314    notes[6] and the installation manual[7].
 315
 316  [6] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 317  [7] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 318
 319 Fixed bugs
 320 ----------
 321
 322  * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
 323    DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
 324    information is corrected (Debian bug #710362)
 325  * and many others.
 326
 327 Documentation and translation updates
 328 -------------------------------------
 329
 330  * The Debian Edu Jessie Manual is fully translated to German, French,
 331    Italian, Danish and Dutch. Partly translated versions exist for
 332    Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.
 333
 334 Other changes
 335 -------------
 336
 337  * Due to new Squid settings, powering off or rebooting the main
 338    server takes more time.
 339  * To manage printers localhost:631 has to be used, currently www:631
 340    doesn&#39;t work.
 341
 342 Regressions / known problems
 343 ----------------------------
 344
 345  * Installing LTSP chroot fails with a bug related to eatmydata about
 346    exim4-config failing to run its postinst (see Debian bug #765694
 347    and Debian bug #762103).
 348  * Munin collection is not properly configured on clients (Debian bug
 349    #764594).  The fix is available in a newer version of munin-node.
 350  * PXE setup for Main Server and Thin Client Server setup does not
 351    work when installing on a machine without direct Internet access.
 352    Will be fixed when Debian bug #766960 is fixed in Jessie.
 353
 354 See the status page[8] for the complete list.
 355
 356  [8] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie&quot;&gt;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 357
 358 How to report bugs
 359 ------------------
 360
 361 &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 362
 363 About Debian
 364 ============
 365
 366 The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
 367 free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
 368 the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
 369 volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
 370 maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a
 371 huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
 372 operating system.
 373
 374 Contact Information
 375 For further information, please visit the Debian web pages[9] or send
 376 mail to press@debian.org.
 377
 378  [9] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
 379 &lt;/pre&gt;
 380 </description>
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 384                 <title>How to test Debian Edu Jessie despite some fatal problems with the installer</title>
 385                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_Debian_Edu_Jessie_despite_some_fatal_problems_with_the_installer.html</link>
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 387                 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
 388                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 389 project&lt;/a&gt; provide a Linux solution for schools, including a
 390 powerful desktop with education software, a central server providing
 391 web pages, user database, user home directories, central login and PXE
 392 boot of both  clients without disk and the installation to install Debian
 393 Edu on machines with disk (and a few other services perhaps to small
 394 to mention here).  We in the Debian Edu team are currently working on
 395 the Jessie based version, trying to get everything in shape before the
 396 freeze, to avoid having to maintain our own package repository in the
 397 future.  The
 398 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie&quot;&gt;current
 399 status&lt;/a&gt; can be seen on the Debian wiki, and there is still heaps of
 400 work left.  Some fatal problems block testing, breaking the installer,
 401 but it is possible to work around these to get anyway.  Here is a
 402 recipe on how to get the installation limping along.&lt;/p&gt;
 403
 404 &lt;p&gt;First, download the test ISO via
 405 &lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso&quot;&gt;ftp&lt;/a&gt;,
 406 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso&quot;&gt;http&lt;/a&gt;
 407 or rsync (use
 408 ftp.skolelinux.org::cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso).
 409 The ISO build was broken on Tuesday, so we do not get a new ISO every
 410 12 hours or so, but thankfully the ISO we already got we are able to
 411 install with some tweaking.&lt;/p&gt;
 412
 413 &lt;p&gt;When you get to the Debian Edu profile question, go to tty2
 414 (use Alt-Ctrl-F2), run&lt;/p&gt;
 415
 416 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 417 nano /usr/bin/edu-eatmydata-install
 418 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 419
 420 &lt;p&gt;and add &#39;exit 0&#39; as the second line, disabling the eatmydata
 421 optimization.  Return to the installation, select the profile you want
 422 and continue.  Without this change, exim4-config will fail to install
 423 due to a known bug in eatmydata.&lt;/p&gt;
 424
 425 &lt;p&gt;When you get the grub question at the end, answer /dev/sda (or if
 426 this do not work, figure out what your correct value would be.  All my
 427 test machines need /dev/sda, so I have no advice if it do not fit
 428 your need.&lt;/p&gt;
 429
 430 &lt;p&gt;If you installed a profile including a graphical desktop, log in as
 431 root after the initial boot from hard drive, and install the
 432 education-desktop-XXX metapackage.  XXX can be kde, gnome, lxde, xfce
 433 or mate.  If you want several desktop options, install more than one
 434 metapackage.  Once this is done, reboot and you should have a working
 435 graphical login screen.  This workaround should no longer be needed
 436 once the education-tasks package version 1.801 enter testing in two
 437 days.&lt;/p&gt;
 438
 439 &lt;p&gt;I believe the ISO build will start working on two days when the new
 440 tasksel package enter testing and Steve McIntyre get a chance to
 441 update the debian-cd git repository.  The eatmydata, grub and desktop
 442 issues are already fixed in unstable and testing, and should show up
 443 on the ISO as soon as the ISO build start working again.  Well the
 444 eatmydata optimization is really just disabled.  The proper fix
 445 require an upload by the eatmydata maintainer applying the patch
 446 provided in bug &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/702711&quot;&gt;#702711&lt;/a&gt;.
 447 The rest have proper fixes in unstable.&lt;/p&gt;
 448
 449 &lt;p&gt;I hope this get you going with the installation testing, as we are
 450 quickly running out of time trying to get our Jessie based
 451 installation ready before the distribution freeze in a month.&lt;/p&gt;
 452 </description>
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 455         <item>
 456                 <title>Speeding up the Debian installer using eatmydata and dpkg-divert</title>
 457                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speeding_up_the_Debian_installer_using_eatmydata_and_dpkg_divert.html</link>
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 459                 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 460                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; installer could be
 461 a lot quicker.  When we install more than 2000 packages in
 462 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; using
 463 tasksel in the installer, unpacking the binary packages take forever.
 464 A part of the slow I/O issue was discussed in
 465 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/613428&quot;&gt;bug #613428&lt;/a&gt; about too
 466 much file system sync-ing done by dpkg, which is the package
 467 responsible for unpacking the binary packages.  Other parts (like code
 468 executed by postinst scripts) might also sync to disk during
 469 installation.  All this sync-ing to disk do not really make sense to
 470 me.  If the machine crash half-way through, I start over, I do not try
 471 to salvage the half installed system.  So the failure sync-ing is
 472 supposed to protect against, hardware or system crash, is not really
 473 relevant while the installer is running.&lt;/p&gt;
 474
 475 &lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I thought of a way to get rid of all the file
 476 system sync()-ing in a fairly non-intrusive way, without the need to
 477 change the code in several packages.  The idea is not new, but I have
 478 not heard anyone propose the approach using dpkg-divert before.  It
 479 depend on the small and clever package
 480 &lt;a href=&quot;https://packages.qa.debian.org/eatmydata&quot;&gt;eatmydata&lt;/a&gt;, which
 481 uses LD_PRELOAD to replace the system functions for syncing data to
 482 disk with functions doing nothing, thus allowing programs to live
 483 dangerous while speeding up disk I/O significantly.  Instead of
 484 modifying the implementation of dpkg, apt and tasksel (which are the
 485 packages responsible for selecting, fetching and installing packages),
 486 it occurred to me that we could just divert the programs away, replace
 487 them with a simple shell wrapper calling
 488 &quot;eatmydata&amp;nbsp;$program&amp;nbsp;$@&quot;, to get the same effect.
 489 Two days ago I decided to test the idea, and wrapped up a simple
 490 implementation for the Debian Edu udeb.&lt;/p&gt;
 491
 492 &lt;p&gt;The effect was stunning.  In my first test it reduced the running
 493 time of the pkgsel step (installing tasks) from 64 to less than 44
 494 minutes (20 minutes shaved off the installation) on an old Dell
 495 Latitude D505 machine.  I am not quite sure what the optimised time
 496 would have been, as I messed up the testing a bit, causing the debconf
 497 priority to get low enough for two questions to pop up during
 498 installation.  As soon as I saw the questions I moved the installation
 499 along, but do not know how long the question were holding up the
 500 installation.  I did some more measurements using Debian Edu Jessie,
 501 and got these results.  The time measured is the time stamp in
 502 /var/log/syslog between the &quot;pkgsel: starting tasksel&quot; and the
 503 &quot;pkgsel: finishing up&quot; lines, if you want to do the same measurement
 504 yourself.  In Debian Edu, the tasksel dialog do not show up, and the
 505 timing thus do not depend on how quickly the user handle the tasksel
 506 dialog.&lt;/p&gt;
 507
 508 &lt;p&gt;&lt;table&gt;
 509
 510 &lt;tr&gt;
 511 &lt;th&gt;Machine/setup&lt;/th&gt;
 512 &lt;th&gt;Original tasksel&lt;/th&gt;
 513 &lt;th&gt;Optimised tasksel&lt;/th&gt;
 514 &lt;th&gt;Reduction&lt;/th&gt;
 515 &lt;/tr&gt;
 516
 517 &lt;tr&gt;
 518 &lt;td&gt;Latitude D505 Main+LTSP LXDE&lt;/td&gt;
 519 &lt;td&gt;64 min (07:46-08:50)&lt;/td&gt;
 520 &lt;td&gt;&lt;44 min (11:27-12:11)&lt;/td&gt;
 521 &lt;td&gt;&gt;20 min 18%&lt;/td&gt;
 522 &lt;/tr&gt;
 523
 524 &lt;tr&gt;
 525 &lt;td&gt;Latitude D505 Roaming LXDE&lt;/td&gt;
 526 &lt;td&gt;57 min (08:48-09:45)&lt;/td&gt;
 527 &lt;td&gt;34 min (07:43-08:17)&lt;/td&gt;
 528 &lt;td&gt;23 min 40%&lt;/td&gt;
 529 &lt;/tr&gt;
 530
 531 &lt;tr&gt;
 532 &lt;td&gt;Latitude D505 Minimal&lt;/td&gt;
 533 &lt;td&gt;22 min (10:37-10:59)&lt;/td&gt;
 534 &lt;td&gt;11 min (11:16-11:27)&lt;/td&gt;
 535 &lt;td&gt;11 min 50%&lt;/td&gt;
 536 &lt;/tr&gt;
 537
 538 &lt;tr&gt;
 539 &lt;td&gt;Thinkpad X200 Minimal&lt;/td&gt;
 540 &lt;td&gt;6 min (08:19-08:25)&lt;/td&gt;
 541 &lt;td&gt;4 min (08:04-08:08)&lt;/td&gt;
 542 &lt;td&gt;2 min 33%&lt;/td&gt;
 543 &lt;/tr&gt;
 544
 545 &lt;tr&gt;
 546 &lt;td&gt;Thinkpad X200 Roaming KDE&lt;/td&gt;
 547 &lt;td&gt;19 min (09:21-09:40)&lt;/td&gt;
 548 &lt;td&gt;15 min (10:25-10:40)&lt;/td&gt;
 549 &lt;td&gt;4 min 21%&lt;/td&gt;
 550 &lt;/tr&gt;
 551
 552 &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 553
 554 &lt;p&gt;The test is done using a netinst ISO on a USB stick, so some of the
 555 time is spent downloading packages.  The connection to the Internet
 556 was 100Mbit/s during testing, so downloading should not be a
 557 significant factor in the measurement.  Download typically took a few
 558 seconds to a few minutes, depending on the amount of packages being
 559 installed.&lt;/p&gt;
 560
 561 &lt;p&gt;The speedup is implemented by using two hooks in
 562 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/&quot;&gt;Debian
 563 Installer&lt;/a&gt;, the pre-pkgsel.d hook to set up the diverts, and the
 564 finish-install.d hook to remove the divert at the end of the
 565 installation.  I picked the pre-pkgsel.d hook instead of the
 566 post-base-installer.d hook because I test using an ISO without the
 567 eatmydata package included, and the post-base-installer.d hook in
 568 Debian Edu can only operate on packages included in the ISO.  The
 569 negative effect of this is that I am unable to activate this
 570 optimization for the kernel installation step in d-i.  If the code is
 571 moved to the post-base-installer.d hook, the speedup would be larger
 572 for the entire installation.&lt;/p&gt;
 573
 574 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve implemented this in the
 575 &lt;a href=&quot;https://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-install&quot;&gt;debian-edu-install&lt;/a&gt;
 576 git repository, and plan to provide the optimization as part of the
 577 Debian Edu installation.  If you want to test this yourself, you can
 578 create two files in the installer (or in an udeb).  One shell script
 579 need do go into /usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/, with content like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 580
 581 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 582 #!/bin/sh
 583 set -e
 584 . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
 585 info() {
 586     logger -t my-pkgsel &quot;info: $*&quot;
 587 }
 588 error() {
 589     logger -t my-pkgsel &quot;error: $*&quot;
 590 }
 591 override_install() {
 592     apt-install eatmydata || true
 593     if [ -x /target/usr/bin/eatmydata ] ; then
 594         for bin in dpkg apt-get aptitude tasksel ; do
 595             file=/usr/bin/$bin
 596             # Test that the file exist and have not been diverted already.
 597             if [ -f /target$file ] ; then
 598                 info &quot;diverting $file using eatmydata&quot;
 599                 printf &quot;#!/bin/sh\neatmydata $bin.distrib \&quot;\$@\&quot;\n&quot; \
 600                     &gt; /target$file.edu
 601                 chmod 755 /target$file.edu
 602                 in-target dpkg-divert --package debian-edu-config \
 603                     --rename --quiet --add $file
 604                 ln -sf ./$bin.edu /target$file
 605             else
 606                 error &quot;unable to divert $file, as it is missing.&quot;
 607             fi
 608         done
 609     else
 610         error &quot;unable to find /usr/bin/eatmydata after installing the eatmydata pacage&quot;
 611     fi
 612 }
 613
 614 override_install
 615 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 616
 617 &lt;p&gt;To clean up, another shell script should go into
 618 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/ with code like this:
 619
 620 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 621 #! /bin/sh -e
 622 . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
 623 error() {
 624     logger -t my-finish-install &quot;error: $@&quot;
 625 }
 626 remove_install_override() {
 627     for bin in dpkg apt-get aptitude tasksel ; do
 628         file=/usr/bin/$bin
 629         if [ -x /target$file.edu ] ; then
 630             rm /target$file
 631             in-target dpkg-divert --package debian-edu-config \
 632                 --rename --quiet --remove $file
 633             rm /target$file.edu
 634         else
 635             error &quot;Missing divert for $file.&quot;
 636         fi
 637     done
 638     sync # Flush file buffers before continuing
 639 }
 640
 641 remove_install_override
 642 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 643
 644 &lt;p&gt;In Debian Edu, I placed both code fragments in a separate script
 645 edu-eatmydata-install and call it from the pre-pkgsel.d and
 646 finish-install.d scripts.&lt;/p&gt;
 647
 648 &lt;p&gt;By now you might ask if this change should get into the normal
 649 Debian installer too?  I suspect it should, but am not sure the
 650 current debian-installer coordinators find it useful enough.  It also
 651 depend on the side effects of the change.  I&#39;m not aware of any, but I
 652 guess we will see if the change is safe after some more testing.
 653 Perhaps there is some package in Debian depending on sync() and
 654 fsync() having effect?  Perhaps it should go into its own udeb, to
 655 allow those of us wanting to enable it to do so without affecting
 656 everyone.&lt;/p&gt;
 657
 658 &lt;p&gt;Update 2014-09-24: Since a few days ago, enabling this optimization
 659 will break installation of all programs using gnutls because of
 660 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/702711&quot;&gt;bug #702711&lt;/a&gt;.  An updated
 661 eatmydata package in Debian will solve it.&lt;/p&gt;
 662
 663 &lt;p&gt;Update 2014-10-17: The bug mentioned above is fixed in testing and
 664 the optimization work again.  And I have discovered that the
 665 dpkg-divert trick is not really needed and implemented a slightly
 666 simpler approach as part of the debian-edu-install package.  See
 667 tools/edu-eatmydata-install in the source package.&lt;/p&gt;
 668
 669 &lt;p&gt;Update 2014-11-11: Unfortunately, a new
 670 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/765738&quot;&gt;bug #765738&lt;/a&gt; in eatmydata only
 671 triggering on i386 made it into testing, and broke this installation
 672 optimization again.  If &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/768893&quot;&gt;unblock
 673 request 768893&lt;/a&gt; is accepted, it should be working again.&lt;/p&gt;
 674 </description>
 675         </item>
 676
 677         <item>
 678                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Bernd Zeitzen</title>
 679                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Bernd_Zeitzen.html</link>
 680                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Bernd_Zeitzen.html</guid>
 681                 <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 682                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The complete and free “out of the box” software solution for
 683 schools, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
 684 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is used quite a lot in Germany, and one of the people
 685 involved is Bernd Zeitzen, who show up on the project mailing lists
 686 from time to time with interesting questions and tips on how to adjust
 687 the setup.  I managed to interview him this summer.&lt;/p&gt;
 688
 689 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 690
 691 &lt;p&gt;My name is Bernd Zeitzen and I&#39;m married with Hedda, a self
 692 employed physiotherapist.  My former profession is tool maker, but I
 693 haven&#39;t worked for 30 years in this job.  30 years ago I started to
 694 support my wife and become her officeworker and a few years later the
 695 administrator for a small computer network, today based on Ubuntu
 696 Server (Samba, OpenVPN). For her daily work she has to use Windows
 697 Desktops because the software she needs to organize her business only
 698 works with Windows . :-(&lt;/p&gt;
 699
 700 &lt;p&gt;In 1988 we started with one PC and DOS, then I learned to use
 701 Windows 98, 2000, XP, …, 8, Ubuntu, MacOSX.  Today we are running a
 702 Linux server with 6 Windows clients and 10 persons (teacher of
 703 children with special needs, speech therapist, occupational therapist,
 704 psychologist and officeworkers) using our Samba shares via OpenVPN to
 705 work with the documentations of our patients.&lt;/p&gt;
 706
 707 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 708 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 709
 710 &lt;p&gt;Two years ago a friend of mine asked me, if I want to get a job in
 711 his school (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gymnasium-harsewinkel.de/&quot;&gt;Gymnasium
 712 Harsewinkel&lt;/a&gt;).  They started with Skolelinux / Debian Edu and they
 713 were looking for people to give support to the teachers using the
 714 software and the network and teaching the pupils increasing their
 715 computer skills in optional lessons.  I&#39;m spending 4-6 hours a week
 716 with this job.&lt;/p&gt;
 717
 718 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 719 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 720
 721 &lt;p&gt;The independence.&lt;/p&gt;
 722
 723 &lt;p&gt;First: Every person is allowed to use, share and develop the
 724 software. Even if you are poor, you are allowed to use the software
 725 included in Skolelinux/Debian Edu and all the other Free Software.&lt;/p&gt;
 726
 727 &lt;p&gt;Second: The software runs on old machines and this gives us the
 728 possibility to recycle computers, weeded out from offices.  The
 729 servers and desktops are running for more than two years and they are
 730 working reliable. &lt;/p&gt;
 731
 732 &lt;p&gt;We have two servers (one tjener and one terminal server), 45
 733 workstations in three classrooms and seven laptops as a mobile
 734 solution for all classrooms.  These machines are all booting from the
 735 terminal server.  In the moment we are installing 30 laptops as mobile
 736 workstations.  Then the pupils have the possibility to work with these
 737 machines in their classrooms.  Internet access is realized by a WLAN
 738 router, connected to the schools network. This is all done without a
 739 dedicated system administrator or a computer science teacher.&lt;/p&gt;
 740
 741 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 742 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 743
 744 &lt;p&gt;Teachers and pupils are Windows users.  &amp;lt;Irony on&amp;gt; And Linux
 745 isn&#39;t cool. It&#39;s software for freaks using the command line. &amp;lt;Irony
 746 off&amp;gt; They don&#39;t realize the stability of the system. &lt;/p&gt;
 747
 748 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 749
 750 &lt;p&gt;Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Samba,
 751 Apache, MySQL, Joomla!, … and Skolelinux / Debian Edu)&lt;/p&gt;
 752
 753 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 754 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 755
 756 &lt;p&gt;In Germany we have the situation: every school is free to decide
 757 which software they want to use. This decision is influenced by
 758 teachers who learned to use Windows and MS Office. They buy a PC with
 759 Windows preinstalled and an additional testing version of MS
 760 Office. They don&#39;t know about the possibility to use Free Software
 761 instead.  Another problem are the publisher of school books.  They
 762 develop their software, added to the school books, for Windows.&lt;/p&gt;
 763 </description>
 764         </item>
 765
 766         <item>
 767                 <title>From English wiki to translated PDF and epub via Docbook</title>
 768                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html</link>
 769                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html</guid>
 770                 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 771                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 772 project&lt;/a&gt; provide an instruction manual for teachers, system
 773 administrators and other users that contain useful tips for setting up
 774 and maintaining a Debian Edu installation.  This text is about how the
 775 text processing of this manual is handled in the project.&lt;/p&gt;
 776
 777 &lt;p&gt;One goal of the project is to provide information in the native
 778 language of its users, and for this we need to handle translations.
 779 But we also want to make sure each language contain the same
 780 information, so for this we need a good way to keep the translations
 781 in sync.  And we want it to be easy for our users to improve the
 782 documentation, avoiding the need to learn special formats or tools to
 783 contribute, and the obvious way to do this is to make it possible to
 784 edit the documentation using a web browser.  We also want it to be
 785 easy for translators to keep the translation up to date, and give them
 786 help in figuring out what need to be translated. Here is the list of
 787 tools and the process we have found trying to reach all these
 788 goals.&lt;/p&gt;
 789
 790 &lt;p&gt;We maintain the authoritative source of our manual in the
 791 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/&quot;&gt;Debian
 792 wiki&lt;/a&gt;, as several wiki pages written in English.  It consist of one
 793 front page with references to the different chapters, several pages
 794 for each chapter, and finally one &quot;collection page&quot; gluing all the
 795 chapters together into one large web page (aka
 796 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/AllInOne&quot;&gt;the
 797 AllInOne page&lt;/a&gt;).  The AllInOne page is the one used for further
 798 processing and translations.  Thanks to the fact that the
 799 &lt;a href=&quot;http://moinmo.in/&quot;&gt;MoinMoin&lt;/a&gt; installation on
 800 wiki.debian.org support exporting pages in
 801 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;the Docbook format&lt;/a&gt;, we can fetch
 802 the list of pages to export using the raw version of the AllInOne
 803 page, loop over each of them to generate a Docbook XML version of the
 804 manual.  This process also download images and transform image
 805 references to use the locally downloaded images.  The generated
 806 Docbook XML files are slightly broken, so some post-processing is done
 807 using the &lt;tt&gt;documentation/scripts/get_manual&lt;/tt&gt; program, and the
 808 result is a nice Docbook XML file (debian-edu-wheezy-manual.xml) and
 809 a handfull of images.  The XML file can now be used to generate PDF, HTML
 810 and epub versions of the English manual.  This is the basic step of
 811 our process, making PDF (using dblatex), HTML (using xsltproc) and
 812 epub (using dbtoepub) version from Docbook XML, and the resulting files
 813 are placed in the debian-edu-doc-en binary package.&lt;/p&gt;
 814
 815 &lt;p&gt;But English documentation is not enough for us.  We want translated
 816 documentation too, and we want to make it easy for translators to
 817 track the English original.  For this we use the
 818 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poxml.html&quot;&gt;poxml&lt;/a&gt; package,
 819 which allow us to transform the English Docbook XML file into a
 820 translation file (a .pot file), usable with the normal gettext based
 821 translation tools used by those translating free software.  The pot
 822 file is used to create and maintain translation files (several .po
 823 files), which the translations update with the native language
 824 translations of all titles, paragraphs and blocks of text in the
 825 original.  The next step is combining the original English Docbook XML
 826 and the translation file (say debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.po), to
 827 create a translated Docbook XML file (in this case
 828 debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.xml).  This translated (or partly
 829 translated, if the translation is not complete) Docbook XML file can
 830 then be used like the original to create a PDF, HTML and epub version
 831 of the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;
 832
 833 &lt;p&gt;The translators use different tools to edit the .po files.  We
 834 recommend using
 835 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kde.org/applications/development/lokalize/&quot;&gt;lokalize&lt;/a&gt;,
 836 while some use emacs and vi, others can use web based editors like
 837 &lt;a href=&quot;http://pootle.translatehouse.org/&quot;&gt;Poodle&lt;/a&gt; or
 838 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.transifex.com/&quot;&gt;Transifex&lt;/a&gt;.  All we care about
 839 is where the .po file end up, in our git repository.  Updated
 840 translations can either be committed directly to git, or submitted as
 841 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/src:debian-edu-doc&quot;&gt;bug reports
 842 against the debian-edu-doc package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 843
 844 &lt;p&gt;One challenge is images, which both might need to be translated (if
 845 they show translated user applications), and are needed in different
 846 formats when creating PDF and HTML versions (epub is a HTML version in
 847 this regard).  For this we transform the original PNG images to the
 848 needed density and format during build, and have a way to provide
 849 translated images by storing translated versions in
 850 images/$LANGUAGECODE/.  I am a bit unsure about the details here.  The
 851 package maintainers know more.&lt;/p&gt;
 852
 853 &lt;p&gt;If you wonder what the result look like, we provide
 854 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/&quot;&gt;the content
 855 of the documentation packages on the web&lt;/a&gt;.  See for example the
 856 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/it/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.pdf&quot;&gt;Italian
 857 PDF version&lt;/a&gt; or the
 858 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/de/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.html&quot;&gt;German
 859 HTML version&lt;/a&gt;.  We do not yet build the epub version by default,
 860 but perhaps it will be done in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
 861
 862 &lt;p&gt;To learn more, check out
 863 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-edu-doc.html&quot;&gt;the
 864 debian-edu-doc package&lt;/a&gt;,
 865 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/&quot;&gt;the
 866 manual on the wiki&lt;/a&gt; and
 867 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Translations&quot;&gt;the
 868 translation instructions&lt;/a&gt; in the manual.&lt;/p&gt;
 869 </description>
 870         </item>
 871
 872         <item>
 873                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Roger Marsal</title>
 874                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Roger_Marsal.html</link>
 875                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Roger_Marsal.html</guid>
 876                 <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 877                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
 878 keep gaining new users.  Some weeks ago, a person showed up on IRC,
 879 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt;, with a
 880 wish to contribute, and I managed to get a interview with this great
 881 contributor Roger Marsal to learn more about his background.&lt;/p&gt;
 882
 883 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 884
 885 &lt;p&gt;My name is Roger Marsal, I&#39;m 27 years old (1986 generation) and I
 886 live in Barcelona, Spain. I&#39;ve got a strong business background and I
 887 work as a patrimony manager and as a real estate agent.  Additionally,
 888 I&#39;ve co-founded a British based tech company that is nowadays on the
 889 last development phase of a new social networking concept.&lt;/p&gt;
 890
 891 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a Linux enthusiast that started its journey with Ubuntu four years
 892 ago and have recently switched to Debian seeking rock solid stability
 893 and as a necessary step to gain expertise.&lt;/p&gt;
 894
 895 &lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, I spend my days working and learning as much as I
 896 can to face both my job, entrepreneur project and feed my Linux
 897 hunger.&lt;/p&gt;
 898
 899 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 900 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 901
 902 &lt;p&gt;I discovered the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ltsp.org/&quot;&gt;LTSP&lt;/a&gt; advantages
 903 with &quot;Ubuntu 12.04 alternate install&quot; and after a year of use I
 904 started looking for an alternative.  Even though I highly value and
 905 respect the Ubuntu project, I thought it was necessary for me to
 906 change to a more robust and stable alternative.  As far as I was using
 907 Debian on my personal laptop I thought it would be fine to install
 908 Debian and configure an LTSP server myself.  Surprised, I discovered
 909 that the Debian project also supported a kind of Edubuntu equivalent,
 910 and after having some pain I obtained a Debian Edu network up and
 911 running.  I just loved it.&lt;/p&gt;
 912
 913 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 914 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 915
 916 &lt;p&gt;I found a main advantage in that, once you know &quot;the tips and
 917 tricks&quot;, a new installation just works out of the box. It&#39;s the most
 918 complete alternative I&#39;ve found to create an LTSP network. All the
 919 other distributions seems to be made of plastic, Debian Edu seems to
 920 be made of steel.&lt;/p&gt;
 921
 922 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 923 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 924
 925 &lt;p&gt;I found two main disadvantages.&lt;/p&gt;
 926
 927 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m not an expert but I&#39;ve got notions and I had to spent a considerable
 928 amount of time trying to bring up a standard network topology. I&#39;m quite
 929 stubborn and I just worked until I did but I&#39;m sure many people with few
 930 resources (not big schools, but academies for example) would have switched
 931 or dropped.&lt;/p&gt;
 932
 933 &lt;p&gt;It&#39;s amazing how such a complex system like Debian Edu has achieved
 934 this out-of-the-box state. Even though tweaking without breaking gets
 935 more difficult, as more factors have to be considered. This can
 936 discourage many people too.&lt;/p&gt;
 937
 938 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 939
 940 &lt;p&gt;I use Debian, Firefox, Okular, Inkscape, LibreOffice and
 941 Virtualbox.&lt;/p&gt;
 942
 943
 944 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 945 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 946
 947 &lt;p&gt;I don&#39;t think there is a need for a particular strategy. The free
 948 attribute in both &quot;freedom&quot; and &quot;no price&quot; meanings is what will
 949 really bring free software to schools. In my experience I can think of
 950 the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/&quot;&gt;&quot;R&quot; statistical language&lt;/a&gt;; a
 951 few years a ago was an extremely nerd tool for university people.
 952 Today it&#39;s being increasingly used to teach statistics at many
 953 different level of studies.  I believe free and open software will
 954 increasingly gain popularity, but I&#39;m sure schools will be one of the
 955 first scenarios where this will happen.&lt;/p&gt;
 956 </description>
 957         </item>
 958
 959         <item>
 960                 <title>How to add extra storage servers in Debian Edu / Skolelinux</title>
 961                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_add_extra_storage_servers_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</link>
 962                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_add_extra_storage_servers_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</guid>
 963                 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
 964                 <description>&lt;p&gt;On larger sites, it is useful to use a dedicated storage server for
 965 storing user home directories and data.  The design for handling this
 966 in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is
 967 to update the automount rules in LDAP and let the automount daemon on
 968 the clients take care of the rest.  I was reminded about the need to
 969 document this better when one of the customers of
 970 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt;, where I am
 971 on the board of directors, asked about how to do this.  The steps to
 972 get this working are the following:&lt;/p&gt;
 973
 974 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
 975
 976 &lt;li&gt;Add new storage server in DNS.  I use nas-server.intern as the
 977 example host here.&lt;/li&gt;
 978
 979 &lt;li&gt;Add automoun LDAP information about this server in LDAP, to allow
 980 all clients to automatically mount it on reqeust.&lt;/li&gt;
 981
 982 &lt;li&gt;Add the relevant entries in tjener.intern:/etc/fstab, because
 983 tjener.intern do not use automount to avoid mounting loops.&lt;/li&gt;
 984
 985 &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 986
 987 &lt;p&gt;DNS entries are added in GOsa², and not described here.  Follow the
 988 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/GettingStarted&quot;&gt;instructions
 989 in the manual&lt;/a&gt; (Machine Management with GOsa² in section Getting
 990 started).&lt;/p&gt;
 991
 992 &lt;p&gt;Ensure that the NFS export points on the server are exported to the
 993 relevant subnets or machines:&lt;/p&gt;
 994
 995 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 996 root@tjener:~# showmount -e nas-server
 997 Export list for nas-server:
 998 /storage         10.0.0.0/8
 999 root@tjener:~#
1000 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1001
1002 &lt;p&gt;Here everything on the backbone network is granted access to the
1003 /storage export.  With NFSv3 it is slightly better to limit it to
1004 netgroup membership or single IP addresses to have some limits on the
1005 NFS access.&lt;/p&gt;
1006
1007 &lt;p&gt;The next step is to update LDAP.  This can not be done using GOsa²,
1008 because it lack a module for automount.  Instead, use ldapvi and add
1009 the required LDAP objects using an editor.&lt;/p&gt;
1010
1011 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
1012 ldapvi --ldap-conf -ZD &#39;(cn=admin)&#39; -b ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
1013 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1014
1015 &lt;p&gt;When the editor show up, add the following LDAP objects at the
1016 bottom of the document.  The &quot;/&amp;&quot; part in the last LDAP object is a
1017 wild card matching everything the nas-server exports, removing the
1018 need to list individual mount points in LDAP.&lt;/p&gt;
1019
1020 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
1021 add cn=nas-server,ou=auto.skole,ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
1022 objectClass: automount
1023 cn: nas-server
1024 automountInformation: -fstype=autofs --timeout=60 ldap:ou=auto.nas-server,ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
1025
1026 add ou=auto.nas-server,ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
1027 objectClass: top
1028 objectClass: automountMap
1029 ou: auto.nas-server
1030
1031 add cn=/,ou=auto.nas-server,ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
1032 objectClass: automount
1033 cn: /
1034 automountInformation: -fstype=nfs,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,rw,intr,hard,nodev,nosuid,noatime nas-server.intern:/&amp;
1035 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1036
1037 &lt;p&gt;The last step to remember is to mount the relevant mount points in
1038 tjener.intern by adding them to /etc/fstab, creating the mount
1039 directories using mkdir and running &quot;mount -a&quot; to mount them.&lt;/p&gt;
1040
1041 &lt;p&gt;When this is done, your users should be able to access the files on
1042 the storage server directly by just visiting the
1043 /tjener/nas-server/storage/ directory using any application on any
1044 workstation, LTSP client or LTSP server.&lt;/p&gt;
1045 </description>
1046         </item>
1047
1048         <item>
1049                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Dominik George</title>
1050                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Dominik_George.html</link>
1051                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Dominik_George.html</guid>
1052                 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
1053                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
1054 project&lt;/a&gt; consist of both newcomers and old timers, and this time I
1055 was able to get an interview with a newcomer in the project who showed
1056 up on the IRC channel a few weeks ago to let us know about his
1057 successful installation of Debian Edu Wheezy in his School.  Say hello
1058 to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Natureshadow&quot;&gt;Dominik
1059 George&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1060
1061 &lt;!-- http://www.dominik-george.de/images/foto.jpg --&gt;
1062
1063 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1064
1065 &lt;p&gt;I am a 23 year-old student from Germany who has spent half of his
1066 life with open source. In &quot;real life&quot;, I am, as already mentioned, a
1067 student in the fields of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
1068 Information Technologies and Anglistics. Due to my (only partially
1069 voluntary) huge engagement in the open source world, these things are
1070 a bit vacant right now however.&lt;/p&gt;
1071
1072 &lt;p&gt;I also have been working as a project teacher at a Gymasnium
1073 (public school) for various years now. I took up that work some time
1074 around 2005 when still attending that school myself and have continued
1075 it until today. I also had been running the (kind of very advanced)
1076 network of that school together with a team of very interested and
1077 talented students in the age of 11 to 15 years, who took the chance to
1078 learn a lot about open source and networking before I left the school
1079 to help building another school&#39;s informational education concept from
1080 scratch.&lt;/p&gt;
1081
1082 &lt;p&gt;That said, one might see me as a kind of &quot;glue&quot; between school kids
1083 and the elderly of teachers as well as between the open source
1084 ecosystem and the (even more complex) educational ecosystem.&lt;/p&gt;
1085
1086 &lt;p&gt;When I am not busy with open source or education, I like Geocaching
1087 and cycling.&lt;/p&gt;
1088
1089 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
1090 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1091
1092 &lt;p&gt;I think that happened some time around 2009 when I first attended
1093 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.froscon.org&quot;&gt;FrOSCon&lt;/a&gt; and visited the project
1094 booth. I think I wasn&#39;t too interested back then because I used to
1095 have an attitude of disliking software that does too much stuff on its
1096 own. Maybe I was too inexperienced to realise the upsides of an
1097 &quot;out-of-the-box&quot; solution ;).&lt;/p&gt;
1098
1099 &lt;p&gt;The first time I actively talked to Skolelinux people was at
1100 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openrheinruhr.de&quot;&gt;OpenRheinRuhr&lt;/a&gt; 2011 when the
1101 BiscuIT project, a home-grewn software used by my school for various
1102 really cool things from timetables and class contact lists to lunch
1103 ordering, student ID card printing and project elections first got to
1104 a stage where it could have been published. I asked the Skolelinux
1105 guys running the booth if the project were interested in it and gave a
1106 small demonstration, but there wasn&#39;t any real feedback and the guys
1107 seemed rather uninterested.&lt;/p&gt;
1108
1109 &lt;p&gt;After I left the school where I developed the software, it got
1110 mostly lost, but I am now reimplementing it for my new school. I have
1111 reusability and compatibility in mind, and I hop there will be a new
1112 basis for contributing it to the Skolelinux project ;)!&lt;/p&gt;
1113
1114 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
1115 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1116
1117 &lt;p&gt;The most important advantage seems to be that it &quot;just
1118 works&quot;. After overcoming some minor (but still very annoying) glitches
1119 in the installer, I got a fully functional, working school network,
1120 without the month-long hassle I experienced when setting all that up
1121 from scratch in earlier years. And above that, it rocked - I didn&#39;t
1122 have any real hardware at hand, because the school was just founded
1123 and has no money whatsoever, so I installed a combined server (main
1124 server, terminal services and workstation) in a VM on my personal
1125 notebook, bridging the LTSP network interface to the ethernet port,
1126 and then PXE-booted the Windows notebooks that were lying around from
1127 it. I could use 8 clients without any performance issues, by using a
1128 tiny little VM on a tiny little notebook. I think that&#39;s enough to say
1129 that it rocks!&lt;/p&gt;
1130
1131 &lt;p&gt;Secondly, there are marketing reasons. Life&#39;s bad, and so no
1132 politician will ever permit a setup described as &quot;Debian, an universal
1133 operating system, with some really cool educational tools&quot; while they
1134 will be jsut fine with &quot;Skolelinux, a single-purpose solution for your
1135 school network&quot;, even if both turn out to be the very same thing (yes,
1136 this is unfair towards the Skolelinux project, and must not be taken
1137 too seriously - you get the idea, anyway).&lt;/p&gt;
1138
1139 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
1140 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1141
1142 &lt;p&gt;I have not been involved with Skolelinux long enough to really
1143 answer this question in a fair way. Thus, please allow me to put it in
1144 other words: &quot;What do you expect from Skolelinux to keep liking it?&quot; I
1145 can list a few points about that:&lt;/p&gt;
1146
1147 &lt;ul&gt;
1148
1149  &lt;li&gt;always strive to get all things integrated into Debian upstream
1150  &lt;li&gt;be open to discussion about changes and the like, even with newcomers
1151  &lt;li&gt;be helpful at being helpful ;)
1152
1153 &lt;/ul&gt;
1154
1155 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m really sorry I cannot say much more about that :(!&lt;/p&gt;
1156
1157 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1158
1159 &lt;p&gt;First of all, all software I use is free and open. I have abandoned
1160 all non-free software (except for firmware on my darned phone) this
1161 year.&lt;/p&gt;
1162
1163 &lt;p&gt;I run Debian GNU/Linux on all PC systems I use. On that, I mostly
1164 run text tools. I use
1165 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm&quot;&gt;mksh&lt;/a&gt; as shell,
1166 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mirbsd.org/jupp.htm&quot;&gt;jupp&lt;/a&gt; as very advanced
1167 text editor (I even got the developer to help me write a script/macro
1168 based full-featured student management software with the two),
1169 &lt;a href=&quot;http://mcabber.com/&quot;&gt;mcabber&lt;/a&gt; for XMPP and
1170 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.irssi.org/&quot;&gt;irssi&lt;/a&gt; for IRC. For that overly
1171 coloured world called the WWW, I use
1172 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/&quot;&gt;Iceweasel
1173 (Firefox)&lt;/a&gt;. Oh, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mutt.org/&quot;&gt;mutt&lt;/a&gt; for
1174 e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;
1175
1176 &lt;p&gt;However, while I am personally aware of the fact that text tools
1177 are more efficient and powerful than anything else, I also use (or at
1178 least operate) some tools that are suitable to bring open source to
1179 kids. One of these things is &lt;a href=&quot;http://jappix.org/&quot;&gt;Jappix&lt;/a&gt;,
1180 which I already introduced to some kids even before they got aware of
1181 Facebook, making them see for themselves that they do not need
1182 Facebook now ;).&lt;/p&gt;
1183
1184 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
1185 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1186
1187 &lt;p&gt;Well, that&#39;s a two-sided thing. One side is what I believe, and one
1188 side is what I have experienced.&lt;/p&gt;
1189
1190 &lt;p&gt;I believe that the right strategy is showing them the benefits. But
1191 that won&#39;t work out as long as the acceptance of free alternatives
1192 grows globally. What I mean is that if all the kids are almost forced
1193 to use Windows, Facebook, Skype, you name it at home, they will not
1194 see why they would want to use alternatives at school. I have seen
1195 students take seat in front of a fully-functional, modern Debian
1196 desktop that could do anything their Windows at home could do, and
1197 they jsut refused to use it because &quot;Linux sucks&quot;. It is something
1198 that makes the council of our city spend around 600000 € to buy
1199 software - not including hardware, mind you - for operating school
1200 networks, and for installing a system that, as has been proved, does
1201 not work. For those of you readers who are good at maths, have you
1202 already found out how many lives could have been saved with that money
1203 if we had instead used it to bring education to parts of the world
1204 that need it? I have, and found it to be nothing less dramatic than
1205 plain criminal.&lt;/p&gt;
1206
1207 &lt;p&gt;That said, the only feasible way appears to be the bottom up
1208 method. We have to bring free software to kids and parents. I have
1209 founded an association named
1210 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.teckids.org&quot;&gt;Teckids&lt;/a&gt; here in Germany that does
1211 just that. We organise several events for kids and adolescents in the
1212 area of free and open source software, for example the
1213 &lt;a href=&quot;http://kids.froscon.org&quot;&gt;FrogLabs&lt;/a&gt;, which share staff with
1214 Teckids and are the youth programme of
1215 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.froscon.org&quot;&gt;the Free and Open Source Software
1216 Conference (FrOSCon)&lt;/a&gt;. We do a lot more than most other conferences
1217 - this year, we first offered the FrogLabs as a holiday camp for kids
1218 aged 10 to 16. It was a huge success, with approx. 30 kids taking part
1219 and learning with and about free software through a whole weekend. All
1220 of us had a lot of fun, and the results were really exciting.&lt;/p&gt;
1221
1222 &lt;p&gt;Apart from that, we are preparing a campaign that is supposed to bring
1223 the message of free alternatives to stuff kids use every day to them and
1224 their parents, e.g. the use of Jabber / Jappix instead of Facebook and
1225 Skype. To make that possible, we are planning to get together a team of
1226 clever kids who understand very well what their peers need and can bring
1227 it across to them. So we will have a peer-driven network of adolescents
1228 who teach each other and collect feedback from the community of minors.
1229 We then take that feedback and our own experience to work closely with
1230 open source projects, such as Skolelinux or Jappix, at improving their
1231 software in a way that makes it more and more attractive for the target
1232 group. At least I hope that we will have good cooperation with
1233 Skolelinux in the future ;)!&lt;/p&gt;
1234
1235 &lt;p&gt;So in conclusion, what I believe is that, if it weren&#39;t for the world
1236 being so bad, it should be very clear to the political decision makers
1237 that the only way to go nowadays is free software for various reasons,
1238 but I have learnt that the only way that seems to work is bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;
1239
1240 &lt;!--
1241
1242 &gt;  * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future?
1243
1244 That&#39;s probably the hardest question of them all, as I do not know the
1245 community. However, I would be willing to do the following:
1246
1247  &lt;li&gt;Run an interview with a German headteacher who is very open to
1248    free software, and also prefers it, but cannot really use it because
1249    of the decision makers above;
1250  &lt;li&gt;Run interviews with some kids, both with and without previous
1251    knowledge about free software
1252
1253 If that is wanted, just let me know ;).
1254
1255 --&gt;
1256 </description>
1257         </item>
1258
1259         <item>
1260                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Klaus Knopper</title>
1261                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html</link>
1262                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html</guid>
1263                 <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
1264                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since I managed to publish the last interview,
1265 but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
1266 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; community is still going strong, and yesterday we even
1267 had a new school administrator show up on
1268 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt; to share
1269 his success story with installing Debian Edu at their school.  This
1270 time I have been able to get some helpful comments from the creator of
1271 Knoppix, Klaus Knopper, who was involved in a Skolelinux project in
1272 Germany a few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;
1273
1274 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1275
1276 &lt;p&gt;I am Klaus Knopper.  I have a master degree in electrical
1277 engineering, and is currently professor in information management at
1278 the university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern / Germany and
1279 freelance Open Source software developer and consultant.&lt;/p&gt;
1280
1281 &lt;p&gt;All of this is pretty much of the work I spend my days with. Apart
1282 from teaching, I&#39;m also conducting some more or less experimental
1283 projects like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.knoppix.org&quot;&gt;Knoppix GNU/Linux live
1284 system&lt;/a&gt; (Debian-based like Skolelinux),
1285 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html&quot;&gt;ADRIANE&lt;/a&gt;
1286 (a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and
1287 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.knopper.net/linbo/index-en.html&quot;&gt;LINBO&lt;/a&gt;
1288 (Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and repair
1289 system supporting various operating systems).&lt;/p&gt;
1290
1291 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
1292 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1293
1294 &lt;p&gt;The credit for this have to go to Kurt Gramlich, who is the German
1295 coordinator for Skolelinux.  We were looking for an all-in-one open
1296 source community-supported distribution for schools, and Kurt
1297 introduced us to Skolelinux for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;
1298
1299 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
1300 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1301
1302 &lt;ul&gt;
1303   &lt;li&gt;Quick installation,&lt;/li&gt;
1304   &lt;li&gt;works (almost) out of the box,&lt;/li&gt;
1305   &lt;li&gt;contains many useful software packages for teaching and learning,&lt;/li&gt;
1306   &lt;li&gt;is a purely community-based distro and not controlled by a
1307     single company,&lt;/li&gt;
1308   &lt;li&gt;has a large number of supporters and teachers who share their
1309     experience and problem solutions.&lt;/li&gt;
1310 &lt;/ul&gt;
1311
1312 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
1313 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1314
1315 &lt;ul&gt;
1316   &lt;li&gt;Skolelinux is - as we had to learn - not easily upgradable to
1317   the next version.  Opposed to its genuine Debian base, upgrading to
1318   a new version means a full new installation from scratch to get it
1319   working again reliably.
1320
1321   &lt;li&gt;Skolelinux is based on Debian/stable, and therefore always a
1322   little outdated in terms of program versions compared to Edubuntu or
1323   similar educational Linux distros, which rather use Debian/testing
1324   as their base.
1325
1326   &lt;li&gt;Skolelinux has some very self-opinionated and stubborn default
1327   configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is
1328   not always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network
1329   configuration is actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux
1330   and not easy to change, so schools sometimes have to change their
1331   network configuration to make it &quot;Skolelinux-compatible&quot;.
1332
1333   &lt;li&gt;Some proposed extensions, which were made available as
1334   contribution, like secure examination mode and lecture material
1335   distribution and collection, were not accepted into the mainline
1336   Skolelinux development and are now not easy to maintain in the
1337   future because of Skolelinux somewhat undeterministic update
1338   schemes.&lt;/li&gt;
1339
1340   &lt;li&gt;Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers
1341   compared to Debian.&lt;/li&gt;
1342
1343 &lt;/ul&gt;
1344
1345 &lt;p&gt;For these reasons and experience from our project, I would now
1346 rather consider using plain Debian for schools next time, until
1347 Skolelinux is more closely integrated into Debian and becomes
1348 upgradeable without reinstallation.&lt;/p&gt;
1349
1350 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1351
1352 &lt;p&gt;GNU/Linux with LXDE desktop, bash for interactive dialog and
1353 programming, texlive for documentation and correspondence,
1354 occasionally LibreOffice for document format conversion. Various
1355 programming languages for teaching.&lt;/p&gt;
1356
1357 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
1358 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1359
1360 &lt;p&gt;Strong arguments are&lt;/p&gt;
1361
1362 &lt;ul&gt;
1363
1364   &lt;li&gt;Knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for
1365     teaching and learning.&lt;/li&gt;
1366
1367   &lt;li&gt;Students can learn with and use the same software at school, at
1368     home, and at their working place without running into license or
1369     conversion problems.&lt;/li&gt;
1370
1371   &lt;li&gt;Closed source or proprietary software hides knowledge rather
1372     than exposing it, and proprietary software vendors try to bind
1373     customers to certain products.  But teachers need to teach
1374     science, not products.&lt;/li&gt;
1375
1376   &lt;li&gt;If you have everything you for daily work as open source, what
1377     would you need proprietary software for?&lt;/li&gt;
1378
1379 &lt;/ul&gt;
1380 </description>
1381         </item>
1382
1383         <item>
1384                 <title>Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador</title>
1385                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html</link>
1386                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html</guid>
1387                 <pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
1388                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
1389 Salvador had published a
1390 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc&quot;&gt;video on
1391 Youtube&lt;/a&gt; showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
1392 Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
1393 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
1394 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
1395 in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
1396 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
1397 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
1398 showing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zygotebody.com/&quot;&gt;Zygote Body 3D model
1399 of the human body&lt;/a&gt;, but I guess he did not know about those or find
1400 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
1401 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
1402 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
1403 computers without hard drives by installing one central
1404 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ltsp.org/&quot;&gt;LTSP server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1405
1406 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:&lt;/p&gt;
1407
1408 &lt;iframe width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
1409
1410 &lt;p&gt;Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
1411 me know. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1412 </description>
1413         </item>
1414
1415         <item>
1416                 <title>Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!</title>
1417                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html</link>
1418                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html</guid>
1419                 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
1420                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
1421 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
1422 complete announcement text can be found at
1423 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928&quot;&gt;the Debian News
1424 section&lt;/a&gt;, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.&lt;/p&gt;
1425
1426 &lt;p&gt;There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
1427 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
1428 partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
1429 lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).&lt;/p&gt;
1430 </description>
1431         </item>
1432
1433         <item>
1434                 <title>Third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy</title>
1435                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html</link>
1436                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html</guid>
1437                 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
1438                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
1439 today.  This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:&lt;/p&gt;
1440
1441 &lt;blockquote&gt;
1442 &lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
1443
1444 &lt;p&gt;it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
1445 short) of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
1446 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based on Debian Wheezy!&lt;/p&gt;
1447
1448 &lt;p&gt;Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
1449 we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
1450 weekend.  We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
1451 if you find something, please notify us immediately!&lt;/p&gt;
1452
1453 &lt;p&gt;(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
1454 another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)&lt;/p&gt;
1455
1456 &lt;p&gt;Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
1457 compared to beta1:&lt;/p&gt;
1458
1459 &lt;ul&gt;
1460
1461 &lt;li&gt;The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
1462 also gets Chromium to use this proxy.&lt;/li&gt;
1463 &lt;li&gt;Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
1464 understand ical/dav sources.&lt;/li&gt;
1465 &lt;li&gt;Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
1466 main server.&lt;/li&gt;
1467 &lt;li&gt;A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.&lt;/li&gt;
1468 &lt;li&gt;Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
1469 (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
1470 (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
1471 (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).&lt;/li&gt;
1472
1473 &lt;/ul&gt;
1474
1475 &lt;p&gt;Where to get it:&lt;/p&gt;
1476
1477 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
1478
1479 &lt;ul&gt;
1480 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1481 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1482 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
1483 &lt;/ul&gt;
1484
1485 &lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is:  3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f&lt;/p&gt;
1486
1487 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
1488 &lt;ul&gt;
1489 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1490 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1491 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
1492 &lt;/ul&gt;
1493
1494 &lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e&lt;/p&gt;
1495
1496 &lt;p&gt;The Source DVD image has the filename
1497 debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
1498 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
1499 as the other isos.&lt;/p&gt;
1500
1501 &lt;p&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/p&gt;
1502
1503 &lt;p&gt;For information how to report bugs please see
1504 &lt;br&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;
1505
1506
1507 &lt;p&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/p&gt;
1508
1509 &lt;p&gt;Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
1510 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
1511 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
1512 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
1513 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
1514 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
1515 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
1516 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
1517 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
1518 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
1519 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
1520 packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
1521 can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
1522
1523 &lt;p&gt;This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
1524 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
1525 Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
1526
1527 &lt;p&gt;Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases&lt;/p&gt;
1528
1529 &lt;p&gt;Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
1530 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
1531 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
1532 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
1533 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
1534 Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
1535 password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
1536 (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
1537 to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
1538 directory.&lt;/p&gt;
1539
1540
1541 &lt;p&gt;cheers,
1542 &lt;br&gt;        Holger&lt;/p&gt;
1543 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
1544 </description>
1545         </item>
1546
1547         <item>
1548                 <title>Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
1549                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
1550                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
1551                 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
1552                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
1553 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
1554 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
1555
1556 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1557
1558 &lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
1559 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
1560
1561 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1562
1563 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
1564 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
1565 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
1566 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
1567 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
1568 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
1569 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
1570 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
1571 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
1572 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
1573 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
1574 desktop contains
1575 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
1576 than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
1577 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
1578 and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
1579
1580 &lt;p&gt;This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
1581 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
1582 release.&lt;/p&gt;
1583
1584 &lt;p&gt;ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
1585 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
1586 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
1587 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
1588 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
1589 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html&quot;&gt;on
1590 the mailing list&lt;/a&gt;. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
1591 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
1592 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
1593 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
1594 CIFS access to their home directory.&lt;/p&gt;
1595
1596 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1597
1598 &lt;ul&gt;
1599
1600 &lt;li&gt;Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
1601     work also without a attached tty.&lt;/li&gt;
1602 &lt;li&gt;Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
1603     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
1604     tools. Please note, that the command &#39;update-command-not-found&#39;
1605     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
1606     required).&lt;/li&gt;
1607
1608 &lt;/ul&gt;
1609
1610 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1611
1612 &lt;ul&gt;
1613
1614 &lt;li&gt;Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
1615 needed for desktop=xfce installations.&lt;/li&gt;
1616 &lt;li&gt;Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
1617 stick ISO image.&lt;/li&gt;
1618 &lt;li&gt;Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).&lt;/li&gt;
1619 &lt;li&gt;Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.&lt;/li&gt;
1620 &lt;li&gt;Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
1621     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
1622     cope with this.&lt;/li&gt;
1623 &lt;li&gt;Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².&lt;/li&gt;
1624 &lt;li&gt;Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
1625     empty password hashes.&lt;/li&gt;
1626 &lt;li&gt;Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
1627     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
1628     from joining the Samba domain.&lt;/li&gt;
1629
1630 &lt;/ul&gt;
1631
1632 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1633
1634 &lt;ul&gt;
1635
1636 &lt;li&gt;KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
1637     not use the http proxy as it should.&lt;/li&gt;
1638 &lt;li&gt;Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
1639     (using the KDE configuration).&lt;/li&gt;
1640
1641 &lt;/ul&gt;
1642
1643 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1644
1645 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
1646
1647 &lt;ul&gt;
1648
1649 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1650
1651 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1652
1653 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
1654
1655 &lt;/ul&gt;
1656
1657 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
1658 &lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2&lt;/p&gt;
1659
1660 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
1661
1662 &lt;ul&gt;
1663
1664 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1665 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1666 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
1667
1668 &lt;/ul&gt;
1669
1670 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
1671 &lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119&lt;/p&gt;
1672
1673
1674 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1675
1676 &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;
1677 </description>
1678         </item>
1679
1680         <item>
1681                 <title>First beta release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
1682                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
1683                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
1684                 <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
1685                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The first wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
1686 today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
1687
1688 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b0 released
1689 2013-07-27&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1690
1691 &lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
1692 7.1+edu0~b0, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
1693
1694 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1695
1696 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
1697 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
1698 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
1699 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
1700 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
1701 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
1702 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
1703 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
1704 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
1705 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
1706 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
1707 desktop contains
1708 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
1709 than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
1710 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
1711 and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
1712
1713 &lt;p&gt;This is the fifth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
1714 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
1715 Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
1716
1717 &lt;p&gt;ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
1718 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
1719 release.&lt;/p&gt;
1720
1721 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1722
1723 &lt;ul&gt;
1724
1725 &lt;li&gt;Switched roaming workstation profiles from wicd to network-manager
1726    for network configuration, as wicd didn&#39;t work any more.&lt;/li&gt;
1727 &lt;li&gt;Changed version numbers of patched gosa and libpam-mklocaluser
1728    packages to make sure our locally patched versions will be replaced
1729    by the official packages when they are released from Debian. Those
1730    installing alpha version need to reinstall or manually downgrade gosa
1731    and libpam-mklocaluser.&lt;/li&gt;
1732 &lt;li&gt;Added bluetooth tools to the default desktop (bluedevil, blueman).&lt;/li&gt;
1733 &lt;li&gt;Added tools for sharing the desktop on KDE (krdc, krfb).&lt;/li&gt;
1734 &lt;li&gt;Added valgrind to the default installation for easier debugging of
1735    crash bugs.&lt;/li&gt;
1736
1737 &lt;/ul&gt;
1738
1739 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1740
1741 &lt;ul&gt;
1742
1743 &lt;li&gt;Fixed artwork package to work with gnome, no longer break
1744    desktop=gnome installations.&lt;/li&gt;
1745 &lt;li&gt;Adjusted installer to now work when forced to use a proxy with the
1746    netinst CD.&lt;/li&gt;
1747 &lt;li&gt;Fixed code detecting and setting/loading hardware specific
1748    setup/firmware to work more robust out of the box.&lt;/li&gt;
1749 &lt;li&gt;Adjusted Kerberos setup to detect realm and server settings at
1750    install time instead of dynamically at run time. This avoid a crash
1751    with krb5-auth-dialog on diskless workstations without a DNS name.&lt;/li&gt;
1752 &lt;li&gt;Worked around misfeature in network-manager not calling the dhclient
1753    exit hooks, causing automatic proxy configuration and automatic host
1754    name setting at run time to work again.&lt;/li&gt;
1755 &lt;li&gt;Fixed feature setting the default Iceweasel start page from URL
1756    fetched from LDAP, to allow schools to set the global default by
1757    updating the dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no LDAP object.&lt;/li&gt;
1758 &lt;li&gt;Changed default host name on all networked machines to be unique
1759    (generated from MAC or reverse DNS) after boot.&lt;/li&gt;
1760 &lt;li&gt;Adjusted partition sizes to make sure they are big enough.&lt;/li&gt;
1761
1762 &lt;/ul&gt;
1763
1764 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1765
1766 &lt;ul&gt;
1767
1768 &lt;li&gt;Grub is missing the new artwork.&lt;/li&gt;
1769 &lt;li&gt;KDE fail to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
1770     not use the http proxy as it should.&lt;/li&gt;
1771 &lt;li&gt;Chromium also fail to use the proxy.&lt;/li&gt;
1772
1773 &lt;/ul&gt;
1774
1775 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1776
1777 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
1778
1779 &lt;ul&gt;
1780
1781 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1782
1783 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1784
1785 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
1786
1787 &lt;/ul&gt;
1788
1789 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 55d5de9765b6dccd5d9ec33cf1a07109
1790 &lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 996a1d9517740e4d627d100de2d12b23dd545a3f&lt;/p&gt;
1791
1792 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
1793
1794 &lt;ul&gt;
1795
1796 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1797 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1798 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
1799
1800 &lt;/ul&gt;
1801
1802 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: d8f0818c51a78d357de794066f289f69
1803 &lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 49185ca354e8d0543240423746924f76a6cee733&lt;/p&gt;
1804
1805
1806 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1807
1808 &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;
1809 </description>
1810         </item>
1811
1812         <item>
1813                 <title>July 13th: Debian/Ubuntu BSP and Skolelinux/Debian Edu developer gathering in Oslo</title>
1814                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/July_13th__Debian_Ubuntu_BSP_and_Skolelinux_Debian_Edu_developer_gathering_in_Oslo.html</link>
1815                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/July_13th__Debian_Ubuntu_BSP_and_Skolelinux_Debian_Edu_developer_gathering_in_Oslo.html</guid>
1816                 <pubDate>Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
1817                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The upcoming Saturday, 2013-07-13, we are organising a combined
1818 Debian Edu developer gathering and Debian and Ubuntu bug squashing
1819 party in Oslo.  It is organised by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the
1820 member assosiation NUUG&lt;/a&gt; and
1821 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
1822 project&lt;/a&gt; together with &lt;a href=&quot;http://bitraf.no/&quot;&gt;the hack space
1823 Bitraf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1824
1825 &lt;p&gt;It starts 10:00 and continue until late evening.  Everyone is
1826 welcome, and there is no fee to participate.  There is on the other
1827 hand limited space, and only room for 30 people.  Please put your name
1828 on &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2013/07/13/no/Oslo&quot;&gt;the event
1829 wiki page&lt;/a&gt; if you plan to join us.&lt;/p&gt;
1830 </description>
1831         </item>
1832
1833         <item>
1834                 <title>Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
1835                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
1836                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
1837                 <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1838                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
1839 today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
1840
1841 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
1842 2013-07-03&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1843
1844 &lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
1845 7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
1846
1847 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1848
1849 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
1850 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
1851 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
1852 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
1853 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
1854 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
1855 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
1856 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
1857 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
1858 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
1859 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
1860 desktop contains
1861 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
1862 than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
1863 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
1864 and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
1865
1866 &lt;p&gt;This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
1867 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
1868 Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
1869
1870 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1871 &lt;ul&gt;
1872   &lt;li&gt;Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.&lt;/li&gt;
1873   &lt;li&gt;Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian
1874     submenu.  It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this
1875     brings KDE in line with the others.&lt;/li&gt;
1876   &lt;li&gt;Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
1877     they don&#39;t have a desktop menu entry and thus won&#39;t show up in the
1878     menu now that menu-xdg was removed.&lt;/li&gt;
1879   &lt;li&gt;Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on
1880     multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a
1881     X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users
1882     too.&lt;/li&gt;
1883   &lt;li&gt;Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
1884     are too few to make the package useful.&lt;/li&gt;
1885 &lt;/ul&gt;
1886 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1887 &lt;ul&gt;
1888   &lt;li&gt;Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
1889   &lt;li&gt;Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.&lt;/li&gt;
1890   &lt;li&gt;Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
1891     up for some language options.&lt;/li&gt;
1892   &lt;li&gt;Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.&lt;/li&gt;
1893   &lt;li&gt;Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
1894   &lt;li&gt;Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
1895     d-i is doing it.&lt;/li&gt;
1896   &lt;li&gt;Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
1897     debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
1898   &lt;li&gt;Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft
1899     script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a
1900     Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.&lt;/li&gt;
1901   &lt;li&gt;Update system to install needed firmware packages during
1902     installation, to work properly in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
1903   &lt;li&gt;Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).&lt;/li&gt;
1904   &lt;li&gt;Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
1905     and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.&lt;/li&gt;
1906   &lt;li&gt;LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
1907     work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.&lt;/li&gt;
1908 &lt;/ul&gt;
1909 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1910 &lt;ul&gt;
1911   &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
1912     available yet (698840).&lt;/li&gt;
1913   &lt;li&gt;Artwork not enabled for all desktops.&lt;/li&gt;
1914 &lt;/ul&gt;
1915 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1916
1917 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
1918 &lt;ul&gt;
1919   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1920   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1921   &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
1922 &lt;/ul&gt;
1923
1924 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
1925 &lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8&lt;/p&gt;
1926
1927 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
1928 &lt;ul&gt;
1929   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1930   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
1931   &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
1932 &lt;/ul&gt;
1933
1934 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
1935 &lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721&lt;/p&gt;
1936
1937 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1938
1939 &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;
1940 </description>
1941         </item>
1942
1943         <item>
1944                 <title>The value of a good distro wide test suite...</title>
1945                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</link>
1946                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</guid>
1947                 <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1948                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
1949 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; project, we include a post-installation test suite,
1950 which check that services are running, working, and return the
1951 expected results.  It runs automatically just after the first boot on
1952 test installations (using test ISOs), but not on production
1953 installations (using non-test ISOs).  It test that the LDAP service is
1954 operating, Kerberos is responding, DNS is replying, file systems are
1955 online resizable, etc, etc.  And it check that the PXE service is
1956 configured, which is the topic of this post.&lt;/p&gt;
1957
1958 &lt;p&gt;The last week I&#39;ve fixed the DVD and USB stick ISOs for our Debian
1959 Edu Wheezy release.  These ISOs are supposed to be able to install a
1960 complete system without any Internet connection, but for that to
1961 happen all the needed packages need to be on them.  Thanks to our test
1962 suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
1963 cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
1964 When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
1965 using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
1966 working packages to get it working.  And the packages changed name
1967 from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
1968 debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
1969 packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we
1970 would never have discovered this before release.  Now it is fixed
1971 right after we got the ISOs operational.&lt;/p&gt;
1972
1973 &lt;p&gt;Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system
1974 administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the
1975 test suite using &lt;tt&gt;/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install&lt;/tt&gt; and see if
1976 any errors are detected.  This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
1977 the problem.&lt;/p&gt;
1978
1979 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
1980 please join us on
1981 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
1982 irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt; and the
1983 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@&lt;/a&gt; mailing
1984 list.&lt;/p&gt;
1985 </description>
1986         </item>
1987
1988         <item>
1989                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Victor Nițu</title>
1990                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</link>
1991                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</guid>
1992                 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
1993                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
1994 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; distribution have users and contributors all around the
1995 globe.  And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
1996 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;our IRC channel
1997 #debian-edu&lt;/a&gt; and started asking questions about how Debian Edu
1998 worked.  We answered as good as we could, and even convinced him to
1999 help us with translations.  And today I managed to get an interview
2000 with him, to learn more about him.&lt;/p&gt;
2001
2002 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2003
2004 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 25 year old free software enthusiast, living in Romania,
2005 which is also my country of origin. Back in 2009, at a New Year&#39;s Eve
2006 party, I had a very nice &lt;strike&gt;beer&lt;/strike&gt; discussion with a
2007 friend, when we realized we have no organised Debian community in our
2008 country. A few days later, we put together the infrastructure for such
2009 community and even gathered a nice Debian-ish crowd. Since then, I
2010 began my quest as a free software hacker and activist and I am
2011 constantly trying to cover as much ground as possible on that
2012 field.&lt;/p&gt;
2013
2014 &lt;p&gt;A few years ago I founded a small web development company, which
2015 provided me the flexible schedule I needed so much for my
2016 activities. For the last 13 months, I have been the Technical Director
2017 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ceata.org/&quot;&gt;Fundația Ceata&lt;/a&gt;, which is a free
2018 software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
2019 the only one we have in our country.&lt;/p&gt;
2020
2021 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
2022 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2023
2024 &lt;p&gt;The idea of participating in the Debian Edu project was a surprise
2025 even to me, since I never used it before I began getting involved in
2026 it. This year I had a great opportunity to deliver a talk on
2027 educational software, and I knew immediately where to look. It was a
2028 love at first sight, since I was previously involved with some of the
2029 technologies the project incorporates, and I rapidly found a lot of
2030 ways to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;
2031
2032 &lt;p&gt;My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
2033 configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
2034 haven&#39;t fixed them yet though), and I even got my eyes on some other
2035 areas where I can prove myself helpful. Since the appetite for free
2036 software in my country is pretty low, I&#39;ll be happy to be the first
2037 one around here advocating for the project&#39;s adoption in educational
2038 environments, and maybe even get my hands dirty in creating a flavour
2039 for our own needs. I am not used to make very advanced plannings, so
2040 from now on, time will tell what I&#39;ll be doing next, but I think I
2041 have a pretty consistent starting point.&lt;/p&gt;
2042
2043 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
2044 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2045
2046 &lt;p&gt;Not a long time ago, I was in the position of configuring and
2047 maintaining a LDAP server on some Debian derivative, and I must say it
2048 took me a while. A long time ago, I was maintaining a bigger
2049 Samba-powered infrastructure, and I must say I spent quite a lot of
2050 time on it. I have similar stories about many of the services included
2051 with Skolelinux, and the main advantage I see about it is the
2052 out-of-the box availability of them, making it quite competitive when
2053 it comes to managing a school&#39;s network, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
2054
2055 &lt;p&gt;Of course, there is more to say about Skolelinux than the
2056 availability of the software included, its flexibility in various
2057 scenarios is something I can&#39;t wait to experiment &quot;into the wild&quot; (I
2058 only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
2059 lot more I haven&#39;t discovered yet about it, being so new within the
2060 project.&lt;/p&gt;
2061
2062 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
2063 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2064
2065 &lt;p&gt;As usual, when it comes to Debian Blends, I see as the biggest
2066 disadvantage the lack of a numerous team dedicated to the
2067 project. Every day I see the same names in the changelogs, and I have
2068 a constantly fear of the bus factor in this story.  I&#39;d like to see
2069 Debian Edu advertised more as an entry point into the Debian
2070 ecosystem, especially amongst newcomers and students. IMHO there are a
2071 lot low-hanging fruits in terms of bug squashing, and enough
2072 opportunities to get the feeling of the Debian Project&#39;s dynamics. Not
2073 to mention it&#39;s a very fun blend to work on!&lt;/p&gt;
2074
2075 &lt;p&gt;Derived from the previous statement, is the delay in catching up
2076 with the main Debian release and documentation. This is common though
2077 to all blends and derivatives, but it&#39;s an issue we can all work
2078 on.&lt;/p&gt;
2079
2080 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2081
2082 &lt;p&gt;I can hardly imagine myself spending a day without Vim, since my
2083 daily routine covers writing code and hacking configuration files. I
2084 am a fan of the Awesome window manager (but I also like the
2085 Enlightenment project a lot!),
2086 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.claws-mail.org/‎&quot;&gt;Claws Mail&lt;/a&gt; due to its ease of
2087 use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
2088 &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/redshift&quot;&gt;Redshift&lt;/a&gt;, which helps me
2089 get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
2090 stuff in this bag, but I&#39;ll need a blog on my own for doing this!&lt;/p&gt;
2091
2092 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
2093 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2094
2095 &lt;p&gt;Well, on this field, I cannot do much more than experiment right
2096 now. So, being far from having a recipe for success, I can only assume
2097 that:&lt;/p&gt;
2098
2099 &lt;ul&gt;
2100
2101 &lt;li&gt;schools would like to get rid of proprietary software&lt;/li&gt;
2102
2103 &lt;li&gt;students will love the openness of the system, and will want to
2104     experiment with it - maybe we need to harvest the native curiosity
2105     of teenagers more?&lt;/li&gt;
2106
2107 &lt;li&gt;there is no &quot;right one&quot; when it comes to strategies, but it would
2108     be useful to have some success stories published somewhere, so
2109     other can get some inspiration from them (I know I&#39;d promote
2110     them!)&lt;/li&gt;
2111
2112 &lt;li&gt;more active promotion - talks, conferences, even small school
2113     lectures can do magical things if they encounter at least one
2114     person interested. Who knows who that person might be? ;-)&lt;/li&gt;
2115
2116 &lt;/ul&gt;
2117
2118 &lt;p&gt;I also see some problems in getting Skolelinux into schools; for
2119 example, in our country we have a great deal of corruption issues, so
2120 it might be hard(er) to fight against proprietary solutions. Also,
2121 people who relied on commercial software for all their lives, would be
2122 very hard to convert against their will.&lt;/p&gt;
2123 </description>
2124         </item>
2125
2126         <item>
2127                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</title>
2128                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</link>
2129                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</guid>
2130                 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
2131                 <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a certain cross-over between the
2132 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
2133 project&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edubuntu.org/&quot;&gt;the Edubuntu
2134 project&lt;/a&gt;, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
2135 effort between the projects.  One person with a foot in both camps is
2136 Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.&lt;/p&gt;
2137
2138 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2139
2140 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
2141 days vary quite a bit since I&#39;m involved in too many things. As I&#39;m
2142 getting older I&#39;m learning how to focus a bit more :)&lt;/p&gt;
2143
2144 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
2145 opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
2146 each other.&lt;/p&gt;
2147
2148 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
2149 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2150
2151 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
2152 first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
2153 [Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
2154 London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
2155 Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
2156 it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
2157 was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
2158 day I have a big todo list backlog that I&#39;m catching up with. I think
2159 over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
2160 been gradually improving, although I think there&#39;s a lot that we could
2161 still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I&#39;m sure
2162 we&#39;ll get there one day.&lt;/p&gt;
2163
2164 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
2165 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2166
2167 &lt;p&gt;Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
2168 it for pages, but in essence I love that it&#39;s a very honest project
2169 that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
2170 very high quality work.&lt;/p&gt;
2171
2172 &lt;p&gt;I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
2173 set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
2174 with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
2175 helps to standardise installations in schools so that it&#39;s easier for
2176 community members and commercial suppliers to support.&lt;/p&gt;
2177
2178 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
2179 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2180
2181 &lt;p&gt;I had to re-type this one a few times because I&#39;m trying to
2182 separate &quot;disadvantages&quot; from &quot;areas that need improvement&quot; (which is
2183 what I originally rambled on about)&lt;/p&gt;
2184
2185 &lt;p&gt;The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
2186 project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
2187 think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
2188 content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
2189 on. When you&#39;ve been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
2190 years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
2191 concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
2192 more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I&#39;d love to be one
2193 myself but I&#39;m already so over-committed that it&#39;s just not possible
2194 currently.&lt;/p&gt;
2195
2196 &lt;p&gt;I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
2197 for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
2198 their skills in-house. I&#39;m often saddened to see how much money
2199 educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don&#39;t
2200 have access to after the service has ended and they could&#39;ve gotten so
2201 much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
2202 autonomous.&lt;/p&gt;
2203
2204 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2205
2206 &lt;p&gt;My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
2207 Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
2208 some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
2209 particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
2210 so I suppose I&#39;ll soon be able to regain that disk space :)&lt;/p&gt;
2211
2212 &lt;p&gt;Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
2213 git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I&#39;ve been torn on
2214 which desktop environment I like and I&#39;m taking some refuge in Xfce
2215 while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
2216 Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
2217 it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
2218 up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
2219 X.&lt;/p&gt;
2220
2221 &lt;p&gt;I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
2222 using Norton Commander in the early 90&#39;s and it stuck (I think the
2223 people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don&#39;t know how to use
2224 it :p)
2225
2226 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
2227 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2228
2229 &lt;p&gt;I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
2230 many cases it&#39;s appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
2231 don&#39;t think that there&#39;s any particular moral or ethical problem with
2232 that.&lt;/p&gt;
2233
2234 &lt;p&gt;I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
2235 problems in educational institutions and it&#39;s just a shame not taking
2236 advantage of that.&lt;/p&gt;
2237
2238 &lt;p&gt;I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
2239 some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
2240 Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
2241 general concepts. I think that&#39;s very unproductive because firstly, MS
2242 Office&#39;s interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
2243 that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
2244 best solution for them.&lt;/p&gt;
2245
2246 &lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
2247 educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
2248 make a decision that would work for them.&lt;/p&gt;
2249 </description>
2250         </item>
2251
2252         <item>
2253                 <title>Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
2254                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
2255                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
2256                 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
2257                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
2258 today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
2259
2260 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
2261 2013-06-10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2262
2263 &lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
2264 alpha2, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
2265
2266 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2267
2268 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
2269 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
2270 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
2271 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
2272 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
2273 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
2274 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
2275 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
2276 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
2277 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
2278 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
2279 desktop contains
2280 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
2281 than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
2282 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
2283 and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
2284
2285 &lt;p&gt;This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
2286 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
2287 Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
2288
2289 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2290
2291 &lt;ul&gt;
2292
2293 &lt;li&gt;Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1)
2294 &lt;li&gt;Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703).
2295 &lt;li&gt;Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4.
2296 &lt;li&gt;Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default.
2297 &lt;li&gt;Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default.
2298
2299 &lt;/ul&gt;
2300
2301 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2302
2303 &lt;ul&gt;
2304
2305 &lt;li&gt;The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used.
2306 &lt;li&gt;Updated translation of the installation.
2307 &lt;li&gt;New Romanian translation.
2308 &lt;li&gt;Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat.
2309 &lt;li&gt;Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
2310 &lt;li&gt;Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments.
2311 &lt;li&gt;New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile.
2312 &lt;li&gt;Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS.
2313 &lt;li&gt;More testsuite tests.
2314 &lt;li&gt;Make automatic proxy configuration more robust.
2315 &lt;li&gt;Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration.
2316
2317 &lt;li&gt;Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
2318 LTSP in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
2319
2320 &lt;li&gt;Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
2321 them up with GOsa².&lt;/li&gt;
2322
2323 &lt;li&gt;Update IMAP server setup. &lt;/li&gt;
2324
2325 &lt;li&gt;Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
2326 slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
2327 entered password). &lt;/li&gt;
2328
2329 &lt;/ul&gt;
2330
2331 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2332
2333 &lt;ul&gt;
2334
2335 &lt;li&gt;DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.&lt;/li&gt;
2336
2337 &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
2338 available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
2339 missing import feature).&lt;/li&gt;
2340
2341 &lt;li&gt;Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). &lt;/li&gt;
2342
2343 &lt;li&gt;KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
2344 own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
2345 unfixed.&lt;/li&gt;
2346
2347 &lt;/ul&gt;
2348
2349 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2350
2351 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
2352
2353 &lt;ul&gt;
2354
2355 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
2356
2357 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
2358
2359 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
2360
2361 &lt;/ul&gt;
2362
2363 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178
2364 &lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419&lt;/p&gt;
2365
2366 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2367
2368 &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;
2369 </description>
2370         </item>
2371
2372         <item>
2373                 <title>Is there a PHP expert in the building?  Debian Edu need help!</title>
2374                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</link>
2375                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</guid>
2376                 <pubDate>Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
2377                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
2378 We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
2379 hope to get released soon.  The two problems require some with PHP
2380 skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
2381 the project:
2382
2383 &lt;ol&gt;
2384
2385 &lt;li&gt;It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
2386   (slbackup-php) using the root user and password.  This is
2387   &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;BTS report #700257&lt;/a&gt;.
2388   This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
2389   Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?&lt;/li&gt;
2390
2391 &lt;li&gt;It is not possible to &quot;mass import&quot; user lists in Gosa, neither
2392   using ldif nor using CSV files.  The feature was disabled after a
2393   major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
2394   This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;BTS report
2395   #698840&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
2396
2397 &lt;/ol&gt;
2398
2399 &lt;p&gt;If you can help us, please join us on IRC
2400 (&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
2401 irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;) and provide patches via the BTS.&lt;/p&gt;
2402 </description>
2403         </item>
2404
2405         <item>
2406                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</title>
2407                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</link>
2408                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</guid>
2409                 <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
2410                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last English
2411 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
2412 interview last November.  But the developers and translators are still
2413 pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
2414 time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
2415 in the project, Cédric Boutillier.&lt;/p&gt;
2416
2417 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2418
2419 &lt;p&gt;I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
2420 professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
2421 mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
2422 probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.&lt;/p&gt;
2423
2424 &lt;p&gt;I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
2425 and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
2426 packaging, publicity and translation.&lt;/p&gt;
2427
2428 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
2429 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2430
2431 &lt;p&gt;I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
2432 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals&quot;&gt;the
2433 Debian Edu manual&lt;/a&gt; for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
2434 then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
2435 manual.
2436
2437 &lt;p&gt;I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
2438 virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
2439 shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
2440 how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.&lt;/p&gt;
2441
2442 &lt;p&gt;What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
2443 ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
2444 by &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa²&lt;/a&gt;.  What pleased
2445 me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
2446 there were many &quot;traditional&quot; educative software to learn languages,
2447 to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
2448 artistic skills with music (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ardour.org/&quot;&gt;Ardour&lt;/a&gt;,
2449 &lt;a href=&quot;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Audacity&lt;/a&gt;) and
2450 movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
2451 &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
2452
2453 &lt;p&gt;I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
2454 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt;.
2455 Unfortunately, I don&#39;t much time to get more involved in this
2456 beautiful project.&lt;/p&gt;
2457
2458 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
2459 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2460
2461 &lt;p&gt;For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
2462 community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
2463 fact that it provides a solution ready to use.&lt;/p&gt;
2464
2465 &lt;p&gt;I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
2466 distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
2467 of educational free software.&lt;/p&gt;
2468
2469 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
2470 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2471
2472 &lt;p&gt;Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
2473 project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
2474 not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
2475 solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
2476 is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.&lt;/p&gt;
2477
2478 &lt;p&gt;One can find support from a company by looking at
2479 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;the
2480 wiki dokumentation&lt;/a&gt;, where some countries already have a number of
2481 companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
2482 Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
2483 for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
2484 consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
2485 support for Debian Edu as well.&lt;/p&gt;
2486
2487 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2488
2489 &lt;p&gt;I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
2490 most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
2491 scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice.  I am
2492 also using the mathematical software
2493 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about‎&quot;&gt;Scilab&lt;/a&gt; and
2494 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagemath.org/index.html‎&quot;&gt;Sage&lt;/a&gt; (built from
2495 source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
2496
2497 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
2498 using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
2499 statistics?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2500
2501 &lt;p&gt;I do not have any &quot;nice&quot; recommendations for statistics. At our
2502 university, we use both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/‎&quot;&gt;R&lt;/a&gt; and
2503 Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
2504 geometry, there are nice programs:&lt;/p&gt;
2505
2506 &lt;ul&gt;
2507
2508 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drgeo.eu/&quot;&gt;drgeo&lt;/a&gt; and
2509 &lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig‎&quot;&gt;kig&lt;/a&gt; to do
2510 constructions in planar geometry
2511
2512 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html&quot;&gt;kali&lt;/a&gt;
2513 to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
2514 groups), although the interface looks a bit old.&lt;/li&gt;
2515
2516 &lt;/ul&gt;
2517
2518 &lt;p&gt;I like also
2519 &lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor&quot;&gt;cantor&lt;/a&gt;, which
2520 provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
2521 &lt;a href=&quot;http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave‎&quot;&gt;Octave&lt;/a&gt;, etc...&lt;/p&gt;
2522
2523 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
2524 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2525
2526 &lt;p&gt;My suggestions would be to&lt;/p&gt;
2527
2528 &lt;ul&gt;
2529
2530 &lt;li&gt;advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.&lt;/li&gt;
2531
2532 &lt;li&gt;communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
2533     well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
2534     OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.&lt;/li&gt;
2535
2536 &lt;li&gt;advertise the living and strong community around the project.&lt;/li&gt;
2537
2538 &lt;li&gt;show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
2539     system.&lt;/li&gt;
2540
2541 &lt;/ul&gt;
2542 </description>
2543         </item>
2544
2545         <item>
2546                 <title>Educational applications included in Debian Edu / Skolelinux (the screenshot collection :-)</title>
2547                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</link>
2548                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</guid>
2549                 <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jun 2013 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
2550                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Included in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
2551 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, there are quite a lot of educational software.
2552 Created to help teachers teach, and pupils learn.  We have tried to
2553 tag them all using debtags use::learning and role::program, and using
2554 the debtags I was happy to be able to create a collage of the
2555 educational software packages installed by default, sorted by the
2556 debtag field.  Here it is.  Click on a image to learn more about the
2557 program.&lt;/p&gt;
2558
2559 &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;
2560
2561 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::arts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2562 &lt;p&gt;
2563 &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;
2564 &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;
2565 &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;
2566 &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;
2567 &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;
2568 &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;
2569 &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;
2570 &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;
2571 &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;
2572 &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;
2573 &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;
2574 &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;
2575 &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;
2576 &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;
2577 &lt;/p&gt;
2578
2579 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::astronomy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2580 &lt;p&gt;
2581 &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;
2582 &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;
2583 &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;
2584 &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;
2585 &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;
2586 &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;
2587 &lt;/p&gt;
2588
2589 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::biology:structural&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2590 &lt;p&gt;
2591 &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;
2592 &lt;/p&gt;
2593
2594 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::chemistry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2595 &lt;p&gt;
2596 &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;
2597 &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;
2598 &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;
2599 &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;
2600 &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;
2601 &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;
2602 &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;
2603 &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;
2604 &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;
2605 &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;
2606 &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;
2607 &lt;/p&gt;
2608
2609 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::electronics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2610 &lt;p&gt;
2611 &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;
2612 &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;
2613 &lt;/p&gt;
2614
2615 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::geography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2616 &lt;p&gt;
2617 &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;
2618 &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;
2619 &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;
2620 &lt;/p&gt;
2621
2622 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::linguistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2623 &lt;p&gt;
2624 &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;
2625 &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;
2626 &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;
2627 &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;
2628 &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;
2629 &lt;/p&gt;
2630
2631 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::mathematics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2632 &lt;p&gt;
2633 &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;
2634 &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;
2635 &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;
2636 &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;
2637 &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;
2638 &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;
2639 &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;
2640 &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;
2641 &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;
2642 &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;
2643 &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;
2644 &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;
2645 &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;
2646 &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;
2647 &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;
2648 &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;
2649 &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;
2650 &lt;/p&gt;
2651
2652 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::physics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2653 &lt;p&gt;
2654 &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;
2655 &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;
2656 &lt;/p&gt;
2657
2658 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::TODO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2659 &lt;p&gt;
2660 &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;
2661 &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;
2662 &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;
2663 &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;
2664 &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;
2665 &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;
2666 &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;
2667 &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;
2668 &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;
2669 &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;
2670 &lt;/p&gt;
2671
2672 &lt;p&gt;In total, 61 applications.  3 of them lacked screen shots on
2673 &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenshot.debian.net&quot;&gt;screenshot.debian.net&lt;/a&gt;.  If
2674 you know of some packages we should install by default, please let us
2675 know on &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;IRC, #debian-edu
2676 on irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;, or our
2677 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;mailing list
2678 debian-edu@&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
2679 </description>
2680         </item>
2681
2682         <item>
2683                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Nirosan Thiyagalingam</title>
2684                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</link>
2685                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</guid>
2686                 <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
2687                 <description>&lt;p&gt;En ting
2688 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-prosjektet&lt;/a&gt; har
2689 hatt mye glede av er studentprosjekter.  F.eks.  er
2690 &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.org/&quot;&gt;stillbildeanimasjonssystemet
2691 Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt; resultat av et studentprosjekt i Skolelinux.  De siste
2692 månedene har en ivrig student veiledet av Marius Kotsbak i
2693 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRiSK&lt;/a&gt; testet hva en
2694 kan få til med en datamaskin til NOK 400,- (antagelig 1700,- med
2695 skjerm, tastatur og mus) når det brukes i Skolelinux.  Jeg spurte han
2696 om et intervju.&lt;/p&gt;
2697
2698 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2699
2700 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Nirosan Thiyagalingam. Jeg er 24 år og studerer
2701 dataingeniør studiet ved Høgskolen i Sør Trøndelag. Interessen for
2702 data har siden ung alder vært tilstede og jeg har i tillegg alltid
2703 vært glad i å lære nye ting. Med teknologi som endres svært hurtig er
2704 det alltid noe nytt å lære.  Noe som igjen har gjort det svært
2705 interessant å følge med på utviklingen.  Jeg valgte dataingeniør
2706 studiet grunnet ønske om å lære enda mer om programmering og utvikling
2707 av store systemer.&lt;/p&gt;
2708
2709 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2710
2711 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux prosjektet hørte jeg først om i media. Men det var først
2712 når jeg skulle velge bacheloroppgave at jeg fattet mer interesse for
2713 prosjektet. Et enkelt søk på nettet førte meg til skolelinux sine
2714 hjemmesider.  Informasjonen jeg fant der gjorde meg enda nysgjerrig og
2715 jeg valgte derfor en oppgave som gikk ut på å få en
2716 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspberrypi.org&quot;&gt;Raspberry PI&lt;/a&gt;.  Altså en
2717 ultra-billig datamaskin til å kjøre Debian Edu på lik linje med
2718 vanlige datamaskiner. I løpet av prosjektet ble det gjort mye
2719 forskning på nettet. Det var mye jeg måtte forstå rundt hvordan
2720 operativsystemet Linux fungerte før jeg kunne angripe
2721 problemet. Prøvde først å finne ut hvordan man kunne transformere en
2722 vanlig installasjon av Skolelinux til Raspberry PI, men dette var
2723 altfor vanskelig å jeg endte opp med mer spørsmål enn svar. Det ble
2724 videre opprettet kontakt med Skolelinux utviklere på IRC der jeg fikk
2725 diskutert hvilken retning jeg burde gå for å få til en fullverdig
2726 løsning. Det ble bestemt at jeg skulle gå for å først installere
2727 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspbian.org/&quot;&gt;Raspian&lt;/a&gt;. Dette er et
2728 operativsystem basert på Debian spesiallaget for Raspberry Pi sin
2729 maskinvare. Nå som Debian var installert på datamaskinen gjenstod det
2730 å installere de nødvendige Skolelinux pakkene for å få til et
2731 fullverdig system. Disse pakkene ble installert manuelt i første
2732 omgang, men ble senere installert automatisk via et script som Petter
2733 Reinholdtsen laget. Dette scriptet er så enkel å bruke at man er i
2734 gang med installasjonen i løpet av bare 5 minutter. Ikke nok med det,
2735 alt skjer helt automatisk. Alt i alt er jeg veldig fornøyd med
2736 resultatet av installasjonsprosessen. Raspberry Pi er en veldig svak
2737 maskin og det merkes godt når man har installert Skolelinux på
2738 den. Video og 3D-rendering fungerer utrolig dårlig, men nettsurfing og
2739 kontorprogrammer fungerer godt.  Det kan derfor konkluderes med at
2740 datamaskinen er egnet for enkle oppgaver.
2741
2742 &lt;p&gt;Jeg syns det er viktig påpeke at dette kun er startfasen av en slik
2743 løsning. På markedet finnes det nå maskiner som har bedre hardware enn
2744 Raspberry Pi. Det er store muligheter for at man kan klare å
2745 installere Skolelinux på disse også, og da forsvinner nok mest
2746 sannsynlig ytelsesproblemene med Video og 3D rendering også.&lt;/p&gt;
2747
2748 &lt;p&gt;Det ble også prøvd med en løsning som gjorde at Raspberry Pi
2749 fungerte som en tynnklient. Denne løsningen hadde langt bedre ytelse
2750 med tanke på hastighet og brukeropplevelse. Men også her var video og
2751 3D rendering dårlig. Det ble brukt en liten Linux distribusjon kalt
2752 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berryterminal.com/&quot;&gt;BerryTerminal&lt;/a&gt; for å få til
2753 dette.&lt;/p&gt;
2754
2755 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2756
2757 &lt;p&gt;Fordelen med Skolelinux er mange. At det er gratis er en stor
2758 fordel, men at det er så mange som er med på å utvikle det og
2759 vedlikeholde det er en enda større fordel. Allerede før jeg startet
2760 med prosjektet så jeg mange fordeler, og når jeg nærmet meg sluttfasen
2761 så jeg langt flere. At prosjektet skulle inneha en så høy kvalitet
2762 hadde jeg aldri trodd. En vanlig Skolelinux installasjon har de
2763 nødvendige programmene og funksjonen som både små og store skoler i
2764 tillegg til organisasjoner kan klare seg med.  At prosjektet tilbyr en
2765 så komplett løsning er en kjempefordel.  Installasjonen er knirkefri
2766 og det er svært enkelt å installere og komme i gang.&lt;/p&gt;
2767
2768 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2769
2770 &lt;p&gt;Ulempene jeg ser med prosjektet er ryddigheten av websidene. Selv
2771 om websidene er enkle og konsise er det allikevel ikke appellerende i
2772 like stor grad som for eksempel
2773 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; sine sider.  Deres side
2774 tilbyr, i tillegg til godt design og presentasjon, en nettbasert
2775 emulator av deres operativsystem. Dette er en stor fordel slik jeg ser
2776 det.  Bortsett fra dette ser jeg absolutt ingen ulemper med
2777 Skolelinux-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
2778
2779 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2780
2781 &lt;p&gt;Til daglig er jeg en flittig bruker av det åpne media
2782 sentersystemet &lt;a href=&quot;http://xbmc.org/&quot;&gt;XBMC&lt;/a&gt;. Det enorme
2783 samfunnet rundt dette prosjektet har gjort dette til et program som
2784 dekker alles behov. Man kan tilpasse det akkurat slik man vil både med
2785 tanke på utseende og funksjoner ved installere plug-ins eller
2786 scripts.&lt;/p&gt;
2787
2788 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
2789 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2790
2791 &lt;p&gt;Strategien som burde brukes sett fra mine øyne er
2792 markedsføring. Jeg er sikker på at om flere skoler fikk et lite innsyn
2793 i hvor bra Skolelinux er så ville de ikke nølt med å gå over fra noe
2794 annet som koster de store summer. At skolelinux til de grader tilbyr
2795 en så komplett løsning bure komme frem. Enten via reklamekampanjer
2796 eller ved å sende ut folk til skoler for så å la skolenettverk
2797 ansvarlige få teste ut hvordan Skolelinux fungerer i praksis. Om det
2798 i tillegg ble utviklet gode websider og en emulator for å la brukere
2799 prøve operativsystemet ville nok dette ha styrket inntrykket
2800 betraktelig.&lt;/p&gt;
2801 </description>
2802         </item>
2803
2804         <item>
2805                 <title>How to transform a Debian based system to a Debian Edu installation</title>
2806                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</link>
2807                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</guid>
2808                 <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
2809                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is
2810 an operating system based on Debian intended for use in schools.  It
2811 contain a turn-key solution for the computer network provided to
2812 pupils in the primary schools.  It provide both the central server,
2813 network boot servers and desktop environments with heaps of
2814 educational software.  The project was founded almost 12 years ago,
2815 2001-07-02.  If you want to support the project, which is in need for
2816 cash to fund developer gatherings and other project related activity,
2817 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html&quot;&gt;please
2818 donate some money&lt;/a&gt;.
2819
2820 &lt;p&gt;A topic that come up again and again on the Debian Edu mailing
2821 lists and elsewhere, is the question on how to transform a Debian or
2822 Ubuntu installation into a Debian Edu installation.  It isn&#39;t very
2823 hard, and last week I wrote a script to replicate the steps done by
2824 the Debian Edu installer.&lt;/p&gt;
2825
2826 &lt;p&gt;The script,
2827 &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;
2828 in the debian-edu-config package, will go through these six steps and
2829 transform an existing Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu (untested) installation
2830 into a Debian Edu Workstation:&lt;/p&gt;
2831
2832 &lt;ol&gt;
2833
2834 &lt;li&gt;Add skolelinux related APT sources.&lt;/li&gt;
2835 &lt;li&gt;Create /etc/debian-edu/config with the wanted configuration.&lt;/li&gt;
2836 &lt;li&gt;Install debian-edu-install to load preseeding values and pull in
2837     our configuration.&lt;/li&gt;
2838 &lt;li&gt;Preseed debconf database with profile setup in
2839     /etc/debian-edu/config, and run tasksel to install packages
2840     according to the profile specified in the config above,
2841     overriding some of the Debian automation machinery.&lt;/li&gt;
2842 &lt;li&gt;Run debian-edu-cfengine-D installation to configure everything
2843     that could not be done using preseeding.&lt;/li&gt;
2844 &lt;li&gt;Ask for a reboot to enable all the configuration changes.&lt;/li&gt;
2845
2846 &lt;/ol&gt;
2847
2848 &lt;p&gt;There are some steps in the Debian Edu installation that can not be
2849 replicated like this.  Disk partitioning and LVM setup, for example.
2850 So this script just assume there is enough disk space to install all
2851 the needed packages.&lt;/p&gt;
2852
2853 &lt;p&gt;The script was created to help a Debian Edu student working on
2854 setting up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspberrypi.org&quot;&gt;Raspberry Pi&lt;/a&gt; as a
2855 Debian Edu client, and using it he can take the existing
2856 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspbian.org/FrontPage‎&quot;&gt;Raspbian&lt;/a&gt; installation and
2857 transform it into a fully functioning Debian Edu Workstation (or
2858 Roaming Workstation, or whatever :).&lt;/p&gt;
2859
2860 &lt;p&gt;The default setting in the script is to create a KDE Workstation.
2861 If a LXDE based Roaming workstation is wanted instead, modify the
2862 PROFILE and DESKTOP values at the top to look like this instead:&lt;/p&gt;
2863
2864 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
2865 PROFILE=&quot;Roaming-Workstation&quot;
2866 DESKTOP=&quot;lxde&quot;
2867 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2868
2869 &lt;p&gt;The script could even become useful to set up Debian Edu servers in
2870 the cloud, by starting with a virtual Debian installation at some
2871 virtual hosting service and setting up all the services on first
2872 boot.&lt;/p&gt;
2873 </description>
2874         </item>
2875
2876         <item>
2877                 <title>Second alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
2878                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
2879                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
2880                 <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
2881                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
2882 project&lt;/a&gt; is making great progress and made its second Wheezy based
2883 release today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
2884
2885 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released
2886 2013-05-14&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2887
2888 &lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
2889 alpha1, based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; with
2890 codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
2891
2892 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2893
2894 &lt;p&gt;Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
2895 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
2896 configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
2897 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
2898 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
2899 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
2900 initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
2901 other machines can be installed via the network.&lt;/p&gt;
2902
2903 &lt;p&gt;This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
2904 not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
2905 version compared to the Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
2906
2907 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2908 &lt;ul&gt;
2909   &lt;li&gt;Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
2910     default.&lt;/li&gt;
2911   &lt;li&gt;Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.&lt;/li&gt;
2912   &lt;li&gt;Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.&lt;/li&gt;
2913   &lt;li&gt;Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
2914     ibus-anthy.&lt;/li&gt;
2915 &lt;/ul&gt;
2916
2917 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2918 &lt;ul&gt;
2919
2920   &lt;li&gt;Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
2921     reliability improvements.&lt;/li&gt;
2922   &lt;li&gt;Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
2923     of &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/706434&quot;&gt;706434&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
2924   &lt;li&gt;Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
2925     problems.&lt;/li&gt;
2926   &lt;li&gt;Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
2927     direct:// URL.&lt;/li&gt;
2928   &lt;li&gt;Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.&lt;/li&gt;
2929   &lt;li&gt;Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.&lt;/li&gt;
2930   &lt;li&gt;Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.&lt;/li&gt;
2931   &lt;li&gt;Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
2932     servers, to make room for all the software installed.&lt;/li&gt;
2933   &lt;li&gt;Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
2934     log in (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/706753&quot;&gt;706753&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
2935 &lt;/ul&gt;
2936
2937 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2938 &lt;ul&gt;
2939
2940   &lt;li&gt;IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
2941     (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/705900&quot;&gt;705900&lt;/a&gt;).  Only install
2942     libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
2943   &lt;li&gt;DVD images are not yet ready.&lt;/li&gt;
2944   &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
2945     available yet (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;698840&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
2946   &lt;li&gt;Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).&lt;/li&gt;
2947   &lt;li&gt;KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.&lt;/li&gt;
2948   &lt;li&gt;LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
2949     (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.&lt;/li&gt;
2950   &lt;li&gt;Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
2951     password submission problem
2952     (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;700257&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
2953
2954 &lt;/ul&gt;
2955
2956 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2957
2958 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
2959 &lt;ul&gt;
2960
2961   &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;
2962   &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;
2963   &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;
2964
2965 &lt;/ul&gt;
2966
2967 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b&lt;/p&gt;
2968
2969 &lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c&lt;/p&gt;
2970
2971 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
2972
2973 &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;
2974 </description>
2975         </item>
2976
2977         <item>
2978                 <title>Narvik sparer minst 9 millioner på å bruke Skolelinux</title>
2979                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</link>
2980                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</guid>
2981                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
2982                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I fjor sommer ble jeg
2983 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html&quot;&gt;gledelig
2984 overrasket&lt;/a&gt; over et oppslag i avisen Fremover om Narvik kommunes
2985 bruk av &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  Oppslaget
2986 var basert på et notat som besvarte spørsmål fra ordfører Tor Nysæter
2987 og rådgiver for skolesektoren, Petter Falkbu, om bruken av Skolelinux
2988 i Narvikskolene og konstnaden ved å gå over til Windows.  For litt
2989 over en uke siden siden fikk jeg endelig bedt kommunen om å få innsyn
2990 i dette notatet, og det ble oversendt på epost tirsdag.  Jeg fikk
2991 &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
2992 ut notatet&lt;/a&gt; samme dag, og fikk i dag sjekket postlista til Narvik,
2993 der jeg fant notatet som
2994 &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
2995 2013/1023&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
2996
2997 &lt;p&gt;Notatet forteller at Narvik ville måtte betalt minst 9 millioner
2998 for å gå over til Windows på skolene.  I tillegg dokumenterer notatet
2999 at læreplanens krav oppfylles uten problemer ved bruk av Skolelinux.
3000 Jeg anbefaler alle å lese de 10 sidene med gode argumenter for å kutte
3001 unødige utgifter på IT i skoleverket. :)&lt;/p&gt;
3002 </description>
3003         </item>
3004
3005         <item>
3006                 <title>Debian Wheezy is out - and Debian Edu / Skolelinux should soon follow! #newinwheezy</title>
3007                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</link>
3008                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</guid>
3009                 <pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 07:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
3010                 <description>&lt;p&gt;When I woke up this morning, I was very happy to see that the
3011 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504&quot;&gt;release announcement
3012 for Debian Wheezy&lt;/a&gt; was waiting in my mail box.  This is a great
3013 Debian release, and I expect to move my machines at home over to it fairly
3014 soon.&lt;/p&gt;
3015
3016 &lt;p&gt;The new debian release contain heaps of new stuff, and one program
3017 in particular make me very happy to see included.  The
3018 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scratch.mit.edu/&quot;&gt;Scratch&lt;/a&gt; program, made famous by
3019 the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.code.org/&quot;&gt;Teach kids code&lt;/a&gt; movement, is
3020 included for the first time.  Alongside similar programs like
3021 &lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/&quot;&gt;kturtle&lt;/a&gt; and
3022 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art&quot;&gt;turtleart&lt;/a&gt;,
3023 it allow for visual programming where syntax errors can not happen,
3024 and a friendly programming environment for learning to control the
3025 computer.  Scratch will also be included in the next release of Debian
3026 Edu.&lt;/a&gt;
3027
3028 &lt;p&gt;And now that Wheezy is wrapped up, we can wrap up the next Debian
3029 Edu/Skolelinux release too.  The
3030 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/04/msg00132.html&quot;&gt;first
3031 alpha release&lt;/a&gt; went out last week, and the next should soon
3032 follow.&lt;p&gt;
3033 </description>
3034         </item>
3035
3036         <item>
3037                 <title>First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
3038                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
3039                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
3040                 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
3041                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
3042 its first Wheezy based release today.  This is the release
3043 announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
3044
3045 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
3046 2013-04-26&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3047
3048 &lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
3049 edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
3050
3051 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3052
3053 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
3054 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
3055 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
3056 network. Immediatly after installation a school server running all
3057 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
3058 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
3059 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
3060 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
3061 installed via the network.&lt;/p&gt;
3062
3063 &lt;p&gt;This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
3064 not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
3065 version compared to the Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
3066
3067 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3068
3069 &lt;ul&gt;
3070 &lt;li&gt;Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
3071   &lt;ul&gt;
3072      &lt;li&gt;Linux kernel 3.2.x&lt;/li&gt;
3073      &lt;li&gt;Desktop environments KDE &quot;Plasma&quot; 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
3074          (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
3075          manual.)&lt;/li&gt;
3076      &lt;li&gt;Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR&lt;/li&gt;
3077      &lt;li&gt;LibreOffice 3.5.4&lt;/li&gt;
3078      &lt;li&gt;LTSP 5.4.2&lt;/li&gt;
3079      &lt;li&gt;GOsa 2.7.4&lt;/li&gt;
3080      &lt;li&gt;CUPS print system 1.5.3&lt;/li&gt;
3081      &lt;li&gt;Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01&lt;/li&gt;
3082      &lt;li&gt;Music creator Rosegarden 12.04&lt;/li&gt;
3083      &lt;li&gt;Image editor Gimp 2.8.2&lt;/li&gt;
3084      &lt;li&gt;Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1&lt;/li&gt;
3085      &lt;li&gt;Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3&lt;/li&gt;
3086      &lt;li&gt;Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6&lt;/li&gt;
3087      &lt;li&gt;New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
3088          &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual&quot;&gt;installation
3089          manual&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/li&gt;
3090      &lt;li&gt;Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
3091          installation.&lt;/li&gt;
3092      &lt;li&gt;More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
3093          &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;
3094   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3095 &lt;/ul&gt;
3096
3097 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Documentation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3098 &lt;ul&gt;
3099 &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
3100     German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
3101     for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.&lt;/li&gt;
3102 &lt;/ul&gt;
3103
3104 &lt;p&gt;&lt;Strong&gt;LDAP related changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3105 &lt;ul&gt;
3106 &lt;li&gt;Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
3107     choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
3108     server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.&lt;/li&gt;
3109 &lt;/ul&gt;
3110
3111 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3112 &lt;ul&gt;
3113 &lt;li&gt;LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
3114     configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
3115     entry in lts.conf or LDAP.&lt;li&gt;
3116 &lt;li&gt;GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
3117     functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
3118     completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.&lt;/li&gt;
3119 &lt;/ul&gt;
3120
3121 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regressions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3122 &lt;ul&gt;
3123 &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
3124     yet.&lt;/li&gt;
3125 &lt;/ul&gt;
3126
3127 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No updated artwork&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3128
3129 &lt;ul&gt;
3130 &lt;li&gt;Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
3131     screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
3132     had for our Squeeze based release.&lt;/li&gt;
3133 &lt;/ul&gt;
3134
3135 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3136
3137 To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
3138 &lt;ul&gt;
3139 &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;
3140 &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;
3141 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&lt;/li&gt;
3142 &lt;/ul&gt;
3143
3144 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c&lt;/p&gt;
3145
3146 &lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2&lt;/p&gt;
3147
3148 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3149
3150 &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;
3151 </description>
3152         </item>
3153
3154         <item>
3155                 <title>First Debian Edu / Skolelinux developer gathering in 2013 take place in Trondheim</title>
3156                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_developer_gathering_in_2013_take_place_in_Trondheim.html</link>
3157                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_developer_gathering_in_2013_take_place_in_Trondheim.html</guid>
3158                 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
3159                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This years first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux /
3160 Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; developer gathering take place the coming weekend in Trondheim.
3161 Details about the gathering can be found
3162 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2013-04-19-21-Trondheim&quot;&gt;on
3163 the FRiSK wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  The dates are 19-21th of April 2013, and online
3164 participation for those unable to make it in person is very welcome,
3165 and I plan to participate online myself as I could not leave Oslo this
3166 weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
3167
3168 &lt;p&gt;The focus of the gathering is to work on the web pages and project
3169 infrastructure, and to continue the work on the Wheezy based Debian
3170 Edu release.&lt;/p&gt;
3171
3172 &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;
3173 </description>
3174         </item>
3175
3176         <item>
3177                 <title>Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz</title>
3178                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</link>
3179                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</guid>
3180                 <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
3181                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Via
3182 &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;
3183 I just discovered that &lt;a href=&quot;http://pcwizz.net/&quot;&gt;Pcwizz&lt;/a&gt; have
3184 done a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc&quot;&gt;video
3185 review&lt;/a&gt; on Youtube of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
3186 / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; version 6.  He installed the standalone profile and
3187 the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of
3188 a few programs and his view of our distribution.&lt;/p&gt;
3189
3190 &lt;p&gt;There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might
3191 have heard wrong).  While looking thought the Graphics menu:&lt;/p&gt;
3192
3193 &lt;blockquote&gt;
3194 &quot;Basically everything you ever need in a school environment.&quot;
3195 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
3196
3197 &lt;p&gt;And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:&lt;/p&gt;
3198
3199 &lt;blockquote&gt;
3200 &quot;So, yeah, a bit bloated.  It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just
3201 to keep it nice and GNU.  So, I do not want to go on about it, but
3202 lets give it 7 out of 10.  I am not going to use it.  That is because
3203 I am not deploying a school network.  There may be some mythical
3204 feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network.&quot;
3205 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
3206
3207 &lt;p&gt;To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE
3208 installation option.  It make it possible to install only the main
3209 server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be
3210 considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)&lt;/p&gt;
3211
3212 &lt;p&gt;While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment
3213 about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem:
3214
3215 &lt;blockquote&gt;
3216 &quot;[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one
3217 is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you
3218 actually don&#39;t need in the education distribution, but have just been
3219 included because it isn&#39;t stripped out for some reason.&quot;
3220 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
3221
3222 &lt;p&gt;I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and
3223 Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into
3224 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries&quot;&gt;one
3225 consistent menu system&lt;/a&gt; instead of two incomplete and partly
3226 inconsistent menu systems.&lt;/p&gt;
3227
3228 &lt;p&gt;The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe
3229 embedding:&lt;/p&gt;
3230
3231 &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;
3232 </description>
3233         </item>
3234
3235         <item>
3236                 <title>First Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze update released</title>
3237                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_update_released.html</link>
3238                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_update_released.html</guid>
3239                 <pubDate>Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
3240                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Last Sunday, 2013-03-03,, Holger Levsen announced the first update
3241 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt;
3242 based on Debian Squeeze.  This is the first update since
3243 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;the
3244 initial release 2012-03-11&lt;/a&gt;.  This is the
3245 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2013/03/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;release
3246 announcement email from Holger&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
3247
3248 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
3249
3250 &lt;p&gt;it&#39;s my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Debian
3251 Edu 6.0.7+r1 (&quot;Debian Edu Squeeze&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;
3252
3253 &lt;p&gt;Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 is an incremental update to Debian Edu
3254 6.0.4+r0, containing all the changes between Debian 6.0.4 and 6.0.7 as
3255 well Debian Edu specific bugfixes and enhancements. See below (in this
3256 mail) for the full list of (edu) changes.  Please see
3257 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311&lt;/a&gt;
3258 for more information on &quot;Debian Edu Squeeze&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
3259
3260 &lt;p&gt;Images are available for download at
3261 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3262
3263 &lt;p&gt;md5sums:
3264 &lt;br&gt;1fe79eb4f0f9ae1c58fc318e26cc1e2e  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-CD.iso
3265 &lt;br&gt;a6ddd924a8bd9a1b5ca122e8fe1c34ec  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
3266 &lt;br&gt;ac6c72cd7925ccec51bfbf58e2a7c69c  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-source-DVD.iso&lt;/p&gt;
3267
3268 &lt;p&gt;sha1sums:
3269 &lt;br&gt;a4b58233b672a99c7df8dc24fb6de3327654a5c3  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-CD.iso
3270 &lt;br&gt;9b524915e0ff2aa793f13d93123e5bd2bab2dbaa  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
3271 &lt;br&gt;43997614893fc5e9e59ad6ce066b05d07fd836fa  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-source-DVD.iso&lt;/p&gt;
3272
3273 &lt;p&gt;These images are suitable for amd64+i386.&lt;/p&gt;
3274
3275 &lt;p&gt;Changes for Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 Codename &quot;Squeeze&quot;, released
3276 2013-03-03:&lt;/p&gt;
3277
3278 &lt;ul&gt;
3279   &lt;li&gt;sitesummary was updated from 0.1.3 to 0.1.8
3280   &lt;ul&gt;
3281         &lt;li&gt;Make Nagios configuration more robust and efficient&lt;/li&gt;
3282         &lt;li&gt;Comply with 3.X kernel&lt;/li&gt;
3283   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3284   &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-doc from 1.4~20120310~6.0.4+r0 to 1.4~20130228~6.0.7+r1
3285   &lt;ul&gt;
3286         &lt;li&gt;Minor updates from the wiki&lt;/li&gt;
3287         &lt;li&gt;Danish translation now complete&lt;/li&gt;
3288   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3289   &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-config from 1.453 to 1.455
3290      &lt;ul&gt;
3291         &lt;li&gt;Fix /etc/hosts for LTSP diskless workstations. Closes: #699880&lt;/li&gt;
3292         &lt;li&gt;Make ltsp_local_mount script work for multiple devices.&lt;/li&gt;
3293         &lt;li&gt;Correct Kerberos user policy: don&#39;t expire password after 2 days.
3294                 Closes: #664596&lt;/li&gt;
3295         &lt;li&gt;Handle &#39;#&#39; characters in the root or first users password.
3296                 Closes: #664976&lt;/li&gt;
3297         &lt;li&gt;Fixes for gosa-sync:
3298            &lt;ul&gt;
3299                 &lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t fail if password contains &quot;&lt;/li&gt;
3300                 &lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t disclose new password string in syslog&lt;/li&gt;
3301            &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3302         &lt;li&gt;Fixes for gosa-create:
3303            &lt;ul&gt;
3304                 &lt;li&gt;Invalidate libnss cache before applying changes&lt;/li&gt;
3305                 &lt;li&gt;Multiple failures during mass user import into GOsa²&lt;/li&gt;
3306                 &lt;li&gt;gosa-netgroups plugin: don&#39;t erase entries of attribute type
3307                          &quot;memberNisNetgroup&quot;. Closes: #687256&lt;/li&gt;
3308                 &lt;li&gt;First user now uses the same Kerberos policy as all other users&lt;/li&gt;
3309            &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3310         &lt;li&gt;Add Danish web page&lt;/li&gt;
3311     &lt;/ul&gt;
3312   &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-install from 1.528 to 1.530
3313     &lt;ul&gt;
3314         &lt;li&gt;Improve preseeding support and documentation&lt;/li&gt;
3315     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3316 &lt;/ul&gt;
3317
3318 &lt;p&gt;End-user documentation in English is available at
3319 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/&lt;/a&gt;
3320 - translations to French, Italian, Danish and German are available in
3321 the debian-edu-doc package. (Other languages could use your help!)&lt;/p&gt;
3322
3323 &lt;p&gt;If you want to contribute to Debian Edu, please join our
3324 mailinglist
3325 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@lists.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;!
3326 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
3327
3328 &lt;p&gt;I am very happy to see the fruits of a year of hard work. :)&lt;/p&gt;
3329 </description>
3330         </item>
3331
3332         <item>
3333                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Helge Tore Høyland</title>
3334                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Helge_Tore_H_yland.html</link>
3335                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Helge_Tore_H_yland.html</guid>
3336                 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
3337                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter en lang pause og travle uker har jeg endelig klart å få
3338 samlet et nytt intervju med en av folkene i
3339 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet.
3340 Denne gang er det Helge Tore Høyland, en mangeårig bidragsyter på
3341 epostlistene og ellers i prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
3342
3343 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3344
3345 &lt;p&gt;Eg er IT-konsulent/teknikker hjå eit firma i Steinkjer med navn
3346 &lt;a href=&quot;http://unoit.no/&quot;&gt;Uno IT&lt;/a&gt;.  Uno IT er eit lite firma som
3347 drifter nettverk og maskiner for små og mellomstore firma
3348 Steinkjer-området. Per dags dato er me 2 ansatte. Min faglege bakgrunn
3349 er Fagbrev som it-teknikker, samt nokre fag innen nettverk- og
3350 server-drift frå HiST og NTNU. Dagleg arbeid består i oppsett av nye
3351 maskiner og hjelp til sluttbrukere, samt oppsett og vedlikehold av eit
3352 vidt spekter av fagsystemer ute hjå kunder. Erfaring med Skolelinux
3353 har eg hatt i forbindelse med drifting av
3354 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bjorkly.no/&quot;&gt;Bjørkly skule&lt;/a&gt;, ein privat
3355 grunnskule i Namsos-området.  I dag har skulen 65 elever, 15 lærere, 1
3356 hovedserver og ca 60 klienter som kjører halvtjukt.  Eg har bygd og
3357 driftet systemet sidan summaren 2006.&lt;/p&gt;
3358
3359 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3360
3361 &lt;p&gt;Eg kom i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet via ein artikkel i eit
3362 fagblad, som eg ikkje lenger hugsar namnet på.  I og med at eg allereie
3363 hadde pusla med nettverk for ein annan skule, fatta eg straks
3364 interesse for prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
3365
3366 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3367
3368 &lt;p&gt;Fordelane med Skolelinux er sentralisert administrasjon og svært
3369 mange gode verktøy «ut av boksen». Veldig kjekt å kunne drifte 60
3370 klientar med berre å «bry» seg med ein server. Levetid for systemets
3371 hardware er og ein veldig fin effekt. I tillegg kjem fordelar som økt
3372 sikkerhet og mindre lisenskostnader. Etter min erfaring er det og
3373 mykje mindre driftskostnader med eit slikt system enn konkurrerande
3374 system, pga enkelhet med sentralisert administrasjon. På grunn av at
3375 Skolelinux er basert på Debian er det òg svært stabilt.&lt;/p&gt;
3376
3377 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3378
3379 &lt;p&gt;Ulemper er mangel på vilje til å følge standarer ute i markedet,
3380 som fører til mangel på støtte til nokre mykje brukte ting. Flash og
3381 Java er typiske eksempel. Sidan Debian satsar på stabilitet framfor å
3382 ha nyeste pakke av eit program, kan ein i nokre tilfeller kome borti
3383 at program vert «for gamle». Det er spesielt nettlesaren som er
3384 utsett. Mangel på vilje til å utvikle pedagogisk programvare, i Noreg,
3385 for «alle» platformer fører òg til noko hovudbry.&lt;/p&gt;
3386
3387 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3388
3389 &lt;p&gt;Til dagleg bruker eg svært mange forskjellige «fri programvare»
3390 program.  Firefox, Thunderbird, Freecommander, ImgBurn, Clonezilla,
3391 OCS inventory, Icinga, Skolelinux, SystemRescueCD og mykje meir.&lt;/p&gt;
3392
3393 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
3394 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3395
3396 &lt;p&gt;Strategisk må ein fokusere på at sluttbruker eigentleg ikkje er så
3397 fokusert på at det er fri programvare men at det skal «berre fungere».
3398 Gjer det enkelt å bruker og ikkje minst å administrere. For Skolelinux
3399 sin del må ein få eit betre fokus på overganger. Utbytting av servere
3400 må gå meir automatisk, import og eksport av brukerbase og maskinbase
3401 med meir må kunne gå enkelt og oppgradering til neste versjon må bli
3402 mykje meir automatisk og gjennomtesta. Ein må unngå at ein må sette
3403 opp frå start når ein byter ut ein server eller oppgraderer til neste
3404 versjon. For å få Skolelinux til å bli eit betre alternativ for skular
3405 må ein ha fokus på nettlesaren. Denne må bli «up to date» og støtte
3406 dei protokollar og tillegg som vert brukt av forlag med meir.  Etter
3407 kvart som meir og meir blir flytta ut i «skya» vert dette viktigare og
3408 viktigare. Ein kunne ynskje og jobbe for at forlag med fleire tar i
3409 bruk opne standarer, men inntil det skjer, må systemet kunne brukast
3410 mot desse fagsystema.&lt;/p&gt;
3411
3412 &lt;p&gt;For meg har prosjektet med Skolelinux vore ein svært artig og
3413 lærerik prosess. Miljøet rundt er ikkje enormt stort, dog stort nok,
3414 men det er svært hjelpevillig og engasjert.&lt;/p&gt;
3415 </description>
3416         </item>
3417
3418         <item>
3419                 <title>A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu</title>
3420                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</link>
3421                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</guid>
3422                 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
3423                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I was happy to discover a few days ago that the
3424 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt;
3425 project also this year received a Christmas present from Another
3426 Agency in Trondheim.  NOK 1000,- showed up on our donation account
3427 December 24th.  I want to express our thanks for this very welcome
3428 present.  As the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is very short on
3429 funding these days, and thus lack the money to do regular developer
3430 gatherings, this donation was most welcome.  One developer gathering
3431 cost around NOK 15&amp;nbsp;000,-, so we need quite a lot more to keep the
3432 development pace we want.  Thus, I hope their example this year is
3433 followed by many others. :)&lt;/p&gt;
3434
3435 &lt;p&gt;The public list of donors can be found on
3436 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html&quot;&gt;the
3437 donation page&lt;/a&gt; for the project, which also contain instructions if
3438 you want to donate to the project.&lt;/p&gt;
3439 </description>
3440         </item>
3441
3442         <item>
3443                 <title>Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</title>
3444                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html</link>
3445                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html</guid>
3446                 <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
3447                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I came across
3448 &lt;a href=&quot;http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/&quot;&gt;a blog post from Joey
3449 Hess&lt;/a&gt; describing &lt;a href=&quot;http://ledger-cli.org/&quot;&gt;ledger&lt;/a&gt; and
3450 hledger, a text based system for double-entry accounting.  I found it
3451 interesting, as I am involved with several organizations where
3452 accounting is an issue, and I have not really become too friendly with
3453 the different web based systems we use.  I find it hard to find what I
3454 look for in the menus and even harder try to get sensible data out of
3455 the systems.  Ledger seem different.  The accounting data is kept in
3456 text files that can be stored in a version control system, and there
3457
3458 are at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports&quot;&gt;five
3459 different implementations&lt;/a&gt; able to read the format.  An example
3460 entry look like this, and is simple enough that it will be trivial to
3461 generate entries based on CVS files fetched from the bank:&lt;/p&gt;
3462
3463 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
3464 2004-05-27 Book Store
3465       Expenses:Books                 $20.00
3466       Liabilities:Visa
3467 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
3468
3469 &lt;p&gt;The concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out and
3470 look for others using it.  I found blog posts from
3471 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.spang.cc/posts/hledger_rocks_my_world/&quot;&gt;Christine
3472 Spang&lt;/a&gt;,
3473 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html&quot;&gt;Pete
3474 Keen&lt;/a&gt;,
3475 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2010/11/06/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/&quot;&gt;Andrew
3476 Cantino&lt;/a&gt; and
3477 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/11/29/command-line-double-entry-accounting/&quot;&gt;Ronald
3478 Ip&lt;/a&gt; describing how they use it, as well as a post from
3479 &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ledger-cli/r0oWjwbQ9Bo&quot;&gt;Bradley
3480 M. Kuhn&lt;/a&gt; at the Software Freedom Conservancy.  All seemed like good
3481 recommendations fitting my need.&lt;/p&gt;
3482
3483 &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ledger.html&quot;&gt;ledger&lt;/a&gt;
3484 package is available in Debian Squeeze, while the
3485 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-hledger.html&quot;&gt;hledger&lt;/a&gt;
3486 package only is available in Debian Sid.  As I use Squeeze, ledger
3487 seemed the best choice to get started.&lt;/p&gt;
3488
3489 &lt;p&gt;To get some real data to test on, I wrote a
3490 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/tools/lodo2ledger&quot;&gt;web scraper&lt;/a&gt; for
3491 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lodo.no/&quot;&gt;LODO&lt;/a&gt;, the accounting system used by
3492 the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; association, and started to
3493 play with the data set.  I&#39;m not really deeply into accounting, but I
3494 am able to get a simple balance and accounting status for example
3495 using the &quot;&lt;tt&gt;ledger balance&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; command.  But I will have to
3496 gather more experience before I know if the ledger way is a good fit
3497 for the organisations I am involved in.&lt;/p&gt;
3498 </description>
3499         </item>
3500
3501         <item>
3502                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Angela Fuß</title>
3503                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Angela_Fu_.html</link>
3504                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Angela_Fu_.html</guid>
3505                 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
3506                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is another interview with one of the people in the &lt;a
3507 href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
3508 community.  I am running short on people willing to be interviewed, so
3509 if you know about someone I should interview, Please send me an email.
3510 After asking for many months, I finally managed to lure another one of
3511 the people behind the German
3512 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.it-zukunft-schule.de/&quot;&gt;IT-Zukunft Schule&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
3513 project out from maternity leave to conduct an interview.  Give a warm
3514 welcome to Angela Fuß. :)&lt;/p&gt;
3515
3516 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3517
3518 &lt;p&gt;I am a 39-year-old woman living in the very north of Germany near
3519 Denmark. I live in a patchwork family with &quot;my man&quot; Mike Gabriel, my
3520 two daughters, Mikes daughter and Mikes and my rather newborn son.
3521
3522 &lt;p&gt;At the moment - because of our little baby - I am spending most of
3523 the day by being a caring and organising mom for all the kids.
3524 Besides that I am really involved into and occupied with several inner
3525 growth processes: New born souls always bring the whole familiar
3526 system into movement and that needs time and focus ;-).  We are also
3527 in the middle of buying a house and moving to it.&lt;/p&gt;
3528
3529 &lt;p&gt;In 2013 I will work again in my job in a German foundation for
3530 nature conservation. I am doing public relation work there.  Besides
3531 that - and that is the connection to Skolelinux / Debian Edu - I am
3532 working in our own school project &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; in North
3533 Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the customer
3534 relationship management and the communication processes in the
3535 project.&lt;/p&gt;
3536
3537 &lt;p&gt;Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication
3538 and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener
3539 and a yoga teacher.&lt;/p&gt;
3540
3541 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
3542 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3543
3544 &lt;p&gt;I fell in love with Mike ;-).&lt;/p&gt;
3545
3546 &lt;p&gt;Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into
3547 Free Software.  At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly
3548 founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for
3549 their IT environment.  Often when Mike came home from working at the
3550 newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about
3551 several points where the communication with the schools head or the
3552 teachers did not work.  So we were clear that he would not work for
3553 one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication
3554 between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the
3555 parents.&lt;/p&gt;
3556
3557 &lt;p&gt;Together with our friend and hardware supplier Andreas Buchholz we
3558 started to get an overview of free software solutions suitable for
3559 schools. One day before Christmas 2010 Mike and I had a date with Kurt
3560 Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really interested in building
3561 networks of people and in being in communication we dived into
3562 Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in Northern
3563 Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
3564
3565 &lt;p&gt;For information about our school project you can read
3566 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html&quot;&gt;the
3567 interview with Mike Gabriel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
3568
3569 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
3570 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3571
3572 &lt;p&gt;First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My
3573 answer comes rather from a social point of view.&lt;/p&gt;
3574
3575 &lt;p&gt;The biggest advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu I see is the large
3576 and strong international community of Debian Developers in the
3577 background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs
3578 and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If
3579 something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well
3580 ;-). This is of course a user experience.  What I also get as a big
3581 advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and
3582 works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students,
3583 teachers, parents...&lt;/p&gt;
3584
3585 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
3586 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3587
3588 &lt;p&gt;I will answer this question relating to the internal structure of
3589 Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
3590
3591 &lt;p&gt;What I see as a major disadvantage is that there is a gap between
3592 the group of developers for Debian Edu and the people who make the
3593 marketing, that means the people that bring Skolelinux to the
3594 schools. There is a lack of communication between these two groups and
3595 I think that does not really work for Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
3596
3597 &lt;p&gt;Further I appreciate that Skolelinux / Debian Edu is known as a
3598 do-ocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a
3599 democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good
3600 and helpful.  I am also missing some kind of contact between the
3601 Skolelinux / Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international
3602 level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the
3603 different countries using Skolelinux / Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
3604
3605 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3606
3607 &lt;p&gt;On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop
3608 on.  As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin,
3609 LaTeX and GnuCash. For mails I am using Horde. And I am really fond of
3610 my N900 running with Maemo.&lt;/p&gt;
3611
3612 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
3613 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3614
3615 &lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that in our school project &quot;IT-Zukunft
3616 Schule&quot; we have developed (and keep developing) a great way to get
3617 schools to use Free Software. We have written a detailed concept for
3618 that so I cannot explain the whole thing here. But in a nutshell the
3619 strategy has three crucial pillars:&lt;/p&gt;
3620
3621 &lt;ul&gt;
3622
3623 &lt;li&gt;We really take time to get what sort of stories, questions and
3624 concerns the schools head and the teachers have about using different
3625 kinds of IT and we take time to enrol them into Free Software.&lt;/li&gt;
3626
3627 &lt;li&gt;Our solution for schools is never just technical. In the centre
3628 are always the people who are going to use the software. From the very
3629 beginning of the planning for a school, we tell the schools head that
3630 they are paying us not only for a technical solution for their school,
3631 they also pay us for leading all the communication processes
3632 needed. If they do not want that, we are not working with them because
3633 we cannot give a guarantee for the quality of our work then.&lt;/li&gt;
3634
3635 &lt;li&gt;Another focus lies in the training of teachers and students in
3636 co-administrating the IT-System at their school. They start getting in
3637 contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu community and they get the
3638 offer to become more and more independent from us.&lt;/li&gt;
3639
3640 &lt;/ul&gt;
3641 </description>
3642         </item>
3643
3644         <item>
3645                 <title>Skolelinux noe for Ballangen? (Leserinnlegg til avisen Fremover)</title>
3646                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_noe_for_Ballangen___Leserinnlegg_til_avisen_Fremover_.html</link>
3647                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_noe_for_Ballangen___Leserinnlegg_til_avisen_Fremover_.html</guid>
3648                 <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
3649                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Tirsdag 2012-10-09 sendte jeg følgende leserinnlegg til avisen
3650 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fremover.no/&quot;&gt;Fremover&lt;/a&gt;, etter å ha vært nordpå
3651 noen dager og lest noen gamle aviser.  Publiserer den her i sin helhet
3652 for fremtidig referanse.  Fremover publiserer dessverre ikke
3653 leserinnlegg på nett.&lt;/p&gt;
3654
3655 &lt;blockquote&gt;
3656 &lt;p&gt;To: redaksjon (at) fremover.no
3657 &lt;br&gt;Subject: Leserinnlegg til Fremover: Skolelinux noe for Ballangen?&lt;/p&gt;
3658
3659 &lt;p&gt;Ærede redaktør&lt;/p&gt;
3660
3661 &lt;p&gt;I sommer (2012-07-23) hadde Fremover et oppslag om at Narvik
3662 kommune hadde spart mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de siste årene på
3663 å bruke Skolelinux på sine skoler.  Harstad har også tatt i bruk
3664 Skolelinux på alle sine skoler.  Som tidligere Ballangsværing gledet
3665 det meg stort å se at skoleløsningen vi har utviklet siden 2001 tas i
3666 bruk i området der jeg vokste opp, og dermed bidrar til en bedre og
3667 billigere skolehverdag.&lt;/p&gt;
3668
3669 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er en komplett IT-løsning for elevnettverket på en
3670 skole, med både nettverkstjenester og løsning for elevmaskiner med
3671 pedagogisk programvare, som tillater en å øke levetiden på en
3672 datamaskin i skolen med mange år.  En undersøkelse publisert i mars
3673 2012 viste at de 56 norske skolene som har offentliggjort at de bruker
3674 Skolelinux eller annen Linuxutgave hadde 36% større PC-tetthet enn
3675 landsgjennomsnittet, når en ser på tall rapportert til Grunnskolens
3676 Informasjonssystem.  I følge Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken, IKT-konsulent i
3677 Nord-Odal, fungerer datamaskiner godt til de er 8 til 10 år gamle.&lt;/p&gt;
3678
3679 &lt;p&gt;I høst (2012-09-29) fortalte Fremover hvordan Ballangen kommune har
3680 opparbeidet seg 20 millioner i underskudd og nok havner på Robek-lista
3681 fra nyttår.  Kanskje Ballangen også burde ta i bruk Skolelinux for å
3682 spare penger?  Hvis kommunen mangler kompetanse lokalt på Linux finnes
3683 det kommersielle selskaper som tilbyr driftstjenester rundt
3684 Skolelinux, og jeg bør vel avsløre at jeg selv er involvert i et av
3685 dem, Skolelinux Drift AS.  Kommunen kan dermed få hjelp hvis de ikke
3686 ønsker å bygge opp egen kompetanse.&lt;/p&gt;
3687
3688 &lt;p&gt;Vennlig hilsen
3689 &lt;br&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen
3690 &lt;br&gt;Fri programvareutvikler&lt;/p&gt;
3691
3692 &lt;p&gt;Referanser:&lt;/p&gt;
3693
3694 &lt;ul&gt;
3695
3696 &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;
3697 &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;
3698
3699 &lt;/ul&gt;
3700
3701 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
3702
3703 &lt;p&gt;Innlegget ble så vidt jeg vet trykket i papirutgaven et par dager
3704 senere, men jeg har ikke sett det selv.&lt;/p&gt;
3705 </description>
3706         </item>
3707
3708         <item>
3709                 <title>Trengs flere frivillige til korrektur av den frie norske stavekontrollen</title>
3710                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trengs_flere_frivillige_til_korrektur_av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen.html</link>
3711                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trengs_flere_frivillige_til_korrektur_av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen.html</guid>
3712                 <pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
3713                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/&quot;&gt;Den frie norske stavekontrollen&lt;/a&gt;
3714 består av ca. 1,3 millioner bokmåls- og nynorskord.  Det er mange
3715 kilder til ordene, f.eks. den norske ordbanken, norske nett-aviser,
3716 stavekontrollbrukere og korrekturlesere, og endel feil har sneket seg
3717 inn i databasen over ord.  For å finne og fikse feilene trengs det
3718 korrekturlesing.  Her kommer frivillige inn.&lt;/p&gt;
3719
3720 &lt;p&gt;Hvis du vil bidra med korrektur av orddatabasen, kan du melde deg
3721 frivillig som bokmåls- eller nynorskkorrekturleser og få tilsendt en
3722 liten bunke ord på epost hver dag, lese over og sende inn på epost
3723 tilbake til korrekturlesing-systemet.  Jo flere som sjekker, jo
3724 raskere kommer vi igjennom hele databasen.  Så langt har vi oppdaget
3725 341 bokmålsord og 50 nynorskord som ikke skal vært med i databasen.
3726 Det er nok noen flere.  I tillegg har korrekturleserne oppdaget flere
3727 ord som manglet, og fått lagt dem inn i stavekontrollen.&lt;/p&gt;
3728
3729 &lt;p&gt;Hvis du vil bidra, følg instruksene på
3730 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/dokumentasjon.html&quot;&gt;prosjektsidene&lt;/a&gt;
3731
3732 for nye bidragsytere, og ta kontakt med Håvard eller epostlisten
3733 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lister.ping.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/i18n-no&quot;&gt;i18n-no&lt;/a&gt;.
3734 Gode norskkunnskaper er en fordel, og vilje til å sjekke
3735 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nob-ordbok.uio.no/perl/ordbok.cgi&quot;&gt;ordboka&lt;/a&gt; et
3736 krav!&lt;/p&gt;
3737 </description>
3738         </item>
3739
3740         <item>
3741                 <title>Ny utgave (v2.1) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
3742                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_1__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</link>
3743                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_1__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</guid>
3744                 <pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2012 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
3745                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I helga fikk jeg endelig pakket sammen en ny versjon av den norske
3746 stavekontrollen, og gikk ut versjon 2.1 etter at det var gått fire og
3747 et halvt år siden sist.  I dag fikk vi sendt ut annonseringen.  Her er
3748 det vi sendte ut:&lt;/p&gt;
3749
3750 &lt;p&gt;Oslo, 2012-10-02&lt;/p&gt;
3751
3752 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pressemelding: Ny utgave av norsk stavekontroll med
3753 synonymordliste&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3754
3755 &lt;p&gt;Mer enn fire år etter at forrige utgave av den frie norske
3756 stavekontrollen ble utgitt, er en ny og forbedret versjon klar. Dette er
3757 noe utviklerne er veldig glade for.&lt;/p&gt;
3758
3759 &lt;p&gt;Den største endringen er at byggesystemet for stavekontrollen er
3760 skrevet om til å akseptere ord med bindestrek (f.eks. «e-post»). Litt
3761 over 10.000 slike ordformer er lagt til i orddatabasen. I tillegg er
3762 det kommet en del nye ord og rettelser rapportert inn av de frivillige
3763 som gjennomfører korrektur av orddatabasen i prosjektet. For å få
3764 fortgang i dette korrekturarbeidet er det fint med flere frivillige
3765 som kan bidra i prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
3766
3767 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
3768  - En god og fritt tilgjengelig stavekontroll er en viktig byggestein
3769    for å fremme bruken av korrekt norsk språk, sier prosjektdeltager
3770    Petter Reinholdtsen.
3771 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3772
3773 &lt;p&gt;Takket være samarbeidet med synonymordlisteprosjektet er
3774 synonymordlista for bokmål tilgjengelig sammen med ordlista for bokmål
3775 og nynorsk. En synonymordliste for nynorsk er også med, men den er på
3776 prøvestadiet og meget liten.&lt;/p&gt;
3777
3778 &lt;p&gt;Stavekontrollpakken og synonymordlistene brukes i
3779 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox og
3780 en rekke andre programmer, og på både Windows, Mac OS X, Linux og
3781 BSD.&lt;/p&gt;
3782
3783 &lt;p&gt;Det hele utgis under den frie lisensen GPL og kan fritt lastes ned
3784 fra prosjektsidene på
3785 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org&quot;&gt;no.speling.org&lt;/a&gt;. Ferdige pakker for
3786 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er også tilgjengelige fra samme sted.&lt;/p&gt;
3787
3788 &lt;p&gt;Det norske stavekontrollprosjektet er i kontakt med lignende
3789 prosjekter for blant annet å forbedre stavekontrollteknologien, å
3790 utveksle verktøy for vedlikehold av orddatabasen og å få tilgang til
3791 relevante datasett. Et av disse prosjektene er et separat prosjekt ved
3792 Sametinget som er i gang med å utvikle samisk stavekontroll for blant
3793 annet Microsoft Word og OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
3794
3795 &lt;p&gt;Et søsterprosjekt for å lage grammatikk-kontroll for
3796 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er igangsatt, men har ennå ikke kommet
3797 langt nok til å brukes. Frivillige til å bidra i dette prosjektet er
3798 også svært velkomne.&lt;/p&gt;
3799
3800 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kontaktperson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3801
3802 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
3803 Axel Bojer, prosjektdeltager
3804 &lt;br&gt;E-post: fri_programvare (at) bojer.no
3805 &lt;br&gt;Tlf: +47 954 32 417
3806 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3807
3808 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referanser&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3809
3810 &lt;ul&gt;
3811
3812 &lt;li&gt;Det frie norske stavekontrollprosjektet for bokmål og nynorsk:
3813     &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org&quot;&gt;http://no.speling.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3814 &lt;li&gt;Samiske korrekturverktøy:
3815     &lt;a href=&quot;http://divvun.no/&quot;&gt;http://divvun.no/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
3816 &lt;li&gt;Ordlistene fra Norsk ordbank:
3817     &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;
3818 &lt;li&gt;Last ned ordlistene:
3819     &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;
3820     (PS: no_NO-pack2 for OOo 2.x))&lt;/li&gt;
3821 &lt;/ul&gt;
3822
3823 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fra NEWS-fila i kildekodepakken&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3824
3825 &lt;p&gt;Release 2.1 (2012-09-30)&lt;/p&gt;
3826
3827 &lt;ul&gt;
3828
3829 &lt;li&gt;Switch to new version scheme. Make new version 2.1, not 2.0.11. We do not
3830     release often enough to justify three digits.&lt;/li&gt;
3831 &lt;li&gt;Switch build rules to build OOo v2 thesaurus files, as the v1 build rules
3832     no longer work. This require the libmythes-dev package on Debian.&lt;/li&gt;
3833 &lt;li&gt;Introduce new Makefile variables hyphendir and thesdir to make it easier to
3834     control where to install these.&lt;/li&gt;
3835 &lt;li&gt;Change script used to import from no.speling.org, to load new word
3836     boundaries if at least two people believed the boundaries was correct.&lt;/li&gt;
3837 &lt;li&gt;Added word boundaries for several words (around 500 words) using the
3838     updated script.&lt;/li&gt;
3839 &lt;li&gt;Imported thesarus for bokmål from synonymer.merg.net.&lt;/li&gt;
3840 &lt;li&gt;Rewrote build rules to use = instead of - as combined word marker, thus
3841     allowing words like e-post.&lt;/li&gt;
3842 &lt;li&gt;Imported a lot (around 10k words) of new words with dash (-) in them from
3843     no.speling.org now that it is handled by the build system.&lt;/li&gt;
3844 &lt;/ul&gt;
3845 </description>
3846         </item>
3847
3848         <item>
3849                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</title>
3850                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</link>
3851                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</guid>
3852                 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
3853                 <description>&lt;p&gt;After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
3854 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
3855 community, I finally found time to wrap up another.  This time it is
3856 Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
3857 this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
3858 administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
3859 conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.&lt;/p&gt;
3860
3861 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3862
3863 &lt;p&gt;I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
3864 in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of &quot;light&quot;
3865 university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
3866 Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
3867 IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
3868 got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
3869 labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
3870 the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
3871 training is anyway very important&lt;/p&gt;
3872
3873 &lt;p&gt;I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
3874 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spse.ch/&quot;&gt;SPSE school&lt;/a&gt; (secondary) is a very
3875 special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
3876 all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
3877 recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
3878
3879 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
3880 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3881
3882 &lt;p&gt;Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
3883 already several years ago. But since the system was still not
3884 Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn&#39;t
3885 use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
3886 next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
3887 hole.&lt;/p&gt;
3888
3889 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3890 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3891
3892 &lt;p&gt;Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
3893 very generous for help and hints.  Chat help is crucial, together with
3894 the mailing list.  Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
3895 engineered platform and you don&#39;t have to start to build up your PDC
3896 and your clients from GNU/scratch; I&#39;ve already done this once and I
3897 can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
3898 platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
3899 head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
3900 hassle.&lt;/p&gt;
3901
3902 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
3903 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3904
3905 &lt;p&gt;The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
3906 flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
3907 there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
3908 need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
3909 devices that have specific software packages for another specific
3910 distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
3911 Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
3912 and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
3913
3914 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3915
3916 &lt;p&gt;I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
3917 mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
3918 combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
3919 &lt;a href=&quot;http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html&quot;&gt;Perceus&lt;/a&gt;
3920 has the same...&lt;/p&gt;
3921
3922 &lt;p&gt;For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
3923 only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
3924 something breaks.  Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
3925 statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
3926
3927 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
3928 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
3929
3930 &lt;P&gt;I think that the only real argument that school managers &quot;hear&quot; is
3931 cost reduction. They don&#39;t give too much weight on quality, stability,
3932 just because they are normally not open to change.&lt;/p&gt;
3933
3934 &lt;p&gt;Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
3935 to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
3936 don&#39;t.&lt;/p&gt;
3937
3938 &lt;p&gt;We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
3939 laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
3940 we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
3941 machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
3942 reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
3943 repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
3944 Those who don&#39;t have such needs will hardly move to Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
3945 </description>
3946         </item>
3947
3948         <item>
3949                 <title>Gladoppslag om Skolelinux i avisen Fremover</title>
3950                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html</link>
3951                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html</guid>
3952                 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
3953                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I sommer hadde avisen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fremover.no/&quot;&gt;Fremover&lt;/a&gt;
3954 et flott oppslag om bruken av
3955 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; på alle skolene
3956 der.  Artikkelen var på trykk på side 4 og 5 i papirutgaven
3957 2012-07-23, men mangler dessverre i nettutgaven av avisen.  Mine
3958 henvendelser til avisen for å få artikkelen på nett har så langt ikke
3959 vært vellykket.&lt;/p&gt;
3960
3961 &lt;p&gt;Artikkelen med tittelen &quot;Narvik kommune bruker gratisprogram i
3962 skolen - Har spart millioner&quot;, forteller om hvordan bruken av
3963 Skolelinux er en stor suksess i Narvik siden det ble tatt i bruk i
3964 2004.  Her er noen fine sitater:&lt;/p&gt;
3965
3966 &lt;blockquote&gt;
3967 &quot;- Skolelinux har spart kommunen for store pengesummer, millionbeløp,
3968   som de heller kan bruke på andre ting, sier IKT-konsulent Viggo
3969   Fedreheim.&quot;
3970 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
3971
3972 &lt;p&gt;Avisen forteller at de har fått tilgang til beregninger som viser
3973 at Narvik kommune har spart noe mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de
3974 siste 8 årene på å bruke Skolelinux, og fortsetter:&lt;/p&gt;
3975
3976 &lt;blockquote&gt;
3977
3978 &quot;Regnestykket tar høyde for sparte kostnader til lisenser som medfølger
3979 de alternative operativsystemene, lavere driftskostnader og lengre
3980 levetid på datautstyret.  Totalt har Narvikskolen en maskinpark på
3981 1600 maskiner fordelt på de 11 skolene fra Skjomen i sør til Bjerkvik
3982 i nord.&quot;
3983
3984 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
3985
3986 &lt;p&gt;Viggo Fedreheim sier dette om hvor noe av gevinsten kommer fra:&lt;/p&gt;
3987
3988 &lt;blockquote&gt;
3989 &quot;- Vi kan gjenbruke gamle maskiner i skolen som er for dårlig andre
3990   steder i kommunen der de ikke bruker Skolelinux.  Levetiden på en
3991   datamaskin blir 3-5 år lenger med Skolelinux.  Vi kaller det for
3992   grønn IT, miljøvennlig IT.&quot;
3993 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
3994
3995 &lt;p&gt;Her er det mulighet for flere kommuner å få et godt IT-system på
3996 skolene, hvis de er villige til å forsøke.  De som ikke har kompetanse
3997 innomhus kan kjøpe det fra en av de kommersielle leverandørene av
3998 Skolelinux-tjenester, som &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
3999 Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; (der jeg er styremedlem).  Komplett liste er tilgjengelig
4000 via
4001 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;wikien&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
4002
4003 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-08-16: Today I was allowed by Fremover to put the PDF I
4004 received from them with a copy of the article on the Internet.  It is
4005 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/2012-07-23-fremover-narvik.pdf&quot;&gt;now
4006 available&lt;/a&gt; in the Skolelinux press archive.&lt;/p&gt;
4007 </description>
4008         </item>
4009
4010         <item>
4011                 <title>Tips for å bli med i Skolelinux-prosjektet (som faktisk er aktivt)</title>
4012                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tips_for___bli_med_i_Skolelinux_prosjektet__som_faktisk_er_aktivt_.html</link>
4013                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Tips_for___bli_med_i_Skolelinux_prosjektet__som_faktisk_er_aktivt_.html</guid>
4014                 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
4015                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg fikk nettopp spørsmål på epost om Skolelinux-prosjektet lever
4016 fra en som var interessert i å bidra, og måtte jo konstatere at i og
4017 med at spørsmålet ble stilt har prosjektet ikke lyktes med å formidle
4018 sin aktivitet.  Her er det jeg svarte:&lt;/p&gt;
4019
4020 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
4021 &lt;p&gt;Jada, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-prosjektet&lt;/a&gt;
4022 lever, men det meste av utvikling foregår nå under paraplyen
4023 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; som er det
4024 internasjonale navnet på prosjektet.  Dugnaden i Norge organiseres av
4025 medlemsforeningen
4026 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
4027 Skolen&lt;/a&gt;, og det finnes minst ett selskap som selger kommersiell
4028 support på løsningen (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
4029 Drift AS&lt;/a&gt;, der jeg er styremedlem).  Anbefaler at du melder deg på
4030 epostlisten
4031 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@lists.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;
4032 (og debian-edu-announce) og
4033 &lt;a href=&quot;http://medlem.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;melder deg inn i
4034 foreningen&lt;/a&gt; for å få beskjed om aktivitet som planlegges.  Det
4035 planlegges
4036 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering&quot;&gt;utviklersamlinger
4037 i august&lt;/a&gt; og utover høsten.&lt;/p&gt;
4038
4039 &lt;p&gt;Bidra gjerne med å spre ordet om Skolelinux.  Det er alt for få som
4040 bidrar til pressedekning, bloggposter, twittermeldinger, etc. :)&lt;/p&gt;
4041
4042 &lt;p&gt;Jeg antar du har funnet
4043 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju/&quot;&gt;bloggserien
4044 min med intervjuer&lt;/a&gt;.  Det er antagelig også interessant for deg å
4045 følge med på &lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Planet
4046 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
4047
4048 &lt;p&gt;Hm, jeg burde vel blogge alle disse lenkene slik at de blir enklere
4049 å finne...&lt;/p&gt;
4050 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4051 &lt;p&gt;Herved gjort. :)&lt;/p&gt;
4052 </description>
4053         </item>
4054
4055         <item>
4056                 <title>Debian Edu interview: George Bredberg</title>
4057                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__George_Bredberg.html</link>
4058                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__George_Bredberg.html</guid>
4059                 <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
4060                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
4061 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; project have users all over the globe, but until
4062 recently we have not known about any users in Norway&#39;s neighbour
4063 country Sweden.  This changed when George Bredberg showed up in March
4064 this year on the mailing list, asking interesting questions about how
4065 to adjust and scale the just released
4066 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
4067 Wheezy&lt;/a&gt; setup to his liking.  He granted me an interview, and I am
4068 happy to share his answers with you here.&lt;/p&gt;
4069
4070 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4071
4072 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 44 year old country guy that have been working 12 years at
4073 the same school as 50% IT-manager and 50% Teacher. My educational
4074 background is fil.kand in history and religious beliefs, an exam as a
4075 &quot;folkhighschool&quot; teacher, that is, for teaching grownups.  In
4076 Norwegian I believe it&#39;s called &quot;Vuxenupplaring&quot;. I also have a master
4077 in &quot;Technology and social change&quot;. So I&#39;m not really a tech guy, I
4078 just like to study how humans and technology interact and that is my
4079 perspective when working with IT.&lt;/p&gt;
4080
4081 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
4082 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4083
4084 I have followed the Skolelinux project for quite some time by
4085 now. Earlier I tested out the K12-LTSP project, which we used for some
4086 time, but I really like the idea of having a distribution aimed to be
4087 a complete solution for schools with necessary tools integrated. When
4088 K12-LTSP abandoned that idea some years ago, I started to look more
4089 seriously into Skolelinux instead.
4090
4091 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
4092 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4093
4094 The big point of Skolelinux to me is that it is a complete
4095 distribution, ready to install. It has LDAP-support, MS Windows
4096 integration tools and so forth already configured, saving an
4097 administrator a lot of time and headache. We were using another Linux
4098 based thin-client system called Thinlinc, that has served us very
4099 well. But that Skolelinux is based on VNC and LTSP, to me, is better
4100 when it comes to the kind of multimedia used in schools. That is
4101 showing videos from Youtube or educational TV. It is also easier to
4102 mix thin clients with workstations, since the user settings will be the
4103 same. In our VNC-based solution you had to &quot;beat around the bush&quot; by
4104 setting up a second, hidden, home-directory for user settings for the
4105 workstations, because they will be different from the ones used on the
4106 thin clients. Skolelinux support for diskless workstations are very
4107 convenient since a school today often need to use a class room
4108 projector showing videos in full screen. That is easily done with a
4109 small integrated media computer running as a diskless workstation. You
4110 have only two installs to update and configure. One for the thin
4111 clients and one for the workstations. Also saving a lot of time.  Our
4112 old system was also based on Redhat and CentOS. They are both very
4113 nice distributions, but they are sometimes painfully slow when it
4114 comes to updating multimedia support and multimedia programs (even
4115 such as Gimp), leaving us with a bit &quot;oldish&quot; applications. Debian is
4116 quicker to update.
4117
4118 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
4119 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4120
4121 &lt;p&gt;Debian is a bit too quick when it comes to updating. As an example
4122 we use old HP terminals as thinclients, and two times already this
4123 year (2012) the updates you get from the repositories has stopped
4124 sound from working with them.  It&#39;s a kernel/ALSA issue. So you have
4125 to be more careful properly testing the updates before you run them in
4126 a production environment. This has never happened with CentOS.&lt;/p&gt;
4127
4128 &lt;p&gt;I also would like to be able to set my own domain-settings at
4129 install time.  In Skolelinux they are kind of hard coded into the
4130 distribution, when it comes to LDAP and at least samba integration.
4131 That is more a cosmetic/translation issue, and not a real problem.
4132 Running MS Windows applications within the Skolelinux environment needs
4133 to be better supported. That is, running them seamlessly via RDP, and
4134 support for single-sign on.  That will make the transition to free
4135 software easier, because you can keep the applications you really
4136 need.  No support will make it impossible if you work in a school where
4137 some applications can&#39;t be open source. As for us we really need to
4138 run Adobe InDesign in our journalist classes.  We run a journalist
4139 education, and is one of the very few non university ones that is ok:d
4140 by Svenska journalistförbundet (Swedish journalist association).  Our
4141 education gives the pupils the right of membership there, once they
4142 are done.  This is important if you want to get a job.&lt;/p&gt;
4143
4144 &lt;p&gt;Adobe InDesign is the program most commonly used in newspapers and
4145 magazines.  We used Quark Express before, but they seem to loose there
4146 market to Adobe. The only &quot;equivalent&quot; to InDesign in the opensource
4147 world is Scribus, and its not advanced enough. At least not according
4148 to the teacher. I think it would be possible to use it, because they
4149 are not supposed to learn a program, they are supposed to learn how to
4150 edit and compile a newspaper.  But politically at our school we are not
4151 there yet.  And Scribus lacks a lot of things you find i InDesign.&lt;/p&gt;
4152
4153 &lt;p&gt;We used even a windows program for sound editing when it comes to
4154 the radio-journalist part. The year to come we are going to try
4155 Audacity. That software has the same kind of limitations compared to
4156 Adobe Audition, but that teacher is a bit more open minded. We have
4157 tried Ardour also, but that instead is more like a music studio
4158 program, not intended for the kind of editing taking place in a radio
4159 studio. Its way to complex and the GUI is to scattered when you only
4160 want to cut, make pass-overs, add extra channels and normalise.  Those
4161 things you can do in Audacity, but its not as easy as in Audition. You
4162 have to do more things manually with envelopes, and that is a bit old
4163 fashion and timewasting. Its also harder to cut and move sound from
4164 one channel to another, which is a thing that you do frequently
4165 because you often find yourself needing to rearrange parts of the
4166 sound file.&lt;/p&gt;
4167
4168 &lt;p&gt;So, I am not sure we will succeed in replacing even Audition, but we
4169 will try.  The problem is the students have certain expectations when
4170 they start an education towards a profession.  So the programs has to
4171 look and feel professional.  Good thing with radio, there are many
4172 programs out there, that radio studios use, so its not as standardised
4173 as Newspaper editing. That means, it does not really matter what
4174 program they learn, because once they start working they still have to
4175 learn the program the studio uses, so instead focus has to be to learn
4176 the editing part without to much focus on a specific software.&lt;/p&gt;
4177
4178 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4179
4180 &lt;p&gt;Myself I&#39;m running Linux Mint, or Ubuntu these days.  I use almost
4181 only open source software, and preferably Linux based. When it comes
4182 to most used applications its OpenOffice, and Firefox (of course ;)
4183 )&lt;/p&gt;
4184
4185 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
4186 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4187
4188 &lt;p&gt;To get schools to use free software there has to be good open
4189 source software that are windows based, to ease the transition. But
4190 it&#39;s also very important that the multimedia support is working
4191 flawlessly.  The problems with Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and whatever
4192 will create problems when it comes to both teachers and
4193 students. Economy are also important for schools, so using thin
4194 clients, as long as they have good multimedia support, is a very good
4195 idea. It&#39;s also important that the open source software works even for
4196 the administration.  It&#39;s hard to convince the teachers to stick with
4197 open source, if the principal has to run Windows.  It also creates a
4198 problem if some classes has to use Windows for there tasks, since that
4199 will create a difference in &quot;status&quot; between classes, so a good
4200 support for running windows applications via the thin client (Linux)
4201 desktop is essential.  At least at our school, where we have mixed
4202 level of educations, from high-school to journalist-school.&lt;/p&gt;
4203
4204 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-07-09 08:30: Paul Wise tipped me on IRC about three
4205 useful sources related to Free Software for radio stations: the LWN
4206 article &lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/Articles/481607/&quot;&gt;Radio station
4207 management with Airtime&lt;/a&gt;,
4208 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/&quot;&gt;Airtime&lt;/a&gt; which
4209 claim to be a Free open source radio automation software and
4210 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rivendellaudio.org/&quot;&gt;Rivendell&lt;/a&gt; which claim to
4211 be complete radio broadcast automation solution.  All of them seem
4212 useful to the aspiring radio producer.&lt;/p&gt;
4213 </description>
4214         </item>
4215
4216         <item>
4217                 <title>Why do schools waste money on IT?</title>
4218                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_do_schools_waste_money_on_IT_.html</link>
4219                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_do_schools_waste_money_on_IT_.html</guid>
4220                 <pubDate>Sun, 8 Jul 2012 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
4221                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, we have realised that one
4222 of the major blockers for the project success is the purchasing skills
4223 in schools and municipalities.  We provide what the happy users of
4224 Debian Edu / Skolelinux say they need and to a lower cost than the
4225 alternatives, and yet so few schools decide to use our solution.  I
4226 was pleased to discover the same observation done by mySociety and Tom
4227 Steinberg in his blog post
4228 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/2012/06/19/can-you-recognize-the-million-pound-chair/&quot;&gt;Can
4229 you recognize the million pound chair?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  Read it and weep for the
4230 spending of your tax money.&lt;/p&gt;
4231
4232 &lt;p&gt;Of course there are other factors involved as well, like our
4233 projects bad marketing skills and the Linux community fragmentation
4234 causing worry with the people on the outside, so we as a project need
4235 to keep working hard to gain users, but it is a up-hill battle when
4236 public decision makers are unable to understand computer system
4237 purchases.&lt;/p&gt;
4238 </description>
4239         </item>
4240
4241         <item>
4242                 <title>Free Timetabling Software - nice free software</title>
4243                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Timetabling_Software___nice_free_software.html</link>
4244                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Timetabling_Software___nice_free_software.html</guid>
4245                 <pubDate>Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
4246                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Included in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
4247 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is a large collection of end user and school specific
4248 software.  It is one of the packages not installed by default but
4249 provided in the Debian archive for schools to install if they want to,
4250 is a system to automatically plan the school time table using
4251 information about available teachers, classes and rooms, combined with
4252 the list of required courses and how many hours each topic should
4253 receive.  The software is
4254
4255 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/&quot;&gt;named FET&lt;/a&gt;, and it provide a
4256 graphical user interface to input the required information, save the
4257 result in a fairly simple XML format, and generate time tables for
4258 both teachers and students.  It is available both for
4259 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/download.html&quot;&gt;Linux, MacOSX and
4260 Windows&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
4261
4262 &lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/features.html&quot;&gt;the
4263 feature list&lt;/a&gt;, liftet from the project web site:&lt;/p&gt;
4264
4265 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
4266
4267   &lt;li&gt;FET is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
4268     You can freely use, copy, modify and redistribute it &lt;/li&gt;
4269
4270   &lt;li&gt;Localized to en_US (US English, default), ar (Arabic), ca
4271     (Catalan), da (Danish), de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), fa
4272     (Persian), fr (French), gl (Galician), he (Hebrew), hu
4273     (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), lt (Lithuanian), mk
4274     (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), pt_BR
4275     (Brazilian Portuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), si (Sinhala),
4276     sk (Slovak), sr (Serbian), tr (Turkish), uk (Ukrainian), uz
4277     (Uzbek) and vi (Vietnamese) (incompletely for some languages)
4278     &lt;/li&gt;
4279
4280   &lt;li&gt;Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also
4281     semi-automatic or manual allocation&lt;/li&gt;
4282
4283   &lt;li&gt;Platform independent implementation, allowing running on
4284     GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports &lt;/li&gt;
4285
4286   &lt;li&gt;Flexible modular XML format for the input file, allowing editing
4287     with an XML editor or by hand (besides FET interface)&lt;/li&gt;
4288
4289   &lt;li&gt;Import/export from CSV format&lt;/li&gt;
4290
4291   &lt;li&gt;The resulted timetables are exported into HTML, XML and CSV
4292     formats &lt;/li&gt;
4293
4294   &lt;li&gt;Flexible students structure, organized into sets: years, groups
4295     and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and
4296     non-overlapping subgroups. You can even define individual students
4297     (as separate sets)&lt;/li&gt;
4298
4299   &lt;li&gt;Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0%
4300     (but some special constraints are allowed to have only 100% weight
4301     percentage)&lt;/li&gt;
4302
4303   &lt;li&gt;Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on
4304     demand, as a custom version, because this would require a bit more
4305     memory):
4306     &lt;ul&gt;
4307       &lt;li&gt;Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60&lt;/li&gt;
4308       &lt;li&gt;Maximum number of working days per week: 35&lt;/li&gt;
4309       &lt;li&gt;Maximum total number of teachers: 6000&lt;/li&gt;
4310       &lt;li&gt;Maximum total number of sets of students: 30000&lt;/li&gt;
4311       &lt;li&gt;Maximum total number of subjects: 6000&lt;/li&gt;
4312       &lt;li&gt;Virtually unlimited number of activity tags&lt;/li&gt;
4313       &lt;li&gt;Maximum number of activities: 30000&lt;/li&gt;
4314       &lt;li&gt;Maximum number of rooms: 6000&lt;/li&gt;
4315       &lt;li&gt;Maximum number of buildings: 6000&lt;/li&gt;
4316       &lt;li&gt;Possibility of adding multiple teachers and
4317           students sets for each activity.  (it is possible
4318           also to have no teachers or no students sets for an
4319           activity)&lt;/li&gt;
4320       &lt;li&gt;Virtually unlimited number of time constraints&lt;/li&gt;
4321       &lt;li&gt;Virtually unlimited number of space constraints&lt;/li&gt;
4322     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
4323
4324   &lt;li&gt;A large and flexible palette of time constraints:
4325     &lt;ul&gt;
4326       &lt;li&gt;Break periods&lt;/li&gt;
4327       &lt;li&gt;For teacher(s):
4328         &lt;ul&gt;
4329           &lt;li&gt;Not available periods&lt;/li&gt;
4330           &lt;li&gt;Max/min days per week&lt;/li&gt;
4331           &lt;li&gt;Max gaps per day/week&lt;/li&gt;
4332           &lt;li&gt;Max hours daily/continuously&lt;/li&gt;
4333           &lt;li&gt;Min hours daily&lt;/li&gt;
4334           &lt;li&gt;Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag&lt;/li&gt;
4335
4336           &lt;li&gt;Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of
4337             days per week&lt;/li&gt;
4338         &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
4339       &lt;li&gt;For students (sets):
4340         &lt;ul&gt;
4341           &lt;li&gt;Not available periods&lt;/li&gt;
4342           &lt;li&gt;Begins early (specify max allowed beginnings at second hour)&lt;/li&gt;
4343           &lt;li&gt;Max gaps per day/week&lt;/li&gt;
4344           &lt;li&gt;Max hours daily/continuously&lt;/li&gt;
4345           &lt;li&gt;Min hours daily&lt;/li&gt;
4346           &lt;li&gt;Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag&lt;/li&gt;
4347
4348           &lt;li&gt;Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of
4349             days per week&lt;/li&gt;
4350         &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
4351       &lt;li&gt;For an activity or a set of activities/subactivities:
4352         &lt;ul&gt;
4353           &lt;li&gt;A single preferred starting time&lt;/li&gt;
4354           &lt;li&gt;A set of preferred starting times&lt;/li&gt;
4355           &lt;li&gt;A set of preferred time slots&lt;/li&gt;
4356           &lt;li&gt;Min/max days between them&lt;/li&gt;
4357           &lt;li&gt;End(s) students day&lt;/li&gt;
4358           &lt;li&gt;Same starting time/day/hour&lt;/li&gt;
4359           &lt;li&gt;Occupy max time slots from selection (a complex and
4360             flexible constraint, useful in many situations)&lt;/li&gt;
4361           &lt;li&gt;Consecutive, ordered, grouped (for 2 or 3 (sub)activities)&lt;/li&gt;
4362           &lt;li&gt;Not overlapping&lt;/li&gt;
4363           &lt;li&gt;Max simultaneous in selected time slots&lt;/li&gt;
4364           &lt;li&gt;Min gaps between a set of (sub)activities&lt;/li&gt;
4365         &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
4366     &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
4367
4368   &lt;li&gt;A large and flexible palette of space constraints:
4369     &lt;ul&gt;
4370       &lt;li&gt;Room not available periods&lt;/li&gt;
4371       &lt;li&gt;For teacher(s):
4372         &lt;ul&gt;
4373           &lt;li&gt;Home room(s)&lt;/li&gt;
4374           &lt;li&gt;Max building changes per day/week&lt;/li&gt;
4375           &lt;li&gt;Min gaps between building changes&lt;/li&gt;
4376         &lt;/ul&gt;
4377       &lt;/li&gt;
4378
4379       &lt;li&gt;For students (sets):
4380         &lt;ul&gt;
4381           &lt;li&gt;Home room(s)&lt;/li&gt;
4382           &lt;li&gt;Max building changes per day/week&lt;/li&gt;
4383           &lt;li&gt;Min gaps between building changes&lt;/li&gt;
4384         &lt;/ul&gt;
4385       &lt;/li&gt;
4386       &lt;li&gt;Preferred room(s):
4387         &lt;ul&gt;
4388           &lt;li&gt;For a subject&lt;/li&gt;
4389           &lt;li&gt;For an activity tag&lt;/li&gt;
4390           &lt;li&gt;For a subject and an activity tag&lt;/li&gt;
4391           &lt;li&gt;Individually for a (sub)activity&lt;/li&gt;
4392         &lt;/ul&gt;
4393       &lt;/li&gt;
4394
4395       &lt;li&gt;For a set of activities:
4396         &lt;ul&gt;
4397           &lt;li&gt;Occupy a maximum number of different rooms&lt;/li&gt;
4398         &lt;/ul&gt;
4399       &lt;/li&gt;
4400     &lt;/ul&gt;
4401   &lt;/li&gt;
4402 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4403
4404 &lt;p&gt;I have not used it myself, as I am not involved in time table
4405 planning at a school, but it seem to work fine when I test it.  If you
4406 need to set up your schools time table, and is tired of doing it
4407 manually, check it out.
4408
4409 A quick summary on how to use it can be found in
4410 &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelsoft.co.in/wp/2012/03/generate-timetable-for-state-cbse-icse-igcse-schools-free/&quot;&gt;a
4411 blog post from MarvelSoft&lt;/a&gt;.  If you find FET useful, please provide
4412 a recipe for the Debian Edu project in the
4413 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu#Howtos&quot;&gt;Debian Edu HowTo
4414 section&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
4415 </description>
4416         </item>
4417
4418         <item>
4419                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Markus Gamenius</title>
4420                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Markus_Gamenius.html</link>
4421                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Markus_Gamenius.html</guid>
4422                 <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
4423                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Tidligere leder av
4424 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no&quot;&gt;foreningen som
4425 organiserer Skolelinux-dugnaden&lt;/a&gt;, Markus Gamenius , har i vår vært
4426 i media og
4427 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dn.no/privatokonomi/article2345489.ece&quot;&gt;debattert
4428 skattepolitikk&lt;/a&gt;, og det fikk meg til å høre om han kunne lokkes til
4429 å fortelle om hans inntrykk nå, etter at han ble lokket bort fra
4430 Linux- og &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-verden
4431 for å overta familiebedriften.  Her har vi hans betraktninger i dag,
4432 noen måneder etter at
4433 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
4434 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;-utgaven ble gitt ut.&lt;/p&gt;
4435
4436 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4437
4438 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Markus Gamenius og er 40 år.  Utdannet biolog med ymse
4439 fag på siden.  Har jobbet som lærer der jeg var driftsansvarlig på
4440 Ulsrud VGS i Oslo.  Senere eide og jobbet jeg flere år i Linuxlabs AS,
4441 som jeg solgte til Redpill Linpro AS (den gangen Linpro AS).  I dag
4442 jobber jeg med ulike investeringer, hovedsaklig i eiendom, men også i
4443 en del ulike IT-relaterte bedrifter.&lt;/p&gt;
4444
4445 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4446
4447 &lt;p&gt;Fruen og jeg dro på en lengre seiltur i 2000, der jeg måtte ha &quot;noe
4448 å gjøre&quot; under hjemturen over Atlanteren.  Jeg kjøpte et par bøker om
4449 Linux i en bokhandel i New York og ble veldig fascinert.  Etter
4450 hjemkomsten begynte jeg å jobbe på Ulsrud VGS, som naturfagslærer, men
4451 som IT-interessert ble jeg fort en del av den nye IT-satsningen som
4452 skulle løfte Ulsrud og gi skolen en bedre rykte.  Vi hadde ganske
4453 mange maskiner, som gikk på Win98 og to servere som ble oppgradert til
4454 Win2000.  Systemene var ustabil og dårlige.  På leting etter noe
4455 bedre, uten å knekke ryggen økonomisk, kom jeg over &quot;Linux i Skolen&quot;
4456 og Skolelinux.  Jeg tok kontakt med miljøet og en gjeng møtte opp på
4457 skolen, der vi gjorde en liten testinstallasjon.  Etter et par år var
4458 ryggraden på skolen Linux (Skolelinux) og vi hadde flere hundre
4459 maskiner, både tynne klienter (gamle og nye), bærbare (Debian) og noen
4460 stasjonære (Win2000).  På et tidspunkt var Ulsrud den råeste IT-skolen
4461 og det irriterte skolesjefen i Oslo, da de satset hardt på
4462 Windows.&lt;/p&gt;
4463
4464 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4465
4466 &lt;p&gt;Det som gjorde at vi fikk inn Skolelinux var ene og alene
4467 økonomiske.  Det faktum at vi slapp å kjøpe masse nye lisenser og at
4468 vi kunne bruke gammel hardware.  Alt i alt gjorde dette at vi sparte
4469 mye, men i stede for å bruke mindre på IT brukte vi det vi sparte på å
4470 skaffe mer hardware og på den måten gi det beste tilbudet i landet til
4471 våre elever.  For oss som driftet var det himmel å ha et system som
4472 gikk å administrere sentralt og effektivt.  Det var heller ikke så
4473 dumt at vi kunne &quot;låse&quot; maskinene mer effektivt enn vi kunne med
4474 Microsoft Windows, slik at vi slapp mye feil og problemer som ble
4475 forårsaket av &quot;kreative&quot; elever.&lt;/p&gt;
4476
4477 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4478
4479 &lt;p&gt;Det vi slet med var mangelen av en del programmer lærerne ville ha.
4480 Husker ikke alle, men det var et knippe med pedagogiske programmer de
4481 ikke fikk.  I dag tror jeg det problemet er langt mindre da det meste
4482 av disse kjøres gjennom nettleseren.&lt;/p&gt;
4483
4484 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4485
4486 &lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker mye Apple i dag og er ikke så stolt av det, men jeg har
4487 både OpenOffice, Firefox og en del andre programmer på den bærbare.
4488 Firefox brukes mest av disse.  På Apple-serveren hjemme bruker jeg
4489 HandBrake mye, og jeg har installert OpenWRT på flere av
4490 basestasjonene både hjemme og på jobben.  I tillegg til det har jeg i
4491 flere år finansiert et prosjekt som heter
4492 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.found.no/&quot;&gt;Found IT&lt;/a&gt;.  Dette er et prosjekt der
4493 vi lager et rammeverk for søk, der alt vi bruker fri programvare.  Det
4494 er Alex Brasetvik som er daglig leder i Found IT.&lt;/p&gt;
4495
4496 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
4497 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4498
4499 &lt;p&gt;Når det gjelder IT og skole er fortsatt økonomi veldig viktig.  Så
4500 man må oppfylle minimumskravene (ikke være best, men bra nok) og selge
4501 seg inn på hvor mye man sparer.  Det betyr selvsagt at man sparer på
4502 lisenser, men også på driftsinnsats.  Men nå når jeg ikke er en aktiv
4503 del av miljøet lenger hører jeg nesten ingen ting om fri programvare.
4504 Jeg stiller meg da spørsmålet om det har blitt stille rundt miljøet,
4505 eller om jeg kun så det tydeligere før når jeg var aktiv? Uansett er
4506 det for stille rundt Skolelinux-prosjektet nå.&lt;/p&gt;
4507 </description>
4508         </item>
4509
4510         <item>
4511                 <title>Debian Edu interview: José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez</title>
4512                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html</link>
4513                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html</guid>
4514                 <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
4515                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been too busy at home, but finally I found time to wrap up
4516 another interview with the people behind
4517 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.
4518 This time we get to know José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez, one of our great
4519 helpers from Spain.  His effort was the reason we added support for
4520 several desktop types (KDE, Gnome and most recently LXDE) in Debian
4521 Edu, and have all of these available in the recently published
4522 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
4523 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
4524
4525 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4526
4527 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a father, teacher and engineer who is working for the Education
4528 ministry of the Region of Extremadura (Spain) in the implementation of
4529 ICT in schools&lt;/p&gt;
4530
4531 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
4532 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4533
4534 &lt;p&gt;At 2006, I verified that both, we in Extremadura and Skolelinux
4535 project, had been working in parallel for some years, doing very
4536 similar things, using very similar tools and with similar targets, so
4537 I decided it was time to join forces as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
4538
4539 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
4540 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4541
4542 &lt;p&gt;A community of highly skilled experts working together, with a
4543 really open schema of collaboration and work. I really love the
4544 concepts of Do-ocracy and Merit-ocracy and the way these concepts are
4545 been used everyday inside Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
4546
4547 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
4548 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4549
4550 &lt;p&gt;Sometimes the differences in the implementations, laws or
4551 economical and technical resources in the different countries don&#39;t
4552 allow us to agree in the same solution for all of us, and several
4553 approaches are needed, what is a waste of effort. Also, there is a
4554 lack of more man power to be able to follow the fast evolution of the
4555 technologies in school.&lt;/p&gt;
4556
4557 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4558
4559 &lt;p&gt;Debian, of course, and due to my kind of job I am most of my time
4560 between Iceweasel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geany.org/&quot;&gt;Geany&lt;/a&gt; and
4561 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome-terminator&quot;&gt;Terminator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
4562
4563 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
4564 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4565
4566 &lt;p&gt;I think there is not a single strategy because there are very
4567 different scenarios: schools with mixed proprietary and free
4568 environments, schools using only workstations, other schools using
4569 laptops, netbooks, tablets, interactive white-boards, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
4570
4571 &lt;p&gt;Also the range of ages of the students is very broad and you can
4572 not use the same solutions for primary schools and secondary or even
4573 universities. So different strategies are needed.&lt;/p&gt;
4574
4575 &lt;p&gt;But, looking at these differences, and looking back to the things
4576 we&#39;ve done and implemented, and the places were we have spent most of
4577 our forces, I think we should focus as much as possible in free
4578 multi-platform environments, using only standards tools, and moving
4579 more and more to Internet or network solutions that could be deployed
4580 using wireless. I think we&#39;ll see more and more personal devices in
4581 the schools, devices the students and teachers will take home with
4582 them, so the solutions must be able to be taken at home and continue
4583 working there.&lt;/p&gt;
4584 </description>
4585         </item>
4586
4587         <item>
4588                 <title>Debian Edu - some ideas for the future versions</title>
4589                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</link>
4590                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</guid>
4591                 <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
4592                 <description>&lt;p&gt;During my work on
4593 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.nb.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
4594 based on Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;, I came across some issues that should be
4595 addressed in the Wheezy release.  I finally found time to wrap up my
4596 notes and provide quick summary of what I found, with a bit
4597 explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
4598
4599 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
4600
4601 &lt;li&gt;We need to rewrite our package installation framework, as tasksel
4602 changed from using tasksel tasks to using meta packages (aka packages
4603 with dependencies like our education-* packages), and our installation
4604 system depend on tasksel tasks in
4605 /usr/share/tasksel/debian-edu-tasks.desc for package
4606 installation.&lt;/li&gt;
4607
4608 &lt;li&gt;Enable Kerberos login for more services.  Now with the Kerberos
4609 foundation in place, we should use it to get single sign on with more
4610 services, and avoiding unneeded password / login questions.  We should
4611 at least try to enable it for these services:
4612 &lt;ul&gt;
4613
4614   &lt;li&gt;CUPS for admins to add/configure printers and users when using
4615     quotas.&lt;/li&gt;
4616   &lt;li&gt;Nagios for admins checking the system status.&lt;/li&gt;
4617   &lt;li&gt;GOsa for admins updating LDAP and users changing their passwords.&lt;/li&gt;
4618   &lt;li&gt;LDAP for admins updating LDAP.&lt;/li&gt;
4619   &lt;li&gt;Squid for users when exam mode / filtering is active.&lt;/li&gt;
4620   &lt;li&gt;ssh for admins and users to save a password prompt.&lt;/li&gt;
4621
4622 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
4623
4624 &lt;li&gt;When we move GOsa to use Kerberos instead of LDAP bind to
4625 authenticate users, we should try to block or at least limit access to
4626 use LDAP bind for authentication, to ensure Kerberos is used when it
4627 is intended, and nothing fall back to using the less safe LDAP bind&lt;/li&gt;
4628
4629 &lt;li&gt;Merge debian-edu-config and debian-edu-install.  The split made
4630 sense when d-e-install did a lot more, but these days it is just an
4631 inconvenience when we update the debconf preseeding values.&lt;/li&gt;
4632
4633 &lt;li&gt;Fix partman-auto to allow us to abort the installation before
4634 touching the disk if the disk is too small.  This is
4635 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/653305&quot;&gt;BTS report #653305&lt;/a&gt; and the
4636 d-i developers are fine with the patch and someone just need to apply
4637 it and upload.  After this is done we need to adjust
4638 debian-edu-install to use this new hook.&lt;/li&gt;
4639
4640 &lt;li&gt;Adjust to new LTSP framework (boot time config instead of install
4641 time config).  LTSP changed its design, and our hooks to install
4642 packages and update the configuration is most likely not going to work
4643 in Wheezy.
4644
4645 &lt;li&gt;Consider switching to NBD instead of NFS for LTSP root, to allow
4646 the Kernel to cache files in its normal file cache, possibly speeding
4647 up KDE login on slow networks.&lt;/li&gt;
4648
4649 &lt;li&gt;Make it possible to create expired user passwords that need to
4650 change on first login.  This is useful when handing out password on
4651 paper, to make sure only the user know the password.  This require
4652 fixes to the PAM handling of kdm and gdm.&lt;/li&gt;
4653
4654 &lt;li&gt;Make GUI for adding new machines automatically from sitesummary.
4655 The current command line script is not very friendly to people most
4656 familiar with GUIs.  This should probably be integrated into GOsa to
4657 have it available where the admin will be looking for it..&lt;/li&gt;
4658
4659 &lt;li&gt;We should find way for Nagios to check that the DHCP service
4660 actually is working (as in handling out IP addresses).  None of the
4661 Nagios checks I have found so far have been working for me.&lt;/li&gt;
4662
4663 &lt;li&gt;We should switch from libpam-nss-ldapd to sssd for all profiles
4664 using LDAP, and not only on for roaming workstations, to have less
4665 packages to configure and consistent setup across all profiles.&lt;/li&gt;
4666
4667 &lt;li&gt;We should configure Kerberos to update LDAP and Samba password
4668 when changing password using the Kerberos protocol.  The hook was
4669 requested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/588968&quot;&gt;BTS report
4670 #588968&lt;/a&gt; and is now available in Wheezy.  We might need to write a
4671 MIT Kerberos plugin in C to get this.&lt;/li&gt;
4672
4673 &lt;li&gt;We should clean up the set of applications installed by default.
4674 &lt;ul&gt;
4675
4676 &lt;li&gt;reduce the number of chemistry visualisers&lt;/li&gt;
4677 &lt;li&gt;consider dropping xpaint&lt;/li&gt;
4678 &lt;li&gt;and probably more?&lt;/li&gt;
4679 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
4680
4681 &lt;li&gt;Some hardware need external firmware to work properly.  This is
4682 mostly the case for WiFi network cards, but there are some other
4683 examples too.  For popular laptops to work out of the box, such
4684 firmware need to be installed from non-free, and we should provide
4685 some GUI to do this.  Ubuntu already have this implemented, and we
4686 could consider using their packages.  At the moment we have some
4687 command line script to do this (one for the running system, another
4688 for the LTSP chroot).&lt;/li&gt;
4689
4690
4691 &lt;li&gt;In Squeeze, we provide KDE, Gnome and LXDE as desktop options.  We
4692 should extend the list to Xfce and Sugar, and preferably find a way to
4693 install several and allow the admin or the user to select which one to
4694 use.&lt;/li&gt;
4695
4696 &lt;li&gt;The golearn tool from the goplay package make it easy to check out
4697 interesting educational packages.  We should work on the package
4698 tagging in Debian to ensure it represent all the useful educational
4699 packages, and extend the tool to allow it to use packagekit to install
4700 new applications with a simple mouse click.&lt;/li&gt;
4701
4702 &lt;li&gt;The Squeeze version got half a exam solution already in place,
4703 with the introduction of iptable based network blocking, but for it to
4704 be a complete exam solution the Squid proxy need to enable
4705 filtering/blocking as well when the exam mode is enabled.  We should
4706 implement a way to easily enable this for the schools that want it,
4707 instead of the &quot;it is documented&quot; method of today.&lt;/li&gt;
4708
4709 &lt;li&gt;A feature used in several schools is the ability for a teacher to
4710 &quot;take over&quot; the desktop of individual or all computers in the room.
4711 There are at least three implementations,
4712 &lt;a href=&quot;italc.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;italc&lt;/a&gt;,
4713 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itais.net/help/en/&quot;&gt;controlaula&lt;/a&gt; og
4714 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epoptes.org/&quot;&gt;epoptes&lt;/a&gt; and we should pick one of
4715 them and make it trivial to set it up in a school.  The challenges is
4716 how to distribute crypto keys and how to group computers in one room
4717 and how to set up which machine/user can control the machines in a
4718 given room.&lt;/li&gt;
4719
4720 &lt;li&gt;Tablets and surf boards are getting more and more popular, and we
4721 should look into providing a good solution for integrating these into
4722 the Debian Edu network.  Not quite sure how.  Perhaps we should
4723 provide a installation profile with better touch screen support for
4724 them, or add some sync services to allow them to exchange
4725 configuration and data with the central server.  This should be
4726 investigated.&lt;/li&gt;
4727
4728 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4729
4730 &lt;p&gt;I guess we will discover more as we continue to work on the Wheezy
4731 version.&lt;/p&gt;
4732 </description>
4733         </item>
4734
4735         <item>
4736                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
4737                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>
4738                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
4739                 <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
4740                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
4741 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
4742 mailing list.  He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
4743 thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
4744 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
4745 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
4746
4747 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4748
4749 &lt;p&gt;My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
4750 Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
4751 (Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
4752 by Angela).&lt;/p&gt;
4753
4754 &lt;p&gt;During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
4755 and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
4756 touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
4757 the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
4758 becoming an osteopath.&lt;/p&gt;
4759
4760 &lt;p&gt;Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
4761 have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
4762 introducing free software into schools. The project&#39;s name is
4763 &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; (IT future for schools). The project links IT
4764 skills with communication skills.&lt;/p&gt;
4765
4766 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
4767 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4768
4769 &lt;p&gt;While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
4770 &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
4771 reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
4772 people said.  From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
4773 distributions that target being used for school networks.&lt;/p&gt;
4774
4775 &lt;p&gt;At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
4776 commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
4777 Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
4778 went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
4779 and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
4780 Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
4781 got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
4782 attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
4783 the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.&lt;/p&gt;
4784
4785 &lt;p&gt;In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
4786 people.  People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
4787 protection experts, other IT professionals.&lt;/p&gt;
4788
4789 &lt;p&gt;We came to two conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;
4790
4791 &lt;p&gt;First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
4792 bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
4793 by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
4794 whereas most of each school&#39;s requirements could mapped by a standard
4795 IT solution.  The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
4796 customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
4797 possible.  In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
4798 standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
4799 degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
4800 locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
4801 point.&lt;/p&gt;
4802
4803 &lt;p&gt;Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
4804 all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
4805 for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
4806 has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
4807 of people into using IT and teaching with IT. &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot;
4808 tries to provide an approach for this.&lt;/p&gt;
4809
4810 &lt;p&gt;Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
4811 defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
4812 Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school&#39;s IT
4813 equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
4814 teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
4815 spare time.&lt;/p&gt;
4816
4817 &lt;p&gt;We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
4818 networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
4819 here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
4820 teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
4821 non-existent until 2010/2011.&lt;/p&gt;
4822
4823 &lt;p&gt;Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
4824 class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
4825 avoidance do exist.&lt;/p&gt;
4826
4827 &lt;p&gt;We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
4828 social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
4829 for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
4830 several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
4831 they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
4832 at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
4833 and probably a gain for all.&lt;/p&gt;
4834
4835 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
4836 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4837
4838 &lt;p&gt;There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
4839 any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
4840 the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
4841 workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
4842 project communication, honest communication within the group of
4843 developers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
4844
4845 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
4846 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4847
4848 &lt;p&gt;Every coin has two sides:&lt;/p&gt;
4849
4850 &lt;p&gt;Technically: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/311188&quot;&gt;BTS issue
4851 #311188&lt;/a&gt;, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
4852 client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
4853 should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
4854 about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
4855 several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
4856 contribute).&lt;/p&gt;
4857
4858 &lt;p&gt;Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
4859 find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
4860 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
4861 promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
4862 there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
4863 these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
4864 all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
4865 meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
4866 there being rather disconnected from the development department of
4867 Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
4868
4869 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4870
4871 &lt;p&gt;For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.&lt;/p&gt;
4872
4873 &lt;p&gt;For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
4874 serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
4875 more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.&lt;/p&gt;
4876
4877 &lt;p&gt;I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
4878 development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
4879 PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
4880 is being integrated in Ubuntu&#39;s software center.&lt;/p&gt;
4881
4882 &lt;p&gt;For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
4883 as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
4884 I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
4885 the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
4886 whiteboard.&lt;/p&gt;
4887
4888 &lt;p&gt;My favourite terminal emulator is KDE&#39;s Yakuake.&lt;/p&gt;
4889
4890 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
4891 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4892
4893 &lt;p&gt;Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
4894 enrol people.&lt;/p&gt;
4895 </description>
4896         </item>
4897
4898         <item>
4899                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter</title>
4900                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html</link>
4901                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html</guid>
4902                 <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
4903                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In 2003, a German teacher showed up on the
4904 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
4905 mailing list with interesting problems and reports proving he setting
4906 up Linux for a (for us at the time) lot of pupils.  His name was Ralf
4907 Gesellensetter, and he has been an important tester and contributor
4908 since then, helping to make sure the
4909 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
4910 Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; release became as good as it is..&lt;/p&gt;
4911
4912 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4913
4914 &lt;p&gt;I am a teacher from Germany, and my subjects are Geography,
4915 Mathematics, and Computer Science (&quot;Informatik&quot;). During the past 12
4916 years (since 2000), I have been working for a comprehensive (and soon,
4917 also inclusive) school leading to all kind of general levels, such as
4918 O- or A-level (&quot;Abitur&quot;).  For quite as long, I&#39;ve been taking care of
4919 our computer network.&lt;/p&gt;
4920
4921 &lt;p&gt;Now, in my early 40s, I enjoy the privilege of spending a lot of my
4922 spare time together with my wife, our son (3 years) and our daughter
4923 (4 months).&lt;/p&gt;
4924
4925 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
4926 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4927
4928 &lt;p&gt;We had tried different Linux based school servers, when members of
4929 my local Linux User Group (LUG OWL) detected Skolelinux. I remember
4930 very well, being part of a party celebrating the Linux New Media Award
4931 (&quot;Best Newcomer Distribution&quot;, also nominated: Ubuntu) that was given
4932 to Skolelinux at Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt, 2005 (IIRC). Few
4933 months later, I had the chance to join a developer meeting in Ulsrud
4934 (Oslo) and to hand out the award to Knut Yrvin and others.  For more
4935 than 7 years, Skolelinux is part of our schools infrastructure, namely
4936 our main server (tjener), one LTSP (today without thin clients), and
4937 approximately 50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
4938 locally installed Skolelinux image.  As a consequence, I joined quite
4939 a few events dealing with free software or Linux, and met many Debian
4940 (Edu) developers. All of them seemed quite nice and competent to me,
4941 one more reason to stick to Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
4942
4943 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
4944 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4945
4946 &lt;p&gt;Debian driven, you are given all the advantages of a community
4947 project including well maintained updates. Once, you are familiar with
4948 the network layout, you can easily roll out an entire educational
4949 computer infrastructure, from just one installation media. As only
4950 free software (FOSS) is used, that supports even elderly hardware,
4951 up-sizing your IT equipment is only limited by space (i.e. available
4952 labs).  Especially if you run a LTSP thin client server, your
4953 administration costs tend towards zero.&lt;/p&gt;
4954
4955 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
4956 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4957
4958 &lt;p&gt;While Debian&#39;s stability has loads of advantages for servers, this
4959 might be different in some cases for clients: Schools with unlimited
4960 budget might buy new hardware with components that are not yet
4961 supported by Debian stable, or wish to use more recent versions of
4962 office packages or desktop environments.  These schools have the
4963 option to run Debian testing or other distributions - if they have the
4964 capacity to do so.  Another issue is that Debian release cycles
4965 include a wide range of changes; therefor a high percentage of human
4966 power seems to be absorbed by just keeping the features of Skolelinux
4967 within the new setting of the version to come. During this process,
4968 the cogs of Debian Edu are getting more and more professional,
4969 i.e. harder to understand for novices.&lt;/p&gt;
4970
4971 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4972
4973 &lt;p&gt;LibreOffice, Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, Iceweasel (Mozilla Firefox),
4974 KMail, Gimp, Inkscape - and of course the Linux Kernel (not only on
4975 PC, Laptop, Mobile, but also our SAT receiver)&lt;/p&gt;
4976
4977 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
4978 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
4979
4980 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
4981
4982 &lt;li&gt;Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
4983 people really &quot;own&quot; their hardware, to make them understand the
4984 difference between proprietary software products, and free software
4985 developing.&lt;/li&gt;
4986
4987 &lt;li&gt;Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany&#39;s public schools
4988 there are more or less fixed budgets for IT equipment (including
4989 licenses), so schools won&#39;t benefit from any savings here. This
4990 privilege is left to private schools which have consequently a large
4991 share among German Skolelinux schools.&lt;/li&gt;
4992
4993 &lt;li&gt;Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
4994 trained. In many cases, teachers&#39; software customs are respected by
4995 decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.&lt;/li&gt;
4996
4997 &lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t limit ourself to free software run natively. Everybody uses
4998 free software or free licenses (for instance Wikipedia), and this
4999 general concept should get expanded to free educational content to be
5000 shared world wide (school books e.g.).&lt;/li&gt;
5001
5002 &lt;li&gt;Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
5003 office suites is much above 20 p.c. today, and that you pupils don&#39;t
5004 need to know the &quot;ribbon menu&quot; in order to get employed.&lt;/li&gt;
5005
5006 &lt;li&gt;Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.&lt;/li&gt;
5007
5008 &lt;li&gt;Spread free software, or even collections of portable free apps
5009 for USB pen drives. Endorse students to get a legal copy of
5010 Libreoffice rather than accepting them to use illegal serials.  And
5011 keep sending documents in ODF formats.&lt;/li&gt;
5012
5013 &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5014 </description>
5015         </item>
5016
5017         <item>
5018                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Alf Tonny Bätz</title>
5019                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Alf_Tonny_B_tz.html</link>
5020                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Alf_Tonny_B_tz.html</guid>
5021                 <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
5022                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-prosjektets&lt;/a&gt;
5023 musiker og mannen bak
5024 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals/Rosegarden/&quot;&gt;opplæringsdokumentene
5025 i Rosegarden&lt;/a&gt;
5026 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/nb/rosegarden-manual.html&quot;&gt;norsk
5027 utgave&lt;/a&gt;) for musikklærere, Alf Tonny Bätz, er neste mann ut i min
5028 intervjurunde av folkene bak Skolelinux-løsningen.  Jeg har kjent Alf
5029 Tonny siden vi møttes som barn på påskefjellet i Ofoten, og ble
5030 gledelig overrasket da han dukket opp i Skolelinux-prosjektet etter å
5031 ikke ha sett noe til ham på mange år.&lt;/p&gt;
5032
5033 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5034
5035 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er utdannet kokk av yrke, og har utøvet yrket i 12 år.  Men
5036 etter at ryggen sa takk før seg, studerte jeg nettverksadministrasjon
5037 ved Næringsakademiet i Bergen årene 2008-2009 slik at jeg kunne
5038 forfølge en av mine største interesser - data.  Til daglig jobber jeg
5039 ved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.narvikskolen.no/parken/&quot;&gt;Parken
5040 ungdomsskole&lt;/a&gt; med å drifte skolens PC-er. Har også litt
5041 musikkundervisning.&lt;/p&gt;
5042
5043 &lt;p&gt;Mitt mål er å bevisstgjøre musikklærene mulighetene med de frie
5044 programmene som finnes i Skolelinux, blant annet Rosegarden.&lt;/p&gt;
5045
5046 &lt;p&gt;Har i mange år drevet med musikk og en av grunnen til at Rosegarden
5047 falt i smak for min del, var fordi denne fungere og ligner mest på
5048 Windows-programmet (cubase) jeg jobbet mye med da jeg i mine yngre
5049 dager var «Windows fanatiker».  Ble introdusert til Linux av en kompis
5050 av meg for omtrent 14 år siden, og har bare blitt mer og mer glad i
5051 dette operativsystemet.&lt;/p&gt;
5052
5053 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5054
5055 &lt;p&gt;Da jeg ble sykemeldt fra min gamle jobb, og måtte omskoleres,
5056 havnet jeg i 2007 sammen med Viggo Fedreheim på IKT-avdelingen i
5057 Narvik kommune, der ble jeg for første gang introdusert til
5058 Skolelinuxprosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
5059
5060 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5061
5062 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er enkelt å holde i drift og masse flotte programmer som
5063 geogebra, ktouch og kgeografi følger med pakken.  Man kan ta i bruk
5064 gamle PC-er igjen, slik at skoler med dårlig råd får opp en brukbar
5065 PC-park.  PC-er som er ca 6-9 år gamle fungere tilfredstillende, bare
5066 de har 512 MB RAM eller mer.&lt;/p&gt;
5067
5068 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5069
5070 &lt;p&gt;Ulempene er at noen av de pedagogiske programmene som lærene ønsker
5071 å bruke fungere dårlig med Linux.  Mye pga. av at disse programmene
5072 blir ikke laget til Linuxbaserte operativsystemer.&lt;/p&gt;
5073
5074 &lt;p&gt;Video- og bilde-redigering har dessverre en del mangler, mange av
5075 programmene har en tendens til og krasje.  Det gjelder blant annet
5076 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kdenlive.org/&quot;&gt;kdenlive&lt;/a&gt; og
5077 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openshotvideo.com/&quot;&gt;openshot&lt;/a&gt;, for å nevne
5078 noen.  De er ikke stabile nok.  Når elevene kommer med filmsnutter de
5079 ønsker og jobbe med, så godtar ikke programmene filene, og når elevene
5080 jobber med redigering bare krasjer programmene uten forvarsel.  Det er
5081 for vanskelig å få noe som bare fungerer ut av boksen her. Når en elev
5082 plugger inn et videokamera eller fotoapparat så er det alltid noe som
5083 ikke vil fungere.  Programmene godtar ikke format, godtar ikke
5084 kameraet, osv., osv. Det er dessverre med på og dra ned en positiv
5085 opplevelse av bruk av fri programvare.&lt;/p&gt;
5086
5087 &lt;p&gt;Man må ofte bruke flere en et video redigerings program før og få
5088 fullført en ønsket oppgave.&lt;/p&gt;
5089
5090 &lt;p&gt;Eksempel:&lt;/p&gt;
5091
5092 &lt;p&gt;Hvis det ene programmet ikke vil ta i mot videofilen klarer et
5093 annet det, men det programmet som klarer det kan ikke gjøre de samme
5094 oppgavene som det programmet som ikke ville ta i mot filen,
5095 Tilsvarende er det med foto, man må bruke flere programmer for å få
5096 et ferdig resultat. Til dags dato har jeg enda ikke funnet et video-
5097 og fotoprogram som kan tilfredstillende fullføre en oppgave.&lt;/p&gt;
5098
5099 &lt;p&gt;Så man kan klare og fullføre en oppgave, men i verste fall må man
5100 innom 3-4 programmer for å få det til.  Så jeg har enda ikke til dags
5101 dato sett at et program fungere 100% til alt.&lt;/p&gt;
5102
5103 &lt;p&gt;Det programmet jeg har best erfaring til er
5104 &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinelerra.org/&quot;&gt;cinelerra&lt;/a&gt;, men dessverre har det
5105 også tendenser og krasje av og til uten grunn.&lt;/p&gt;
5106
5107 Lydsystemet kan også være et mareritt.  Konkret snakker jeg om når du
5108 bruker for eksempel et smartboard, så følger det med USB-lydkort på
5109 disse.  Problemet ligger her i at systemet ikke vil velge rett
5110 lydkort, så man må inn med padevchooser for å sette opp PulseAudio
5111 til og velge at USB-lydkortet skal brukes.  Det blir for tungvindt for
5112 lærene, de ønsker at ting skal fungere med en gang. (min løsning på
5113 det problemet ble at jeg måtte deaktivere lydkortet som fantes på
5114 maskinen) men da må man bestandig slå på smartboard-tavla.
5115
5116 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5117
5118 Programmene jeg bruker mest av er: Rosegarden, jack, qsynth, audacity,
5119 k3b, openttd og libreoffice.
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 Jeg tror det må bevisstgjøring av Skolene til, dvs. reklamere høylytt
5125 og fortelle og vise de andre skolene at frie programvarer faktisk
5126 fungere.  Jeg trur faktisk mange ikke vet at det finnes frie
5127 alternativer.
5128 </description>
5129         </item>
5130
5131         <item>
5132                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner</title>
5133                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html</link>
5134                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html</guid>
5135                 <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
5136                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
5137 publish another interview with the people behind
5138 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.
5139 This time it is one of our German developers, who have helped out over the
5140 years to make sure both a lot of major but also a lot of the minor
5141 details get right before release.
5142
5143 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5144
5145 &lt;p&gt;My name is Jürgen Leibner, I&#39;m 49 years old and living in
5146 Bielefeld, a town in northern Germany.  I worked nearly 20 years as
5147 certified engineer in the department for plant design and layout of an
5148 international company for machinery and equipment.  Since 2011 I&#39;m a
5149 certified technical writer (tekom e.V.) and doing technical
5150 documentations for a steam turbine manufacturer.  From April this year
5151 I will manage the department of technical documentation at a
5152 manufacturer of automation and assembly line engineering.&lt;/p&gt;
5153
5154 &lt;p&gt;My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used
5155 it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
5156 home since 2006.&lt;/p&gt;
5157
5158 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
5159 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5160
5161 &lt;p&gt;Once a day in the early year of 2001 when I wanted to fetch my
5162 daughter from primary school, there was a teacher sitting in the
5163 middle of 20 old computers trying to boot them and he failed. I helped
5164 him to get them booting. That was seen by the school director and she
5165 asked me if I would like to manage that the school gets all that old
5166 computers in use. I answered: &quot;Yes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
5167
5168 &lt;p&gt;Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer
5169 running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
5170 gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer
5171 network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time
5172 and with a lot of fun.  About one year later the school was connected
5173 to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school
5174 building.  That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a
5175 Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and
5176 being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra
5177 costs for things like licence and software.  So I searched for a
5178 school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of
5179 people nearby who founded &#39;skolelinux.de&#39;. It was the Skolelinux
5180 prerelease 32 I first tried out for being used at the school.  I
5181 managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over
5182 the IT management and centralised the services for all schools in
5183 Bielefeld in December of 2006.&lt;/p&gt;
5184
5185 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5186 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5187
5188 &lt;p&gt;When I&#39;m looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages
5189 for me as today.&lt;/p&gt;
5190
5191 &lt;p&gt;In the past there were advantages like:&lt;/p&gt;
5192
5193 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
5194
5195 &lt;li&gt;I don&#39;t need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
5196 they had little money to spent for computers and software.&lt;/li&gt;
5197
5198 &lt;li&gt;It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
5199 cost.&lt;/li&gt;
5200
5201 &lt;li&gt;It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
5202 schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
5203 clients because of it&#39;s preconfigured overall concept of being a
5204 infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
5205 server&lt;/li&gt;
5206
5207 &lt;li&gt;I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
5208 school.&lt;/li&gt;
5209
5210 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5211
5212 &lt;p&gt;Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones
5213 came up in this way:&lt;/p&gt;
5214
5215 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
5216
5217 &lt;li&gt;Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
5218 now.&lt;/li&gt;
5219
5220 &lt;li&gt;They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
5221 have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
5222 because they are to close to Microsoft ideology.&lt;/li&gt;
5223
5224 &lt;li&gt;With the Squeeze version of Debian Edu which now uses GOsa² for
5225 management I feel more able to manage the daily tasks than with the
5226 interfaces used in the past.&lt;/li&gt;
5227
5228 &lt;li&gt;It is more modular than in the past and fits even better to the
5229 different needs.&lt;/li&gt;
5230
5231 &lt;li&gt;The documentation is usable and gets better every day.&lt;/li&gt;
5232
5233 &lt;li&gt;More people than ever before are using Debian Edu all over the
5234 world and so the community, which is an very important part I think,
5235 is sharing knowledge and minds.&lt;/li&gt;
5236
5237 &lt;li&gt;Most, maybe all, of the technical requirements for schools are
5238 solved today by Debian Edu. &lt;/li&gt;
5239
5240 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5241
5242 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5243 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5244
5245 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
5246
5247 &lt;li&gt;There are too few IT companies able to integrate Debian Edu into
5248 their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
5249 whole municipality areas.&lt;/li&gt;
5250
5251 &lt;li&gt;Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
5252 enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
5253 politicians.&lt;/li&gt;
5254
5255 &lt;li&gt;Technically there are no disadvantages I&#39;m aware of.&lt;/li&gt;
5256
5257 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5258
5259 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5260
5261 &lt;p&gt;I use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
5262 computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I
5263 use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel,
5264 KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I
5265 need from the KDE environment.  On console I use newsbeuter, mutt,
5266 screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.&lt;/p&gt;
5267
5268 &lt;p&gt;My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
5269 and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS,
5270 rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services
5271 with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me
5272 and the whole family.  I probably forgot something.&lt;/p&gt;
5273
5274 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
5275 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5276
5277 &lt;p&gt;I believe, we should provide concepts for IT companies to integrate
5278 Debian Edu into their product portfolio with use cases for different
5279 countries and areas all over the world.&lt;/p&gt;
5280 </description>
5281         </item>
5282
5283         <item>
5284                 <title>Forskning: &quot;GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker&quot;</title>
5285                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</link>
5286                 <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>
5287                 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
5288                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
5289 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309&quot;&gt;en
5290 hovedfagsoppgave&lt;/a&gt; ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
5291 av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer.  Jeg ble fascinert
5292 over det som presenteres der.  Her er sammendraget:&lt;/p&gt;
5293
5294 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
5295
5296 &lt;p&gt;Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
5297 over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
5298 økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
5299 for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
5300 fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
5301 økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
5302 programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.&lt;/p&gt;
5303
5304 &lt;p&gt;Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
5305 programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
5306 programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
5307 disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
5308 manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
5309 er:&lt;/p&gt;
5310
5311 &lt;ul&gt;
5312 &lt;li&gt;Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?&lt;/li&gt;
5313 &lt;li&gt;Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? &lt;/li&gt;
5314 &lt;/ul&gt;
5315
5316 &lt;p&gt;Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
5317 modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
5318 kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
5319 frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
5320 dialog med informantene.&lt;/p&gt;
5321
5322 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
5323 ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
5324 for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
5325 fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
5326 delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
5327 operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
5328 OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
5329
5330 &lt;p&gt;Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
5331 av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
5332 begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
5333 vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
5334 økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
5335 stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
5336 omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
5337 til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
5338 eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
5339 inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
5340 formater.&lt;/p&gt;
5341
5342 &lt;p&gt;Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
5343 laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
5344 OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
5345 skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
5346 symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
5347 Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
5348 mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
5349 friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
5350 slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».&lt;/p&gt;
5351 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5352
5353 &lt;p&gt;Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
5354 komplett oppgave tilgjengelig.  På tide å holde et øye med
5355 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-søket&lt;/a&gt;
5356 til DUO...&lt;/p&gt;
5357
5358 </description>
5359         </item>
5360
5361         <item>
5362                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</title>
5363                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</link>
5364                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</guid>
5365                 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
5366                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
5367 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
5368 setting together all the pieces.  This time I present to you Andreas
5369 Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
5370 years.  He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
5371 up in the recently released
5372 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
5373 Edu Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
5374
5375 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5376
5377 &lt;p&gt;My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
5378 studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
5379 Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
5380 Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
5381 teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
5382 information technology and science/technology.&lt;/p&gt;
5383
5384 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
5385 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5386
5387 &lt;p&gt;Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
5388 project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
5389 qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
5390 contributing.&lt;/p&gt;
5391
5392 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5393 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5394
5395 &lt;p&gt;The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
5396 out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
5397 Debian Project!&lt;/p&gt;
5398
5399 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5400 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5401
5402 &lt;p&gt;As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
5403 downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
5404 setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
5405 possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
5406 long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
5407 because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
5408 rather small and often busy elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;
5409
5410 &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN&quot;&gt;Debian LAN&lt;/a&gt;
5411 project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.&lt;/p&gt;
5412
5413 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5414
5415 &lt;p&gt;I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
5416 on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
5417 mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
5418 have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.&lt;/p&gt;
5419
5420 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
5421 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5422
5423 &lt;p&gt;One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
5424 Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
5425 politicians, this works out great for the &quot;market-leader&quot;.  The school
5426 administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
5427 Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
5428 free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
5429 of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.&lt;/p&gt;
5430
5431 &lt;p&gt;To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
5432 political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
5433 However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to &#39;free&#39;
5434 the system.  There is currently some discussion about &quot;Open Data&quot; and
5435 &quot;Free/Open Standards&quot;.  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
5436 a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
5437 fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
5438 software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.&lt;/p&gt;
5439 </description>
5440         </item>
5441
5442         <item>
5443                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</title>
5444                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</link>
5445                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</guid>
5446                 <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
5447                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
5448 like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;,
5449 and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
5450 contributor to the
5451 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
5452 Edu Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&gt;.
5453
5454 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5455
5456 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
5457 occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.&lt;/p&gt;
5458
5459 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
5460 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5461
5462 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
5463 reason my name&#39;s in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
5464 around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
5465 they&#39;d like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
5466 through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
5467 &quot;localisation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
5468
5469 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5470 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5471
5472 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5473 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5474
5475 &lt;p&gt;These questions are too hard for me - I don&#39;t use it!  In fact I
5476 had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I&#39;d got out of the
5477 education system.&lt;/p&gt;
5478
5479 &lt;p&gt;I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
5480 as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
5481 everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
5482 money on the latest hardware.&lt;/p&gt;
5483
5484 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5485
5486 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
5487 software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
5488 words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).&lt;/p&gt;
5489
5490 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
5491 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5492
5493 &lt;p&gt;Well, I don&#39;t know.  I suppose I&#39;d be inclined to try reasoning
5494 with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
5495 you would hardly need a strategy.&lt;/p&gt;
5496 </description>
5497         </item>
5498
5499         <item>
5500                 <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>
5501                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</link>
5502                 <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>
5503                 <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
5504                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I have spent time with
5505 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; on speeding
5506 up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
5507 Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
5508 process I discovered something very surprising.  The reason the KDE
5509 menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
5510 due to the way KDE find application icons.  I discovered that showing
5511 the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
5512 passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server.  Most of these were
5513
5514 NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response.  Because the
5515 ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
5516 ms, the menus would be very slow.  Looking at the strace of kicker in
5517 Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
5518 the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
5519 non-existing files.  KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
5520 one icon file.  In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
5521 around 230 access(2) calls.&lt;/p&gt;
5522
5523 &lt;p&gt;The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
5524 directories, and the list of possible directories is large.  In
5525 (almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
5526 and .xpm.  The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
5527 mounted.  Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
5528 requests.  I am not the first one to discover this.  I found a
5529 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416&quot;&gt;KDE bug report
5530 from 2009&lt;/a&gt; about this problem, and it is still unsolved.&lt;/p&gt;
5531
5532 &lt;p&gt;My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
5533 kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
5534 used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
5535 for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
5536 icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/.  Finally, I add symlinks to
5537 these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
5538 for them.  This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
5539 one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
5540 almost instantaneous.  I&#39;m not quite sure where to make the package
5541 publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.&lt;/p&gt;
5542
5543 &lt;p&gt;The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
5544 and icon handling, but also the login process.  Not quite sure how to
5545 speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
5546 that is not really an option at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
5547
5548 &lt;p&gt;If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
5549 (at) lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
5550 </description>
5551         </item>
5552
5553         <item>
5554                 <title>Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</title>
5555                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</link>
5556                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</guid>
5557                 <pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
5558                 <description>&lt;p&gt;About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
5559 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; by
5560 Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News.  The result was made public for
5561 non-subscribers today.  I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution
5562 for schools.  Check out his article
5563 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
5564 distribution for education&lt;/a&gt; if you want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
5565 </description>
5566         </item>
5567
5568         <item>
5569                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</title>
5570                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</link>
5571                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</guid>
5572                 <pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
5573                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Germany is a core area for the
5574 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
5575 user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
5576 Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
5577
5578 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5579
5580 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve studied Mathematics at the university &#39;Ruhr-Universität&#39; in
5581 Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I&#39;m working as a teacher at the school
5582 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/&quot;&gt;Westfalen-Kolleg
5583 Dortmund&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
5584 the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
5585 examination &#39;Abitur&#39;, which will allow to study at a university. This
5586 second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
5587 or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.&lt;/p&gt;
5588
5589 &lt;p&gt;Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
5590 blended learning project called &#39;abitur-online.nrw&#39; and in some other
5591 information technology related projects. For about ten years I&#39;ve been
5592 teacher and coordinator for the &#39;abitur-online&#39; project at my
5593 school. Being now in my early sixties, I&#39;ve decided to leave school at
5594 the end of April this year.&lt;/p&gt;
5595
5596 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
5597 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5598
5599 &lt;p&gt;The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
5600 attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
5601 Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
5602 using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
5603 2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
5604 clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
5605 reach. At home I&#39;m using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
5606 Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
5607 two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
5608 known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
5609 Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
5610
5611 &lt;p&gt;Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
5612 better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
5613 clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
5614 was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
5615 and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
5616 the admin teachers.&lt;/p&gt;
5617
5618 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5619 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5620
5621 &lt;p&gt;It&#39;s open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it&#39;s
5622 Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
5623 So it was a perfect choice.&lt;/p&gt;
5624
5625 &lt;p&gt;Being open source, there are no license problems and so it&#39;s
5626 possible to point teachers and students to programs like
5627 OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It&#39;s of
5628 high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
5629 a school and to choose where to get support for this.&lt;/p&gt;
5630
5631 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5632 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5633
5634 &lt;p&gt;Nothing yet.&lt;/p&gt;
5635
5636 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5637
5638 &lt;p&gt;At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
5639 Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
5640 Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
5641 LibreOffice.&lt;/p&gt;
5642
5643 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
5644 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5645
5646 &lt;p&gt;Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
5647 that doesn&#39;t seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
5648 interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.&lt;/p&gt;
5649 </description>
5650         </item>
5651
5652         <item>
5653                 <title>Linux-skoler har høyere PC-tetthet enn landsgjennomsnittet - pressemelding fra FRiSK</title>
5654                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Linux_skoler_har_h_yere_PC_tetthet_enn_landsgjennomsnittet___pressemelding_fra_FRiSK.html</link>
5655                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Linux_skoler_har_h_yere_PC_tetthet_enn_landsgjennomsnittet___pressemelding_fra_FRiSK.html</guid>
5656                 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
5657                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag har &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no&quot;&gt;FRiSK&lt;/a&gt;
5658 sendt ut følgende pressemelding basert på mine beregninger av
5659 PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler:&lt;/p&gt;
5660
5661 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linux-skoler har høyere PC-tetthet enn
5662 landsgjennomsnittet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5663
5664 &lt;p&gt;Oslo, 30 Mars 2012&lt;/p&gt;
5665
5666 &lt;p&gt;Det er store forskjeller på skolenes digitale tilstand, viser
5667 undersøkelsen Monitor 2011 som er laget på oppdrag fra
5668 Kunnskapsdepartementet. Dette har ført til debatt om PC-tilgangen i
5669 skolen, og om de med Linux i skolen gjør det bedre bedre eller
5670 dårligere enn snittet i landet.&lt;/p&gt;
5671
5672 &lt;p&gt;Nå har vi tallene. Skoler med Linux har 36% større PC-tetthet en
5673 landsgjennomsnittet. På spørsmål hvorfor skoler med Linux har større
5674 PC-tetthet, observerer Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken som er IKT-konsulent i
5675 Nord-Odal:&lt;/p&gt;
5676
5677 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;Vi erfarer at klienter med Skolelinux har god funksjon
5678 til de er 8 til 10 år gamle. Dette er omtrent dobbelt så lenge som
5679 andre løsninger, og skolene får mer datautstyr for
5680 pengene.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5681
5682 &lt;p&gt;Undersøkelsen baserer seg på 56 skoler som har gjort det offentlig
5683 at de kjører Skolelinux eller annen Linux-utgave. De kan også ha PC-er
5684 med Windows i skolenettet. Når en sammenligner PC-tetthetene på
5685 skolene i kommunene Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik, Nittedal,
5686 Nord-Odal og Randaberg, er det i snitt 2,28 elev pr. PC på skolene med
5687 Linux. På landsbasis er det 3.11 elev per PC i grunnskolen, i følge
5688 side 95 i Monitor-rapporten for 2011. Målingen viser dermed 36% større
5689 PC-tetthet i skoler med Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
5690
5691 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Om Skolelinux/Debian Edu&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5692
5693 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux har til hensikt å gi alle barn full tilgang til
5694 skoleaktuelle dataprogram på sitt eget morsmål. Derfor følger det med
5695 godt over 100 skoleaktuelle programmene laget for læring. De fleste
5696 programmene er oversatt til over 50 språk. Elevene skal også kunne
5697 studere alle sider av dataprogrammene. Derfor følger også kildekode
5698 med. Elever med interesse kan lære av eksperter som har laget
5699 systemet. Dette med enkelt programmering i læreprogram som KTurtle,
5700 til profesjonelle verktøy som Qt Creator eller Java.&lt;/p&gt;
5701
5702 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er laget for sentralisert drift, der alt teknisk
5703 administrasjon av alle skolene kan gjøres sentralt fra kommunehuset
5704 eller sentralt i en region.  F.eks. drifter to-tre personer 70.000
5705 skoledatamaskiner på 200 skoler i delstaten Extremadura i
5706 Spania. Etter velykket bruk av Debian Edu i skolen, legger delstaten
5707 over til Debian på 40.000 datamaskiner i administrasjonen. Det er idag
5708 mange selskap som tilbyr profesjonell støtte til innføring og drift i
5709 Norge og verden.&lt;/p&gt;
5710
5711 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Om FRiSK&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5712
5713 &lt;p&gt;Medlemsforeningen Fri Programvare i Skolen organiserer
5714 dugnadsprosjektet som står bak Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
5715
5716 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kontaktperson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5717
5718 &lt;p&gt;Knut Yrvin&lt;/p&gt;
5719
5720 &lt;p&gt;Leder av Fri Programvare i Skolen (FRISK)&lt;/p&gt;
5721
5722 &lt;p&gt;Epost: knuty at skolelinux.no
5723 &lt;br&gt;Mobil: +47 93 479 561&lt;/p&gt;
5724
5725 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referanser&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5726
5727 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
5728
5729  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.skolelinux.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
5730  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
5731  &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;
5732  &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;
5733  &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;
5734  &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;
5735  &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;
5736
5737 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5738 </description>
5739         </item>
5740
5741         <item>
5742                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Roy-Arne Myhre</title>
5743                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Roy_Arne_Myhre.html</link>
5744                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Roy_Arne_Myhre.html</guid>
5745                 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
5746                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
5747 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, får vi
5748 denne gangen høre fra en IKT-ansvarlig som har brukt Skolelinux i
5749 mange år, og vært storfornøyd med erfaringene så langt.&lt;/p&gt;
5750
5751 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5752
5753 &lt;p&gt;Mitt navn er Roy-Arne Myhre og jeg er 42 år.  Jeg er ansatt hos
5754 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sandskole.no/&quot;&gt;Sand skole&lt;/a&gt; (Balsfjord kommune)
5755 og har stort sett vært det siden 1990.  Jeg er IKT ansvarlig ved
5756 skolen i 40% stilling – 10% undervisning – musikk.&lt;/p&gt;
5757
5758 &lt;p&gt;Ved skolen er det ca 100 elever og ca 18 lærere + 4 assistenter i
5759 hele og delte stillinger. Alle lærerne har bærbar PC (dessverre med
5760 Win Vista) – assistenter har tilgang til egne. Vi benytter Fronter i
5761 det daglige arbeidet.  Vi har ca 90 elevmaskiner som fungerer til
5762 daglig opp mot Linux server (XFCE) som driftes av
5763 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bzz.no/&quot;&gt;BzzWare AS&lt;/a&gt; via nett. Maskinparken
5764 består kun av brukt utstyr for elevene – og noe av dette begynner å
5765 bli vel gammelt selv som halvtykke klienter.&lt;/p&gt;
5766
5767 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med
5768 Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5769
5770 &lt;p&gt;Vi kom første gang i kontakt med Skolelinux rundt 1997. Den gang
5771 var det oppstart-disketter i hver maskin, ikke mulighet for lyd og
5772 video, gamle nettverkskort og mye plundring.  Vi hadde en ihuga
5773 forelder med som pådriver, forsker og inspirator for hele opplegget.
5774 Selv ante jeg knapt at Skolelinux fantes, men han var av den
5775 utforskende typen, og fikk både meg og skolelederen i trua på at dette
5776 var ting som kunne fungere.  Etter dette har det gått gradvis
5777 framover; flere maskiner er hentet inn gjennom bl.a
5778 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greentech.no/&quot;&gt;Greentech&lt;/a&gt; og utrangert utstyr
5779 fra høgskole / Avinor og private givere. Når maskinene ble for trege
5780 for nye Windows-versjoner, sto vi klare til å putte dem i nettverket
5781 vårt.  Dette betyr at vi i dag har 1:1 dekning av maskiner på
5782 ungdomstrinnet og bedre enn 1:2 på barnetrinnet. Dette er vi veldig
5783 fornøyd med, og vi kan ikke se for oss hverdagen som ville vært
5784 alternativet ved bruk av Windows med sine lisenser pr. Bruker/maskin.
5785 Da ville vi nok vært tilbake til 1-2 maskiner pr klasserom med de
5786 negative konsekvenser det ville hatt for undervisningsformene våre. Vi
5787 kan ha en hel klasse i prosjektjobbing eller individuell jobbing
5788 samtidig – vi kan avholde tentamen og eksamen uten
5789 logistikkproblemer.&lt;/p&gt;
5790
5791 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5792
5793 Hvor skal jeg begynne... Stabiliteten er et nøkkelord - det bare
5794 virker.  Har du først fått en server med Skolelinux opp og gå, så må
5795 det en maskinarefeil eller sabotasje til for å stoppe den.  Det at man
5796 kan bruke eldre maskiner som normalt sett ville gått på dynga, er også
5797 glimrende - billig for skoler med dårlig økonomi og bra for miljøet
5798 siden vi gjenbruker utstyr i stedet for å skaffe nytt. Vi ville aldri
5799 hatt mulighet til å operere med det maskinantallet vi har pr i dag
5800 hvis det ikke var for Skolelinux - så tilgjengelighet er et annet
5801 nøkkelord. Et tredje moment er sikkerhet og brukertilgang. Alle
5802 brukerer opererer med egne brukernavn og passord, samt egne
5803 brukerområder som kan tilpasses for både enbrukertilgang og for
5804 samarbeid med andre.
5805
5806 Elever har godt av å se at det finnes andre alternativer enn de som
5807 storindustrien selger på lisensbasis - på den måten trenes de opp til
5808 å se flere muligheter og å foreta valg ut fra flere opsjoner.
5809
5810 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5811
5812 &lt;p&gt;Ulempene med Skolelinux er nok utbredelsen og mangelen på kjennskap
5813 til dette i skolenorge.  De som skal ta økonomiske avgjørelser rynker
5814 på nesen og vil gå for det kjente og «sikre» selv om det koster mye
5815 mer. Man får rett og slett litt hetta av å ikke kunne noe – og unngår
5816 dette for enhver pris.&lt;/p&gt;
5817
5818 &lt;p&gt;I tillegg er mye av linux-systemet administrert av tekstkommandoer
5819 og er lite intuitiv/visuell for oss som ikke er «inne i»
5820 kildekodene». Så problemet er nok mye godt at de som
5821 utarbeider/drifter Skolelinux ikke helt klarer å sette seg ned på
5822 skoleadministratorens nivå når det gjelder problemer og
5823 utfordringer. Men dette er nok en utfordring alle administratorer
5824 sliter med uansett OS.&lt;/p&gt;
5825
5826 &lt;p&gt;Derfor har vi valgt å støtte oss til BzzWare AS for assistanse i
5827 drifta slik at jeg har kunnet konsentrere meg mer om kabling, skifting
5828 av komponenter, veiledning av lærere og elever, vedlikehold av
5829 skrivere og annen daglig drift.&lt;/p&gt;
5830
5831 &lt;p&gt;Elevene mestrer Skolelinux helt fint.  Så lenge Internett
5832 (Iceweasel) og Libreoffice (Openoffice) fungerer er 90% av
5833 skolehverdagen velfungerende. I tillegg brukes jo en del av den
5834 pedagogiske programpakken bla. i forhold til matematikk og geografi,
5835 men det er såpass mye bra på nett om dagen, så disse programmene er
5836 mer som krydder å regne.&lt;/p&gt;
5837
5838 &lt;p&gt;Jeg skulle ønske neste versjon av Skolelinux kunne komme litt
5839 mindre stappet med programmer, for halvparten blir aldri brukt, eller
5840 fungerer ikke uansett.  Hva med et pedagogisk panel av lærere/IKT
5841 ansvarlige som kunne sagt: disse programmene skal være standard, så
5842 får resten være slike man kan legge til ved behov – det kan lett bli
5843 en jungel å bevege seg i.&lt;/p&gt;
5844
5845 &lt;p&gt;Jeg ønsker meg også en mer grafisk versjon av
5846 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bzz.no/lwat/trac/trac.cgi&quot;&gt;Lwat&lt;/a&gt; hvor man kan krysse
5847 ut de som f.eks ikke skal ha internett-tilgang en dag pga
5848 eksamen/tentamen, samt en noe enklere brannmurløsning hvor man kan
5849 stenge for en del (få) sider på en enkel måte.  Jeg liker godt
5850 Skolelinux sin ideologi om at filteret skal trenes i hodet på eleven –
5851 men av og til skulle jeg ønske at f.eks Facebook og Youtube kunne vært
5852 koblet vekk en periode for å få bedre utnyttelse av tid og
5853 ressurser. Disse to nettstedene er nok mye av årsaken til at mange
5854 lærere holder igjen databruken noe mer enn man kunne ønske.&lt;/p&gt;
5855
5856 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5857
5858 Jeg benytter nesten bare fri programvare til daglig. LibreOffice,
5859 Iceweasel (Firefox), Thunderbird til e-post og Gimp til
5860 bildebehandling.  Vi har PHP-Nuke-oppsatt hjemmeside. Det eneste som
5861 jeg ikke har fått helt til enda er videoredigering - her må man vel
5862 innrømme at Mac er hakket over, men da er vi igjen over på å se hva
5863 som egner seg best, og ta valg ut fra det. Folk flest lever i
5864 villfarelsen om at regneark HETER Excel og tekstbehandling HETER
5865 Word. Dette er en misforståelse som jeg bruker mye energi på å
5866 diskutere og &quot;åpne sinn&quot; på Microsoft-slaver.  Dessverre er det mange
5867 IKT-ansvarlige som også har låst seg på at det eneste saliggjørende er
5868 Bill G sine produkter.
5869
5870 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
5871 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5872
5873 &lt;p&gt;For å komme lenger i utbredelsen av Skolelinux tror jeg det må mer
5874 fram i nasjonale medier, samt komme bedre fram hva økonomien i dette
5875 valget vil være – samt mulighetene. Fri programvare er en berikelse og
5876 gjør oss i stand til å utføre arbeidet i skolen uten å måtte legge
5877 igjen tusener på tusener i Bill Gates lomme.. Få ETT nettsted med
5878 forståelig veiledning av installasjon/oppgradering og ETT forum med
5879 konkrete feilrettinger og problemer, så tror jeg vi kunne kommet et
5880 par skritt framover. Ellers tror jeg bare at ildsjelene må fortsette å
5881 skinne – kanskje flere enn oss følger etter på veien.&lt;/p&gt;
5882 </description>
5883         </item>
5884
5885         <item>
5886                 <title>Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication</title>
5887                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html</link>
5888                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html</guid>
5889                 <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
5890                 <description>&lt;!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html --&gt;
5891
5892 &lt;p&gt;The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I
5893 published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how
5894 to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos,
5895 allowing users to check their local email account without providing
5896 any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size,
5897 and also available from &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/38601767&quot;&gt;vimeo&lt;/a&gt;
5898 and download as a
5899 &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
5900 Theora&lt;/a&gt; file.  Check it out below.&lt;/p&gt;
5901
5902 &lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;kmail-kerberos-movie&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; preload controls&gt;
5903   &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;
5904     &lt;p&gt;Download video as
5905       &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;
5906 &lt;/video&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5907 </description>
5908         </item>
5909
5910         <item>
5911                 <title>Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux?</title>
5912                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html</link>
5913                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html</guid>
5914                 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
5915                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store
5916 forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse.
5917 Et eksempel er
5918 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen&quot;&gt;oppslaget
5919 i Digi&lt;/a&gt;.  Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om
5920 Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet.  Grunnlaget
5921 for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen
5922 &lt;a href=&quot;https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand&quot;&gt;Monitor
5923 2011&lt;/a&gt;, som bruker informasjon fra
5924 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wis.no/gsi&quot;&gt;Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem&lt;/a&gt;
5925 (GSI).  GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil
5926 (intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler,
5927 hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de
5928 har rapportert inn.  For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å
5929 vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem
5930 opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.&lt;/p&gt;
5931
5932 &lt;p&gt;Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik,
5933 Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller
5934 andre Linux-varianter.  Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg
5935 har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det
5936 bekreftet med offentlige kilder.&lt;/p&gt;
5937
5938 &lt;p&gt;Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det &quot;ifølge GSI
5939 (20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle
5940 grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)&quot;.  For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å
5941 koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin,
5942 hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn
5943 landsgjennomsnittet.  Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har
5944 notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev
5945 pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).&lt;/p&gt;
5946
5947 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få
5948 flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en
5949 rekke andre fordeler.  Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?&lt;/p&gt;
5950
5951 &lt;p&gt;Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel
5952 feilføringer.  Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9
5953 elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut.  Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0
5954 elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.&lt;/p&gt;
5955
5956 &lt;p&gt;Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og
5957 Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
5958 </description>
5959         </item>
5960
5961         <item>
5962                 <title>Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</title>
5963                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html</link>
5964                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html</guid>
5965                 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
5966                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
5967 users are spread all across the globe.  The second inteview after
5968 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;the
5969 Squeeze release&lt;/a&gt; was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
5970 long time Linux user in United Kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;
5971
5972 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5973
5974 &lt;p&gt;I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
5975 Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
5976 author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
5977 contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
5978 encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
5979 years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
5980 weren&#39;t able to convert many of them into sustainable
5981 installations.&lt;/p&gt;
5982
5983 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
5984 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5985
5986 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
5987 London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
5988 just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
5989 along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
5990 mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
5991 well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
5992 have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
5993 LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
5994 these things we decided to try it.&lt;/p&gt;
5995
5996 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
5997 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5998
5999 &lt;p&gt;By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
6000 from that I have always believed in the same &quot;sustainable computing&quot;
6001 goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
6002 would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
6003 low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
6004 that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
6005 Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
6006 proprietary software everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
6007
6008 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
6009 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6010
6011 &lt;p&gt;As a newcomer I&#39;m just finding out who&#39;s who in the community and
6012 how you&#39;re organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
6013 various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
6014 English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
6015 users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!&lt;/p&gt;
6016
6017 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6018
6019 &lt;p&gt;Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
6020 OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
6021 desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
6022 use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I&#39;m not sure if
6023 that counts...)&lt;/p&gt;
6024
6025 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
6026 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6027
6028 &lt;p&gt;That&#39;s a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
6029 and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
6030 the notion of &quot;computer&quot; means simply &quot;proprietary office
6031 applications&quot;.  However, schools today are experiencing budget
6032 constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
6033 XP.  At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
6034 iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
6035 longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
6036 realised that we need people with programming skills, so they&#39;re
6037 putting coding back in the curriculum! And it&#39;s encouraging that the
6038 first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;
6039
6040 &lt;p&gt;I don&#39;t really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
6041 free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
6042 Edu users in this country has to be part of it.&lt;/p&gt;
6043 </description>
6044         </item>
6045
6046         <item>
6047                 <title>Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu</title>
6048                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
6049                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
6050                 <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
6051                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and
6052 it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the
6053 translated versions in sync.  To do this we have come up with what we
6054 believe is a very efficient work flow.&lt;/p&gt;
6055
6056 &lt;ol&gt;
6057
6058 &lt;li&gt;The documentation is written in a
6059 &lt;a href=&quot;http://moinmo.in&quot;&gt;moinmoin wiki&lt;/a&gt; (see for example
6060 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;the
6061 Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&gt;) with support for exporting the content as
6062 docbook XML.&lt;/li&gt;
6063
6064 &lt;li&gt;This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style
6065 .pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files
6066 with the translated text.&lt;/li&gt;
6067
6068 &lt;li&gt;The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell
6069 which part of the original wiki document is new or changed.  They can
6070 use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write
6071 the translation.  There is even a system in place to handle translated
6072 images.&lt;/li&gt;
6073
6074 &lt;li&gt;The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook
6075 XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.&lt;/li&gt;
6076
6077 &lt;li&gt;The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and
6078 create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.&lt;/li&gt;
6079
6080 &lt;/ol&gt;
6081
6082 &lt;p&gt;This setup work very well, but have a few issues.  The biggest
6083 issue is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://moinmo.in/DocBook&quot;&gt;the docbook support
6084 we use in moinmoin&lt;/a&gt; is not actively maintained.  The docbook
6085 support is also buggy, and our build system contain workarounds to
6086 make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these bugs.&lt;/p&gt;
6087
6088 &lt;p&gt;If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the
6089 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc&quot;&gt;debian-edu-doc
6090 package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
6091 </description>
6092         </item>
6093
6094         <item>
6095                 <title>NUUG-presentasjon: Skolelinux - ferdig oppsatt skolenettløsning</title>
6096                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html</link>
6097                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html</guid>
6098                 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
6099                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag presenterte jeg ny versjon av Skolelinux for NUUGs medlemmer.
6100 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/20120313-skolelinux-squeeze.html&quot;&gt;Lysark&lt;/a&gt;
6101 er tilgjengelige allerede og
6102 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/&quot;&gt;video-opptak&lt;/a&gt;
6103 kommer så snart videogruppa til NUUG får publisert den.  Jeg kom på
6104 endel punkter om nye ting i Squeeze-utgaven under veis som jeg burde
6105 hatt med, og har sikkert skrevet noe tull på lysarkene som jeg ennå
6106 ikke har oppdaget.  Denne presentasjonen ble smurt ihop på veldig kort
6107 tid, og jeg rakk ikke finpusse den.  Håper den kan være lærerik
6108 likevel.&lt;/p&gt;
6109 </description>
6110         </item>
6111
6112         <item>
6113                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Kåre Nordby</title>
6114                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html</link>
6115                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html</guid>
6116                 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
6117                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Første ut i serien med intervjuer av folk i
6118 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet etter at
6119 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;ny
6120 versjon av Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; ble lansert i helga, er nylig valgte
6121 styremedlem i foreningen
6122 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
6123 Skolen&lt;/a&gt; (FRiSK) som organiserer
6124 Skolelinux-utviklingen og daglig leder i
6125 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt;, selskapet
6126 prosjektet opprettet som et tilbud til skoler som ønsket en
6127 kommersiell samarbeidsparter.  Det bør nevnes at jeg er styremedlem i
6128 Skolelinux Drift AS og styreleder i selskapets hovedeier stiftelsen
6129 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/&quot;&gt;SLX Debian Labs&lt;/a&gt;
6130 som beskytter verdiene til Skolelinux-prosjektet, og kjenner Kåre den
6131 veien.&lt;/p&gt;
6132
6133 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6134
6135 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har siden januar 2010 vært daglig leder i Skolelinux Drift AS,
6136 som leverer support, installasjon, tilpasning, drift, og opplæring på
6137 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. Fra 2012 er jeg valgt inn som styremedlem i
6138 FRiSK.  Min forrige jobb var som KAM i Redpill Linpro (som er en av
6139 eierne i Skolelinux Drift).  Før det var jeg daglig leder i et eget 7
6140 manns konsulent selskap som også startet med fri programvare mot
6141 slutten.&lt;/p&gt;
6142
6143 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6144
6145 &lt;p&gt;Jeg hørte om det først når jeg jobbet i Redpill Linpro.  Men jeg
6146 har også en datter som går på en friskole, som også bruker Skolelinux.
6147 Som kjent har ikke friskoler de samme økonomiske rammebetingelsene som
6148 offentlige skoler, så for dem var det det absolutt beste alternativet.
6149 De anser også Skolelinux som et stabilt system, som bare går og går (i
6150 motsetning til det lille Windows-baserte nettverket de har på
6151 admin-siden).&lt;/p&gt;
6152
6153 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6154
6155 &lt;p&gt;Sentralisert drift av tynne og diskløse arbeidsstasjoner. Således
6156 lydløse og raskere arbeidsstasjoner som er bedre i klasserommet.
6157 Lengre levetid på PC&#39;er.  Store besparelser på maskinvare og drift. Og
6158 så klart fjerning av alle lisenskostnader. Personlig synes jeg også at
6159 mange av programmene er bedre enn alternativene. Men dette er ofte en
6160 smakssak og avhengig om man må ha det man er vant til fra før.&lt;/p&gt;
6161
6162 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6163
6164 &lt;p&gt;For lite kjentskap til løsningen.  Noen ganger for dårlig
6165 kompatibilitet med arbeidsstasjoners/bærbare maskiner sine
6166 nettverksdrivere eller skjermkort. Men dette løser vi i skolene ved
6167 standardisering. Ellers er det få, om nesten ingen, av de kjente
6168 maskinvare / infrastruktur leverandørene til fylkes- / kommuner som
6169 tilbyr denne plattformen.  Skal dette endre seg så må kommunene selv
6170 sette slike krav til leverandørene.&lt;/p&gt;
6171
6172 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6173
6174 &lt;p&gt;Har brukt OpenOffice.org siden starten (2001 ?), Kun Linux på
6175 desktop siden 2005. Bruker i dag Kubuntu, Libreoffice og ymse annet
6176 programvare til ulik kontorbruk som er lett å installere / teste via
6177 alle programarkivene som finnes.&lt;/p&gt;
6178
6179 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
6180 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6181
6182 &lt;p&gt;Fortsette å presentere flere av de gode eksemplene hvor Debian Edu
6183 / Skolelinux brukes i kommuner og enkeltskoler.  Vi må få bedre frem
6184 at det er mulig tilknytte både Windows og Mac klienter på denne
6185 plattformen (selv om det vil øke driftskostnadene).  Dette gjøres
6186 mange steder.  Spesielt er det mange lærere som ønsker å bruke
6187 Windows/Mac-bærbare, gjerne som sin private PC også. Det er også mulig
6188 for kommunen å integrere med Active Directory i stedet for OpenLDAP
6189 som kommer med ut av boksen (selv om også dette øker kostnadene).
6190 Dette vil muligens bidra til å fjerne noe motstand hos noen
6191 potensielle brukere / driftpersonell for å ta i bruk noe
6192 nytt. Fremveksten av mobile brukere og nettbrett går i vår favør.
6193 Brukerne blir kjent og vant til flere nye operativsystemer /
6194 brukergrensesnitt. Så utviklerfellesskapet bør jobbe videre med å
6195 integrere flere nye klienttyper, som ultra lav-kostklienter og
6196 nettbrett (blant annet fri programvare-alternativet
6197 &lt;a href=&quot;http://makeplaylive.com/&quot;&gt;Spark&lt;/a&gt; med
6198 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merproject.org/&quot;&gt;Mer OS&lt;/a&gt; og
6199 &lt;a href=&quot;http://plasma-active.org/&quot;&gt;KDE Active Plasma&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
6200 </description>
6201         </item>
6202
6203         <item>
6204                 <title>Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out!</title>
6205                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html</link>
6206                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html</guid>
6207                 <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
6208                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we finally published the first stable release of
6209 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; based
6210 on Debian/Squeeze.  The full announcement is
6211 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
6212 from the project announcement list.  Now is a good time to test if it
6213 you have not done so already.&lt;/p&gt;
6214
6215 &lt;p&gt;I plan to present the new version at
6216 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/&quot;&gt;a NUUG
6217 meeting&lt;/a&gt; on tuesday.  I look forward to seeing you there if you are
6218 in Oslo, Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
6219 </description>
6220         </item>
6221
6222         <item>
6223                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</title>
6224                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</link>
6225                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</guid>
6226                 <pubDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
6227                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/&quot;&gt;the
6228 interview series&lt;/a&gt; conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
6229 interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
6230 community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
6231 more international audience.&lt;/p&gt;
6232
6233 &lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
6234 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
6235 Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
6236 from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
6237 and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
6238 work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
6239 and am happy to share the response with you. :)
6240
6241
6242 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6243
6244 &lt;p&gt;My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
6245 and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
6246 Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
6247 teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
6248 Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
6249 I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
6250 primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
6251 so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
6252 also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
6253 to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
6254 appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
6255
6256 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
6257 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6258
6259 &lt;p&gt;In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
6260 server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
6261 samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
6262 Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn&#39;t really improve my setup. I
6263 did various desperate searches for things like &quot;school Linux server&quot;
6264 and ended up in a document called &quot;Drift&quot; something or other. Reading
6265 there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
6266 problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
6267 previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
6268 Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
6269 downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
6270 Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
6271 my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.&lt;/p&gt;
6272
6273 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
6274 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6275
6276 &lt;p&gt;For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
6277 workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
6278 ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
6279 designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
6280 doesn&#39;t necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
6281 school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
6282 Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
6283
6284 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
6285 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6286
6287 &lt;p&gt;The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
6288 have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
6289 make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
6290 who don&#39;t need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
6291 important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
6292 instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
6293 default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
6294 kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
6295 Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
6296 second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
6297 customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
6298 multiplies. For example, backup wasn&#39;t working properly in Lenny. It
6299 took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
6300 I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
6301 help.&lt;/p&gt;
6302
6303 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6304
6305 &lt;p&gt;Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
6306 studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
6307 (customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
6308 still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
6309 house, that&#39;s very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
6310 the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
6311 have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
6312 day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
6313 installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
6314 have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
6315 and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.&lt;/p&gt;
6316
6317 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
6318 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6319
6320 &lt;p&gt;Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
6321 and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
6322 popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
6323 to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
6324 file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
6325 also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
6326 Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
6327 budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
6328 compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
6329 is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
6330 are not impressed when their USB drive doesn&#39;t work, or their browser
6331 doesn&#39;t play flash, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
6332 </description>
6333         </item>
6334
6335         <item>
6336                 <title>Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</title>
6337                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</link>
6338                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</guid>
6339                 <pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
6340                 <description>&lt;!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html --&gt;
6341
6342 &lt;p&gt;One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
6343 screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
6344 Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
6345 also available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/37675399&quot;&gt;vimeo&lt;/a&gt; and
6346 download as a
6347 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg
6348 Theora&lt;/a&gt; file.  Check it out below.&lt;/p&gt;
6349
6350 &lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;gosa-mass-user-create-movie&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; preload controls&gt;
6351   &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;
6352     &lt;p&gt;Download video as
6353       &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;
6354 &lt;/video&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6355 </description>
6356         </item>
6357
6358         <item>
6359                 <title>Third release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
6360                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
6361                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
6362                 <pubDate>Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
6363                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we wrapped up and published the third release
6364 candidate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
6365 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
6366 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
6367 from the project announcement list.  Check it out if you
6368 need a software solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
6369 </description>
6370         </item>
6371
6372         <item>
6373                 <title>Stopmotion for making stop motion animations on Linux - reloaded</title>
6374                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stopmotion_for_making_stop_motion_animations_on_Linux___reloaded.html</link>
6375                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stopmotion_for_making_stop_motion_animations_on_Linux___reloaded.html</guid>
6376                 <pubDate>Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
6377                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Many years ago, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
6378 / Debian Edu project&lt;/a&gt; initiated a student project to create a tool
6379 for making stop motion movies.  The proposal came from a teacher
6380 needing such tool on Skolelinux.  The project, called &quot;stopmotion&quot;,
6381 was manned by two extraordinary students and won a school award and a
6382 national aware with this great project.  The project was initiated and
6383 mentored by Herman Robak, and manned by the students Bjørn Erik Nilsen
6384 and Fredrik Berg Kjølstad.  They got in touch with people at Aardman
6385 Animation studio and received feedback on how professionals would like
6386 such stopmotion tool to work, and the end result was and is used by
6387 animators around the globe.  But as is usual after studying, both got
6388 jobs and went elsewhere, and did not have time to properly tend to the
6389 project, and it has been lingering for a few years now.  Until last
6390 year...&lt;/p&gt;
6391
6392 &lt;p&gt;Last year some of the users got together with Herman, and moved the
6393 project to Sourceforge and in effect restarted the project under a new
6394 name,
6395 &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxstopmotion/&quot;&gt;linuxstopmotion&lt;/a&gt;.
6396 The name change was done to make it possible to find the project using
6397 Internet search engines (try to search for &#39;stopmotion&#39; to see what I
6398 mean). I&#39;ve been following
6399 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxstopmotion-community&quot;&gt;the
6400 mailing list&lt;/a&gt; and the improvement already in place and planned for
6401 the future is encouraging.  If you want to make stop motion movies.
6402 Check it out. :)&lt;/p&gt;
6403 </description>
6404         </item>
6405
6406         <item>
6407                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Frode Danielsen</title>
6408                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Frode_Danielsen.html</link>
6409                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Frode_Danielsen.html</guid>
6410                 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
6411                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
6412 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet møter vi
6413 denne gangen Frode Danielsen, som er leder for en IT-virksomhet som
6414 passer på IT-løsningen til flere kommuner i Hedmark-området, der noen
6415 av dem bruker Skolelinux i dag.&lt;/p&gt;
6416
6417 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6418
6419 &lt;p&gt;Daglig leder i &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hedmarken-ikt.no/&quot;&gt;Hedmark
6420 IKT&lt;/a&gt;. En interkommunal IKT-virksomhet for Stange, Nord-Odal,
6421 Kongsvinger, Grue, Løten og Hamar kommuner. Vi er 32 ansatte&lt;/p&gt;
6422
6423 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6424
6425 &lt;p&gt;Vi har vært i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet i flere
6426 sammenhenger, blant annet gjennom et par piloter som ikke har ført til
6427 noe konkret resultat.  Nå sist gjennom satsingen på skolelinux i Grue,
6428 Kongsvinger og Nord-Odal.&lt;/p&gt;
6429
6430 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;
6431 &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6432
6433 &lt;p&gt;Jeg tror alle løsninger har fordeler og ulemper, litt avhengig av
6434 hvilket ståsted du selv har, så jeg unnlater å svare på dette.&lt;/p&gt;
6435
6436 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6437
6438 &lt;p&gt;Ingen for min egen del, men vi har noe fri programvare i våre
6439 løsninger.&lt;/p&gt;
6440
6441 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
6442 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6443
6444 &lt;p&gt;Jeg tror ikke man skal ha en slik strategi.  Man bør ha en strategi
6445 basert på å løse fremtidige behov, og velge løsninger som støtter opp
6446 under dette.&lt;/p&gt;
6447 </description>
6448         </item>
6449
6450         <item>
6451                 <title>Second release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
6452                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
6453                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
6454                 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
6455                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we wrapped up and published the second release
6456 candidate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
6457 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based on Squeeze.  The full announcement did for some
6458 reason not make it the project announcement list, but is
6459 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00015.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
6460 from the Debian development announcement list.  Check it out if you
6461 need a software solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
6462 </description>
6463         </item>
6464
6465         <item>
6466                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Knut Yrvin</title>
6467                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Knut_Yrvin.html</link>
6468                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Knut_Yrvin.html</guid>
6469                 <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
6470                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
6471 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, får vi nå
6472 høre fra nyvalgt leder i foreningen
6473 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
6474 Skolen&lt;/a&gt; og en av stifterne av Skolelinux-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
6475
6476 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6477
6478 &lt;p&gt;Knut Yrvin her. Jobber i Nokia med å fremme rammeverket Qt og QML
6479 med tilhørende utviklerverktøy. Rollen er som leder av
6480 friprog-samfunn. I fjor var jeg med å legge om utviklingen av Qt til
6481 åpen forvaltning.  På den måten kan alle som bidrar til Qt gjøre det
6482 på like vilkår.  Nå er det
6483 &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
6484 1000 utviklere&lt;/a&gt; som bidrar til Qt. Med overgangen til åpen
6485 forvaltning er utviklingen av Qt mer åpen enn Linux-kjernen.&lt;/p&gt;
6486
6487 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6488
6489 &lt;p&gt;Jeg var en av initiativtagerne til Skolelinux i 2001. Skolene slet
6490 med både utstyr og Internett-tilgang. De klarte ikke å møte
6491 forventningene til data i skolen. Driften av PC-ene var uholdbar. Som
6492 regel hadde rektor pekt ut en ivrig lærer til å passe på PC-ene,
6493 gjerne naturfaglæreren. Mange lærere jobbet mye ubetalt overtid for å
6494 vedlikeholde 30-40 datamaskiner på hver sin skole. Med 300 elever og
6495 lærere som brukere, blir det fort mye mer arbeid enn de 4-8 timene de
6496 kunne bruke på PC-drift. Skolene hadde kun en femtedel av
6497 IT-budsjettet som ble brukt på PC-ene i rådhuset.&lt;/p&gt;
6498
6499 &lt;p&gt;Vi erfarte at skolene hadde mye datautstyr som stod ubrukt. Skolene
6500 manglet penger til Microsoft-lisenser. Selv med solide skolerabatter,
6501 kostet Microsoft-lisensene gjerne like mye som PC-ene i seg selv over
6502 en periode på 5-6 år.&lt;/p&gt;
6503
6504 &lt;p&gt;Viktigheten av språklig mangfold og pedagogiske programmer var også
6505 viktig for oss. Vi oversatte mange skoleaktuelle programmer til
6506 nynorsk, nordsamisk og bokmål. Dette lenge før andre tok denne
6507 oppgaven seriøst.  Allerede etter ett år hadde vi etablert et helt
6508 arsenal av skoleaktuelle programmer på nynorsk, bokmål og
6509 nordsamisk. Vi spredde vår ide om språklig mangfold til de andre frie
6510 prosjekter internasjonalt. Resultatene ser vi i mange land. Det er de
6511 frie programmene som kommer på brukernes morsmål. Det er en av flere
6512 gode grunner til at fri programvare som LibreOffice, VLC, KDE og
6513 Firefox konkurrerer ut godseid programvare mange steder i verden.&lt;/p&gt;
6514
6515 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6516
6517 &lt;p&gt;Fordelene er at Skolelinux tilbyr over 100 skoleaktuelle programmer
6518 på de norske språkene, uten ett øre i lisenskostnader. Systemet gir
6519 enormt lave driftskostnader med diskløse arbeidsstasjoner og bærbare
6520 med roaming.  Skolelinux krever også mindre av maskinvaren.&lt;/p&gt;
6521
6522 &lt;p&gt;Man kan fint kjøre systemet med 512 MB RAM på en bærbar PC sammen
6523 med en nettvideo i nettleseren og en presentasjon med
6524 LibreOffice. Konkurrerende system krever fort 2 GB RAM for å få til
6525 noe tilsvarende uten at det går ufattelig tregt. Skal man gjøre noe
6526 nyttig, krever konkurrentene til Linux mye større harddisk. Skoler har
6527 rapportert at de fort har fått 50% flere nye maskiner om de velger
6528 Linux. Dette i tillegg til de årlige besparelsene ved å unngå
6529 lisensbetaling til godseid programvare.&lt;/p&gt;
6530
6531 &lt;p&gt;De lave driftskostnadene gjør at delstater i Europa har titusener
6532 av datamaskiner med Skolelinux i skolen. F.eks. er det under ti
6533 personer som drifter 70.000 PC-systemer i skolene i Extremadura i
6534 Spania. Det er slett ikke uvanlig at norske kommuner har 1500-2000
6535 datamaskiner med Skolelinux.  Driften tar ett årsverk. Slår flere
6536 kommuner seg sammen, kan de få samme sentraliserte stordriftsfordeler
6537 som delstater i Tyskland og Spania.  Delstater som kjører Skolelinux
6538 på alle skolene. Bare noen få personer sentraldrifter titusenvis av
6539 PC-er.&lt;/p&gt;
6540
6541 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6542
6543 &lt;p&gt;Den største ulempen for Skolelinux er motstand mot Linux fra
6544 IT-sjefer i det offentlige. Dette er ledere som holder innlegg som
6545 snytt ut av evangelist-håndboka til Microsoft. Dette gjøres i ett
6546 arbeidsmarked med stor vekst i etterspørselen etter Linux-fagfolk i
6547 privat sektor.  Etterspørselen har økt mer enn noe annet tekniske yrke
6548 siste tiåret.  Åtte av ti ledere vil ansette Linux-fagfolk i 2012,
6549 rapporterer jobbnettstedet Dice.com på oppdrag av Linux
6550 Foundation.&lt;/p&gt;
6551
6552 &lt;p&gt;Det mangler 16.000 ingeniører og IKT-fagfolk i Norge rapporterte
6553 arbeids- og velferdsetaten NAV. Linux-fagfolk kan velge svært
6554 interessante jobber med alt fra apps på ledende mobilsystem laget med
6555 Linux, sky- tjenester eller web-applikasjoner. De raskest voksende
6556 teknologiselskapene i verden er ute etter Linux-fagfolk. Det være seg
6557 Amazon, Google, Facebook og IBM for å nevne noen. Linux er kritisk
6558 for å sikre veksten i markedet. Det sier seg selv at lønningene og
6559 jobbmulighetene er bedre enn for andre tekniske yrker.&lt;/p&gt;
6560
6561 &lt;p&gt;Skal man lage apps for mobilen, smart-TV-en eller
6562 underholdningssystemet i bilen eller på flyet, er det Linux som
6563 gjelder. Med en slik konkurranse om Linux-kompetansen, kombinert med
6564 motstanden mot Linux hos mange IT-sjefer i offentlig sektor, så
6565 hindrer kommunene rekruttering av flere Linux- fagfolk. Skolene blir
6566 tvunget til å velge dyrere og mindre komplette IT-system. De har
6567 blitt hengende igjen slik IT var på begynnelsen av 2000- tallet. Dette
6568 fordi IT-ledere ikke har tilpasset seg markedet det siste tiåret.&lt;/p&gt;
6569
6570 &lt;p&gt;Når det er sagt, er Skolelinux svært enkelt å lære seg også for de
6571 som ikke kan. Det viser alle lærerne som drifter systemet for
6572 hundrevis og tusenvis av systemer. Det meste er på plass rett ut av
6573 boksen. I tillegg er det solid med dokumentasjon med god hjelp på
6574 nettet. Det er mange kommuner som har ansatt en lærer som først lærte
6575 Skolelinux på sin skole, for så å drifte alle PC-ene i kommunen med
6576 Skolelinux. Det kan fort være snakk om 1000-3000 datamaskiner på 10-15
6577 skoler som sentraldriftes med en stilling.  Står man ordentlig fast,
6578 kan man også kjøpe profesjonell hjelp fra selskap som støtter
6579 Skolelinux. Det er flere slike selskap i Norge og i utlandet.&lt;/p&gt;
6580
6581 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6582
6583 &lt;p&gt;Qt SDK, LibreOffice, Firefox, VLC og KDE-skrivebordet. Dette på et
6584 Debian-basert GNU/Linux-system. Jeg bruker også noen morsomme
6585 3D-spill. Idag kan jeg velge mellom over 30.000 Linux-programmer. Det
6586 finnes ikke tid i livet å undersøke alle valgmulighetene. Derfor er
6587 det bra med Skolelinux i skolen, da utvalget av programmer er
6588 begrenset til hva som er aktuelt i skolefagene.&lt;/p&gt;
6589
6590 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
6591 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6592
6593 &lt;p&gt;Vi må selge hele Skolelinux forhåndsinstallert på maskinvare i hele
6594 pakker med 50-100-1000 PC-klienter med servere. Dette kan selges til
6595 enkeltskoler eller hele kommuner. Pakken må inneholde tjenermaskiner,
6596 svært rimelige diskløse arbeidsstasjoner, nettbrett med Plasma Active,
6597 og bærbare med roaming. Alt er godt testet med Debian. I et slikt
6598 anbud er det mulig å legge til sentraliserte drifts- og
6599 støttetjenester.&lt;/p&gt;
6600
6601 &lt;p&gt;Man bør også selge sky-tjenester som læreadministrative systemet
6602 Moodle og driftsovervåking. I tillegg så bør man slenge seg på med
6603 presentasjoner de gangene LibreOffice og andre friprog-produkter
6604 selges til kommuner.&lt;/p&gt;
6605 </description>
6606         </item>
6607
6608         <item>
6609                 <title>First release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
6610                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
6611                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
6612                 <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
6613                 <description>&lt;p&gt;One week delayed due to DVD build problems, we managed today to
6614 wrap up and publish the first release candidate for
6615 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
6616 on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
6617 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
6618 on the project announcement list.  Check it out if you need a software
6619 solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
6620 </description>
6621         </item>
6622
6623         <item>
6624                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Olav Dahlum</title>
6625                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Olav_Dahlum.html</link>
6626                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Olav_Dahlum.html</guid>
6627                 <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
6628                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
6629 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, får vi nå
6630 høre fra et nyvalgt medlem i foreningen
6631 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
6632 Skolen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
6633
6634 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6635
6636 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Olav Dahlum, og er frilans oversetter, tester,
6637 prosjektleder og bruker av fri og åpen programvare som
6638 LibreOffice. Jeg er også et av styremedlemmene i FRISK.&lt;/p&gt;
6639
6640 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6641
6642 &lt;p&gt;Jeg kom i kontakt med prosjektet i 2009, da jeg ble ansatt i
6643 stiftelsen Åpne kontorprogram på norsk for å oversette og teste den
6644 norske utgaven av OpenOffice.org. Arbeidet har hele tiden vært
6645 koordinert sammen med Skolelinux, og mange av de samme menneskene er
6646 involvert, så på den måten ble jeg en del av den utvidede
6647 familien.&lt;/p&gt;
6648
6649 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6650
6651 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux handler i likhet med utdanningssektoren om å dele
6652 kunnskap med andre, og det er dette som er hovedstyrken til
6653 prosjektet.  Selv om Skolelinux hovedsaklig er involvert i utvikling
6654 av programvare, er det også et sted der man kan utfolde seg uavhengig
6655 av bakgrunn og ferdigheter.&lt;/p&gt;
6656
6657 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6658
6659 &lt;p&gt;Liten utbredelse og manglende støtte fra leverandører som leverer
6660 pedagogisk programvare til skolebruk.  Kunne kanskje hatt flere
6661 verktøy som letter administrasjonen ytterligere, slik at også mindre
6662 erfarne databrukere kan utføre lett vedlikehold og rutinejobber.&lt;/p&gt;
6663
6664 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6665
6666 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er nesten forpliktet til å si at jeg bruker LibreOffice... Jeg
6667 bruker forøvrig frie og åpne operativsystemer basert på
6668 operativsystemkjernen Linux, for tiden openSUSE 12,1 med KDE4.  Men
6669 hvis jeg skal dra fram noen flere eksempler så er nok Mozilla Firefox
6670 og Thunderbird to av de jeg bruker mest. I tillegg er jeg en flittig
6671 bruker av OpenSSH, Irssi, Midnight Commander, Git, Subversion,
6672 Translation Toolkit og Super Maryo Chronicles (litt gøy skal man ha,
6673 og med to håndkontroller liggende er det ikke til å unngå).&lt;/p&gt;
6674
6675 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
6676 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6677
6678 &lt;p&gt;Vi må få leverandører av pedagogisk programvare med på laget, men
6679 også utvikle vår egen tilpasset det norske markedet.  Det er også
6680 mulig å involvere utdanningssektoren direkte i arbeidet, for eksempel
6681 gjennom studentprosjekter der elevene selv er med å utforme
6682 programvare direkte eller indirekte gjennom aktive bidrag.  Dette gjør
6683 ikke bare samarbeidet tettere, men fokuset på standarder og friheten
6684 til å velge sin egen løsning vil kanskje stimulere interessen for
6685 framtidig deltakelse i bransjen.  Vi som driver med fri og åpen
6686 programvare ønsker oss ikke rene konsumenter, men tenkende og
6687 selvstendige individer som kan være med å skape sin egen fremtid.&lt;/p&gt;
6688 </description>
6689         </item>
6690
6691         <item>
6692                 <title>Automatic proxy configuration with Debian Edu / Skolelinux</title>
6693                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</link>
6694                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</guid>
6695                 <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
6696                 <description>&lt;p&gt;New in the Squeeze version of
6697 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is the
6698 ability for clients to automatically configure their proxy settings
6699 based on their environment.  We want all systems on the client to use
6700 the WPAD based proxy definition fetched from &lt;tt&gt;http://wpad/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt;, to
6701 allow sites to control the proxy setting from a central place and make
6702 sure clients do not have hard coded proxy settings.  The schools can
6703 change the global proxy setting by editing
6704 &lt;tt&gt;tjener:/etc/debian-edu/www/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt; and the change propagate
6705 to all Debian Edu clients in the network.&lt;/p&gt;
6706
6707 &lt;p&gt;The problem is that some systems do not understand the WPAD system.
6708 In other words, how do one get from a WPAD file like this (this is a
6709 simple one, they can run arbitrary code):&lt;/p&gt;
6710
6711 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
6712 function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
6713 {
6714    if (!isResolvable(host) ||
6715        isPlainHostName(host) ||
6716        dnsDomainIs(host, &quot;.intern&quot;))
6717       return &quot;DIRECT&quot;;
6718    else
6719       return &quot;PROXY webcache:3128; DIRECT&quot;;
6720 }
6721 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6722
6723 &lt;p&gt;to a proxy setting in the process environment looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;
6724
6725 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
6726 http_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
6727 ftp_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
6728 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
6729
6730 &lt;p&gt;To do this conversion I developed a perl script that will execute
6731 the javascript fragment in the WPAD file and return the proxy that
6732 would be used for
6733 &lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;,
6734 and insert this extracted proxy URL in &lt;tt&gt;/etc/environment&lt;/tt&gt; and
6735 &lt;tt&gt;/etc/apt/apt.conf&lt;/tt&gt;.  The perl script wpad-extract work just
6736 fine in Squeeze, but in Wheezy the library it need to run the
6737 javascript code is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/631045&quot;&gt;no longer
6738 able to build&lt;/a&gt; because the C library it depended on is now a C++
6739 library.  I hope someone find a solution to that problem before Wheezy
6740 is frozen.  An alternative would be for us to rewrite wpad-extract to
6741 use some other javascript library currently working in Wheezy, but no
6742 known alternative is known at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
6743
6744 &lt;p&gt;This automatic proxy system allow the roaming workstation (aka
6745 laptop) setup in Debian Edu/Squeeze to use the proxy when the laptop
6746 is connected to the backbone network in a Debian Edu setup, and to
6747 automatically use any proxy present and announced using the WPAD
6748 feature when it is connected to other networks.  And if no proxy is
6749 announced, direct connections will be used instead.&lt;/p&gt;
6750
6751 &lt;p&gt;Silently using a proxy announced on the network might be a privacy
6752 or security problem.  But those controlling DHCP and DNS on a network
6753 could just as easily set up a transparent proxy, and force all HTTP
6754 and FTP connections to use a proxy anyway, so I consider that
6755 distinction to be academic.  If you are afraid of using the wrong
6756 proxy, you should avoid connecting to the network in question in the
6757 first place.  In Debian Edu, the proxy setup is updated using dhcp and
6758 ifupdown hooks, to make sure the configuration is updated every time
6759 the network setup changes.&lt;/p&gt;
6760
6761 &lt;p&gt;The WPAD system is documented in a
6762 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-wrec-wpad-01&quot;&gt;IETF
6763 draft&lt;/a&gt; and a
6764 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol&quot;&gt;Wikipedia
6765 page&lt;/a&gt; for those that want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
6766 </description>
6767         </item>
6768
6769         <item>
6770                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Axel Bojer</title>
6771                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html</link>
6772                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html</guid>
6773                 <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
6774                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
6775 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet har jeg
6776 fått en av oversetterne som har vært med siden starten i tale.&lt;/p&gt;
6777
6778 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6779
6780 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Axel Bojer og er datalærer, tysklærer, oversetter med
6781 mere.&lt;/p&gt;
6782
6783 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6784
6785 &lt;p&gt;Tror jeg så en annonsering på nettet i slutten av 2001 og ville
6786 være med som oversetter.  Jeg kom med på en utviklersamling og
6787 prosjektet var da helt i starten.  Det var spennende å være med mens
6788 prosjektet vokste til og utviklet seg.&lt;/p&gt;
6789
6790 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har «alltid» vært språkinteressert og hadde nettopp startet med
6791 Linux og tror jeg tenkte det passet å bidra.  Var også glad for å få
6792 en Debian-distribusjon, og ville gjerne bruke den selv.  Til å begynne
6793 med brukte jeg først Mandrake og så Debian. Og siden jeg oppdaget at
6794 det ikke var noen mulighet for å bruke den som enkeltstående i lang
6795 tid, så gikk jeg etterhvert over til Kubuntu&lt;/p&gt;
6796
6797 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6798
6799 &lt;p&gt;Løsningen er forholdsvis lett å sette opp, gratis, fri programvare
6800 og gjør det mulig å gjenbruke eldre maskiner.  Det fine med Debian er
6801 at det er stabilt og har en veldig stor mengde programmer. Jeg liker
6802 også apt.  :-) Jeg liker også friheten ved Linux og muligheten til å
6803 delta og forme sin egen datahverdag.&lt;/p&gt;
6804
6805 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6806
6807 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er for lite kjent og for sent ute med å gi ut nye
6808 versjoner.&lt;/p&gt;
6809
6810 &lt;p&gt;Da jeg selv i hovedsak bruker Kubuntu, så kan jeg egentlig ikke
6811 svare så detaljert rundt ulempene med Skolelinux.  Hovedårsaken til at
6812 jeg bruker Kubuntu er nok at da vi begynte med det mener jeg det ikke
6813 var noen annen løsning.  «Vandrende arbeidsstasjon» mener jeg ikke
6814 fantes da.  Dessuten ville jeg ha siste versjon, da den KDE-versjonen
6815 som var i Skolelinux den gangen var en god del enklere (tror det var
6816 KDE 2) var dårligere i mine øyne enn versjon 3.&lt;/p&gt;
6817
6818 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6819
6820 &lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker blant annet Kubuntu, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox,
6821 Kate, &lt;a href=&quot;http://comix.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Comix&lt;/a&gt; og Konsole.  Og
6822 en hel haug andre ved behov :-)&lt;/p&gt;
6823
6824 &lt;p&gt;Har oversatt Comix selv, men det er jo ikke skjedd noe med Comix
6825 siden 2009, så den er det nok bare jeg som har.  Om andre vil ha den
6826 gir jeg den gjerne videre.  Ser at noen har startet på
6827 &lt;a href=&quot;http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;MComix&lt;/a&gt; siden jeg så på så
6828 på dette sist, så nå er jeg igang med å teste og oversette den
6829 også.&lt;/p&gt;
6830
6831 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
6832 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
6833
6834 &lt;p&gt;Det viktigste er å forankre beslutningen i kollegiet og med de som
6835 er ansvarlige for å vedlikeholde og bruke datamaskinene.  Flest mulig
6836 bør være med på å holde det (sosialt) vedlike, kjenne og støtte
6837 prinsippene. Som enkeltmannsprosjekt blir det lett veldig sårbart,
6838 særlig når (Skole)linux ennå i stor grad er en motkultur og ikke noe
6839 en stor nok andel av beslutningstakere, brukere osv kjenner til og
6840 bruker.&lt;/p&gt;
6841
6842 &lt;p&gt;Jeg tror det viktigste er å fortsette å holde fri programvare godt,
6843 oppdatert, minimere antall feil, ha en god kontakt med brukerne og
6844 attraktivt og spennende programmer. Beholde alt som er bra og ha det
6845 tilgjengelig samtidig som man tilbyr det nyeste og rareste for de som
6846 vil ha det.&lt;/p&gt;
6847 </description>
6848         </item>
6849
6850         <item>
6851                 <title>Saving power with Debian Edu / Skolelinux using shutdown-at-night</title>
6852                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</link>
6853                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</guid>
6854                 <pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
6855                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since the Lenny version of
6856 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, a
6857 feature to save power have been included.  It is as simple as it is
6858 practical: Shut down unused clients at night, and turn them on again
6859 in the morning.  This is done using the
6860 &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;
6861
6862 &lt;p&gt;To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to
6863 the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts.  For Debian Edu, this is done in
6864 LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check
6865 every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and
6866 shut it down if it is.  If the hardware in question is supported by
6867 the
6868 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvram-wakeup.html&quot;&gt;nvram-wakeup&lt;/a&gt;
6869 package, the BIOS is told to turn the machine back on around 07:00 +-
6870 10 minutes.  If this isn&#39;t working, one can configure wake-on-lan to
6871 try to turn on the client.  The wake-on-lan option is only documented
6872 and not enabled by default in Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
6873
6874 &lt;p&gt;It is important to not turn all machines on at once, as this can
6875 blow a fuse if several computers are connected to the same fuse like
6876 the common setup for a classroom.  The nvram-wakeup method only work
6877 for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock.  I&#39;ve seen old
6878 machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were
6879 starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot.  If you have one of
6880 those, you have to turn on the computer manually.&lt;/p&gt;
6881
6882 &lt;p&gt;The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can
6883 also be used outside the Debian Edu environment.  For those without a
6884 central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file
6885 &lt;tt&gt;/etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night&lt;/tt&gt; to enable it.
6886 Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?&lt;/p&gt;
6887 </description>
6888         </item>
6889
6890         <item>
6891                 <title>Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
6892                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
6893                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
6894                 <pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
6895                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
6896 publish the third beta version of
6897 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
6898 on Squeeze.  If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
6899 out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
6900 installing new machines, check it out.  If you need a software
6901 solution for your school, check it out too.  The full announcement is
6902 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
6903 on the project announcement list.&lt;/p&gt;
6904
6905 &lt;p&gt;I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
6906 beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):&lt;/p&gt;
6907
6908 &lt;ul&gt;
6909
6910 &lt;li&gt;It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
6911   10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
6912   the installation.&lt;/li&gt;
6913
6914 &lt;li&gt;Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
6915   Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.&lt;/li&gt;
6916
6917 &lt;li&gt;The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
6918   disabled queues are restarted every hour.  This should cut down on
6919   the amount of manual administration needed for printers.&lt;/li&gt;
6920
6921 &lt;li&gt;The set of initial users have been changed.  Now a personal user
6922   for the local system administrator is created during installation
6923   instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
6924   and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
6925   membership.  This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
6926   up to date on the system.&lt;/li&gt;
6927
6928 &lt;/ul&gt;
6929
6930 &lt;p&gt;The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
6931 private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home.  I will use it look
6932 for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
6933 final Squeeze release is published.&lt;/p&gt;
6934
6935 &lt;p&gt;Next weekend the project organise a
6936 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;developer
6937 gathering&lt;/a&gt; in Oslo.  We will continue the work on the Squeeze
6938 version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version.  Perhaps I
6939 will see you there?&lt;/p&gt;
6940 </description>
6941         </item>
6942
6943         <item>
6944                 <title>Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
6945                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
6946                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
6947                 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
6948                 <description>&lt;p&gt;With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
6949 This is the sad fact of todays computers.  In the next version of
6950 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
6951 on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
6952 firmware blobs easier to handle.  The common use case I run into is a
6953 laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
6954 work, but there are other use cases as well.&lt;/p&gt;
6955
6956 &lt;p&gt;First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
6957 with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
6958 included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
6959 during installation.  This take care firmware for network devices used
6960 by the installer when installing from from local media.  But for
6961 example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
6962 not taken care of by this.&lt;/p&gt;
6963
6964 &lt;p&gt;For non-network devices, we provide the script
6965 &lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; which
6966 search through the &lt;tt&gt;dmesg&lt;/tt&gt; output for drivers requesting extra
6967 firmware.  The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
6968 file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
6969 the requested firmware file(s) is installed.  I have proposed to do
6970 something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
6971 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;#655507&lt;/a&gt;), to allow PXE
6972 installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better.  Run the
6973 script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
6974 firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;
6975
6976 &lt;p&gt;Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
6977 because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
6978 working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
6979 included to be able to install at all.  To fill the PXE installation
6980 initrd with extra firmware, the
6981 &lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; script is
6982 provided.  Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
6983 PXE initrd with firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;
6984
6985 &lt;p&gt;Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
6986 network cards working.  For this,
6987 &lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; is
6988 provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs.  It is used
6989 the same way as the other firmware related tools.&lt;/p&gt;
6990
6991 &lt;p&gt;At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation.  We
6992 do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
6993 non-free software, and it is their choice.&lt;/p&gt;
6994
6995 &lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 this weekend.  You might want to give it a
6996 try.&lt;/p&gt;
6997 </description>
6998         </item>
6999
7000         <item>
7001                 <title>Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze</title>
7002                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</link>
7003                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</guid>
7004                 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
7005                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For morro skyld har jeg gjennomført en nordsamisk installasjon for
7006 neste utgave av &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
7007 (Squeeze) og knipset skjermbilder av resultatet.&lt;/p&gt;
7008
7009 &lt;p&gt;Som en kan se der er det noen oversettelser som mangler.  Det hadde
7010 vært hyggelig hvis alle tekstene som vises i Skolelinux-installasjonen
7011 ble oversatt til nordsamisk, men for å få det til må noen som forstår
7012 språket melde seg til dyst.  Det er mangel på nordsamiske oversettere
7013 av fri programvare.  Hvis noen starter raskt, så bør en rekke å
7014 fullføre Wheezy-utgaven før den gis ut. :)&lt;/p&gt;
7015
7016 &lt;p&gt;Se &lt;a href=&quot;http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/&quot;&gt;oversetterstatistikk for
7017 debian installer&lt;/a&gt; for detaljert status.  Jeg har tipset
7018 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lister.ping.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/i18n-sme&quot;&gt;epostlisten for samiskoversettelser&lt;/a&gt;,
7019 men det har vært veldig liten aktivitet der de siste årene.&lt;/p&gt;
7020
7021 &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;
7022 &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;
7023 &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;
7024 &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;
7025 &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;
7026 &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;
7027 &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;
7028 &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;
7029 &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;
7030 &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;
7031 &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;
7032 &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;
7033 &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;
7034 &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;
7035 &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;
7036 &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;
7037 &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;
7038 &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;
7039 &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;
7040 &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;
7041 &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;
7042 &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;
7043 </description>
7044         </item>
7045
7046         <item>
7047                 <title>Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
7048                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
7049                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
7050                 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
7051                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The next version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
7052 / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; will include a new tool
7053 &lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp&lt;/tt&gt;, which can be used to quickly set up all
7054 the computers in a school without much manual labour.  Here is a short
7055 summary on how to use it to set up a new school.&lt;/p&gt;
7056
7057 &lt;p&gt;First, install a combined Main Server and Thin Client Server as the
7058 central server in the network.  Next, PXE boot all the client machines
7059 as thin clients and wait 5 minutes after the last client booted to
7060 allow the clients to report their existence to the central server.  When
7061 this is done, log on to the central server and run
7062 &lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a&lt;/tt&gt; in the &lt;tt&gt;konsole&lt;/tt&gt; to use the
7063 collected information to generate system objects in LDAP.  The output
7064 will look similar to this:&lt;/p&gt;
7065
7066 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
7067 % sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a
7068 info: Updating machine tjener.intern [10.0.2.2] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:05.
7069 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.
7070
7071 Enter password if you want to activate these changes, and ^c to abort.
7072
7073 Connecting to LDAP as cn=admin,ou=ldap-access,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
7074 enter password: *******
7075 %
7076 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7077
7078 &lt;p&gt;After providing the LDAP administrative password (the same as the
7079 root password set during installation), the LDAP database will be
7080 populated with system objects for each PXE booted machine with
7081 automatically generated names.  The final step to set up the school is
7082 then to log into &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa&lt;/a&gt;,
7083 the web based user, group and system administration system to change
7084 system names, add systems to the correct host groups and finally
7085 enable DHCP and DNS for the systems.  All clients that should be used
7086 as diskless workstations should be added to the workstation-hosts
7087 group.  After this is done, all computers can be booted again via PXE
7088 and get their assigned names and group based configuration
7089 automatically.&lt;/p&gt;
7090
7091 &lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
7092 enabled this weekend.  You might want to give it a try.&lt;/p&gt;
7093
7094 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-01-28: When calling sitesummary2ldapdhcp to add new
7095 hosts, one need to add the option -a.  I forgot to mention this in my
7096 original text, and have added it to the text now.&lt;/p&gt;
7097 </description>
7098         </item>
7099
7100         <item>
7101                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken</title>
7102                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</link>
7103                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</guid>
7104                 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
7105                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
7106 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, har jeg nå
7107 lyktes med å få tak i en skolemann som ikke er aktiv med utviklingen,
7108 men likevel har vært med nesten siden starten av prosjektet.  Jeg
7109 ønsker derfor velkommen til Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken, en mann med
7110 mange års erfaring i bruk av Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
7111
7112 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7113
7114 &lt;p&gt;Jeg driftet tidligere IKT løsningen for skolene i
7115 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nord-odal.kommune.no/&quot;&gt;Nord-Odal&lt;/a&gt;.  I dag er jeg
7116 IKT-konsulent for hele kommunen og samarbeider med
7117 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hedmarken-ikt.no/&quot;&gt;Hedmark-IKT&lt;/a&gt; for best mulig
7118 tjenester til kommunen. Jeg har bakgrunn som elektronikkreparatør og
7119 grunnskolelærer og har tatt en del fag innen IKT, i hovedsak
7120 driftsfag. IKT i Nord-Odal kommune blir i dag driftet av Hedmark IKT
7121 som er et samarbeid mellom Løten, Stange, Grue, Hamar, Kongsvinger og
7122 Nord-Odal. Jeg er fortsatt &quot;IKT-personen&quot; på skolene i kommunen og
7123 følger opp og gjør enkelte mindre endringer der.&lt;/p&gt;
7124
7125 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7126
7127 &lt;p&gt;Kommunen satset på Skolelinux i 2004.  Jeg var ikke med i
7128 beslutningsprosessen den gang, men ble likevel med fra starten når
7129 dette ble levert.&lt;/p&gt;
7130
7131 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7132
7133 &lt;p&gt;Fordelene med Skolelinux er rask oppstart, sentral drift av
7134 klientene, klienter som jobber raskt og effektivt, bedre
7135 funksjonalitet på eldre utstyr og en ganske god programpakke med fri
7136 programvare som følger med.  Løsningen med halvtykke klienter gjør at
7137 prosessering skjer lokalt med alltid ferske maskiner.&lt;/p&gt;
7138
7139 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux kan fungere godt på gammelt utstyr, men det er klart at
7140 utstyr også blir for gammelt selv for Skolelinux.  I forbindelese med
7141 at vi nylig fikk nye servere og ny installasjon kastet jeg ut ca 60
7142 klienter som fortsatt var i drift etter at de var kjøpt godt brukt i
7143 2004.  Noe var rundt 15 år gammelt, men var fortsatt i bruk. Noen
7144 klaget på at det nå gikk veldig tregt på en del pedagogiske nettsider
7145 med flash o.l. Det er fullt forståelig.&lt;/p&gt;
7146
7147 &lt;p&gt;Jeg fikk nylig et spørsmål fra ungdomsskolens rektor om jeg kunne
7148 legge inn &lt;a href=&quot;http://freemind.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;FreeMind&lt;/a&gt;, et
7149 tankekartprogram , på skolens elev-Windowsmaskiner. Lærerne hadde
7150 vært på kurs og ville ta dette i bruk. Skolen har ca halvparten av
7151 elevmaskinene på bærbare Windowsmaskiner. Da kunne jeg fortelle at
7152 dette programmet allerede lå inne på den nye Skolelinuxløsningen
7153 som nettopp var satt i drift, klart til bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
7154
7155 &lt;p&gt;Vi har de bærbare maskinene på ungdomsskolen i domene med
7156 Skolelinux.  Dette fungerer også meget bra nå. Elevene får opp en
7157 midlertidig windowsprofil når de logger på.  Denne profilen slettes
7158 etter at de logger av, noe som medfører rene profiler hver gang de
7159 starter opp en maskin.  De må lagre i sin Skolelinprofil, noe som
7160 medfører at de får tak i sine filer uavhengig av om de starter en
7161 Windowsmaskin eller en Skolelinuxklient. Det er mye mindre trafikk i
7162 det trådløse nettet etter at ikke hele profiler blir lastet opp til de
7163 enkelte Windowsmaskinene og tilbake når man avslutter. Jeg vet ikke om
7164 dette er standardoppsett i Skolelinux, men slik er vårt oppsett
7165 nå.&lt;/p&gt;
7166
7167 &lt;p&gt;Vi har i flere år satt opp vår løsning slik at skriverkøer slettes
7168 og skrivere startes hver natt.  Hyggelig å høre at dette nå skal bli
7169 en standard i Skolelinuxløsningen.  Dette har vært en god hjelp for
7170 oss.&lt;/p&gt;
7171
7172 &lt;p&gt;Elevene er lite opptatt av om de jobber på en Skolelinux eller en
7173 Windowsmaskin bare de har de programmene de trenger og at det virker
7174 når det skal brukes. Vi kjører mest mulig de samme programmene på
7175 Windows som i Skolelinux, som f.eks Audacity og LibreOffice.&lt;/p&gt;
7176
7177 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7178
7179 &lt;p&gt;Lærere bruker hos oss Windows. Dette fordi de da selv har mer
7180 kontroll over sin maskin, kan bruke den overalt, og kan legge inn
7181 programmer selv når de trenger noe i forhold til kurs o.l de er
7182 på. Jeg tror lærernes selvstendighet her gjør dem tryggere på IKT-bruk
7183 generelt. Det at de av og til får opp advarsler og lignende gjør også
7184 at de må tenke igjennom og spørre om ting rundt datasikkerhet.&lt;/p&gt;
7185
7186 &lt;p&gt;Det er en del programmer vi bruker som ikke finnes for Linux.  Mest
7187 brukt er nok Photostory3 som brukes i mange sammenhenger, særlig på
7188 ungdomsskolen, bl.a. til å lage herbarier (plantesamling) .  Dette
7189 finnes gratis for Windows, men er ikke fri programvare.  Vi er opptatt
7190 av at programmer elevene bruker på skolen også kan brukes gratis
7191 hjemme. Det er også en del programmer som brukes til spesielle elever
7192 som bare går i Windows. Det er viktig med fokus på funksjoner og ikke
7193 på hvilket OS man bruker.&lt;/p&gt;
7194
7195 &lt;p&gt;For oss er det kombinasjonen mellom Skolelinux og Windows som gir
7196 oss en god og hel løsning. Skolelinux er best der de er gode.&lt;/p&gt;
7197
7198 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7199
7200 &lt;p&gt;Selv er det LibreOffice jeg bruker til daglig.  Jeg bruker selv en
7201 Windowsmaskin. Jeg har benyttet en del fri programvare i forbindelse
7202 med sjekking av trafikk i nettverk, slik som Wireshark, men dette er
7203 jo ikke aktuelt for skolene. Jeg er generelt glad i programmer som
7204 fungerer på både Linux og Windows og gjerne MAC.&lt;/p&gt;
7205
7206 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
7207 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7208
7209 &lt;p&gt;Det er viktig at det benyttes programmer som elevene også kan ta i
7210 bruk hjemme.  Det skal da være enkelt, lovlig og gratis for
7211 elevene. Da er jeg ikke lenger veldig opptatt av om det kalles &quot;fri
7212 programvare&quot;.  For skolene tror jeg &quot;gratis&quot; og &quot;funksjonelt&quot; er bedre
7213 begreper enn &quot;fri&quot; i forhold til programmer.  De fleste skiller nok
7214 ikke mellom &quot;fri&quot; og &quot;gratis&quot;. Det er nå svært mange elever som
7215 benytter OpenOffice eller LibreOffice som sin primære kontorpakke
7216 hjemme.&lt;/p&gt;
7217 </description>
7218         </item>
7219
7220         <item>
7221                 <title>Changing the default Iceweasel start page in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
7222                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
7223                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
7224                 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
7225                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the Squeeze version of
7226 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; soon
7227 to be released, users of the system will get their default browser
7228 start page set from LDAP, allowing the system administrator to point
7229 all users to the school web page by updating one setting in LDAP.  In
7230 addition to setting the default start page when a machine boots, users
7231 are shown the same page as a welcome page when they log in for the
7232 first time.&lt;/p&gt;
7233
7234 &lt;p&gt;The LDAP object dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no have an attribute
7235 labeledURI with &quot;http://www/ LDAP for Debian Edu/Skolelinux&quot; as the
7236 default content.  By changing this value to another URL, all users get
7237 to see the page behind this new URL.&lt;/p&gt;
7238
7239 &lt;p&gt;An easy way to update it is by using the ldapvi tool.  It can be
7240 called as &quot;&lt;tt&gt;ldapvi -ZD &#39;(cn=admin)&#39;&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to update LDAP with the
7241 new setting.&lt;/p&gt;
7242
7243 &lt;p&gt;We have written the code to adjust the default start page and show
7244 the welcome page, and I wonder if there is an easier way to do this
7245 from within Iceweasel instead.&lt;/p&gt;
7246 </description>
7247         </item>
7248
7249         <item>
7250                 <title>Second beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
7251                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
7252                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
7253                 <pubDate>Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
7254                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to announce that today we managed to wrap up and publish
7255 the second beta version of
7256 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  If
7257 you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with out of the box PXE
7258 configuration for running diskless machines and installing new
7259 machines, check it out.  If you need a software solution for your
7260 school, check it out too.  The full announcement is
7261 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
7262 on the project announcement list.&lt;/p&gt;
7263 </description>
7264         </item>
7265
7266         <item>
7267                 <title>Fixing an hanging debian installer for Debian Edu</title>
7268                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_an_hanging_debian_installer_for_Debian_Edu.html</link>
7269                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_an_hanging_debian_installer_for_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
7270                 <pubDate>Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
7271                 <description>&lt;p&gt;During christmas, I have been working getting the next version of
7272 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; ready
7273 for release.  The initial problem I looked at was particularly
7274 interesting.&lt;/p&gt;
7275
7276 &lt;P&gt;The installer would hang at the end when it was doing it
7277 post-installation configuration, and whatevery I did to try to find
7278 the cause and fix it always worked while I tested it, but never when I
7279 integrated it into the installer and ran the installation from
7280 scratch.  I would try to restart processes, close file descriptors,
7281 remove or create files, and the installer would always unblock and
7282 wrap up its tasks.&lt;/p&gt;
7283
7284 &lt;p&gt;Eventually the cause was found.  The kernel was simply running out
7285 of entropy, causing the Kerberos setup to hang waiting for more.
7286 Pressing keys was adding entropy to the kernel, and thus all my tries
7287 to fix the problem worked not because what I was typing to fix it, but
7288 because I was typing.&lt;/P&gt;
7289
7290 &lt;p&gt;The fix I implemented was to add a background process looking at
7291 the level of entropy in the kernel (by checking
7292 /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail), and if it was too small, the
7293 installer will flush the kernel file buffers and do &#39;find /&#39; to
7294 generate some disk IO.  Disk IO generate entropy in the kernel, and is
7295 one of the few things that can be initated from within the system to
7296 generate entropy.&lt;/p&gt;
7297
7298 &lt;p&gt;The fix is in
7299 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/Installation&quot;&gt;beta1
7300 of the Debian Edu/Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version, and we
7301 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu&quot;&gt;welcome more testers and
7302 developers&lt;/a&gt;.  We plan to release beta2 this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
7303 </description>
7304         </item>
7305
7306         <item>
7307                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Peter Hansteen</title>
7308                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Peter_Hansteen.html</link>
7309                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Peter_Hansteen.html</guid>
7310                 <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
7311                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter en lang pause er det klart for neste mann ut i min serie med
7312 intervjuer av
7313 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-relaterte personer.
7314
7315 Denne gangen har jeg besøk av et avtroppende styremedlem i
7316 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt;, og en mann
7317 som har vært aktiv i Linux-miljøet i Bergen siden 90-tallet.&lt;/p&gt;
7318
7319 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7320
7321 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Peter Hansteen, og jobber til daglig som seniorkonsulent
7322 i EDB ErgoGroup i Bergen.  I praksis betyr det systemadministrasjon på
7323 Unix (primært Solaris, men en viss komponent av Linux).  Men Solaris
7324 er for meg et relativt nytt bekjentskap, hovedplattformen min har
7325 generelt vært OpenBSD og til dels FreeBSD.&lt;/p&gt;
7326
7327 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7328
7329 &lt;p&gt;Jeg husker ikke helt alle detaljene mer ;) - men jeg tror det var
7330 gjennom news-gruppen no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse, efn-listen og
7331 etterhvert også BLUG-miljøet her i Bergen.  Vi hadde et par
7332 Skolelinux-sentrerte BLUG-møter for noen år siden, og det har vært et
7333 par Skolelinux-utviklersamlinger her.&lt;/p&gt;
7334
7335 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7336
7337 &lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker dessverre ikke Skolelinux daglig. Men slik jeg kjenner
7338 prosjektet har det vært i stand til å ta opp i seg det beste av fri
7339 programvare i mange kategorier, så fra et sysadmin-perspektiv ser det
7340 ut som en svært behagelig sak.  For brukerne er det vel både en fordel
7341 og en ulempe at det ikke er Windows. Men vi håper at fordelene med et
7342 fritt system etterhvert vil bli åpenbare for både elever, lærekrefter
7343 og foreldre.&lt;/p&gt;
7344
7345 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7346
7347 &lt;p&gt;Vel, ulempen er vel først og fremst at andre aktører med mer
7348 kapitalmuskel har klart å etablere seg som det både lærere og foreldre
7349 føler seg trygge på, selv om det etter mitt hode ikke er noen grunn
7350 til å være spesielt trygg på de kommersielle alternativene.&lt;/p&gt;
7351
7352 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7353
7354 &lt;p&gt;Når jeg får bestemme helt selv, bruker jeg kun fri programvare. Da
7355 helst med vekt på ting som kjører greit på OpenBSD.  Hjemme er det
7356 OpenBSD, Ubuntu eller FreeBSD vi bruker.  På skrivebordet er det en
7357 avveining mellom Gnome, KDE eller hva-det-nå-heter som er
7358 standardvalget i Ubuntu, ellers er det de kjente tingene som
7359 LibreOffice, Emacs, mplayer.  På server er det selvfølgelig Apache,
7360 for overvåking både OpenNMS og Nagios (det bare ble sånn, og
7361 forskjellige siter).  Jeg skriver til tider om slikt jeg holder på med
7362 på
7363 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bsdly.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;http://bsdly.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
7364
7365 &lt;p&gt;Men vi må nevne at selv vi har en Microsoft-ting som vi slår på når
7366 vi av en eller annen grunn må. Det betyr igjen vanligvis når en
7367 mobiltelefon eller en annen lukket elektronisk dings krever kontakt
7368 via en slik for å få oppdateringene sine.&lt;/p&gt;
7369
7370 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
7371 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7372
7373 &lt;p&gt;Hadde vi hatt det rette svaret på det spørsmålet, så hadde vi
7374 gjerne hatt Skolelinux som førstevalg på alle skoler ;)&lt;/p&gt;
7375
7376 &lt;p&gt;Men jeg tror vi må legge vekt på flere forskjellige ting.  En helt
7377 sentral sak er å fokusere på fri programvare og åpne standarder som de
7378 demokratiske verdiene de faktisk er.  Det har kanskje kommet litt for
7379 mye i bakgrunnen i forhold til strevet etter å lage det mest mulig
7380 &#39;brukervennlige&#39; systemet.  Det er en tung vei å gå, så det er
7381 forståelig at freenix-aktivister heller velger å skrive kode og annet
7382 som er mer lystbetont. Mer praktisk tror jeg vi må gjøre i alle fall
7383 to ting: For det første sørge for å fortsette med å levere det best
7384 mulige frie produktet, slik at det er lett å både komme i gang og
7385 holde systemene i daglig drift, og for det andre 2) spore opp mulige
7386 aktivister der de finnes, via lokale brukergrupper, sosiale medier
7387 eller annet og sørge for at de fortsetter å være aktive.  Mer og
7388 mindre uformelle treff kan være nyttig i tillegg til de mer
7389 organiserte møtene med foredrag, konferanser og utviklersamlinger.&lt;/p&gt;
7390 </description>
7391         </item>
7392
7393         <item>
7394                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Frode Jemtland</title>
7395                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Frode_Jemtland.html</link>
7396                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Frode_Jemtland.html</guid>
7397                 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
7398                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Neste mann ut i min serie med intervjuer av Skolelinux-relaterte
7399 personer er en tidligere styreleder i
7400 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt; som var med
7401 fra starten av
7402 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
7403
7404 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7405
7406 &lt;p&gt;Mitt navn er Frode Jemtland, og jeg jobber i Hedmark IKT, som er et
7407 driftsselskap for Grue, Hamar, Kongsvinger, Løten, Nord-Odal og Stange
7408 kommuner. Her er jeg leder for avdelingen Løsninger og Arkitektur. Vi
7409 har i hovedansvar for servere, infrastruktur og løsninger som
7410 helhet.&lt;/p&gt;
7411
7412 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7413
7414 &lt;p&gt;Jobbet i IBM fra 2000, og da spesielt med Linux. Dette var da et av
7415 de mest tydelige linux prosjektene i Norge, og her ønsket jeg å
7416 bidra. Var aktivt med i prosjektet i 4-5 år.&lt;/p&gt;
7417
7418 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7419
7420 &lt;p&gt;Fordelene slik jeg ser det er den sentraliserte driftmodellen, og
7421 alle de vel gjennomtenkte løsningene som er inkludert i denne
7422 løsningen. Samtidig er det basert på en stabil, og godt kjent
7423 plattform. Dette vil si at man har en løsning som skal være mye
7424 tilgjengelig, og hvor det er relativt enkelt å få tak i personer som
7425 kan mye om den grunnleggende plattformen.&lt;/p&gt;
7426
7427 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7428
7429 &lt;p&gt;De største utfordringene med en løsningen er at den er intensiv på f.eks
7430 nettverk. I seg selv ikke et problem for en enkelt skole, men skal løsningen
7431 kjøres i større skala, med sentraliserte servere, så gir dette noen
7432 utfordringer.&lt;/p&gt;
7433
7434 &lt;p&gt;Utifra hva jeg har sett på større installasjoner så er det ikke så
7435 enkelt å skjønne, hva som bør gjøres for at den skal skaleres opp, og
7436 da ta godt vare på alle sider av dette, ikke bare mer server å fordele
7437 last/trykk, men hvordan også beholde robustheten og fleksibiliteten i
7438 løsningen.&lt;/p&gt;
7439
7440 &lt;p&gt;En annen utfordring er at stadig flere produkter som skal brukes i
7441 skoleløsningen ikke er laget til å kunne brukes i en
7442 skolelinuxløsning. Det blir derfor fort mye skreddersøm i de
7443 forskjellige installasjonene, for å få diverse pedagogiske programmer,
7444 webløsninger, smartboards, m.m. til å fungere.  Man er også en for
7445 liten kundebase til at leverandørene ønsker å gjøre noe med
7446 utfordringen. Problemet overlates til oss.&lt;/p&gt;
7447
7448 &lt;p&gt;Det er også en kontinuerlig utfordring rundt problemet med å holde
7449 programvare på stabile versjoner, kontra å få ny funksjonalitet. Dette
7450 er jo en konflikt mellom oss som ønsker å drifte en stabil, og
7451 kostnadseffektiv løsning, mot sluttbrukerne som ønsker seg funksjoner
7452 det er vant med fra andre løsninger, eller som de må ha for at et
7453 eller annet nytt produkt skal fungere i løsningen. Dette er en
7454 utfordring også for andre plattformer.&lt;/p&gt;
7455
7456 &lt;p&gt;En siste utfordring som ikke har noe med løsningen å gjøre, men med
7457 det omkringliggende miljøet denne skal kjøre i, er at de enhetene som
7458 skal drifte dataløsninger for kommuner og fylkeskommuner begynner å
7459 profesjonaliseres, og er da avhengig av å ha standard løsninger for å
7460 drifte store brukermasser. MS er selvsagt klar over dette, og har jo
7461 nå flere områder de begynner å bli veldig dominerende på. Den største,
7462 og mest problematiske er katalogtjenesten.  Man får snart ikke tak i
7463 større løsninger som ikke krever en AD. Når man da har store enheter
7464 som drifter både kommunalt ansatte og skoler, så vil det være et
7465 stordriftargument å standardisere på en katalog tjeneste, og da har
7466 man ikke noe valg. Her er alle slike driftsenheter for små til å få
7467 gjort om på dette. Her burde konkurransemyndighetene kommet på
7468 banen. Men konkurransetilsynet i USA griper sjeldent (og ikke før det
7469 har gått veldig lang tid) inn i monopolsituasjoner så lenge
7470 monopolisten er et amerikansk firma, så da har vel ikke andre
7471 myndigheter så mye de skulle ha sagt....&lt;/p&gt;
7472
7473 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7474
7475 &lt;p&gt;Privat kjører jeg Debian på alle mine datamaskiner. Det gjør jeg
7476 også på min jobbmaskin. Vi har også 15-20 linux servere av typene
7477 SuSE, Debian, Redhat, CentOS m.m. Jeg bruker derfor mye fri
7478 programvare. Av enkelt programmer kan sikkert masse nevnes. Hvis vi
7479 skal begrense oss til daglig, så må jeg si: OpenOffice, Firefox,
7480 Kontact, Kopete, Amarok,
7481 &lt;a href=&quot;http://gramps-project.org/&quot;&gt;Gramps&lt;/a&gt;, Kate, ssh, bash,
7482 rsync, backuppc m.m.&lt;/p&gt;
7483
7484 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
7485 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7486
7487 &lt;p&gt;Det er et godt spørsmål, som jeg har lurt på selv.&lt;/p&gt;
7488
7489 &lt;p&gt;Argumentene som ofte har vært brukt om at ting koster mindre holder
7490 ikke mål når man ser på hva som faktisk koster penger. Det er de
7491 ansatte som er en kostnadsdriver. Det vil si at hvis man har et system
7492 som den ansatte kan, så vil en kostnad på dette systemet kunne
7493 forsvares ganske mye ved at den ansatte gjør dette raskere og
7494 effektivt. Også uten å måtte eventuelt leie inn folk.&lt;/p&gt;
7495
7496 &lt;p&gt;Jeg syns det er viktigere å fokusere på prinsippet med å velge fri
7497 programvare, men det er også et felt hvor man fort møter lite
7498 forståelse blant de ansatte i skolen.&lt;/p&gt;
7499
7500 &lt;p&gt;Her må nok strategien fortsette å være at de sentrale myndighetene
7501 må sende tydelige signaler for hva de ønsker at offentlige enheter
7502 skal gjøre. Det var mye positivt på gang ang. dette for et par år
7503 siden. Både med eNorge og eKommune planene, men dette syns jeg har
7504 stoppet opp. En del av dette kan jo kanskje være usikkerheten som
7505 etter hvert har blitt, når man har sett kompleksiteten i de
7506 prosjektene som har blitt igangsatt. Det har også blitt noe usikkerhet
7507 i markedet ref. Sun, Oracle, Novell, Microsoft m.m.  Samtidig har jo
7508 også de proprietære programleverandørene sørget for å endre sine
7509 lisenser slik at man uansett ikke slipper unna kostnaden til deres
7510 produkter, selv om man skulle velge alternativer. Da er det økonomiske
7511 argumentet, som jeg nevnte tidligere, spilt ganske godt ut over
7512 sidelinjen.&lt;/p&gt;
7513 </description>
7514         </item>
7515
7516         <item>
7517                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Marius Kotsbak</title>
7518                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</link>
7519                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</guid>
7520                 <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
7521                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Neste mann ut er Marius Kotsbak, styremedlem i
7522 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt; og mangeårig
7523 bidragsyter i
7524 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
7525
7526 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7527
7528 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er en systemutvikler/kybernetiker og jobber med dette til
7529 daglig. På fritiden tester jeg ut/bruker mye fri programvare, og
7530 bidrar med testing og utvikling når jeg ser stort nok behov for det og
7531 jeg har noe å bidra med.&lt;/p&gt;
7532
7533 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7534
7535 &lt;p&gt;Hmm, det er lenge siden, så det er nesten så jeg ikke husker. Jeg
7536 hadde vel hørt om prosjektet i media før en gjeng i Trondheim startet
7537 opp SPIST, Skolelinux-prosjektet i Sør-Trøndelag, hvor vi hjalp noen
7538 skoler i nærområdet med å installere Skolelinux og finne brukt
7539 IT-utstyr til disse. Det var moro å gjøre noe praktisk for å spre
7540 Skolelinux, og å se hvor fort gjort det var å sette opp utrangerte
7541 klientmaskiner og få disse opp som tynnklienter på helt nye datasaler
7542 på skolene, kun med kostnaden til servere.&lt;/p&gt;
7543
7544 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7545
7546 &lt;p&gt;Det er et system spesielt skreddersydd for drift av et stort antall
7547 klienter mot servere, og da spesielt i henhold til skolers behov.  Det
7548 er enkelt og billig å installere og drifte, og det trenger ikke ny
7549 maskinvare for god ytelse.&lt;/p&gt;
7550
7551 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7552
7553 &lt;p&gt;Hardwarestøtten kunne vært bedre og i enda større grad
7554 installerbart rett ut av boksen.  Distribusjonen har til tider hatt
7555 litt gammel programvare pga. at den følger Debian sine utgivelser.
7556 Kanskje man skulle vurdert en versjon basert på Ubuntu eller andre
7557 distribusjoner i tillegg?&lt;/p&gt;
7558
7559 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7560
7561 &lt;p&gt;Oi, det er ikke lite. Her er det jeg kommer på i farta.  Jeg bruker
7562 Linux og Ubuntu, og på Ubuntu programene Firefox, Thunderbird,
7563 Chromium, Pidgin, Digikam, OpenOffice, Wireshark, git og irssi.
7564 Telefonen min er en Android, og der bruker jeg programmene K-9 Mail,
7565 OI Shopping list, Shuffle, ZXing, OI Notepad og ADW Desktop.  På jobb
7566 bruker jeg JBoss, Eclipse, uCLinux for Blackfin, RCF-CPP, Qt, Maven,
7567 og boost-bibliotekene for C++.&lt;/p&gt;
7568
7569 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
7570 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7571
7572 &lt;p&gt;En bør fokusere på totalkostnader inkludert driftsbehov,
7573 fleksibilitet, åpenhet og ikke låsing til en leverandør framfor sparte
7574 lisenskostnader, samt programvarens kvalitet og fortrinn, og at den
7575 fritt kan brukes på et ubegrenset antall PC-er, også hjemme hos
7576 elevene.  En bør også forbedre den fri programvaren ved testing,
7577 bugrapportering og kodebidrag om man kan, og ikke anbefale programvare
7578 uten at man har forsikret seg at den har tilstrekkelig kvalitet,
7579 ellers kan man lett oppnå det motsatte.  Tror en bør selge inn
7580 konseptet til fylkes-/statsnivå, kanskje med bidrag til
7581 utviklingsarbeid fra disse som alle landets skoler kan få glede
7582 av.&lt;/p&gt;
7583 </description>
7584         </item>
7585
7586         <item>
7587                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Odin Hetland Nøsen</title>
7588                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Odin_Hetland_N_sen.html</link>
7589                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Odin_Hetland_N_sen.html</guid>
7590                 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
7591                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Mine bloggposter om Linux i skolene i Norge førte til at inspektør
7592 og ildsjel på Harestad skole tok kontakt og fortalte at de bruker
7593 Linux på sin skole, og lurte på om de kunne bidra til å gjøre
7594 fordelene kjent.  Riktig nok bruker de ikke
7595 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; på denne skolen,
7596 men jeg synes dette er en god anledning til å gjøre flere fasetter
7597 rundt Linux-økosystemet kjent, og tok et lite intervju.&lt;/p&gt;
7598
7599 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7600
7601 &lt;p&gt;Mitt navn er Odin Hetland Nøsen og er en 70-modell. Jeg er bosatt i
7602 Stavanger og jobber nå på 9. året som undervisninginspektør på
7603 Harestad skole i Randaberg kommune (nabokommune til Stavanger).&lt;/p&gt;
7604
7605 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7606
7607 &lt;p&gt;I 2002 begynte daværende IKT-ansvarlige og jeg et arbeid på skolen
7608 med å gå over fra Win98 til... noe annet. Vi testet en rekke
7609 forskjellige løsninger, deriblant Skolelinux, men endte opp med
7610 RedHat. Skolelinux var den gang ikke modent for det vi ville ha.  Jeg
7611 har siden fulgt jevnlig med på hva skolelinux holder på med, men har
7612 hele tiden vært bedre fornøyd med vår egen &quot;standardiserte&quot; løsning på
7613 RedHat/CentOS og Fedora. Vi snuser for tiden på Ubuntu som løsning på
7614 klientsiden.&lt;/p&gt;
7615
7616 &lt;p&gt;I dag har vi på skolen vår en større linux-løsning med 400 klienter
7617 som kjører en blanding av LTSP (tynnklient) og DRBL (tykk klient uten
7618 harddisk) med en masse tjenere på serverrommet. Vi drifter hele
7619 sulamitten selv med webtjener, eposttjener, webmail, filtjenere,
7620 virtuelle tjenere osv.  Og IT-ansvarlig har en 80% stilling som
7621 IT-ansvarlig - og så er han KoH-lærer i de resterende 20% :-)&lt;/p&gt;
7622
7623 &lt;p&gt;Du kan få en ide om hva vi holder på med om du går inn på
7624 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnuskole.no/&quot;&gt;http://www.gnuskole.no/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
7625
7626 &lt;p&gt;For å ta brodden av frykten for at ildsjeler gjør skolen sårbar om
7627 ildsjelene falle fra, har jeg forsikret kommunen og skolesjefen i
7628 Randaberg om at det finnes godt kommersielle tjenester vi kan benytte
7629 oss av - om det skulle bli nødvendig. Vi er tre stykker i kommunen som
7630 nå har &lt;strong&gt;god&lt;/strong&gt; linux-kompetanse ift. å drifte et større
7631 system.  IT-avdelingen i kommunen vil ikke ta på oss med ildtang -
7632 selv om vi nok har større IT-kompetanse mot linux enn det de selv har
7633 mot windows (de kjøper en &lt;strong&gt;masse&lt;/strong&gt; konsulenttjenester
7634 fra ErgoGroup).&lt;/p&gt;
7635
7636 &lt;p&gt;I kvantitet er Harestad og Grødem skole tilsammen et større
7637 IT-system enn resten av Randaberg kommune + Kvitsøy og Rennesøy, som
7638 kommunen også har driftsansvar for.  Vi har som sagt rundt 800
7639 maskiner, mens kommunen med sitt driftsansvar har ansvar for rundt 500
7640 maskiner. Det er selvfølgelig litt forskjell i hvor kritiske
7641 tjenestene våre er, men det gir allikevel et litt rart bilde når
7642 IT-avdelingen overhode ikke er interessert i å snakke med oss om
7643 hvordan vi gjør ting :-)&lt;/p&gt;
7644
7645 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7646
7647 &lt;p&gt;Fra linux-perspektivet (ikke bare Skolelinux) er det en fordel av
7648 systemet er basert på fri programvare - og dermed fritt i ordets mange
7649 betydninger. Det er alt vi trenger: stabilt, relativt enkelt å drifte
7650 (tross alt - et større windowssystem er ikke enkelt å holde live det
7651 heller), rimelig i innkjøp og drift, og sist, men ikke minst, det er
7652 moderne for sluttbruker! Linux, i sine mange varianter,
7653 &lt;strong&gt;ser&lt;/strong&gt; nytt ut, fordi det hele tiden blir
7654 oppdatert. Derfor lever systemet opp til hvordan elever forventer at
7655 et moderne GUI skal være (i motsetning til WinXP :-).&lt;/p&gt;
7656
7657 &lt;p&gt;Vi var veldig pragmatiske da vi begynte med linux i skolen. Det var
7658 billig, det fungerte og kunne bruke alle de gamle windows-maskinene
7659 som &quot;nye&quot; tynne klienter.  I dag er vi mer bevisste fri
7660 programvare-tilhengere.  Vi har oppdaget hva det er - og vi liker
7661 det!&lt;/p&gt;
7662
7663 &lt;p&gt;En av de &lt;strong&gt;store&lt;/strong&gt; fordelene med fri programvare er at
7664 vi kan installere tjenester vi ønsker å tilby brukerne våre - uten å
7665 måtte tenke på om vi har råd til lisensene (fordi det er ingen). Alt
7666 vi setter i produksjon er ut i fra brukernes behov og vår kapasitet
7667 til å drifte dem. Vi skreddersyr tjenestene etter behovet og dermed
7668 trenger vi ikke ende opp med å kjøpe en pakke der vi egentlig bare var
7669 interessert i en liten del av den.&lt;/p&gt;
7670
7671 &lt;p&gt;Bruk av linux frigjør ikke økonomiske midler, fordi midlene til IKT
7672 i skole er for få i utgangspunktet - men vi får så
7673 &lt;strong&gt;mye&lt;/strong&gt; mer igjen for dem når vi bruker en linux-løsning
7674 fremfor en windows-løsning. I praksis ser vi at vi måtte ut med det
7675 dobbelte på budsjettet vårt om vi skulle hatt en tilsvarende
7676 windows-løsning, som det vi i dag drifter med linux.&lt;/p&gt;
7677
7678 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7679
7680 &lt;p&gt;Ikke all pedagogisk programvare er tilgjengelig. Det er en del
7681 programvare i skolen som er laget med utviklerverktøy som bare virker
7682 i windows, f.eks. Drillpro, LingDys/LingWrite. Det er også
7683 &quot;programmer&quot; som bare virker om du har tilgang til Microsoft Office,
7684 f.eks. AskiRaski.&lt;/p&gt;
7685
7686 &lt;p&gt;Vi sliter også litt med at video-codecer ikke alltid er like lett å
7687 få opp å gå på klientene. Det er alltid en eller annen videosnutt fra
7688 nrk.no som ikke er så samarbeidsvillig, uansett mediaplayer.&lt;/p&gt;
7689
7690 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7691
7692 &lt;p&gt;Alt :-) På skolen bruker vi det som finnes og som er nyttig. Det vi
7693 bruker mest er Firefox (jobber med Chrome, fordi det er
7694 &lt;strong&gt;mye&lt;/strong&gt; raskere med Flash enn Firefox), OpenOffice (skal
7695 over til LibreOffice), GIMP osv. Standardpakken av
7696 sluttbrukerprogrammer.&lt;/p&gt;
7697
7698 &lt;p&gt;På tjenernivå bruker vi OpenWebMail (skal over til Zimbra), Exim
7699 osv.&lt;/p&gt;
7700
7701 &lt;p&gt;Personlig bruker jeg de fleste programmer over flere plattformer,
7702 men jeg har lagt meg til en vane å prioritere bruken av fri
7703 programvare også i Windows 7 og OSX.&lt;/p&gt;
7704
7705 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
7706 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7707
7708 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er langt i fra sikker. For det første handler det mye om at
7709 IKT-avdelingen i kommunen ofte er de som styrer hva som er IKT på
7710 skolene - og de liker å bruke avtalene med Microsoft, som de garantert
7711 har fra før.  Dessuten - Select 6-avtalen til skolene gjør Microsoft
7712 skvettbillig.&lt;/p&gt;
7713
7714 &lt;p&gt;Vi la vekt på effektiv drift av systemet - og at vi kunne øke
7715 antall maskiner uten å måtte øke budsjett for utstyr eller personell
7716 særlig mye, enn om vi hadde gått for en Microsoft-løsning. I praksis
7717 ser vi at en ren linux-installasjon driftes til halve prisen av en
7718 Microsoft-løsning.&lt;/p&gt;
7719
7720 &lt;p&gt;Vi har i praksis også sett at det lærerne (og elevene) liker er at
7721 vi tilbyr &lt;strong&gt;veldig&lt;/strong&gt; mange tjenester som ikke er så
7722 vanlige i en Microsoft-løsning. Det er ikke så vanlig at
7723 &lt;strong&gt;elevene&lt;/strong&gt; også har epost, hjemmekontor osv. Det har vi
7724 også brukt som et vellykket argument mot Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;
7725
7726 &lt;p&gt;Den beste måten er selvfølgelig at noen bare bestemmer
7727 det. Problemet er å få dem som har makt til å bestemme det til faktisk
7728 å gjøre det ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
7729 </description>
7730         </item>
7731
7732         <item>
7733                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Astri Sletteng</title>
7734                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Astri_Sletteng.html</link>
7735                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Astri_Sletteng.html</guid>
7736                 <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
7737                 <description>&lt;p&gt;En dame som har bidratt lenge til fri programvare i skoleverket og
7738 i foreningen som organiserer skolelinux-utviklersamlinger,
7739 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt;, er neste
7740 intervjuoffer.  Det er en glede å her presentere en lærer fra Håkvik.&lt;/p&gt;
7741
7742 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7743
7744 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Astri Sletteng. Jeg er lærer og IKT veileder ved Håkvik
7745 skole i Narvik kommune.  Min bakgrunn når det gjelder IKT: Av formell
7746 utdannelse har jeg lærerutdanning, Master i skoleledelse og IKT for
7747 lærere. Har jobba som IKT veileder siden 2002.&lt;/p&gt;
7748
7749 &lt;p&gt;Det viktigste for meg som IKT veileder er å få fundamentert den
7750 5. basisferdigheten, digital kompetanse ved skolen min på en god måte
7751 slik at hele skolesamfunnet tar i bruk IKT i alle fag. Dette arbeidet
7752 gjøres i nært samarbeid med skolens ledelse.&lt;/p&gt;
7753
7754 &lt;p&gt;Min viktigste jobb som IKT veileder er å være motivator og pådriver
7755 i IKT arbeidet ved skolen.&lt;/p&gt;
7756
7757 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7758
7759 &lt;p&gt;Jobber i en kommune hvor vi satser på Fri programvare. I 2004 ble
7760 det gjort et politisk vedtak om at vi skulle innføre Skolelinux ved
7761 alle skolene i kommunen. Jeg har dermed en god del erfaring med
7762 Skolelinux, samt annen fri programvare som Open Office, Joomla, Moodle
7763 etc.&lt;/p&gt;
7764
7765 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7766
7767 &lt;p&gt;Siden vi jobber med åpen kildekode kan vi få programmene og
7768 produktene tilpasset vår bruk. Det er jo heller ikke en ulempe at
7769 skolen kommer bedre ut økonomisk, men først og fremst er det viktig
7770 for oss at vi har digitale systemer som gjør at vi kan følge
7771 læreplanen i alle fag. Det syns jeg at vi kan gjøre gjennom
7772 Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
7773
7774 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7775
7776 &lt;p&gt;Skolen er avhengige av å ha folk på IT avdelinga i kommunen som kan
7777 drive support, og være tilgjengelige når vi trenger hjelp. Det er en
7778 ulempe at ikke alle på denne avdelingen nødvendigvis er god på
7779 Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
7780
7781 &lt;p&gt;Vi har også noen utfordringer når det kommer til spesielle
7782 programmer som enkelte elever er avhengige av ? og som ikke er
7783 plattform uavhengige. Her har vi i Friprog-verden, men også
7784 departement en jobb å gjøre.&lt;/p&gt;
7785
7786 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7787
7788 &lt;p&gt;Skolen vår bruker Skolelinux, Open Office, Iceweazel (Mozilla),
7789 VLC, Tux paint, Scribus, FreeMind, GIMP, digiKam, Ksnapshot, GeoGebra,
7790 Moodle (innført på alle klassetrinn + som et administrativt verktøy)
7791 og Joomla som hjemmeside.&lt;p&gt;
7792
7793 &lt;p&gt;Det er de jeg kommer på i farten. I tillegg har vi Smartboard
7794 installert på server, men det regnes vel ikke som fri programvare?&lt;/p&gt;
7795
7796 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
7797 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7798
7799 &lt;p&gt;Først og fremst trenger skolen oppetider på sine datasystemer. Syns
7800 også at det at vi kan få tilpasset plattform og systemer til vår bruk
7801 er en god strategi å bruke.&lt;/p&gt;
7802 </description>
7803         </item>
7804
7805         <item>
7806                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Rubén Romero y Cordero</title>
7807                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Rub_n_Romero_y_Cordero.html</link>
7808                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Rub_n_Romero_y_Cordero.html</guid>
7809                 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
7810                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Styret i foreningen som organiserer skolelinux-utviklersamlinger,
7811 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt;, er fullt av
7812 flinke folk.  Denne gangen har jeg fått et ferskt styremedlem som
7813 kommer fra Ubuntu-miljøet i tale.&lt;/p&gt;
7814
7815 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7816
7817 &lt;p&gt;Rubén Romero y Cordero, 81-modell, deltidspappa (50%) for en jente
7818 på 6 år. Jobber i Oslo som Global Sales Executive hos Varnish Software
7819 og til daglig har jeg kontakt med kunder fra hele verden. Min
7820 forkjærlighet for fri programvare har gjort at jeg har nå flere års
7821 erfaring med salg av slike løsninger (bl.a. fra Redpill Linpro og
7822 Freecode) og mye innsikt og kunnskap om det globale IT-markedet.
7823 Ellers er jeg involvert i flere prosjekter bl.a. er jeg Ubuntu
7824 Community medlem, kontaktpersonen for Ubuntu Norge og driveren av
7825 SpreadUbuntu marketing prosjektet og nå fersk styremedlem i FRISK. Jeg
7826 har brukt GNU/Linux siden 1997.&lt;/p&gt;
7827
7828 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7829
7830 &lt;p&gt;Som Debian bruker siden slutten av 90-tallet var det uunngåelig å
7831 ikke komme bort i Skolelinux. Dette var vel i slutten av 2001 når jeg
7832 var student ved UiO. Flere år senere fikk jeg lastet og testet Venus
7833 (Skolelinux 1.0) på release dagen.&lt;/p&gt;
7834
7835 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7836
7837 &lt;p&gt;Fri programvare bygges sten for sten i det åpne, slik at koden og
7838 prosessen den lages på kan gjennomskues av andre enn de som har laget
7839 det. Det er et vitenskapelig og gjennomsiktig måte å lage programvare
7840 på.&lt;/p&gt;
7841
7842 &lt;p&gt;Skoler i vårt samfunn skal være steder hvor vitenskapelig kunnskap
7843 deles til alle.  I dag har vi ikke et vitenskapelig tilnærming til
7844 hvordan programvaren som brukes på skolen lages. Skolelinux bringer
7845 inn at slik tilnærming i skoleverkets klasserom, siden
7846 operativsystemet er en åpent platform som gir skolene muligheten til å
7847 dra nytte av programvare som er laget av tusenvis av mennesker verden
7848 rundt og som gir elevene så vel som lærerne muligheten til å bruke,
7849 dele, forandre og forbedre OSet sitt uten begrensninger. I den
7850 forbindelsen representerer Skolelinux også konkrete resultater utfra
7851 samhandling på tvers av grenser.&lt;/p&gt;
7852
7853 &lt;p&gt;Når det gjelder de tekniske fordelene av Skolelinux er jeg sikker
7854 på at andre enn meg har allerede beskrevet disse bedre enn det jeg
7855 kan.  Men jeg kan likevel tilføye noe: Skolelinux som sådan er en
7856 community-drevet operativsystemplatform. Som i ethvert
7857 community-prosjekt har alle Skolelinux brukere muligheten til å
7858 påvirke retning av prosjektet og resultatet som gjenspeiles i
7859 programvaren. Dette kommer sjeldent frem og jeg mener at det er noe
7860 som burde fokuseres mer på.&lt;/p&gt;
7861
7862 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7863
7864 &lt;p&gt;De største ulempene er:&lt;/p&gt;
7865
7866 &lt;ul&gt;
7867 &lt;li&gt;Mangel på kompetanse&lt;/li&gt;
7868 &lt;li&gt;Mangel av administrative verktøy som kunne hjelpe lokale IT
7869   avdelinger å bruke Skolelinux til mer enn bare en tjener for
7870   terminalklienter. Et eksempel: Zentyal sin web-dashboard.&lt;/li&gt;
7871 &lt;/ul&gt;
7872
7873 &lt;p&gt;Bedre og mer intuitive administrative verktøy kunne løst deler av
7874 problemet, men det er unektelig at ved bruk av Skolelinux må
7875 IT-personalet vite hva de gjør for å få ting gjort riktig, eller i det
7876 hele tatt. Med andre platformer er kompetansen enklere tilgjengelig og
7877 løsningene kan fungere på en tilfredstillende, om ikke riktig
7878 måte.&lt;/p&gt;
7879
7880 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7881
7882 &lt;p&gt;Har brukt GNU/Linux utelukkende sommitt skrivebord OS siden 2000. I
7883 dag bruker jeg Ubuntu og gjør det meste med friprogramvare verktøyene
7884 som er tilgjengelige der. Med over 20.000 programmer å velge mellom er
7885 dette mer enn nok for de fleste brukerne.&lt;/p&gt;
7886
7887 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
7888 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7889
7890 &lt;p&gt;Opplysning og pragmatikk.  Vi prøver å løse problemer med bruk av
7891 programvare. De fleste utfordringene skolene har på IKT-siden kan
7892 løses ved hjelp av friprogramvareverktøy i dag. Det som trenges er
7893 opplysning, kunnskap og kompetanse.&lt;/p&gt;
7894 </description>
7895         </item>
7896
7897         <item>
7898                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Morten Amundsen</title>
7899                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Morten_Amundsen.html</link>
7900                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Morten_Amundsen.html</guid>
7901                 <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
7902                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Denne gangen er det Tromsøkontoret til Friprog-senteret, og nyvalgt
7903 styremedlem i &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;foreningen
7904 FRISK&lt;/a&gt; jeg har fått i tale i min intervjuserie med
7905 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-folk.&lt;/p&gt;
7906
7907 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7908
7909 &lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Morten Amundsen og jobber i
7910 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprog.no/&quot;&gt;Friprog.no&lt;/a&gt;, men er for tiden leid
7911 ut til &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bredbandsfylket.no/&quot;&gt;Bredbåndsfylket
7912 Troms&lt;/a&gt; der jeg jobber med ett prosjekt som heter
7913 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bredbandsfylket.no/skolefjoela.157417.no.html&quot;&gt;Skolefjøla&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
7914 Vi ser på en åpen løsning som integrerer eksisterende lukkete
7915 løsninger sammen med fri programvare. Målet er å gi elever og lærere
7916 en plattform som de kan tilpasse utfra behov.&lt;/p&gt;
7917
7918 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7919
7920 &lt;p&gt;Skolelinux har jeg møtt ved flere anledninger opp gjennom åra, både gjennom
7921 entusiastiske skolelinuxbrukere og skeptiske &quot;forståsegpåere&quot; :-)&lt;/p&gt;
7922
7923 &lt;p&gt;Jeg husker en leverandør av et stort OS for noen år siden mente at
7924 Skolelinux var kun for hackere og nerder og at ingen seriøse skoler
7925 kunne ta dette i bruk.  Heldigvis er kunnskapen større nå og
7926 skikkelige &quot;IT-folk&quot; søker alltid å utvide sin kunnskap.
7927
7928 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7929
7930 &lt;p&gt;Ja det er mange fordeler. Uavhengighet, stabilitet, åpenhet, standarder
7931 osv. Tror det er viktig at man ikke begrenser mulighetene på den plattformen
7932 elevene skal jobbe.&lt;/p&gt;
7933
7934 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7935
7936 &lt;p&gt;Det største hinderet er det vi opplever på andre områder rundt
7937 fri programvare, nemlig kunnskap. For mange er det trygt å velge det vi
7938 alltid har valgt. Fordi leverandørene rundt oss sitter på den kunnskapen og
7939 de vi støtter oss på har den samme.  Hvis vi klarer å riste løs litt og
7940 glemme gamle kriger mellom operativsystemer og  leverandører, men sette ned
7941 hva som er viktig og velge ut fra det, så hadde man kanskje kommet ut med
7942 litt andre resultat. Jeg tror IT-folk er konservative og velger tradisjonelt
7943 og det er synd.&lt;/p&gt;
7944
7945 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7946
7947 &lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker Ubuntu, Android, Jolicloud, Open Office, Zimbra, Picasa
7948 og Firefox samt en bråte med tjenester som er webbasert. Det eneste
7949 som er betalingslisens for er OSX.  Ser at jeg jobber mer og mer i
7950 skyen og setter pris på alt jeg slipper egen klient til.  Derfor er
7951 jeg veldig sjarmert av små kjappe operativsystemer som krever minimalt
7952 av maskinvaren.&lt;/p&gt;
7953
7954 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
7955 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7956
7957 &lt;p&gt;Tror en blanding av krav og informasjon er veien å gå. Krav om
7958 sikkerhet, oppetid og åpne standarder.  Informasjon om muligheter og
7959 alternativer. Her har leverandører, IT-avdelinger og pedagoger en vei
7960 å gå sammen. Det er til slutt LÆRING det dreier seg om, og da må man
7961 få mest mulig læring for pengene man har.&lt;/p&gt;
7962 </description>
7963         </item>
7964
7965         <item>
7966                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Sturle Sunde</title>
7967                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Sturle_Sunde.html</link>
7968                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Sturle_Sunde.html</guid>
7969                 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
7970                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Denne gang har jeg fått tak i en mangeårig unix-mann som etter
7971 mange år ved Universitetet i Oslo, der jeg først traff ham, har
7972 flyttet tilbake til vestlandet, og der bidratt til å revitalisere
7973 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-oppsettet i
7974 Florø.&lt;/p&gt;
7975
7976 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7977
7978 &lt;p&gt;Sturle Sunde, ansvarleg for skulenettet i Flora kommune.  Eg driv,
7979 vidareutviklar og er andrelinje brukarstøtte for datanettet ved
7980 skulane i Flora kommune.  10 skular og meir enn 700 maskiner med
7981 Linux, medrekna tynnklientar.  Tidlegare jobba eg i mange år med
7982 unix-drift ved Universitetets senter for informasjonsteknologi ved
7983 Universitetet i Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;
7984
7985 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
7986
7987 &lt;p&gt;Det er vanskeleg å svare konkret på.  Eg har drive med Unix og Linux i
7988 alle år, og Skulelinux er eit godt kjent prosjekt i miljøet.  Det var
7989 først i 2008, då eg tok til i min noverande jobb, at eg fekk bruk for
7990 Skulelinux for alvor.&lt;/p&gt;
7991
7992 &lt;p&gt;Jobben min skulle vere drift av eit nytt skulenett i Flora kommune,
7993 levert av eit firma eg ikkje vil reklamere for.  Systemet skulle vere
7994 ferdig levert i september året før.  Dette viste seg å ta mykje lenger
7995 tid, og i haustferien 2008 hadde dei endå ikkje klart å få opp ei
7996 fungerande løysing.  Situasjonen var prekær for den største skulen i
7997 kommunen med meir enn 500 elevar på ungdomssteget.  Skulen hadde brukt
7998 Skulelinux før, og var tilfredse med det.  No hadde dei vore utan
7999 fungerande datasystem i nesten eit år.  Difor fekk eg opp ein ny tenar
8000 utanfor prosjektet og installerte Skulelinux på den.  Etter litt
8001 justering av konfigurasjonen med god hjelp av #skolelinux på IRC, var
8002 den nye tenaren oppe og gjekk med både tynne og halv-tjukke klientar.
8003 Autentisering gjekk mot det nye systemet, slik at elevar og lærarar
8004 framleis har same brukarnamn og passord over alt.  Dette berre
8005 fungerte, og vi bestemte oss for å erstatte delar av løysinga vi
8006 skulle få levert med Skulelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
8007
8008 &lt;p&gt;Det høyrer med til historia at det nye systemet eg skulle drive frå
8009 januar 2008 endå ikkje er ferdig levert.  Dei jobbar med saka, seier
8010 dei, og har von om å fullføre leveransen i løpet av 2011.&lt;/p&gt;
8011
8012 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8013
8014 &lt;p&gt;Det er veldig mange.  Eg skal ta nokre få.&lt;/p&gt;
8015
8016 &lt;p&gt;Den viktigaste fordelen er at det igrunn berre er ei maskin å passe
8017 på, og det er tenaren.  Med andre løysingar har ein gjerne programvare
8018 og anna som skal vedlikehaldast på kvar enkelt maskin.  Med Skulelinux
8019 kan alle feil rettast og alle program oppgraderast på alle maskiner
8020 samstundes ved å gjere endringa som må til på tenaren.  Eg kan sitje
8021 på kontoret og passe på alle tenarane i kommunen derifrå.&lt;/p&gt;
8022
8023 &lt;ul&gt;
8024
8025 &lt;li&gt;Tynne klientar gjer det mogleg å bruke eldre utstyr lenge, so lenge
8026 tenaren er sterk nok.  Ein liten tenar med eit par halv-moderne CPUar
8027 og 2 GiB RAM held lenge for eit typisk klasserom med 30 tynnklientar,
8028 og det er lett å utvide med fleire.
8029
8030 &lt;li&gt;Halvtjukke klientar gjer det mogleg å utnytte kapasiteten i litt
8031 nyare maskiner betre, og avlaste tenaren.  Ingenting vert installert
8032 lokalt på desse heller, og harddisken kan gjerne koblast frå.  Gode
8033 halvtjukke klientar kan kjøpast brukt for under 1000-lappen, og det er
8034 heile kostnaden.  Ingen lisensar eller anna på toppen, og det er ikkje
8035 krav til kraftigare tenar heller.
8036
8037 &lt;li&gt;Det er Linux.  Vi har ikkje noko kluss med drivarar, dei berre er
8038 der.  Heller ikkje med virus, dei finst i realiteten ikkje.  Eller med
8039 elevar som klussar med installert programvare, for dei klarar ikkje å
8040 øydeleggje for nokon andre enn seg sjølve.
8041
8042 &lt;/ul&gt;
8043
8044 &lt;p&gt;Skulelinux er lagt opp til å vere veldig lett å installere rett ut
8045 av boksen på ein heil skule av ein interessert lærar.  Det er ofte ei
8046 god løysing for skulen.  Å ha nokon til stades som kjenner systemet og
8047 kan forklare enkle ting eller løyse problem der og då, er uvurderleg
8048 viktig for ein stressa lærar fem minutt før det ringer inn.&lt;/p&gt;
8049
8050 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8051
8052 &lt;p&gt;All den ferdige konfigurasjonen gjer det tungvint å tilpasse
8053 Skulelinux til eit system som skal fungere saman med mange andre
8054 installasjonar i eit felles datanett for skulane i ein kommune.  Det
8055 heile er prekonfigurert for ein skule, og utviding til mange skular
8056 med eigne tenarar er ikkje berre enkelt.&lt;/p&gt;
8057
8058 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8059
8060 &lt;p&gt;Eg brukar mest alle små hjelpeprogram som føl med operativsystemet,
8061 samt scriptspråket perl.  Elles er Firefox/Iceweasel, Gnome-terminal
8062 og ssh i kontinuerleg bruk.  Av Linux-distribusjonar brukar eg både
8063 Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE og RedHat dagleg.  Eg prøvar å finne det verktyet
8064 som passar best til kvar del av jobben.&lt;/p&gt;
8065
8066 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
8067 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8068
8069 &lt;p&gt;Det er to målgrupper ein må sikte mot.  Det eine er alle skulane som
8070 manglar eller har eit lite tilfredsstillande opplegg i dag, og ikkje
8071 har råd til å kjøpe noko nytt og blankpussa opplegg.  Der er det om å
8072 gjere å gjere det enkelt for skulane å finne Skulelinux, og gjere det
8073 enkelt for dei å få hjelp til installasjon på skulen.  Gjerne med
8074 lokale kontaktpersonar.  Her er det dugnadsinnsats som må til, for
8075 desse skulane har ikkje råd til å betale for dette.&lt;/p&gt;
8076
8077 &lt;p&gt;Den andre og kanskje viktigare målgruppa er dei meir eller mindre
8078 profesjonelle kundane.  Alle store offentlege innkjøp, inkludert
8079 innkjøp av nytt datasystem for skular, må ut på offentleg anbod.
8080 Offentlege anbod er mykje meir lukka enn dei gjev inntrykk av, og både
8081 regelboka og boka med triks for å sminke tilbodet er tjukk.  Det er
8082 vanskeleg å komme inn utan eit solid salsapparat i ryggen.  Kanskje
8083 Skulelinux skulle prøve aktivt å få seg eit partnarskap med eit av dei
8084 store som gjerne vil sterkare inn på den offentlege IT-marknaden?
8085 Nokon som kjenner triksa og har krefter til å ta opp kampen mot både
8086 dårlege anbod og Rudolf Blostrupmoen IT AS.  Leveranse til skulane i
8087 ein kommune er ein god måte å få ein fot inn døra som leverandør til
8088 ein lukrativ kommunemarknad som kjøper alle tenester.  Ta kontakt med
8089 nokon som er passeleg store og ikkje er Microsoft-partnar, og fortell:
8090 «Vi har eit ferdig produkt som du kan selje.  Nei vi skal ikkje ha for
8091 det.  Du kan gjerne gjere kva du vil med det, berre vi får lov til å
8092 hjelpe deg.  Målgruppa er alle kommunar, og det er noko dei vil ha.
8093 Det er eit godt produkt, brukt av mange og godt likt.»&lt;/p&gt;
8094 </description>
8095         </item>
8096
8097         <item>
8098                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Embrik Kaslegard</title>
8099                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Embrik_Kaslegard.html</link>
8100                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Embrik_Kaslegard.html</guid>
8101                 <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
8102                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Neste ut i min intervjuserie med folk i
8103 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinuxprosjektet&lt;/a&gt; er
8104 lærer, mangeårig bidragsyter på epostlistene og tidligere
8105 Skolelinux-administrator på en skole i Hemsedal.&lt;/p&gt;
8106
8107 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8108
8109 &lt;p&gt;Embrik Kaslegard, 1964-modell, fire barn (7-20 år). Begynte som
8110 lærer i 1989 - har hatt IKT-ansvar siden første året i jobb. Har
8111 jobbet som lærer/IKT-ansvarlig uavbrutt siden 1989. Jobbet med
8112 Skolelinux fra 2004 til 2010. Nå har jeg fått ny arbeidsplass og er
8113 40% lærer og 60% IKT med Windows XP, Win2003 server og et regionalt
8114 IKT-regime som legger premissene og begrensingene for hva vi kan gjøre
8115 på skolen.&lt;/p&gt;
8116
8117 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8118
8119 &lt;p&gt;Jeg leste en artikkel om en dugnadsinstallasjon av Skolelinux på en
8120 skole på Jæren et sted. Tanken om dugnad og frihet appellerte til
8121 meg. Da vi skulle bygge ny skole var det en del vi måtte spare på,
8122 fordi vi beveget oss mot en kostnadssprekk. Kabling og investering i
8123 PC-er var en av tingene vi sparte på. Derfor kjøpe vi 72 pc-er for 390
8124 pr stk. En filtjener og en applikasjonsserver.&lt;/p&gt;
8125
8126 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8127
8128 &lt;p&gt;Fordelen er at så mye er satt opp fra starten. I tillegg er det
8129 tydelig at pakka er laga for skoleverket. Brukerne har egne
8130 skrivebord, tilgang på mange gode verktøyprogrammer. Vi slipper å
8131 tenke på virus. Brukerne har ikke mulighet til å ødelegge
8132 klientoppsett, men har gode muligheter til å endre eget oppsett. Dette
8133 tror jeg er inspirerende og kjekt for mange brukere.  Mappestrukturen
8134 er ferdig og det er &quot;enkelt&quot; å designe lokale mappestrukturer via
8135 skeleton.  Noen av oss i skoleverket mener skolen skal være en
8136 &quot;mot-kultur&quot;. Da er Skolelinux et av valgene man kan ta. Et annet er å
8137 spise på indisk restaurant i stedet for Mc Donald&#39;s når vi er på bytur
8138 osv.. Ordene deling, frihet, dugnad osv er positive ord i
8139 skoleverket. Det er viktig at elevene blir bevisst dette.&lt;/p&gt;
8140
8141 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8142
8143 &lt;p&gt;Kompabiliteten er selvsagt et problem, selv om det er mindre nå enn
8144 før.  For IKT-personer på skolene som skal drifte dette er det
8145 problematisk med kommandoer i terminalen.  I tillegg er det alt for
8146 mange programmer i Skolelinux som ikke blir brukt.  Jeg tror
8147 Skolelinux er tjent med å tone ned begrepet pedagogisk programvare.
8148 Slik jeg ser det finnes ikke denne kategorien programmer lengre slik
8149 de gjorde før, som frittsående programmer som installeres på en
8150 datamaskin eller på serveren.  Det finnes en del spesialpedagogiske
8151 programmer, som Textpilot, LingDys, LingRight, AskiRaski, Ny i Norge
8152 osv.  Men dette er programmer for enkelt-elever eller små grupper av
8153 elever.  Det som bør være fokus er at alle undervisningsressurser som
8154 lages for nettet skal være nettleseruavhengig.&lt;/p&gt;
8155
8156 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8157
8158 &lt;p&gt;OpenOffice bruker jeg til vanlig kontorarbeide.  VLC bruker jeg som
8159 videoavspiller og av og til streaming av film.  Gimp bruker jeg i
8160 undervisningen til bildemanipulering. Firefox og Chrome er mine
8161 favoritt-nettlesere.  Firefox har lenge vært førstevalget mitt, nå
8162 bruker jeg mest Chrome.  Opplever den som raskere og smidigere enn
8163 Firefox.  Ubuntu bruker jeg som dualboot på jobb-maskinen min i
8164 tillegg til at alle PCer hjemme har en eller annen Ubuntu-distribusjon
8165 installert.  Jeg bruker Clonezilla på Ubuntu 10.04 til kloning av
8166 datamaskiner på jobb.  Det er selvsagt en haug andre frie programmer
8167 jeg bruker men jeg bruker dem ikke daglig.  Jeg kan ramse opp:
8168 recordmydesktop, cinelerra, acidrip, soundjuicer, audacity, NX
8169 (no-machine), Kino, Rythmbox...&lt;/p&gt;
8170
8171 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
8172 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8173
8174 &lt;p&gt;Jeg tror oppsøkende virksomhet er den rette strategien.
8175 Ressurspersoner gjør avtaler med rådmenn, skolesjefer, rektorer.  Det
8176 er slik konkurrentene gjør det.  Fokuset i slike samtaler bør være
8177 kost-nytte.  Dersom personer med økonomisk ansvar ser at de kan få
8178 like godt tilbud til mindre utgifter, tror jeg det er mulighet til å
8179 få innpass.  Dersom de også kan få konkrete tilbud på drift i slike
8180 samtaler, vil de kanskje bli litt mer interesserte i hvor mye penger
8181 som faktisk går til IKT i skolene.  Det er også viktig at vi ikke
8182 firer for mye på krav til datamaskiner.  Det er flott at Skolelinux
8183 går på &quot;utrangert&quot; utstyr, men dette bør bare presenteres som et
8184 alternativ.  Skolelinux-installasjoner med utrangert utstyr er ikke å
8185 foretrekke dersom man kan unngå det. Det skaper ikke entusiasme hos
8186 brukerne (elever og lærere) når de bruker gamle datamaskiner som går
8187 tregt.  Det er kjempefint med skoler som har kommet seg frem til
8188 Skolelinux og fri programvare av seg selv, men de lever på nåde.
8189 Slike valg må fundamenteres hos skoleeier.&lt;/p&gt;
8190
8191 &lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2011-01-16 22:40: Oppdatert svarene for de tre siste
8192 spørsmålene litt mer tekst fra Embrik.&lt;/p&gt;
8193 </description>
8194         </item>
8195
8196         <item>
8197                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Viggo Fedreheim</title>
8198                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Viggo_Fedreheim.html</link>
8199                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Viggo_Fedreheim.html</guid>
8200                 <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
8201                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg fortsetter min intervjuserie med folk i
8202 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinuxprosjektet&lt;/a&gt;.  Denne
8203 gang er det en av folkene som har vært med lenge og som har tatt i
8204 bruk Skolelinux på alle skolene i Narvik kommune som skal i ilden.
8205 Han er styremedlem i
8206 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;foreningen
8207 FRISK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
8208
8209 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8210
8211 &lt;p&gt;Mitt navn er Viggo Fedreheim, og jeg er pedagogisk og teknisk
8212 IKT-veileder for alle skoler i Narvik kommune.  Jeg drifter totalt 17
8213 servere basert på Skolelinux og Debian. Jeg holder i tillegg noen kurs
8214 mellom all driftingen. For tiden arbeider jeg med en sentral
8215 LDAP-tjener for alle skoleservere samt våre Moodle- og
8216 Joomla-installasjoner.&lt;/p&gt;
8217
8218 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8219
8220 &lt;p&gt;Gjennom en eller annen nettavis i 2001 der var det skrevet om
8221 Skolelinux.  Artikkelen ga meg lyst til å prøve ut systemet.&lt;/p&gt;
8222
8223 &lt;p&gt;Det startet i 2002 ved at jeg installerte en av de første utgavene
8224 av Skolelinux på en standard pc på Solneset skole i Tromsø.  Denne var
8225 oppe fram til desember 2003 da jeg sluttet på den skolen og begynte i
8226 ny jobb i Narvik kommune.&lt;/p&gt;
8227
8228 &lt;p&gt; I Narvik kommune var det i 2004 kun 2 servere på da totalt 15
8229 skoler. Disse var Windows NT baserte. På disse to skolene var det lite
8230 med maskiner.  Jobben med å få Narvik Kommune opp på akseptabelt nivå
8231 virket å være formidabel.  Men med hjelp av gode kollegaer og leder
8232 skrev jeg en IKT plan for Narvik kommune som ble vedtatt av politikere
8233 i august 2004. I denne planen ble det bestemt at Narvik kommune skulle
8234 bruke Skolelinux.  Her ble det også satt av midler til kabling av god
8235 infrastruktur på alle skoler samt innkjøp av nye datamaskiner.  Så i
8236 dag har vi 17 servere hvorav 13 er på Skolelinux, med ca 1500 klienter
8237 basert på tynne, &quot;halvtykke&quot; og et stort antall bærbare pcer basert på
8238 Kubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;
8239
8240 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8241
8242 &lt;p&gt;Lisenskostnader, driftkostnader og hardwarekrav som er mye lavere
8243 enn for andre systemer.&lt;/p&gt;
8244
8245 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8246
8247 &lt;p&gt;Pedagogiske programvare som ikke fungerer mot Linux. En Stoooor
8248 flaskehals og som gjør at Linux kanskje ikke blir valgt andre
8249 plasser.&lt;/p&gt;
8250
8251 &lt;p&gt;Eksempler er Relemo, Lindys (lingit sine programmer), 5plus
8252 (matematikk).  Disse er programmer som ikke lar seg kjøre i Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
8253
8254 &lt;p&gt; Men det ser ut for at mange leverandører går over til mer
8255 nettbaserte programmer istedet for å installere lokalt.  Dette med
8256 enkelte leverandører som ikke kan levere programmer til Linux er et
8257 lite problem og over tid tror jeg at denne barrieren er borte.&lt;/p&gt;
8258
8259 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8260
8261 &lt;p&gt;Kjører Kubuntu på laptoper, Debian squeeze på stasjonær
8262 kontorpc. Ut over dette arbeder jeg svært mye via konsoll mot andre
8263 servere.&lt;/p&gt;
8264 </description>
8265         </item>
8266
8267         <item>
8268                 <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Arnt Ove Gregersen</title>
8269                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Arnt_Ove_Gregersen.html</link>
8270                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Arnt_Ove_Gregersen.html</guid>
8271                 <pubDate>Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
8272                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Inspirert av
8273 &lt;a href=&quot;http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/&quot;&gt;intervjurunden&lt;/a&gt;
8274 som Raphael Hertzog har startet med folk i Debianprosjektet, fikk jeg
8275 lyst til å gjøre det samme med folk i
8276 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinuxprosjektet&lt;/a&gt;.  Håpet
8277 er at de som til daglig bidrar til å fremme fri programvare i
8278 skoleverket og utvikler en linux-distribusjon spesiallaget for
8279 skolebruk kan bli bedre kjent og kanskje inspirere flere til å bidra
8280 til Skolelinux-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
8281
8282 &lt;p&gt;Først ut er nyvalgt leder i
8283 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;foreningen FRISK&lt;/a&gt; som
8284 organiserer utviklingen av Skolelinux-distribusjonen.  FRISK trenger
8285 alltid flere medlemmer, så
8286 &lt;a href=&quot;http://medlem.friprogramvareiskolen.no/index.php?page=signup&quot;&gt;meld
8287 deg gjerne inn&lt;/a&gt; hvis du vil støtte oss.&lt;/p&gt;
8288
8289 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8290
8291 &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- Mitt navn er Arnt Ove Gregersen, jeg er en småbarnfar på 32 år som
8292 for tiden bor Trondheim. --&gt;
8293 Mitt navn er Arnt Ove Gregersen, jeg er 32 år og bor for tiden i Trondheim.
8294
8295 Her jobber jeg som systemutvikler i et firma
8296 som heter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geomatikk-ikt.no/&quot;&gt;Geomatikk IKT AS&lt;/a&gt;,
8297 hvor jeg er på et Vegmeldings-prosjekt for Statens Vegvesen. På
8298 fritiden er jeg styreleder i FRISK (Fri programvare i skolen) og
8299 bidrar til bl.a. Skolelinux-prosjektet når jeg får tid til det. Det er
8300 primært hjemmesiden til Skolelinux-prosjektet og
8301 &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxveiviseren.no/&quot;&gt;Linux-veiviseren&lt;/a&gt; jeg har
8302 jobbet med her, men jeg har også gjort en del arbeid i forhold til
8303 FRISK sin hjemmeside.&lt;/p&gt;
8304
8305 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8306
8307 &lt;p&gt;Jeg var på en presentasjon av prosjektet i regi av Knut Yrvin på
8308 Gløshaugen i Trondheim, hvor jeg fattet stor interesse for prosjektet
8309 og ville hjelpe til så godt jeg kunne.  Dette var vel i 2002 eller
8310 2003.&lt;/p&gt;
8311
8312 &lt;p&gt;Jeg hadde fra før hørt om prosjektet fra før og syntes tanken bak var
8313 ganske fin, men hadde ikke noen interesse av bruke min egen fritid på
8314 det selv.&lt;/p&gt;
8315
8316 &lt;p&gt;I etterkant av presentasjonen startet jeg og noen andre fra
8317 Trondheim &quot;Skolelinux-prosjektet i Sør-Trøndelag&quot; . Hvor vi var med å
8318 bidra til at Trondheim kommune satte igang Selsbakk ungdomskole som et
8319 pilotprosjekt med Skolelinux, som egentlig var og er en stor suksess,
8320 men det virker ut som det ikke skjer noe mer på. I tillegg var vi med
8321 på dugnad på Brundalen videregående skole hvor vi installerte
8322 Skolelinux som såvidt jeg vet fortsatt kjører på Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
8323
8324 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8325
8326 &lt;p&gt;Det bygger på fri programvare og har lav kostnad i forhold til
8327 nytteverdien. Dette fordi det har forholdsvis lav inngangsum og bruker
8328 en arkitektur med sentral-drift som gir mange driftfordeler.  I
8329 tillegg vil det kunne frigjøre kostnader for skolene slik at de kan
8330 bruke dem til å ansette f,eks flere lærere om det er ønskelig.&lt;/p&gt;
8331
8332 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8333
8334 &lt;P&gt;Ikke all pedagogisk programvare er tilgjengelig der, som f.eks
8335 Drillpro om jeg ikke husker feil.&lt;/p&gt;
8336
8337 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
8338
8339 &lt;p&gt;Til utvikling av Java-applikasjoner og Android bruker jeg Eclipse og
8340 Quanta til web-utvikling via php. For all bildebehandling bruker jeg
8341 GIMP og Blender til 3d-modellering . Dessverre har Blender en bratt
8342 læringskurve i starten, men det er absolutt verdt det.
8343
8344 &lt;p&gt;Til musikk bruker jeg stort Rhytmbox. Firefox til surfing på nettet og
8345 Thunderbird og Evolution til e-post,
8346
8347 &lt;p&gt;På database-siden bruker jeg PostgreSQL, Postgis og av og til Mysql.
8348
8349 &lt;p&gt;Når jeg får tid til å spille bruker jeg som regel et strategi-spill
8350 som er basert på TA Spring-motoren (springrts.com), her er det et
8351 veldig bra utvalg av gratis spill som er av høy kvalitet. Veldig lett
8352 å bli hektet :)&lt;/p&gt;
8353 </description>
8354         </item>
8355
8356         <item>
8357                 <title>Inspirerende fra en ukjent Skolelinux-skole</title>
8358                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Inspirerende_fra_en_ukjent_Skolelinux_skole.html</link>
8359                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Inspirerende_fra_en_ukjent_Skolelinux_skole.html</guid>
8360                 <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jan 2011 07:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
8361                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Følgende inspirerende historie fant jeg i
8362 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/php/ny_debatt.php?id=858869#innlegg_770926&quot;&gt;kommentarfeltet
8363 hos digi.no&lt;/a&gt; i forbindelse med en trist sak om hvordan
8364 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/858869/datakaos-etter-linux-satsing&quot;&gt;skolen
8365 i Hemsedal har fått ødelagt&lt;/a&gt; sin Skolelinux-installasjon.  Jeg har
8366 fikset endel åpenbare skrivefeil for lesbarhetens skyld.&lt;/p&gt;
8367
8368 &lt;blockquote&gt;
8369 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lignende situasjon i annen kommune, se bare her:&lt;/strong&gt;
8370 &lt;br&gt;av Inspektør Siri (gjest)
8371
8372 &lt;p&gt;Kommunen min har to omtrent jevnstore tettsteder, og en
8373 ungdomsskole i hvert av tettstedene. Den minste av disse har ca 300
8374 elever og til denne sogner det 3 barneskoler. Den største har ca 350
8375 elever og til denne sogner det 4 barneskoler.&lt;/p&gt;
8376
8377 &lt;ul&gt;
8378
8379 &lt;li&gt;Kommunen har i veldig lang tid forsømt IKT i skolen, og det har
8380 bare blitt gitt smuler i ny og ne. Det er kun den største av
8381 ungdomsskolene som har hatt en skikkelig datapark, og dette takket
8382 være en naturfaglærer som ble lei av å vente på kommunen. Det gjorde
8383 at vi bestemte oss for å ta ting i egne hender, og da vha
8384 skolelinux. En testinstallasjon med 10 gamle PCer ble gjort, og vi så
8385 raskt at dette var veldig lovende. Neste etappe var å gi alle lærere
8386 egen PC på arbeidsplassene sine (2004), og så sette opp 16 PCer på to
8387 datarom. Vi har kun basert oss på å kjøpe inn brukte maskiner, og
8388 aldri dyrere enn 1000 kr pr klient. For to år siden så hadde vi
8389 klienter i alle klasserom, og totalt hadde vi da rundt 250 stk. Rundt
8390 40 klienter brukes av lærerne og kjører på en egen server. Elvene har
8391 resten, og kjører også en egen server. Servere har vi også kjøpt
8392 brukt, 2 år gamle servere koster 6-7000 kroner.&lt;/li&gt;
8393
8394 &lt;li&gt;Skolen vår er et relativt gammelt bygg, men en meget dyktig
8395 vaktmester har sammen med IKT-ansvarlig/Naturfaglærer lagt kabler til alle
8396 rom. Gradvis har vi byttet ut billige svitsjer med mer solide saker
8397 som er mulig å fjernstyre.&lt;/li&gt;
8398
8399 &lt;li&gt;Vi har i all hovedsak greid å få dette til over eget budsjett, men
8400 vi har også passet på å få penger når de andre skolene har fått
8401 bærbare PCer til lærere osv.&lt;/li&gt;
8402
8403 &lt;li&gt;Vår IKT-ansvarlig har gjort (og gjør) en fenomenal jobb, og vi har
8404 en maskinpark som de andre av kommunens skoler bare kan drømme
8405 om.&lt;/li&gt;
8406
8407 &lt;/ul&gt;
8408
8409 &lt;p&gt;Så skjer det som ofte skjer. Det kommer en eller annen
8410 selger/blåruss og skal fikse ALT. I vårt tilfelle betyr dette også
8411 sentralisering av drift. Den ny-ansatte på kommunens IT-avdelingen
8412 skal også ha jobb, og ser for seg å ta over skoledriften. Kommunen
8413 kjøper inn eksterne driftstjenester, og nekter i samme slengen å ta
8414 hensyn til skolen vår. Dette til tross for at vi alene har like mange
8415 datamaskiner som de andre til sammen. &lt;/p&gt;
8416
8417 &lt;ul&gt;
8418
8419 &lt;li&gt;Det blir krevd at vi skal innlemmes i de kommunale systemet, og
8420 det er VI som får ansvar for at dette kommer på plass. Og det er her
8421 de horrible tingene begynner å skje. &lt;/li&gt;
8422
8423 &lt;li&gt;Det settes opp en lukket Exchange server som gjør av vi ikke kan
8424 hente epost for våre ansatte. Og det kreves at vi finner løsning på
8425 dette.&lt;/li&gt;
8426
8427 &lt;li&gt;Det velges sak arkivsystem som vi pålegges å bruke, noe som gjør
8428 at vi må bruke en terminalløsning mot kommunal server. Ikke i seg selv
8429 et problem i følge IKT-ansvarlig hos oss. Men kommunens IT-avd nektet
8430 faktisk å åpne de porter OSV som vi måtte bruke.&lt;/li&gt;
8431
8432 &lt;li&gt;Vi blir pålagt å flytte på innsiden av det kommunale
8433 nettverket. Dette gjorde at vi mistet hjemmekontor for lærere og
8434 elever. Å få åpnet porter i kommunal brannmur var ikke
8435 aktuelt. Mulighet for fjerndrift ble også vekk i samme slengen. &lt;/li&gt;
8436
8437 &lt;li&gt;Vår LMS Moodle er ikke mulig å nå for elevene og lærerne.
8438
8439 &lt;/ul&gt;
8440
8441 &lt;p&gt;Den andre ungdomsskolen i kommunen begynner så å kreve at de skal
8442 få bedre datatetthet, og komme opp på et nivå som ligner det vi
8443 har. De ser at vi kan avholde eksamen hvor alle 10. klassingene får
8444 sitte ved hver sin PC. Og de har fått tilbakemelding (klager) fra VGS
8445 om manglende datakompetanse på elevene som kommer fra dem. Dette fører
8446 videre til at kommunen endelig innser at de må ta grep. &lt;/p&gt;
8447
8448 &lt;p&gt;Grepet betyr sentralisering, og farvel til vår plattform får vi
8449 høre. Det blir gjort en rekke bestemmelser og vedtak som vi ikke får
8450 være en del av. Det blir helt klart at vi må redusere antall maskiner,
8451 og det skal satses på bærbare maskiner. Siden vi ikke har fått tatt
8452 del i prosessene som angår oss, så bruker vi fagforening. Vi har ikke
8453 blitt hørt i forbindelse med endringer som er betydelig for vår
8454 hverdag, og greier å stoppe omlegging. I tillegg så har vi et politisk
8455 vedtak i kommunen på at vi skal kjøre Linux på elevnett, og dette
8456 vedtaket kan ikke administrasjonen i kommunene helt uten videre
8457 tilsidesette. &lt;/p&gt;
8458
8459 &lt;p&gt;I sum har dette gjort at vi har fått jobbe videre i fred. Og en del
8460 runder i kommunens kontrollutvalg har gjort det tydelig at vi har blitt
8461 systematisk motarbeidet. &lt;/p&gt;
8462
8463 &lt;p&gt;I dag har de andre skolene fått sine bærbare maskiner til elever og
8464 lærere, men etter 2 år med innkjøring er det fremdeles problemer
8465 her. &lt;/p&gt;
8466
8467 &lt;ul&gt;
8468
8469 &lt;li&gt;Ungdomsskolen med windows kan ikke kjøre eksamen med sine bærbare,
8470 det er for mye arbeid å renske disse for innhold slik at juks ikke er
8471 mulig.&lt;/li&gt;
8472
8473 &lt;li&gt;Utskrift er et mareritt, etter sigende pga at utskrift først
8474 sendes til sentral server, og så sendes ut til rett skriver. I snitt
8475 så tar det 7-8 minutter før utskrift starter på enkelte av
8476 skolene.&lt;/li&gt;
8477
8478 &lt;li&gt;Trådløst skaper store problemer, og det er i perioder helt umulig
8479 å komme seg på nett. Og lagring på felles server er bare å glemme i
8480 perioder.&lt;/li&gt;
8481
8482 &lt;/ul&gt;
8483
8484 &lt;p&gt;Vi har slitt mye, kranglet og sloss. Ikke med tekniske problemer,
8485 men med omgivelsene rundt som vil oss til livs. Men det har vært verdt
8486 hver dråpe med svette, og timer med irritasjon. Men vi har begynt å få
8487 rutine her nå. &lt;/p&gt;
8488
8489 &lt;ul&gt;
8490
8491 &lt;li&gt;Vi har fremdeles et system som vi styrer helt selv. &lt;/li&gt;
8492 &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;
8493 &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;
8494 &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;
8495 &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;
8496 &lt;li&gt;Vår IKT-ansvarlig har 50% stilling som lærer og 50% som IKT-ansvarlig. &lt;/li&gt;
8497 &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;
8498 &lt;li&gt;Vi opplever at de yngste lærerne ved den andre ungdomsskolen ønsker seg over til oss. &lt;/li&gt;
8499
8500 &lt;/ul&gt;
8501
8502 &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;
8503
8504 &lt;p&gt;Beklager hvis dette ble litt usammenhengende, men det ble tastet i
8505 fei, og jeg har ikke lest gjennom&lt;/p&gt;
8506 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
8507
8508 &lt;p&gt;Det kom raskt et lite svar:&lt;/p&gt;
8509
8510 &lt;blockquote&gt;
8511 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SV: Lignende situasjon i annen kommune, se bare her:&lt;/strong&gt;
8512 &lt;br&gt;av captain_obvious&lt;/p&gt;
8513
8514 &lt;p&gt;Inspirerende å lese. Har dere gjort noe for å fortelle denne
8515 historien videre?&lt;/p&gt;
8516
8517 &lt;p&gt;Hadde vært svært interessant om dere tok kontakt med dokument 2 eller
8518 lignende for å fortelle hvordan det egentlig står til med
8519 IT-satsningen i kommune-Norge. Om ikke annet kan du begynner med å
8520 raffinere innlegget ditt og få en gjesteartikkel på digi.no&lt;/p&gt;
8521 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
8522
8523 &lt;p&gt;Og deretter en lengre oppfølging.&lt;/p&gt;
8524
8525 &lt;blockquote&gt;
8526 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SV: Lignende situasjon i annen kommune, se bare her:&lt;/strong&gt;
8527 &lt;br&gt;av Inspektør Siri (gjest)
8528
8529 &lt;p&gt;Joda, vi har lekt med tanken, og vi har t.o.m skrevet flere lengre
8530 leserinnlegg myntet på aviser. Disse er ikke sendt til aviser, men
8531 brukt internt i forbindelse med møter med kommune. Vår IKT-ansvarlig
8532 har også truet med å si opp jobben sin hvis det ikke ble tatt hensyn i
8533 større grad enn hva som har vært tilfelle. VI kan også dokumentere
8534 flere brudd på anbudsregler, og vi kjenner til at relativt store
8535 IT-leverandører som ikke har fått tatt del i disse anbudene, rett og
8536 slett ikke tør melde fra av redsel for å få et dårlig rykte. &lt;/p&gt;
8537
8538 &lt;p&gt;Alt ser ut til å roe seg ned, og vi har fått opp øynene på
8539 politikerne. I sum gjør dette at vi ikke ønsker for mye publisitet nå,
8540 det vil bare rote til igjen. &lt;/p&gt;
8541
8542 &lt;p&gt;Jeg glemte å nevne at vi nå nesten ikke bruker tid på å drifte
8543 systemet vårt, noe som gjør at det aller meste av tid blir brukt til å
8544 støtte lærerne og elevene. F.eks så bruker vår IKT-ansvarlig den
8545 første timen på jobb, 0730-0830 kun til å gå ute på arbeidsplassene
8546 til læreren. Dette for å kunne svare på små og store problem, gi tips
8547 og råd, eller bare for å plukke opp hva som er behovet ute i
8548 undervisningsarealene. Det er dessverre ikke slik at alle lærerne har
8549 nok digital kompetanse til å kunne formulere alle spørsmålene de har,
8550 men ved å kunne få vise eller lufte tanker med IKT-ansvarlig så er det
8551 utrolig hva som kommer fram. &lt;/p&gt;
8552
8553 &lt;ul&gt;
8554
8555 &lt;li&gt;Jeg ser at mange bruker økonomi som argument i forhold til å bruke
8556 SkoleLinux, og jeg skal ikke legge skjul på at det var dette som i
8557 utgangspunktet var årsaken til vårt valg. Men diskusjonene og kampen
8558 med kommunens IT-avdeling har gjort at vi har fått et noe annet
8559 fokus. Fordelene med drift og stabilitet, gjør at vi ville ha valgt
8560 samme løsning selv om den var dyrere. At vi slipper langt billigere
8561 unna, som følge av 0,- lisenskostnader og lave maskinvarekostnader, er
8562 bare en bonus. &lt;/li&gt;
8563
8564 &lt;li&gt;Etter å ha kranglet oss til å få skikkelig oversikt over hva de
8565 andre skolene i kommunen bruker på IT, så har vi fått gehør for å få
8566 samme midler til innkjøp. Dette har gjort at vi nå kan kjøpe inn
8567 utstyr som de andre skolene bare kan se langt etter. Vi har nettopp
8568 kjøpt inn 3 videokamera i semiproff-klassen for å kunne lage film,
8569 samt sende live fra skoleteater/konserter. Vi har kjøpt inn digitale
8570 kompaktkamera til alle klassene. Vi har et team av lærere som skal i
8571 gang med å teste ut tablets på svake elever. Håpet et at teknologien
8572 kan være med på å gi noen av elevene litt mer motivasjon. Vi har kjøpt
8573 inn et halvt klassesett med pulsklokker, noe som har vist seg å være
8574 overraskende inspirerende for en del av elevene. Vi har også oss på
8575 fag på en høyskole litt lengre sør for oss, slik at 3 av oss nå skal
8576 ta faget &quot;Linux tjenestedrift&quot;. Som inspektør og en del av skolens
8577 administrasjon er det veldig praktisk å kunne trå til hvis det
8578 kniper. Men IKT-ansvarlig har vært UTROLIG flink til å lage rene
8579 smørbrødlister for hvordan de mest vanlige driftsproblem løses, så det
8580 er lett for flere av oss å ta del i den daglige driften. Vi har svært
8581 stor nytte av lærling (som også hjelper to av naboskolene), men det er
8582 nesten blitt slik at det er om å gjøre å komme til først for å få løse
8583 problem. Det å få fingrene på problem og utfordringer er den aller
8584 beste læremester. &lt;/li&gt;
8585
8586 &lt;/ul&gt;
8587
8588 &lt;p&gt;Når vi nå tar til med planlegging av ny skole, så vil det være med
8589 tanke på at det skal være mulig med datautstyr på alle plasser. Vi
8590 kommer i all hovedsak til å legge kabel til alle tenkelige og
8591 utenkelige plasser. WiFi koster tilnærmet NULL å sette opp i
8592 ettertid.&lt;/p&gt;
8593
8594 &lt;p&gt;Vi har ikke vært noe flink til å bidra til SkoleLinux-prosjektet,
8595 vi har rett og slett vært for opptatt med vår egen kamp. Vi har hentet
8596 mye inspirasjon fra diskusjoner som har gått i det miljøet, og vi
8597 håper at vi nå framover kan få tid til å bidra. Vi er i ferd med å
8598 bytte ut en av serverne våre, og da vil denne trolig bli satt opp som
8599 testserver for neste versjon av Skolelinux. På den måten vil vi i alle
8600 fall kunne gi tilbakemeldinger og rapportere feil. I tillegg så vil
8601 det kanskje gi oss noen nye utfordringer, for som lærlingen vår sier:
8602 &quot;Skolelinux er noe herk, det skjer jo ikke noe galt og hvordan skal
8603 jeg da lære?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
8604
8605 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
8606
8607 &lt;p&gt;Det er veldig hyggelig å høre at
8608 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; fungerer så bra i
8609 skoleverdagen etter å ha jobbet med det i 10 år.&lt;/p&gt;
8610 </description>
8611         </item>
8612
8613         <item>
8614                 <title>How to test if a laptop is working with Linux</title>
8615                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_if_a_laptop_is_working_with_Linux.html</link>
8616                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_if_a_laptop_is_working_with_Linux.html</guid>
8617                 <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
8618                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have spent at work here at the &lt;a
8619 href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt; testing if the new
8620 batch of computers will work with Linux.  Every year for the last few
8621 years the university have organised shared bid of a few thousand
8622 computers, and this year HP won the bid.  Two different desktops and
8623 five different laptops are on the list this year.  We in the UNIX
8624 group want to know which one of these computers work well with RHEL
8625 and Ubuntu, the two Linux distributions we currently handle at the
8626 university.&lt;/p&gt;
8627
8628 &lt;p&gt;My test method is simple, and I share it here to get feedback and
8629 perhaps inspire others to test hardware as well.  To test, I PXE
8630 install the OS version of choice, and log in as my normal user and run
8631 a few applications and plug in selected pieces of hardware.  When
8632 something fail, I make a note about this in the test matrix and move
8633 on.  If I have some spare time I try to report the bug to the OS
8634 vendor, but as I only have the machines for a short time, I rarely
8635 have the time to do this for all the problems I find.&lt;/p&gt;
8636
8637 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, to get to the point of this post.  Here is the simple tests
8638 I perform on a new model.&lt;/p&gt;
8639
8640 &lt;ul&gt;
8641
8642 &lt;li&gt;Is PXE installation working?  I&#39;m testing with RHEL6, Ubuntu Lucid
8643 and Ubuntu Maverik at the moment.  If I feel like it, I also test with
8644 RHEL5 and Debian Edu/Squeeze.&lt;/li&gt;
8645
8646 &lt;li&gt;Is X.org working?  If the graphical login screen show up after
8647 installation, X.org is working.&lt;/li&gt;
8648
8649 &lt;li&gt;Is hardware accelerated OpenGL working?  Running glxgears (in
8650 package mesa-utils on Ubuntu) and writing down the frames per second
8651 reported by the program.&lt;/li&gt;
8652
8653 &lt;li&gt;Is sound working?  With Gnome and KDE, a sound is played when
8654 logging in, and if I can hear this the test is successful.  If there
8655 are several audio exits on the machine, I try them all and check if
8656 the Gnome/KDE audio mixer can control where to send the sound.  I
8657 normally test this by playing
8658 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20101012-chef/ &quot;&gt;a HTML5
8659 video&lt;/a&gt; in Firefox/Iceweasel.&lt;/li&gt;
8660
8661 &lt;li&gt;Is the USB subsystem working?  I test this by plugging in a USB
8662 memory stick and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.&lt;/li&gt;
8663
8664 &lt;li&gt;Is the CD/DVD player working?  I test this by inserting any CD/DVD
8665 I have lying around, and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.&lt;/li&gt;
8666
8667 &lt;li&gt;Is any built in camera working?  Test using cheese, and see if a
8668 picture from the v4l device show up.&lt;/li&gt;
8669
8670 &lt;li&gt;Is bluetooth working?  Use the Gnome/KDE browsing tool to see if
8671 any bluetooth devices are discovered.  In my office, I normally see a
8672 few.&lt;/li&gt;
8673
8674 &lt;li&gt;For laptops, is the SD or Compaq Flash reader working.  I have
8675 memory modules lying around, and stick them in and see if Gnome/KDE
8676 notice this.&lt;/li&gt;
8677
8678 &lt;li&gt;For laptops, is suspend/hibernate working?  I&#39;m testing if the
8679 special button work, and if the laptop continue to work after
8680 resume.&lt;/li&gt;
8681
8682 &lt;li&gt;For laptops, is the extra buttons working, like audio level,
8683 adjusting background light, switching on/off external video output,
8684 switching on/off wifi, bluetooth, etc?  The set of buttons differ from
8685 laptop to laptop, so I just write down which are working and which are
8686 not.&lt;/li&gt;
8687
8688 &lt;li&gt;Some laptops have smart card readers, finger print readers,
8689 acceleration sensors etc.  I rarely test these, as I do not know how
8690 to quickly test if they are working or not, so I only document their
8691 existence.&lt;/li&gt;
8692
8693 &lt;/ul&gt;
8694
8695 &lt;p&gt;By now I suspect you are really curious what the test results are
8696 for the HP machines I am testing.  I&#39;m not done yet, so I will report
8697 the test results later.  For now I can report that HP 8100 Elite work
8698 fine, and hibernation fail with HP EliteBook 8440p on Ubuntu Lucid,
8699 and audio fail on RHEL6.  Ubuntu Maverik worked with 8440p.  As you
8700 can see, I have most machines left to test.  One interesting
8701 observation is that Ubuntu Lucid has almost twice the frame rate than
8702 RHEL6 with glxgears.  No idea why.&lt;/p&gt;
8703 </description>
8704         </item>
8705
8706         <item>
8707                 <title>Debian Edu development gathering and General Assembly for FRiSK</title>
8708                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html</link>
8709                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html</guid>
8710                 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
8711                 <description>&lt;p&gt;On friday, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux
8712 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2010-12-03-05-Oslo&quot;&gt;development
8713 gathering&lt;/a&gt; in a long time take place here in Oslo, Norway.  I
8714 really look forward to seeing all the good people working on the
8715 Squeeze release.  The gathering is open for everyone interested in
8716 learning more about Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
8717
8718 &lt;p&gt;On Saturday, the Norwegian member organization taking care of
8719 organizing these development gatherings, Fri Programvare i Skolen,
8720 will hold its
8721 &lt;a href=&quot;http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Genfors/2010&quot;&gt;General Assembly
8722 for 2010&lt;/a&gt;.  Membership is open for all, and currently there are 388
8723 people registered as members.  Last year 32 members cast their vote in
8724 the memberdb based election system.  I hope more people find time to
8725 vote this year.&lt;/p&gt;
8726 </description>
8727         </item>
8728
8729         <item>
8730                 <title>Why isn&#39;t Debian Edu using VLC?</title>
8731                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html</link>
8732                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html</guid>
8733                 <pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
8734                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
8735 presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
8736 Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
8737 to play a video file or stream.  Only if VLC fail will I drag out
8738 gmplayer to see if it can do better.  The reason is mostly the failure
8739 model and trust.  When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
8740 reporting the problem.  When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
8741 just hangs.  The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.&lt;p&gt;
8742
8743 &lt;p&gt;But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
8744 mplayer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian
8745 Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  The reason is simple.  We need a good browser
8746 plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
8747 not very good.  For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
8748 is no way for the user to pause the video.  Also, when I
8749 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;last
8750 tested the browser plugins&lt;/a&gt; available in Debian, the VLC plugin
8751 failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked.  If
8752 the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
8753 package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.&lt;/P&gt;
8754
8755 &lt;p&gt;While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
8756 annoying.  The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
8757 keyboard shortcuts.  When the player is in full screen mode, its
8758 shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
8759 For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode.  I
8760 wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
8761 window mode.  Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
8762 the current video.  It is very nice when playing short videos from the
8763 web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
8764 what is going on.&lt;/p&gt;
8765 </description>
8766         </item>
8767
8768         <item>
8769                 <title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades of the Gnome and KDE desktop, now with apt-get autoremove</title>
8770                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html</link>
8771                 <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>
8772                 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
8773                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Michael Biebl suggested to me on IRC, that I changed my automated
8774 upgrade testing of the
8775 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&quot;&gt;Lenny
8776 Gnome and KDE Desktop&lt;/a&gt; to do &lt;tt&gt;apt-get autoremove&lt;/tt&gt; when using apt-get.
8777 This seem like a very good idea, so I adjusted by test scripts and
8778 can now present the updated result from today:&lt;/p&gt;
8779
8780 &lt;p&gt;This is for Gnome:&lt;/p&gt;
8781
8782 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
8783
8784 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
8785   apache2.2-bin
8786   aptdaemon
8787   baobab
8788   binfmt-support
8789   browser-plugin-gnash
8790   cheese-common
8791   cli-common
8792   cups-pk-helper
8793   dmz-cursor-theme
8794   empathy
8795   empathy-common
8796   freedesktop-sound-theme
8797   freeglut3
8798   gconf-defaults-service
8799   gdm-themes
8800   gedit-plugins
8801   geoclue
8802   geoclue-hostip
8803   geoclue-localnet
8804   geoclue-manual
8805   geoclue-yahoo
8806   gnash
8807   gnash-common
8808   gnome
8809   gnome-backgrounds
8810   gnome-cards-data
8811   gnome-codec-install
8812   gnome-core
8813   gnome-desktop-environment
8814   gnome-disk-utility
8815   gnome-screenshot
8816   gnome-search-tool
8817   gnome-session-canberra
8818   gnome-system-log
8819   gnome-themes-extras
8820   gnome-themes-more
8821   gnome-user-share
8822   gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
8823   gstreamer0.10-tools
8824   gtk2-engines
8825   gtk2-engines-pixbuf
8826   gtk2-engines-smooth
8827   hamster-applet
8828   libapache2-mod-dnssd
8829   libapr1
8830   libaprutil1
8831   libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
8832   libaprutil1-ldap
8833   libart2.0-cil
8834   libboost-date-time1.42.0
8835   libboost-python1.42.0
8836   libboost-thread1.42.0
8837   libchamplain-0.4-0
8838   libchamplain-gtk-0.4-0
8839   libcheese-gtk18
8840   libclutter-gtk-0.10-0
8841   libcryptui0
8842   libdiscid0
8843   libelf1
8844   libepc-1.0-2
8845   libepc-common
8846   libepc-ui-1.0-2
8847   libfreerdp-plugins-standard
8848   libfreerdp0
8849   libgconf2.0-cil
8850   libgdata-common
8851   libgdata7
8852   libgdu-gtk0
8853   libgee2
8854   libgeoclue0
8855   libgexiv2-0
8856   libgif4
8857   libglade2.0-cil
8858   libglib2.0-cil
8859   libgmime2.4-cil
8860   libgnome-vfs2.0-cil
8861   libgnome2.24-cil
8862   libgnomepanel2.24-cil
8863   libgpod-common
8864   libgpod4
8865   libgtk2.0-cil
8866   libgtkglext1
8867   libgtksourceview2.0-common
8868   libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
8869   libmono-addins0.2-cil
8870   libmono-cairo2.0-cil
8871   libmono-corlib2.0-cil
8872   libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil
8873   libmono-posix2.0-cil
8874   libmono-security2.0-cil
8875   libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
8876   libmono-system2.0-cil
8877   libmtp8
8878   libmusicbrainz3-6
8879   libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil
8880   libndesk-dbus1.0-cil
8881   libopal3.6.8
8882   libpolkit-gtk-1-0
8883   libpt2.6.7
8884   libpython2.6
8885   librpm1
8886   librpmio1
8887   libsdl1.2debian
8888   libsrtp0
8889   libssh-4
8890   libtelepathy-farsight0
8891   libtelepathy-glib0
8892   libtidy-0.99-0
8893   media-player-info
8894   mesa-utils
8895   mono-2.0-gac
8896   mono-gac
8897   mono-runtime
8898   nautilus-sendto
8899   nautilus-sendto-empathy
8900   p7zip-full
8901   pkg-config
8902   python-aptdaemon
8903   python-aptdaemon-gtk
8904   python-axiom
8905   python-beautifulsoup
8906   python-bugbuddy
8907   python-clientform
8908   python-coherence
8909   python-configobj
8910   python-crypto
8911   python-cupshelpers
8912   python-elementtree
8913   python-epsilon
8914   python-evolution
8915   python-feedparser
8916   python-gdata
8917   python-gdbm
8918   python-gst0.10
8919   python-gtkglext1
8920   python-gtksourceview2
8921   python-httplib2
8922   python-louie
8923   python-mako
8924   python-markupsafe
8925   python-mechanize
8926   python-nevow
8927   python-notify
8928   python-opengl
8929   python-openssl
8930   python-pam
8931   python-pkg-resources
8932   python-pyasn1
8933   python-pysqlite2
8934   python-rdflib
8935   python-serial
8936   python-tagpy
8937   python-twisted-bin
8938   python-twisted-conch
8939   python-twisted-core
8940   python-twisted-web
8941   python-utidylib
8942   python-webkit
8943   python-xdg
8944   python-zope.interface
8945   remmina
8946   remmina-plugin-data
8947   remmina-plugin-rdp
8948   remmina-plugin-vnc
8949   rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
8950   rhythmbox-plugins
8951   rpm-common
8952   rpm2cpio
8953   seahorse-plugins
8954   shotwell
8955   software-center
8956   system-config-printer-udev
8957   telepathy-gabble
8958   telepathy-mission-control-5
8959   telepathy-salut
8960   tomboy
8961   totem
8962   totem-coherence
8963   totem-mozilla
8964   totem-plugins
8965   transmission-common
8966   xdg-user-dirs
8967   xdg-user-dirs-gtk
8968   xserver-xephyr
8969 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
8970
8971 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
8972
8973 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
8974   cheese
8975   ekiga
8976   eog
8977   epiphany-extensions
8978   evolution-exchange
8979   fast-user-switch-applet
8980   file-roller
8981   gcalctool
8982   gconf-editor
8983   gdm
8984   gedit
8985   gedit-common
8986   gnome-games
8987   gnome-games-data
8988   gnome-nettool
8989   gnome-system-tools
8990   gnome-themes
8991   gnuchess
8992   gucharmap
8993   guile-1.8-libs
8994   libavahi-ui0
8995   libdmx1
8996   libgalago3
8997   libgtk-vnc-1.0-0
8998   libgtksourceview2.0-0
8999   liblircclient0
9000   libsdl1.2debian-alsa
9001   libspeexdsp1
9002   libsvga1
9003   rhythmbox
9004   seahorse
9005   sound-juicer
9006   system-config-printer
9007   totem-common
9008   transmission-gtk
9009   vinagre
9010   vino
9011 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9012
9013 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
9014
9015 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9016   gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
9017 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9018
9019 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
9020
9021 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9022 [nothing]
9023 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9024
9025 &lt;p&gt;This is for KDE:&lt;/p&gt;
9026
9027 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
9028
9029 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9030   ksmserver
9031 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9032
9033 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
9034
9035 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9036   kwin
9037   network-manager-kde
9038 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9039
9040 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
9041
9042 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9043   arts
9044   dolphin
9045   freespacenotifier
9046   google-gadgets-gst
9047   google-gadgets-xul
9048   kappfinder
9049   kcalc
9050   kcharselect
9051   kde-core
9052   kde-plasma-desktop
9053   kde-standard
9054   kde-window-manager
9055   kdeartwork
9056   kdeartwork-emoticons
9057   kdeartwork-style
9058   kdeartwork-theme-icon
9059   kdebase
9060   kdebase-apps
9061   kdebase-workspace
9062   kdebase-workspace-bin
9063   kdebase-workspace-data
9064   kdeeject
9065   kdelibs
9066   kdeplasma-addons
9067   kdeutils
9068   kdewallpapers
9069   kdf
9070   kfloppy
9071   kgpg
9072   khelpcenter4
9073   kinfocenter
9074   konq-plugins-l10n
9075   konqueror-nsplugins
9076   kscreensaver
9077   kscreensaver-xsavers
9078   ktimer
9079   kwrite
9080   libgle3
9081   libkde4-ruby1.8
9082   libkonq5
9083   libkonq5-templates
9084   libnetpbm10
9085   libplasma-ruby
9086   libplasma-ruby1.8
9087   libqt4-ruby1.8
9088   marble-data
9089   marble-plugins
9090   netpbm
9091   nuvola-icon-theme
9092   plasma-dataengines-workspace
9093   plasma-desktop
9094   plasma-desktopthemes-artwork
9095   plasma-runners-addons
9096   plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets
9097   plasma-scriptengine-python
9098   plasma-scriptengine-qedje
9099   plasma-scriptengine-ruby
9100   plasma-scriptengine-webkit
9101   plasma-scriptengines
9102   plasma-wallpapers-addons
9103   plasma-widget-folderview
9104   plasma-widget-networkmanagement
9105   ruby
9106   sweeper
9107   update-notifier-kde
9108   xscreensaver-data-extra
9109   xscreensaver-gl
9110   xscreensaver-gl-extra
9111   xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
9112 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9113
9114 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
9115
9116 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9117   ark
9118   google-gadgets-common
9119   google-gadgets-qt
9120   htdig
9121   kate
9122   kdebase-bin
9123   kdebase-data
9124   kdepasswd
9125   kfind
9126   klipper
9127   konq-plugins
9128   konqueror
9129   ksysguard
9130   ksysguardd
9131   libarchive1
9132   libcln6
9133   libeet1
9134   libeina-svn-06
9135   libggadget-1.0-0b
9136   libggadget-qt-1.0-0b
9137   libgps19
9138   libkdecorations4
9139   libkephal4
9140   libkonq4
9141   libkonqsidebarplugin4a
9142   libkscreensaver5
9143   libksgrd4
9144   libksignalplotter4
9145   libkunitconversion4
9146   libkwineffects1a
9147   libmarblewidget4
9148   libntrack-qt4-1
9149   libntrack0
9150   libplasma-geolocation-interface4
9151   libplasmaclock4a
9152   libplasmagenericshell4
9153   libprocesscore4a
9154   libprocessui4a
9155   libqalculate5
9156   libqedje0a
9157   libqtruby4shared2
9158   libqzion0a
9159   libruby1.8
9160   libscim8c2a
9161   libsmokekdecore4-3
9162   libsmokekdeui4-3
9163   libsmokekfile3
9164   libsmokekhtml3
9165   libsmokekio3
9166   libsmokeknewstuff2-3
9167   libsmokeknewstuff3-3
9168   libsmokekparts3
9169   libsmokektexteditor3
9170   libsmokekutils3
9171   libsmokenepomuk3
9172   libsmokephonon3
9173   libsmokeplasma3
9174   libsmokeqtcore4-3
9175   libsmokeqtdbus4-3
9176   libsmokeqtgui4-3
9177   libsmokeqtnetwork4-3
9178   libsmokeqtopengl4-3
9179   libsmokeqtscript4-3
9180   libsmokeqtsql4-3
9181   libsmokeqtsvg4-3
9182   libsmokeqttest4-3
9183   libsmokeqtuitools4-3
9184   libsmokeqtwebkit4-3
9185   libsmokeqtxml4-3
9186   libsmokesolid3
9187   libsmokesoprano3
9188   libtaskmanager4a
9189   libtidy-0.99-0
9190   libweather-ion4a
9191   libxklavier16
9192   libxxf86misc1
9193   okteta
9194   oxygencursors
9195   plasma-dataengines-addons
9196   plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba
9197   plasma-widget-lancelot
9198   plasma-widgets-addons
9199   plasma-widgets-workspace
9200   polkit-kde-1
9201   ruby1.8
9202   systemsettings
9203   update-notifier-common
9204 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9205
9206 &lt;p&gt;Running apt-get autoremove made the results using apt-get and
9207 aptitude a bit more similar, but there are still quite a lott of
9208 differences.  I have no idea what packages should be installed after
9209 the upgrade, but hope those that do can have a look.&lt;/p&gt;
9210 </description>
9211         </item>
9212
9213         <item>
9214                 <title>Migrating Xen virtual machines using LVM to KVM using disk images</title>
9215                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html</link>
9216                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html</guid>
9217                 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
9218                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Most of the computers in use by the
9219 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux project&lt;/a&gt;
9220 are virtual machines.  And they have been Xen machines running on a
9221 fairly old IBM eserver xseries 345 machine, and we wanted to migrate
9222 them to KVM on a newer Dell PowerEdge 2950 host machine.  This was a
9223 bit harder that it could have been, because we set up the Xen virtual
9224 machines to get the virtual partitions from LVM, which as far as I
9225 know is not supported by KVM.  So to migrate, we had to convert
9226 several LVM logical volumes to partitions on a virtual disk file.&lt;/p&gt;
9227
9228 &lt;p&gt;I found
9229 &lt;a href=&quot;http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/35011-Six-steps-for-migrating-Xen-virtual-machines-to-KVM&quot;&gt;a
9230 nice recipe&lt;/a&gt; to do this, and wrote the following script to do the
9231 migration.  It uses qemu-img from the qemu package to make the disk
9232 image, parted to partition it, losetup and kpartx to present the disk
9233 image partions as devices, and dd to copy the data.  I NFS mounted the
9234 new servers storage area on the old server to do the migration.&lt;/p&gt;
9235
9236 &lt;pre&gt;
9237 #!/bin/sh
9238
9239 # Based on
9240 # http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/35011-Six-steps-for-migrating-Xen-virtual-machines-to-KVM
9241
9242 set -e
9243 set -x
9244
9245 if [ -z &quot;$1&quot; ] ; then
9246     echo &quot;Usage: $0 &amp;lt;hostname&amp;gt;&quot;
9247     exit 1
9248 else
9249     host=&quot;$1&quot;
9250 fi
9251
9252 if [ ! -e /dev/vg_data/$host-disk ] ; then
9253     echo &quot;error: unable to find LVM volume for $host&quot;
9254     exit 1
9255 fi
9256
9257 # Partitions need to be a bit bigger than the LVM LVs.  not sure why.
9258 disksize=$( lvs --units m | grep $host-disk | awk &#39;{sum = sum + $4} END { print int(sum * 1.05) }&#39;)
9259 swapsize=$( lvs --units m | grep $host-swap | awk &#39;{sum = sum + $4} END { print int(sum * 1.05) }&#39;)
9260 totalsize=$(( ( $disksize + $swapsize ) ))
9261
9262 img=$host.img
9263 #dd if=/dev/zero of=$img bs=1M count=$(( $disksize + $swapsize ))
9264 qemu-img create $img ${totalsize}MMaking room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD
9265
9266 parted $img mklabel msdos
9267 parted $img mkpart primary linux-swap 0 $disksize
9268 parted $img mkpart primary ext2 $disksize $totalsize
9269 parted $img set 1 boot on
9270
9271 modprobe dm-mod
9272 losetup /dev/loop0 $img
9273 kpartx -a /dev/loop0
9274
9275 dd if=/dev/vg_data/$host-disk of=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 bs=1M
9276 fsck.ext3 -f /dev/mapper/loop0p1 || true
9277 mkswap /dev/mapper/loop0p2
9278
9279 kpartx -d /dev/loop0
9280 losetup -d /dev/loop0
9281 &lt;/pre&gt;
9282
9283 &lt;p&gt;The script is perhaps so simple that it is not copyrightable, but
9284 if it is, it is licenced using GPL v2 or later at your discretion.&lt;/p&gt;
9285
9286 &lt;p&gt;After doing this, I booted a Debian CD in rescue mode in KVM with
9287 the new disk image attached, installed grub-pc and linux-image-686 and
9288 set up grub to boot from the disk image.  After this, the KVM machines
9289 seem to work just fine.&lt;/p&gt;
9290 </description>
9291         </item>
9292
9293         <item>
9294                 <title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades, apt vs aptitude with the Gnome and KDE desktop</title>
9295                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop.html</link>
9296                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop.html</guid>
9297                 <pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
9298                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m still running upgrade testing of the
9299 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&quot;&gt;Lenny
9300 Gnome and KDE Desktop&lt;/a&gt;, but have not had time to spend on reporting the
9301 status.  Here is a short update based on a test I ran 20101118.&lt;/p&gt;
9302
9303 &lt;p&gt;I still do not know what a correct migration should look like, so I
9304 report any differences between apt and aptitude and hope someone else
9305 can see if anything should be changed.&lt;/p&gt;
9306
9307 &lt;p&gt;This is for Gnome:&lt;/p&gt;
9308
9309 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
9310
9311 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9312   apache2.2-bin aptdaemon at-spi baobab binfmt-support
9313   browser-plugin-gnash cheese-common cli-common cpp-4.3 cups-pk-helper
9314   dmz-cursor-theme empathy empathy-common finger
9315   freedesktop-sound-theme freeglut3 gconf-defaults-service gdm-themes
9316   gedit-plugins geoclue geoclue-hostip geoclue-localnet geoclue-manual
9317   geoclue-yahoo gnash gnash-common gnome gnome-backgrounds
9318   gnome-cards-data gnome-codec-install gnome-core
9319   gnome-desktop-environment gnome-disk-utility gnome-screenshot
9320   gnome-search-tool gnome-session-canberra gnome-spell
9321   gnome-system-log gnome-themes-extras gnome-themes-more
9322   gnome-user-share gs-common gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
9323   gstreamer0.10-tools gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf
9324   gtk2-engines-smooth hal-info hamster-applet libapache2-mod-dnssd
9325   libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap
9326   libart2.0-cil libatspi1.0-0 libboost-date-time1.42.0
9327   libboost-python1.42.0 libboost-thread1.42.0 libchamplain-0.4-0
9328   libchamplain-gtk-0.4-0 libcheese-gtk18 libclutter-gtk-0.10-0
9329   libcryptui0 libcupsys2 libdiscid0 libeel2-data libelf1 libepc-1.0-2
9330   libepc-common libepc-ui-1.0-2 libfreerdp-plugins-standard
9331   libfreerdp0 libgail-common libgconf2.0-cil libgdata-common libgdata7
9332   libgdl-1-common libgdu-gtk0 libgee2 libgeoclue0 libgexiv2-0 libgif4
9333   libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgmime2.4-cil libgnome-vfs2.0-cil
9334   libgnome2.24-cil libgnomepanel2.24-cil libgnomeprint2.2-data
9335   libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomevfs2-bin libgpod-common libgpod4
9336   libgtk2.0-cil libgtkglext1 libgtksourceview-common
9337   libgtksourceview2.0-common libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
9338   libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo2.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil
9339   libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil libmono-posix2.0-cil
9340   libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
9341   libmono-system2.0-cil libmtp8 libmusicbrainz3-6
9342   libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil libndesk-dbus1.0-cil libopal3.6.8
9343   libpolkit-gtk-1-0 libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa
9344   libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libpt2.6.7 libpython2.6 librpm1 librpmio1
9345   libsdl1.2debian libservlet2.4-java libsrtp0 libssh-4
9346   libtelepathy-farsight0 libtelepathy-glib0 libtidy-0.99-0
9347   libxalan2-java libxerces2-java media-player-info mesa-utils
9348   mono-2.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime nautilus-sendto
9349   nautilus-sendto-empathy openoffice.org-writer2latex
9350   openssl-blacklist p7zip p7zip-full pkg-config python-4suite-xml
9351   python-aptdaemon python-aptdaemon-gtk python-axiom
9352   python-beautifulsoup python-bugbuddy python-clientform
9353   python-coherence python-configobj python-crypto python-cupshelpers
9354   python-cupsutils python-eggtrayicon python-elementtree
9355   python-epsilon python-evolution python-feedparser python-gdata
9356   python-gdbm python-gst0.10 python-gtkglext1 python-gtkmozembed
9357   python-gtksourceview2 python-httplib2 python-louie python-mako
9358   python-markupsafe python-mechanize python-nevow python-notify
9359   python-opengl python-openssl python-pam python-pkg-resources
9360   python-pyasn1 python-pysqlite2 python-rdflib python-serial
9361   python-tagpy python-twisted-bin python-twisted-conch
9362   python-twisted-core python-twisted-web python-utidylib python-webkit
9363   python-xdg python-zope.interface remmina remmina-plugin-data
9364   remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-vnc rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
9365   rhythmbox-plugins rpm-common rpm2cpio seahorse-plugins shotwell
9366   software-center svgalibg1 system-config-printer-udev
9367   telepathy-gabble telepathy-mission-control-5 telepathy-salut tomboy
9368   totem totem-coherence totem-mozilla totem-plugins
9369   transmission-common xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-gtk xserver-xephyr
9370   zip
9371 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9372
9373 Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
9374
9375 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9376   arj bluez-utils cheese dhcdbd djvulibre-desktop ekiga eog
9377   epiphany-extensions epiphany-gecko evolution-exchange
9378   fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool gconf-editor gdm gedit
9379   gedit-common gnome-app-install gnome-games gnome-games-data
9380   gnome-nettool gnome-system-tools gnome-themes gnome-utils
9381   gnome-vfs-obexftp gnome-volume-manager gnuchess gucharmap
9382   guile-1.8-libs hal libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5
9383   libavahi-ui0 libbind9-50 libbluetooth2 libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7
9384   libcucul0 libcurl3 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdmx1 libdvdread3
9385   libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libeel2-2.20 libepc-1.0-1
9386   libepc-ui-1.0-1 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libfaad0 libgadu3
9387   libgalago3 libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libggz2 libggzcore9
9388   libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0 libgnome-desktop-2
9389   libgnome-pilot2 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0
9390   libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtk-vnc-1.0-0
9391   libgtkhtml2-0 libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgtksourceview2.0-0
9392   libgucharmap6 libhesiod0 libicu38 libisccc50 libisccfg50 libiw29
9393   libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libkpathsea4 liblircclient0 libltdl3 liblwres50
9394   libmagick++10 libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmozjs1d libmpfr1ldbl libmtp7
9395   libmysqlclient15off libnautilus-burn4 libneon27 libnm-glib0
9396   libnm-util0 libopal-2.2 libosp5 libparted1.8-10 libpisock9
9397   libpisync1 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpt-1.10.10 libraw1394-8
9398   libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsensors3 libsexy2 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8
9399   libspeexdsp1 libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libsvga1
9400   libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1 libtotem-plparser10 libtrackerclient0
9401   libvoikko1 libxalan2-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12
9402   libxtrap6 libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3 mysql-common rhythmbox seahorse
9403   sound-juicer swfdec-gnome system-config-printer totem-common
9404   totem-gstreamer transmission-gtk vinagre vino w3c-dtd-xhtml wodim
9405 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9406
9407 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
9408
9409 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9410   gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
9411 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9412
9413 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
9414
9415 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9416 [nothing]
9417 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9418
9419 &lt;p&gt;This is for KDE:&lt;/p&gt;
9420
9421 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
9422
9423 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9424   autopoint bomber bovo cantor cantor-backend-kalgebra cpp-4.3 dcoprss
9425   edict espeak espeak-data eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext
9426   ghostscript-x git gnome-audio gnugo granatier gs-common
9427   gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio indi kaddressbook-plugins kalgebra
9428   kalzium-data kanjidic kapman kate-plugins kblocks kbreakout kbstate
9429   kde-icons-mono kdeaccessibility kdeaddons-kfile-plugins
9430   kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window
9431   kdeedu kdeedu-data kdeedu-kvtml-data kdegames kdegames-card-data
9432   kdegames-mahjongg-data kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc
9433   kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
9434   kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdessh kdetoys kdewebdev
9435   kdiamond kdnssd kfilereplace kfourinline kgeography-data kigo
9436   killbots kiriki klettres-data kmoon kmrml knewsticker-scripts
9437   kollision kpf krosspython ksirk ksmserver ksquares kstars-data
9438   ksudoku kubrick kweather libasound2-plugins libboost-python1.42.0
9439   libcfitsio3 libconvert-binhex-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdb4.6++
9440   libdjvulibre-text libdotconf1.0 liberror-perl libespeak1
9441   libfinance-quote-perl libgail-common libgsl0ldbl libhtml-parser-perl
9442   libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl
9443   libio-stringy-perl libkdeedu4 libkdegames5 libkiten4 libkpathsea5
9444   libkrossui4 libmailtools-perl libmime-tools-perl
9445   libnews-nntpclient-perl libopenbabel3 libportaudio2 libpulse-browse0
9446   libservlet2.4-java libspeechd2 libtiff-tools libtimedate-perl
9447   libunistring0 liburi-perl libwww-perl libxalan2-java libxerces2-java
9448   lirc luatex marble networkstatus noatun-plugins
9449   openoffice.org-writer2latex palapeli palapeli-data parley
9450   parley-data poster psutils pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat
9451   pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils quanta-data rocs rsync
9452   speech-dispatcher step svgalibg1 texlive-binaries texlive-luatex
9453   ttf-sazanami-gothic
9454 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9455
9456 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
9457
9458 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9459   amor artsbuilder atlantik atlantikdesigner blinken bluez-utils cvs
9460   dhcdbd djvulibre-desktop imlib-base imlib11 kalzium kanagram kandy
9461   kasteroids katomic kbackgammon kbattleship kblackbox kbounce kbruch
9462   kcron kdat kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdeprint kdict kdvi kedit
9463   keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfouleggs kgeography kghostview
9464   kgoldrunner khangman khexedit kiconedit kig kimagemapeditor
9465   kitchensync kiten kjumpingcube klatin klettres klickety klines
9466   klinkstatus kmag kmahjongg kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmines
9467   kmousetool kmouth kmplot knetwalk kodo kolf kommander konquest kooka
9468   kpager kpat kpdf kpercentage kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler krec
9469   kregexpeditor kreversi ksame ksayit kshisen ksig ksim ksirc ksirtet
9470   ksmiletris ksnake ksokoban kspaceduel kstars ksvg ksysv kteatime
9471   ktip ktnef ktouch ktron kttsd ktuberling kturtle ktux kuickshow
9472   kverbos kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kwordquiz
9473   kworldclock kxsldbg libakode2 libarts1-akode libarts1-audiofile
9474   libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
9475   libavahi-core5 libavc1394-0 libbind9-50 libbluetooth2
9476   libboost-python1.34.1 libcucul0 libcurl3 libcvsservice0
9477   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdvdread3 libfaad0 libfreebob0
9478   libgd2-noxpm libgraphviz4 libgsmme1c2a libgtkhtml2-0 libicu38
9479   libiec61883-0 libindex0 libisccc50 libisccfg50 libiw29
9480   libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libk3b3 libkcal2b libkcddb1 libkdeedu3
9481   libkdegames1 libkdepim1a libkgantt0 libkleopatra1 libkmime2
9482   libkpathsea4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1
9483   libksieve0 libktnef1 liblockdev1 libltdl3 liblwres50 libmagick10
9484   libmimelib1c2a libmodplug0c2 libmozjs1d libmpcdec3 libmpfr1ldbl
9485   libneon27 libnm-util0 libopensync0 libpisock9 libpoppler-glib3
9486   libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler3 libraw1394-8 librss1 libsensors3
9487   libsmbios2 libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90
9488   libtalloc1 libxalan2-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj libxtrap6 lskat
9489   mpeglib network-manager-kde noatun pmount tex-common texlive-base
9490   texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended tidy
9491   ttf-dustin ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sjfonts
9492 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9493
9494 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
9495
9496 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9497   dolphin kde-core kde-plasma-desktop kde-standard kde-window-manager
9498   kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-apps kdebase-workspace
9499   kdebase-workspace-bin kdebase-workspace-data kdeutils kscreensaver
9500   kscreensaver-xsavers libgle3 libkonq5 libkonq5-templates libnetpbm10
9501   netpbm plasma-widget-folderview plasma-widget-networkmanagement
9502   xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra
9503   xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
9504 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9505
9506 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
9507
9508 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
9509   kdebase-bin konq-plugins konqueror
9510 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
9511 </description>
9512         </item>
9513
9514         <item>
9515                 <title>Gnash buildbot slave and Debian kfreebsd</title>
9516                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_buildbot_slave_and_Debian_kfreebsd.html</link>
9517                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_buildbot_slave_and_Debian_kfreebsd.html</guid>
9518                 <pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
9519                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Answering
9520 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listware.net/201011/gnash-dev/67431-gnash-dev-buildbot-looking-for-slaves.html&quot;&gt;the
9521 call from the Gnash project&lt;/a&gt; for
9522 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnashdev.org:8010&quot;&gt;buildbot&lt;/a&gt; slaves to test the
9523 current source, I have set up a virtual KVM machine on the Debian
9524 Edu/Skolelinux virtualization host to test the git source on
9525 Debian/Squeeze.  I hope this can help the developers in getting new
9526 releases out more often.&lt;/p&gt;
9527
9528 &lt;p&gt;As the developers want less main-stream build platforms tested to,
9529 I have considered setting up a &lt;a
9530 href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/&quot;&gt;Debian/kfreebsd&lt;/a&gt;
9531 machine as well.  I have also considered using the kfreebsd
9532 architecture in Debian as a file server in NUUG to get access to the 5
9533 TB zfs volume we currently use to store DV video.  Because of this, I
9534 finally got around to do a test installation of Debian/Squeeze with
9535 kfreebsd.  Installation went fairly smooth, thought I noticed some
9536 visual glitches in the cdebconf dialogs (black cursor left on the
9537 screen at random locations).  Have not gotten very far with the
9538 testing.  Noticed cfdisk did not work, but fdisk did so it was not a
9539 fatal problem.  Have to spend some more time on it to see if it is
9540 useful as a file server for NUUG.  Will try to find time to set up a
9541 gnash buildbot slave on the Debian Edu/Skolelinux this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
9542 </description>
9543         </item>
9544
9545         <item>
9546                 <title>Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD</title>
9547                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html</link>
9548                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html</guid>
9549                 <pubDate>Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
9550                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Prioritising packages for the Debian Edu /
9551 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; DVD, which is
9552 supposed provide a school with all the services and user applications
9553 needed on the pupils computer network has always been hard.  Even
9554 schools without Internet connections should be able to get Debian Edu
9555 working using this DVD.&lt;/p&gt;
9556
9557 &lt;p&gt;The job became a lot harder when apt and aptitude started
9558 installing recommended packages by default.  We want the same set of
9559 packages to be installed when using the DVD and the netinst CD, and
9560 that means all recommended packages need to be on the DVD.  I created
9561 a patch for debian-cd in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/601203&quot;&gt;BTS
9562 report #601203&lt;/a&gt; to do this, and since this change was applied to
9563 the Debian Edu DVD build, we have been seriously short on space.&lt;/p&gt;
9564
9565 &lt;p&gt;A few days ago we decided to drop blender, wxmaxima and kicad from
9566 the default installation to save space on the DVD, believing that
9567 those needing these applications are few and can get them from the
9568 Debian archive.&lt;/p&gt;
9569
9570 &lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I had a look what source packages to see which packages
9571 were using most space.  A few large packages are well know;
9572 openoffice.org, openclipart and fluid-soundfont.  But I also
9573 discovered that lilypond used 106 MiB and fglrx-driver used 53 MiB.
9574 The lilypond package is pulled in as a dependency for rosegarden, and
9575 when looking a bit closer I discovered that 99 MiB of the 106 MiB were
9576 the documentation package, which is recommended by the binary package.
9577 I decided to drop this documentation package from our DVD, as most of
9578 our users will use the GUI front-ends and do not need the lilypond
9579 documentation.  Similarly, I dropped the non-free fglrx-driver package
9580 which might be installed by d-i when its hardware is detected, as the
9581 free X driver should work.&lt;/p&gt;
9582
9583 &lt;p&gt;With this change, we finally got space for the LXDE and Gnome
9584 desktop packages as well as the language specific packages making the
9585 DVD more useful again.&lt;/p&gt;
9586 </description>
9587         </item>
9588
9589         <item>
9590                 <title>Software updates 2010-10-24</title>
9591                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html</link>
9592                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html</guid>
9593                 <pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
9594                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Some updates.&lt;/p&gt;
9595
9596 &lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2&quot;&gt;gnash pledge&lt;/a&gt; to
9597 raise money for the project is going well.  The lower limit of 10
9598 signers was reached in 24 hours, and so far 13 people have signed it.
9599 More signers and more funding is most welcome, and I am really curious
9600 how far we can get before the time limit of December 24 is reached.
9601 :)&lt;/p&gt;
9602
9603 &lt;p&gt;On the #gnash IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, I was just tipped
9604 about what appear to be a great code coverage tool capable of
9605 generating code coverage stats without any changes to the source code.
9606 It is called
9607 &lt;a href=&quot;http://simonkagstrom.github.com/kcov/index.html&quot;&gt;kcov&lt;/a&gt;,
9608 and can be used using &lt;tt&gt;kcov &amp;lt;directory&amp;gt; &amp;lt;binary&amp;gt;&lt;/tt&gt;.
9609 It is missing in Debian, but the git source built just fine in Squeeze
9610 after I installed libelf-dev, libdwarf-dev, pkg-config and
9611 libglib2.0-dev.  Failed to build in Lenny, but suspect that is
9612 solvable.  I hope kcov make it into Debian soon.&lt;/p&gt;
9613
9614 &lt;p&gt;Finally found time to wrap up the release notes for &lt;a
9615 href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2010/10/msg00002.html&quot;&gt;a
9616 new alpha release of Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt;, and just published the second
9617 alpha test release of the Squeeze based Debian Edu /
9618 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
9619 release.  Give it a try if you need a complete linux solution for your
9620 school, including central infrastructure server, workstations, thin
9621 client servers and diskless workstations.  A nice touch added
9622 yesterday is RDP support on the thin client servers, for windows
9623 clients to get a Linux desktop on request.&lt;/p&gt;
9624 </description>
9625         </item>
9626
9627         <item>
9628                 <title>Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu</title>
9629                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html</link>
9630                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
9631                 <pubDate>Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
9632                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote&quot;&gt;Debian
9633 popularity-contest numbers&lt;/a&gt;, the adobe-flashplugin package the
9634 second most popular used package that is missing in Debian.  The sixth
9635 most popular is flashplayer-mozilla.  This is a clear indication that
9636 working flash is important for Debian users.  Around 10 percent of the
9637 users submitting data to popcon.debian.org have this package
9638 installed.&lt;/p&gt;
9639
9640 &lt;p&gt;In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008
9641 («&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
9642 i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og
9643 stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs&lt;/a&gt;»), one of the most important problems
9644 schools experienced with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian
9645 Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; was the lack of working Flash.  A lot of educational
9646 web sites require Flash to work, and lacking working Flash support in
9647 the web browser and the problems with installing it was perceived as a
9648 good reason to stay with Windows.&lt;/p&gt;
9649
9650 &lt;p&gt;I once saw a funny and sad comment in a web forum, where Linux was
9651 said to be the retarded cousin that did not really understand
9652 everything you told him but could work fairly well.  This was a
9653 comment regarding the problems Linux have with proprietary formats and
9654 non-standard web pages, and is sad because it exposes a fairly common
9655 understanding of whose fault it is if web pages that only work in for
9656 example Internet Explorer 6 fail to work on Firefox, and funny because
9657 it explain very well how annoying it is for users when Linux
9658 distributions do not work with the documents they receive or the web
9659 pages they want to visit.&lt;/p&gt;
9660
9661 &lt;p&gt;This is part of the reason why I believe it is important for Debian
9662 and Debian Edu to have a well working Flash implementation in the
9663 distribution, to get at least popular sites as Youtube and Google
9664 Video to working out of the box.  For Squeeze, Debian have the chance
9665 to include the latest version of Gnash that will make this happen, as
9666 the new release 0.8.8 was published a few weeks ago and is resting in
9667 unstable.  The new version work with more sites that version 0.8.7.
9668 The Gnash maintainers have asked for a freeze exception, but the
9669 release team have not had time to reply to it yet.  I hope they agree
9670 with me that Flash is important for the Debian desktop users, and thus
9671 accept the new package into Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
9672 </description>
9673         </item>
9674
9675         <item>
9676                 <title>Broken hard link handling with sshfs</title>
9677                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_hard_link_handling_with_sshfs.html</link>
9678                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_hard_link_handling_with_sshfs.html</guid>
9679                 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
9680                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Just got an email from Tobias Gruetzmacher as a followup on my
9681 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html&quot;&gt;previous
9682 post about sshfs&lt;/a&gt;.  He reported another problem with sshfs.  It
9683 fail to handle hard links properly.  A simple way to spot this is to
9684 look at the . and .. entries in the directory tree.  These should have
9685 a link count &gt;1, but on sshfs the count is 1.  I just tested to see
9686 what happen when trying to hardlink, and this fail as well:&lt;/p&gt;
9687
9688 &lt;pre&gt;
9689 % ln foo bar
9690 ln: creating hard link `bar&#39; =&gt; `foo&#39;: Function not implemented
9691 %
9692 &lt;/pre&gt;
9693
9694 &lt;p&gt;I have not yet found time to implement a test for this in my file
9695 system test code, but believe having working hard links is useful to
9696 avoid surprised unix programs.  Not as useful as working file locking
9697 and symlinks, which are required to get a working desktop, but useful
9698 nevertheless. :)&lt;/p&gt;
9699
9700 &lt;p&gt;The latest version of the file system test code is available via
9701 git from
9702 &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
9703 </description>
9704         </item>
9705
9706         <item>
9707                 <title>Skolelinux i Osloskolen</title>
9708                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_i_Osloskolen.html</link>
9709                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_i_Osloskolen.html</guid>
9710                 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
9711                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Denne høsten skal endelig alle Osloskolene få mulighet til å bruke
9712 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  Ny IT-løsning
9713 har vært rullet ut i noen måneder nå, og så vidt jeg fikk vite før
9714 sommeren skulle alle skoler ha nytt opplegg på plass før oppstart nå i
9715 høst.  På alle skolene skal en kunne velge ved installasjon om en skal
9716 ha Windows eller Skolelinux på maskinene, og en kan i tillegg
9717 PXE-boote maskinene over nett som tynne klienter eller diskløse
9718 arbeidsstasjoner. Jeg er spent på hvor mange skoler som velger å ta i
9719 bruk Skolelinux, og gleder meg til å se hvordan dette utvikler seg.
9720 Løsningen leveres av
9721 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.logica.no/&quot;&gt;Logica&lt;/a&gt; med
9722 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; som
9723 underleverandør, og jeg har vært involvert i utviklingen av løsningen
9724 via Skolelinux Drift AS siden prosjektet starter.  Jeg synes det er
9725 fantastisk at Skolelinux er kommet så langt siden vi startet i 2001 at
9726 alle elevene i Osloskolene nå skal få mulighet til å bruke
9727 løsningen.  Jeg håper de vil sette pris på alle de
9728 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.no/linux-signpost/&quot;&gt;fantastiske
9729 brukerprogrammene&lt;/a&gt; som er tilgjengelig i Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
9730 </description>
9731         </item>
9732
9733         <item>
9734                 <title>Broken umask handling with sshfs</title>
9735                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html</link>
9736                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html</guid>
9737                 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
9738                 <description>&lt;p&gt;My file system sematics program
9739 &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
9740 a few days ago&lt;/a&gt; is very useful to verify that a file system can
9741 work as a unix home directory,and today I had to extend it a bit.  I&#39;m
9742 looking into alternatives for home directory access here at the
9743 University of Oslo, and one of the options is sshfs.  My friend
9744 Finn-Arne mentioned a while back that they had used sshfs with Debian
9745 Edu, but stopped because of problems.  I asked today what the problems
9746 where, and he mentioned that sshfs failed to handle umask properly.
9747 Trying to detect the problem I wrote this addition to my fs testing
9748 script:&lt;/p&gt;
9749
9750 &lt;pre&gt;
9751 mode_t touch_get_mode(const char *name, mode_t mode) {
9752   mode_t retval = 0;
9753   int fd = open(name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, mode);
9754   if (-1 != fd) {
9755     unlink(name);
9756     struct stat statbuf;
9757     if (-1 != fstat(fd, &amp;statbuf)) {
9758       retval = statbuf.st_mode &amp; 0x1ff;
9759     }
9760     close(fd);
9761   }
9762   return retval;
9763 }
9764
9765 /* Try to detect problem discovered using sshfs */
9766 int test_umask(void) {
9767   printf(&quot;info: testing umask effect on file creation\n&quot;);
9768
9769   mode_t orig_umask = umask(000);
9770   mode_t newmode;
9771   if (0666 != (newmode = touch_get_mode(&quot;foobar&quot;, 0666))) {
9772     printf(&quot;  error: Wrong file mode %o when creating using mode 666 and umask 000\n&quot;,
9773            newmode);
9774   }
9775   umask(007);
9776   if (0660 != (newmode = touch_get_mode(&quot;foobar&quot;, 0666))) {
9777     printf(&quot;  error: Wrong file mode %o when creating using mode 666 and umask 007\n&quot;,
9778            newmode);
9779   }
9780
9781   umask (orig_umask);
9782   return 0;
9783 }
9784
9785 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
9786   [...]
9787   test_umask();
9788   return 0;
9789 }
9790 &lt;/pre&gt;
9791
9792 &lt;p&gt;Sure enough.  On NFS to a netapp, I get this result:&lt;/p&gt;
9793
9794 &lt;pre&gt;
9795 Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
9796 info: testing symlink creation
9797 info: testing subdirectory creation
9798 info: testing fcntl locking
9799   Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
9800   Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
9801   Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
9802   Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
9803   Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
9804   Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
9805 info: testing umask effect on file creation
9806 &lt;/pre&gt;
9807
9808 &lt;p&gt;When mounting the same directory using sshfs, I get this
9809 result:&lt;/p&gt;
9810
9811 &lt;pre&gt;
9812 Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
9813 info: testing symlink creation
9814 info: testing subdirectory creation
9815 info: testing fcntl locking
9816   Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
9817   Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
9818   Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
9819   Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
9820   Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
9821   Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
9822 info: testing umask effect on file creation
9823   error: Wrong file mode 644 when creating using mode 666 and umask 000
9824   error: Wrong file mode 640 when creating using mode 666 and umask 007
9825 &lt;/pre&gt;
9826
9827 &lt;p&gt;So, I can conclude that sshfs is better than smb to a Netapp or a
9828 Windows server, but not good enough to be used as a home
9829 directory.&lt;/p&gt;
9830
9831 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-26: Reported the issue in
9832 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/594498&quot;&gt;BTS report #594498&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
9833
9834 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-27: Michael Gebetsroither report that he found the
9835 script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in
9836 &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
9837 </description>
9838         </item>
9839
9840         <item>
9841                 <title>No hardcoded config on Debian Edu clients</title>
9842                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/No_hardcoded_config_on_Debian_Edu_clients.html</link>
9843                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/No_hardcoded_config_on_Debian_Edu_clients.html</guid>
9844                 <pubDate>Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
9845                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As reported earlier, the last few days I have looked at how Debian
9846 Edu clients are configured, and tried to get rid of all hardcoded
9847 configuration settings on the clients.  I believe the work to be
9848 mostly done, and the clients seem to work just fine with dynamically
9849 generated configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
9850
9851 &lt;p&gt;What is the point, you might ask?  The point is to allow a Debian
9852 Edu desktop to integrate into an existing network infrastructure
9853 without any manual configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
9854
9855 &lt;p&gt;This is what happens when installing a Debian Edu client here at
9856 the University of Oslo using PXE.  With the PXE installation, I am
9857 asked for language (Norwegian Bokmål), locality (Norway) and keyboard
9858 layout (no-latin1), Debian Edu profile (Roaming Workstation), if I
9859 accept to reformat the hard drive (yes), if I want to submit info to
9860 popcon.debian.org (no) and root password (secret).  After answering
9861 these questions, the installer goes ahead and does its thing, and
9862 after around 50 minutes it is done.  I press enter to finish the
9863 installation, and the machine reboots into KDE.  When the machine is
9864 ready and kdm asks for login information, I enter my university
9865 username and password, am told by kdm that a local home directory has
9866 been created and that I must log in again, and finally log in with the
9867 same username and password to the KDE 4.4 desktop.  At no point during
9868 this process did it ask for university specific settings, and all the
9869 required configuration was dynamically detected using information
9870 fetched via DHCP and DNS.  The roaming workstation is now ready for
9871 use.&lt;/p&gt;
9872
9873 &lt;p&gt;How was this done, you might wonder?  First of all, here is the
9874 list of things that need to be configured on the client to get it
9875 working properly out of the box:&lt;/p&gt;
9876
9877 &lt;ul&gt;
9878 &lt;li&gt;IP address/netmask and DNS server.&lt;/li&gt;
9879 &lt;li&gt;Web proxy URL.&lt;/li&gt;
9880 &lt;li&gt;LDAP server for NSS directory information (user, group, etc).&lt;/li&gt;
9881 &lt;li&gt;Kerberos server for PAM password checking.&lt;/li&gt;
9882 &lt;li&gt;SMB mount point to access the network home directory. (*)&lt;/li&gt;
9883 &lt;li&gt;Central syslog server to send syslog messages to. (*)&lt;/li&gt;
9884 &lt;li&gt;Sitesummary collector URL to submit info to central server. (*)&lt;/li&gt;
9885 &lt;/ul&gt;
9886
9887 &lt;p&gt;(Hm, did I forget anything?  Let me knew if I did.)&lt;/p&gt;
9888
9889 &lt;p&gt;The points marked (*) are not required to be able to use the
9890 machine, but needed to provide central storage and allowing system
9891 administrators to track their machines.  Since yesterday, everything
9892 but the sitesummary collector URL is dynamically discovered at boot
9893 and installation time in the svn version of Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
9894
9895 &lt;p&gt;The IP and DNS setup is fetched during boot using DHCP as usual.
9896 When a DHCP update arrives, the proxy setup is updated by looking for
9897 http://wpat/wpad.dat and using the content of this WPAD file to
9898 configure the http and ftp proxy in /etc/environment and
9899 /etc/apt/apt.conf.  I decided to update the proxy setup using a DHCP
9900 hook to ensure that the client stops using the Debian Edu proxy when
9901 it is moved outside the Debian Edu network, and instead uses any local
9902 proxy present on the new network when it moves around.&lt;/p&gt;
9903
9904 &lt;p&gt;The DNS names of the LDAP, Kerberos and syslog server and related
9905 configuration are generated using DNS information at boot.  First the
9906 installer looks for a host named ldap in the current DNS domain.  If
9907 not found, it looks for _ldap._tcp SRV records in DNS instead.  If an
9908 LDAP server is found, its root DSE entry is requested and the
9909 attributes namingContexts and defaultNamingContext are used to
9910 determine which LDAP base to use for NSS.  If there are several
9911 namingContexts attibutes and the defaultNamingContext is present, that
9912 LDAP subtree is used as the base.  If defaultNamingContext is missing,
9913 the subtrees listed as namingContexts are searched in sequence for any
9914 object with class posixAccount or posixGroup, and the first one with
9915 such an object is used as the LDAP base.  For Kerberos, a similar
9916 search is done by first looking for a host named kerberos, and then
9917 for the _kerberos._tcp SRV record.  I&#39;ve been unable to find a way to
9918 look up the Kerberos realm, so for this the upper case string of the
9919 current DNS domain is used.&lt;/p&gt;
9920
9921 &lt;p&gt;For the syslog server, the hosts syslog and loghost are searched
9922 for, and the _syslog._udp SRV record is consulted if no such host is
9923 found.  This algorithm works for both Debian Edu and the University of
9924 Oslo.  A similar strategy would work for locating the sitesummary
9925 server, but have not been implemented yet.  I decided to fetch and
9926 save these settings during installation, to make sure moving to a
9927 different network does not change the set of users being allowed to
9928 log in nor the passwords required to log in.  Usernames and passwords
9929 will be cached by sssd when the user logs in on the Debian Edu
9930 network, and will not change as the laptop move around.  For a
9931 non-roaming machine, there is no caching, but given that it is
9932 supposed to stay in place it should not matter much.  Perhaps we
9933 should switch those to use sssd too?&lt;/p&gt;
9934
9935 &lt;p&gt;The user&#39;s SMB mount point for the network home directory is
9936 located when the user logs in for the first time.  The LDAP server is
9937 consulted to look for the user&#39;s LDAP object and the sambaHomePath
9938 attribute is used if found.  If it isn&#39;t found, the home directory
9939 path fetched from NSS is used instead.  Assuming the path is of the
9940 form /site/server/directory/username, the second part is looked up in
9941 DNS and used to generate a SMB URL of the form
9942 smb://server.domain/username.  This algorithm works for both Debian
9943 edu and the University of Oslo.  Perhaps there are better attributes
9944 to use or a better algorithm that works for more sites, but this will
9945 do for now. :)&lt;/p&gt;
9946
9947 &lt;p&gt;This work should make it easier to integrate the Debian Edu clients
9948 into any LDAP/Kerberos infrastructure, and make the current setup even
9949 more flexible than before.  I suspect it will also work for thin
9950 client servers, allowing one to easily set up LTSP and hook it into a
9951 existing network infrastructure, but I have not had time to test this
9952 yet.&lt;/p&gt;
9953
9954 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing these things for Debian
9955 Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
9956
9957 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-09: Simon Farnsworth gave me a heads-up on how to
9958 detect Kerberos realm from DNS, by looking for _kerberos TXT entries
9959 before falling back to the upper case DNS domain name.  Will have to
9960 implement it for Debian Edu. :)&lt;/p&gt;
9961 </description>
9962         </item>
9963
9964         <item>
9965                 <title>Testing if a file system can be used for home directories...</title>
9966                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html</link>
9967                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html</guid>
9968                 <pubDate>Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
9969                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I was involved in a project planning to use
9970 Windows file servers as home directory servers for Debian
9971 Edu/Skolelinux machines.  This was thought to be no problem, as the
9972 access would be through the SMB network file system protocol, and we
9973 knew other sites used SMB with unix and samba as the file server to
9974 mount home directories without any problems.  But, after months of
9975 struggling, we had to conclude that our goal was impossible.&lt;/p&gt;
9976
9977 &lt;p&gt;The reason is simply that while SMB can be used for home
9978 directories when the file server is Samba running on Unix, this only
9979 work because of Samba have some extensions and the fact that the
9980 underlying file system is a unix file system.  When using a Windows
9981 file server, the underlying file system do not have POSIX semantics,
9982 and several programs will fail if the users home directory where they
9983 want to store their configuration lack POSIX semantics.&lt;/p&gt;
9984
9985 &lt;p&gt;As part of this work, I wrote a small C program I want to share
9986 with you all, to replicate a few of the problematic applications (like
9987 OpenOffice.org and GCompris) and see if the file system was working as
9988 it should.  If you find yourself in spooky file system land, it might
9989 help you find your way out again.  This is the fs-test.c source:&lt;/p&gt;
9990
9991 &lt;pre&gt;
9992 /*
9993  * Some tests to check the file system sematics.  Used to verify that
9994  * CIFS from a windows server do not work properly as a linux home
9995  * directory.
9996  * License: GPL v2 or later
9997  *
9998  * needs libsqlite3-dev and build-essential installed
9999  * compile with: gcc -Wall -lsqlite3 -DTEST_SQLITE fs-test.c -o fs-test
10000 */
10001
10002 #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
10003 #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE 1
10004 #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE 1
10005
10006 #define _GNU_SOURCE /* for asprintf() */
10007
10008 #include &amp;lt;errno.h&gt;
10009 #include &amp;lt;fcntl.h&gt;
10010 #include &amp;lt;stdio.h&gt;
10011 #include &amp;lt;string.h&gt;
10012 #include &amp;lt;stdlib.h&gt;
10013 #include &amp;lt;sys/file.h&gt;
10014 #include &amp;lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
10015 #include &amp;lt;sys/types.h&gt;
10016 #include &amp;lt;unistd.h&gt;
10017
10018 #ifdef TEST_SQLITE
10019 /*
10020  * Test sqlite open, as done by gcompris require the libsqlite3-dev
10021  * package and linking with -lsqlite3.  A more low level test is
10022  * below.
10023  * See also &amp;lt;URL: http://www.sqlite.org./faq.html#q5 &gt;.
10024  */
10025 #include &amp;lt;sqlite3.h&gt;
10026 #define CREATE_TABLE_USERS                                              \
10027   &quot;CREATE TABLE users (user_id INT UNIQUE, login TEXT, lastname TEXT, firstname TEXT, birthdate TEXT, class_id INT ); &quot;
10028 int test_sqlite_open(void) {
10029   char *zErrMsg;
10030   char *name = &quot;testsqlite.db&quot;;
10031   sqlite3 *db=NULL;
10032   unlink(name);
10033   int rc = sqlite3_open(name, &amp;db);
10034   if( rc ){
10035     printf(&quot;error: sqlite open of %s failed: %s\n&quot;, name, sqlite3_errmsg(db));
10036     sqlite3_close(db);
10037     return -1;
10038   }
10039
10040   /* create tables */
10041   rc = sqlite3_exec(db,CREATE_TABLE_USERS, NULL,  0, &amp;zErrMsg);
10042   if( rc != SQLITE_OK ){
10043     printf(&quot;error: sqlite table create failed: %s\n&quot;, zErrMsg);
10044     sqlite3_close(db);
10045     return -1;
10046   }
10047   printf(&quot;info: sqlite worked\n&quot;);
10048   sqlite3_close(db);
10049   return 0;
10050 }
10051 #endif /* TEST_SQLITE */
10052
10053 /*
10054  * Demonstrate locking issue found in gcompris using sqlite3.  This
10055  * work with ext3, but not with cifs server on Windows 2003.  This is
10056  * done in the sqlite3 library.
10057  * See also
10058  * &amp;lt;URL:http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00854.html&gt; and the
10059  * POSIX specification
10060  * &amp;lt;URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fcntl.html&gt;.
10061  */
10062 int test_gcompris_locking(void) {
10063   struct flock fl;
10064   char *name = &quot;testsqlite.db&quot;;
10065   unlink(name);
10066   int fd = open(name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644);
10067   printf(&quot;info: testing fcntl locking\n&quot;);
10068
10069   fl.l_whence = SEEK_SET;
10070   fl.l_pid    = getpid();
10071   printf(&quot;  Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824&quot;);
10072   fl.l_start  = 1073741824;
10073   fl.l_len    = 1;
10074   fl.l_type   = F_RDLCK;
10075   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
10076
10077   printf(&quot;  Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826&quot;);
10078   fl.l_start  = 1073741826;
10079   fl.l_len    = 510;
10080   fl.l_type   = F_RDLCK;
10081   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
10082
10083   printf(&quot;  Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824&quot;);
10084   fl.l_start  = 1073741824;
10085   fl.l_len    = 1;
10086   fl.l_type   = F_UNLCK;
10087   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
10088
10089   printf(&quot;  Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824&quot;);
10090   fl.l_start  = 1073741824;
10091   fl.l_len    = 1;
10092   fl.l_type   = F_WRLCK;
10093   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
10094
10095   printf(&quot;  Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826&quot;);
10096   fl.l_start  = 1073741826;
10097   fl.l_len    = 510;
10098   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
10099
10100   printf(&quot;  Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824&quot;);
10101   fl.l_start  = 1073741824;
10102   fl.l_len    = 2;
10103   fl.l_type   = F_UNLCK;
10104   if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &amp;fl) ) printf(&quot; - error!\n&quot;); else printf(&quot;\n&quot;);
10105
10106   close(fd);
10107   return 0;
10108 }
10109
10110 /*
10111  * Test if permissions of freshly created directories allow entries
10112  * below them.  This was a problem with OpenOffice.org and gcompris.
10113  * Mounting with option &#39;sync&#39; seem to solve this problem while
10114  * slowing down file operations.
10115  */
10116 int test_subdirectory_creation(void) {
10117 #define LEVELS 5
10118   char *path = strdup(&quot;test&quot;);
10119   char *dirs[LEVELS];
10120   int level;
10121   printf(&quot;info: testing subdirectory creation\n&quot;);
10122   for (level = 0; level &amp;lt; LEVELS; level++) {
10123     char *newpath = NULL;
10124     if (-1 == mkdir(path, 0777)) {
10125       printf(&quot;  error: Unable to create directory &#39;%s&#39;: %s\n&quot;,
10126              path, strerror(errno));
10127       break;
10128     }
10129     asprintf(&amp;newpath, &quot;%s/%s&quot;, path, &quot;test&quot;);
10130     free(path);
10131     path = newpath;
10132   }
10133   return 0;
10134 }
10135
10136 /*
10137  * Test if symlinks can be created.  This was a problem detected with
10138  * KDE.
10139  */
10140 int test_symlinks(void) {
10141   printf(&quot;info: testing symlink creation\n&quot;);
10142   unlink(&quot;symlink&quot;);
10143   if (-1 == symlink(&quot;file&quot;, &quot;symlink&quot;))
10144     printf(&quot;  error: Unable to create symlink\n&quot;);
10145   return 0;
10146 }
10147
10148 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
10149   printf(&quot;Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system\n&quot;);
10150   test_symlinks();
10151   test_subdirectory_creation();
10152 #ifdef TEST_SQLITE
10153   test_sqlite_open();
10154 #endif /* TEST_SQLITE */
10155   test_gcompris_locking();
10156   return 0;
10157 }
10158 &lt;/pre&gt;
10159
10160 &lt;p&gt;When everything is working, it should print something like
10161 this:&lt;/p&gt;
10162
10163 &lt;pre&gt;
10164 Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
10165 info: testing symlink creation
10166 info: testing subdirectory creation
10167 info: sqlite worked
10168 info: testing fcntl locking
10169   Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
10170   Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
10171   Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
10172   Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
10173   Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
10174   Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
10175 &lt;/pre&gt;
10176
10177 &lt;p&gt;I do not remember the exact details of the problems we saw, but one
10178 of them was with locking, where if I remember correctly, POSIX allow a
10179 read-only lock to be upgraded to a read-write lock without unlocking
10180 the read-only lock (while Windows do not).  Another was a bug in the
10181 CIFS/SMB client implementation in the Linux kernel where directory
10182 meta information would be wrong for a fraction of a second, making
10183 OpenOffice.org fail to create its deep directory tree because it was
10184 not allowed to create files in its freshly created directory.&lt;/p&gt;
10185
10186 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, here is a nice tool for your tool box, might you never need
10187 it. :)&lt;/p&gt;
10188
10189 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-08-27: Michael Gebetsroither report that he found the
10190 script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in
10191 &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
10192 </description>
10193         </item>
10194
10195         <item>
10196                 <title>Autodetecting Client setup for roaming workstations in Debian Edu</title>
10197                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Autodetecting_Client_setup_for_roaming_workstations_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
10198                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Autodetecting_Client_setup_for_roaming_workstations_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
10199                 <pubDate>Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
10200                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I
10201 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html&quot;&gt;tried
10202 to install&lt;/a&gt; a Roaming workation profile from Debian Edu/Squeeze
10203 while on the university network here at the University of Oslo, and
10204 noticed how much had to change to get it operational using the
10205 university infrastructure.  It was fairly easy, but it occured to me
10206 that Debian Edu would improve a lot if I could get the client to
10207 connect without any changes at all, and thus let the client configure
10208 itself during installation and first boot to use the infrastructure
10209 around it.  Now I am a huge step further along that road.&lt;/p&gt;
10210
10211 &lt;p&gt;With our current squeeze-test packages, I can select the roaming
10212 workstation profile and get a working laptop connecting to the
10213 university LDAP server for user and group and our active directory
10214 servers for Kerberos authentication.  All this without any
10215 configuration at all during installation.  My users home directory got
10216 a bookmark in the KDE menu to mount it via SMB, with the correct URL.
10217 In short, openldap and sssd is correctly configured.  In addition to
10218 this, the client look for http://wpad/wpad.dat to configure a web
10219 proxy, and when it fail to find it no proxy settings are stored in
10220 /etc/environment and /etc/apt/apt.conf.  Iceweasel and KDE is
10221 configured to look for the same wpad configuration and also do not use
10222 a proxy when at the university network.  If the machine is moved to a
10223 network with such wpad setup, it would automatically use it when DHCP
10224 gave it a IP address.&lt;/p&gt;
10225
10226 &lt;p&gt;The LDAP server is located using DNS, by first looking for the DNS
10227 entry ldap.$domain.  If this do not exist, it look for the
10228 _ldap._tcp.$domain SRV records and use the first one as the LDAP
10229 server.  Next, it connects to the LDAP server and search all
10230 namingContexts entries for posixAccount or posixGroup objects, and
10231 pick the first one as the LDAP base.  For Kerberos, a similar
10232 algorithm is used to locate the LDAP server, and the realm is the
10233 uppercase version of $domain.&lt;/p&gt;
10234
10235 &lt;p&gt;So, what is not working, you might ask.  SMB mounting my home
10236 directory do not work.  No idea why, but suspected the incorrect
10237 Kerberos settings in /etc/krb5.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf might be
10238 the cause.  These are not properly configured during installation, and
10239 had to be hand-edited to get the correct Kerberos realm and server,
10240 but SMB mounting still do not work. :(&lt;/p&gt;
10241
10242 &lt;p&gt;With this automatic configuration in place, I expect a Debian Edu
10243 roaming profile installation would be able to automatically detect and
10244 connect to any site using LDAP and Kerberos for NSS directory and PAM
10245 authentication.  It should also work out of the box in a Active
10246 Directory environment providing posixAccount and posixGroup objects
10247 with UID and GID values.&lt;/p&gt;
10248
10249 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing these things for Debian
10250 Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
10251 </description>
10252         </item>
10253
10254         <item>
10255                 <title>Debian Edu roaming workstation - at the university of Oslo</title>
10256                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html</link>
10257                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html</guid>
10258                 <pubDate>Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
10259                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The new roaming workstation profile in Debian Edu/Squeeze is fairly
10260 similar to the laptop setup am I working on using Ubuntu for the
10261 University of Oslo, and just for the heck of it, I tested today how
10262 hard it would be to integrate that profile into the university
10263 infrastructure.  In this case, it is the university LDAP server,
10264 Active Directory Kerberos server and SMB mounting from the Netapp file
10265 servers.&lt;/p&gt;
10266
10267 &lt;p&gt;I was pleasantly surprised that the only three files needed to be
10268 changed (/etc/sssd/sssd.conf, /etc/ldap.conf and
10269 /etc/mklocaluser.d/20-debian-edu-config) and one file had to be added
10270 (/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Edu_Local.pm), to get the client working.
10271 Most of the changes were to get the client to use the university LDAP
10272 for NSS and Kerberos server for PAM, but one was to change a hard
10273 coded DNS domain name in the mklocaluser hook from .intern to
10274 .uio.no.&lt;/p&gt;
10275
10276 &lt;p&gt;This testing was so encouraging, that I went ahead and adjusted the
10277 Debian Edu scripts and setup in subversion to centralise the roaming
10278 workstation setup a bit more and avoid the hardcoded DNS domain name,
10279 so that when I test this tomorrow, I expect to get away with modifying
10280 only /etc/sssd/sssd.conf and /etc/ldap.conf to get it to use the
10281 university servers.&lt;/p&gt;
10282
10283 &lt;p&gt;My goal is to get the clients to have no hardcoded settings and
10284 fetch all their initial setup during installation and first boot, to
10285 allow them to be inserted also into environments where the default
10286 setup in Debian Edu has been changed or as with the university, where
10287 the environment is different but provides the protocols Debian Edu
10288 uses.&lt;/p&gt;
10289 </description>
10290         </item>
10291
10292         <item>
10293                 <title>First Debian Edu test release (alpha0) based on Squeeze is released</title>
10294                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu_test_release__alpha0__based_on_Squeeze_is_released.html</link>
10295                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu_test_release__alpha0__based_on_Squeeze_is_released.html</guid>
10296                 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
10297                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I just posted this announcement culminating several months of work
10298 with the next Debian Edu release.  Not nearly done, but one major step
10299 completed.&lt;/p&gt;
10300
10301 &lt;blockquote&gt;
10302 &lt;p&gt;This is the first test release based on Squeeze. The focus of this
10303 release is to test the user application selection. To have a look,
10304 install the standalone profile and let the developers know if the set
10305 of installed packages i.e. applications should be modified. If some
10306 user application is missing, or if there are some applications that no
10307 longer make sense to be included in Debian Edu, please let us know.
10308 Also, if a useful application is missing the translation for your
10309 language of choice, please let us know too.&lt;/p&gt;
10310
10311 &lt;p&gt;In addition, feedback and help to polish the desktop (menus,
10312 artwork, starters, etc.) is appreciated. We would like to ship a nice
10313 and handy KDE4 desktop targeted for schools out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;
10314
10315 &lt;p&gt;The other profiles should be installable, but there is a lot more
10316 work left to be done before they are ready, so do not expect to
10317 much.&lt;/p&gt;
10318
10319 &lt;p&gt;Changes compared to the lenny based version&lt;/p&gt;
10320
10321 &lt;ul&gt;
10322 &lt;li&gt;Everything from Debian Squeeze
10323 &lt;ul&gt;
10324   &lt;li&gt;Desktop environment KDE 4.4 =&gt; the new KDE desktop in
10325          combination with some new artwork
10326   &lt;li&gt;Web browser Iceweasel 3.5
10327   &lt;li&gt;OpenOffice.org 3.2
10328   &lt;li&gt;Educational toolbox GCompris 9.3
10329   &lt;li&gt;Music creator Rosegarden 10.04.2
10330   &lt;li&gt;Image editor Gimp 2.6.10
10331   &lt;li&gt;Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.0
10332   &lt;li&gt;Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.10.4
10333   &lt;li&gt;3D modeler Blender 2.49.2 (new application)
10334   &lt;li&gt;Video editor Kdenlive 0.7.7 (new application)
10335 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
10336 &lt;li&gt;Now using Kerberos for password checking (migration not finished).
10337     Enabled for:
10338 &lt;ul&gt;
10339   &lt;li&gt;PAM
10340   &lt;li&gt;LDAP
10341   &lt;li&gt;IMAP
10342   &lt;li&gt;SMTP (sender verification)
10343 &lt;/ul&gt;
10344 &lt;/li&gt;
10345 &lt;li&gt;New experimental roaming workstation profile for laptops.&lt;/li&gt;
10346 &lt;li&gt;Show welcome page to users when they first log in. The URL is
10347     fetched from LDAP.&lt;/li&gt;
10348 &lt;li&gt;New LXDE desktop option, in addition to KDE (default) and Gnome.&lt;/li&gt;
10349 &lt;li&gt;General cleanup (not finished)&lt;/li&gt;
10350 &lt;/ul&gt;
10351 &lt;p&gt;The following features are not working as they should&lt;/p&gt;
10352
10353 &lt;ul&gt;
10354 &lt;li&gt;No web based administration tool for creating users and groups. The
10355     scripts ldap-createuser-krb and ldap-add-user-to-group can be used
10356     for testing.&lt;/li&gt;
10357 &lt;li&gt;DVD installs are missing debian-installer images for the PXE boot,
10358     and do not set up the PXE menu on eth0 because of this. LTSP
10359     clients should still boot from eth1 on thin client servers.&lt;/li&gt;
10360 &lt;li&gt;The restructured KDE menu is not implemented.&lt;/li&gt;
10361 &lt;li&gt;The LDAP server setup need to be reviewed for security.&lt;/li&gt;
10362 &lt;li&gt;The LDAP directory structure need to be reworked.&lt;/li&gt;
10363 &lt;li&gt;Different sets of packages are installed when using the DVD and the
10364     netinst CD. More packages are installed using the netinst CD.&lt;/li&gt;
10365 &lt;li&gt;The jackd package fail to install. This is believed to be caused by
10366     some ongoing transition, and hopefully should be solved soon. The
10367     jackd1 package can be installed manually for those that need it.&lt;/li&gt;
10368 &lt;li&gt;Some packages lack translations. See
10369     http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Squeeze for updated status,
10370     and help out with translations.&lt;/li&gt;
10371 &lt;/ul&gt;
10372
10373 &lt;p&gt;To download this multiarch netinstall release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
10374
10375 &lt;ul&gt;
10376 &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;
10377 &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;
10378 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
10379 &lt;/ul&gt;
10380 &lt;p&gt;To download this multiarch dvd release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
10381
10382 &lt;ul&gt;
10383 &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;
10384 &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;
10385 &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
10386 &lt;/ul&gt;
10387
10388 &lt;p&gt;There is no source DVD available yet. It will be prepared when we
10389 get closer to the final release.&lt;/p&gt;
10390
10391 &lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of these images are&lt;/p&gt;
10392
10393 &lt;ul&gt;
10394 &lt;li&gt;3dbf45d59f42a53518b6e3c9ec3b5eb6 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
10395 &lt;li&gt;22f2cbfce281d1c6e478be452638675d debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
10396 &lt;/ul&gt;
10397
10398 &lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of these images are&lt;/p&gt;
10399 &lt;ul&gt;
10400 &lt;li&gt;c53d1b69b40cf37cd27aefaf33f6f6a3821bedf0 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
10401 &lt;li&gt;2ec29d7db676d59d32197b05c277ffe16348376c debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso&lt;/li&gt;
10402 &lt;/ul&gt;
10403 &lt;p&gt;How to report bugs:
10404 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugsInBugzilla&lt;/p&gt;
10405
10406 &lt;p&gt;Please direct replies to debian-edu@lists.debian.org&lt;/p&gt;
10407 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
10408 </description>
10409         </item>
10410
10411         <item>
10412                 <title>One step closer to single signon in Debian Edu</title>
10413                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_step_closer_to_single_signon_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
10414                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_step_closer_to_single_signon_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
10415                 <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
10416                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few months me and the other Debian Edu developers have
10417 been working hard to get the Debian/Squeeze based version of Debian
10418 Edu/Skolelinux into shape.  This future version will use Kerberos for
10419 authentication, and services are slowly migrated to single signon,
10420 getting rid of password questions one at the time.&lt;/p&gt;
10421
10422 &lt;p&gt;It will also feature a roaming workstation profile with local home
10423 directory, for laptops that are only some times on the Skolelinux
10424 network, and for this profile a shortcut is created in Gnome and KDE
10425 to gain access to the users home directory on the file server.  This
10426 shortcut uses SMB at the moment, and yesterday I had time to test if
10427 SMB mounting had started working in KDE after we added the cifs-utils
10428 package.  I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked.&lt;/p&gt;
10429
10430 &lt;p&gt;Thanks to the recent changes to our samba configuration to get it
10431 to use Kerberos for authentication, there were no question about user
10432 password when mounting the SMB volume.  A simple click on the shortcut
10433 in the KDE menu, and a window with the home directory popped
10434 up. :)&lt;/p&gt;
10435
10436 &lt;p&gt;One step closer to a single signon solution out of the box in
10437 Debian Edu.  We already had PAM, LDAP, IMAP and SMTP in place, and now
10438 also Samba.  Next step is Cups and hopefully also NFS.&lt;/p&gt;
10439
10440 &lt;p&gt;We had planned a alpha0 release of Debian Edu for today, but thanks
10441 to the autobuilder administrators for some architectures being slow to
10442 sign packages, we are still missing the fixed LTSP package we need for
10443 the release.  It was uploaded three days ago with urgency=high, and if
10444 it had entered testing yesterday we would have been able to test it in
10445 time for a alpha0 release today.  As the binaries for ia64 and powerpc
10446 still not uploaded to the Debian archive, we need to delay the alpha
10447 release another day.&lt;/p&gt;
10448
10449 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing Kerberos for Debian Edu,
10450 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
10451 </description>
10452         </item>
10453
10454         <item>
10455                 <title>What are they searching for - PowerDNS and ISC DHCP in LDAP</title>
10456                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_are_they_searching_for___PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_in_LDAP.html</link>
10457                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_are_they_searching_for___PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_in_LDAP.html</guid>
10458                 <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
10459                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This is a
10460 &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;
10461 on my
10462 &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
10463 work&lt;/a&gt; on
10464 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Combining_PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_LDAP_objects.html&quot;&gt;merging
10465 all&lt;/a&gt; the computer related LDAP objects in Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
10466
10467 &lt;p&gt;As a step to try to see if it possible to merge the DNS and DHCP
10468 LDAP objects, I have had a look at how the packages pdns-backend-ldap
10469 and dhcp3-server-ldap in Debian use the LDAP server.  The two
10470 implementations are quite different in how they use LDAP.&lt;/p&gt;
10471
10472 To get this information, I started slapd with debugging enabled and
10473 dumped the debug output to a file to get the LDAP searches performed
10474 on a Debian Edu main-server.  Here is a summary.
10475
10476 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;powerdns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
10477
10478 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/PowerDNS_LDAP_Backend&quot;&gt;Clues
10479 on how to&lt;/a&gt; set up PowerDNS to use a LDAP backend is available on
10480 the web.
10481
10482 &lt;p&gt;PowerDNS have two modes of operation using LDAP as its backend.
10483 One &quot;strict&quot; mode where the forward and reverse DNS lookups are done
10484 using the same LDAP objects, and a &quot;tree&quot; mode where the forward and
10485 reverse entries are in two different subtrees in LDAP with a structure
10486 based on the DNS names, as in tjener.intern and
10487 2.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa.&lt;/p&gt;
10488
10489 &lt;p&gt;In tree mode, the server is set up to use a LDAP subtree as its
10490 base, and uses a &quot;base&quot; scoped search for the DNS name by adding
10491 &quot;dc=tjener,dc=intern,&quot; to the base with a filter for
10492 &quot;(associateddomain=tjener.intern)&quot; for the forward entry and
10493 &quot;dc=2,dc=2,dc=0,dc=10,dc=in-addr,dc=arpa,&quot; with a filter for
10494 &quot;(associateddomain=2.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa)&quot; for the reverse entry.  For
10495 forward entries, it is looking for attributes named dnsttl, arecord,
10496 nsrecord, cnamerecord, soarecord, ptrrecord, hinforecord, mxrecord,
10497 txtrecord, rprecord, afsdbrecord, keyrecord, aaaarecord, locrecord,
10498 srvrecord, naptrrecord, kxrecord, certrecord, dsrecord, sshfprecord,
10499 ipseckeyrecord, rrsigrecord, nsecrecord, dnskeyrecord, dhcidrecord,
10500 spfrecord and modifytimestamp.  For reverse entries it is looking for
10501 the attributes dnsttl, arecord, nsrecord, cnamerecord, soarecord,
10502 ptrrecord, hinforecord, mxrecord, txtrecord, rprecord, aaaarecord,
10503 locrecord, srvrecord, naptrrecord and modifytimestamp.  The equivalent
10504 ldapsearch commands could look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
10505
10506 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10507 ldapsearch -h ldap \
10508   -b dc=tjener,dc=intern,ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no \
10509   -s base -x &#39;(associateddomain=tjener.intern)&#39; dNSTTL aRecord nSRecord \
10510   cNAMERecord sOARecord pTRRecord hInfoRecord mXRecord tXTRecord \
10511   rPRecord aFSDBRecord KeyRecord aAAARecord lOCRecord sRVRecord \
10512   nAPTRRecord kXRecord certRecord dSRecord sSHFPRecord iPSecKeyRecord \
10513   rRSIGRecord nSECRecord dNSKeyRecord dHCIDRecord sPFRecord modifyTimestamp
10514
10515 ldapsearch -h ldap \
10516   -b dc=2,dc=2,dc=0,dc=10,dc=in-addr,dc=arpa,ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no \
10517   -s base -x &#39;(associateddomain=2.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa)&#39;
10518   dnsttl, arecord, nsrecord, cnamerecord soarecord ptrrecord \
10519   hinforecord mxrecord txtrecord rprecord aaaarecord locrecord \
10520   srvrecord naptrrecord modifytimestamp
10521 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10522
10523 &lt;p&gt;In Debian Edu/Lenny, the PowerDNS tree mode is used with
10524 ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no as the base, and these are two
10525 example LDAP objects used there.  In addition to these objects, the
10526 parent objects all th way up to ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10527 also exist.&lt;/p&gt;
10528
10529 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10530 dn: dc=tjener,dc=intern,ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10531 objectclass: top
10532 objectclass: dnsdomain
10533 objectclass: domainrelatedobject
10534 dc: tjener
10535 arecord: 10.0.2.2
10536 associateddomain: tjener.intern
10537
10538 dn: dc=2,dc=2,dc=0,dc=10,dc=in-addr,dc=arpa,ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10539 objectclass: top
10540 objectclass: dnsdomain2
10541 objectclass: domainrelatedobject
10542 dc: 2
10543 ptrrecord: tjener.intern
10544 associateddomain: 2.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa
10545 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10546
10547 &lt;p&gt;In strict mode, the server behaves differently.  When looking for
10548 forward DNS entries, it is doing a &quot;subtree&quot; scoped search with the
10549 same base as in the tree mode for a object with filter
10550 &quot;(associateddomain=tjener.intern)&quot; and requests the attributes dnsttl,
10551 arecord, nsrecord, cnamerecord, soarecord, ptrrecord, hinforecord,
10552 mxrecord, txtrecord, rprecord, aaaarecord, locrecord, srvrecord,
10553 naptrrecord and modifytimestamp.  For reverse entires it also do a
10554 subtree scoped search but this time the filter is &quot;(arecord=10.0.2.2)&quot;
10555 and the requested attributes are associateddomain, dnsttl and
10556 modifytimestamp.  In short, in strict mode the objects with ptrrecord
10557 go away, and the arecord attribute in the forward object is used
10558 instead.&lt;/p&gt;
10559
10560 &lt;p&gt;The forward and reverse searches can be simulated using ldapsearch
10561 like this:&lt;/p&gt;
10562
10563 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10564 ldapsearch -h ldap -b ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no -s sub -x \
10565   &#39;(associateddomain=tjener.intern)&#39; dNSTTL aRecord nSRecord \
10566   cNAMERecord sOARecord pTRRecord hInfoRecord mXRecord tXTRecord \
10567   rPRecord aFSDBRecord KeyRecord aAAARecord lOCRecord sRVRecord \
10568   nAPTRRecord kXRecord certRecord dSRecord sSHFPRecord iPSecKeyRecord \
10569   rRSIGRecord nSECRecord dNSKeyRecord dHCIDRecord sPFRecord modifyTimestamp
10570
10571 ldapsearch -h ldap -b ou=hosts,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no -s sub -x \
10572   &#39;(arecord=10.0.2.2)&#39; associateddomain dnsttl modifytimestamp
10573 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10574
10575 &lt;p&gt;In addition to the forward and reverse searches , there is also a
10576 search for SOA records, which behave similar to the forward and
10577 reverse lookups.&lt;/p&gt;
10578
10579 &lt;p&gt;A thing to note with the PowerDNS behaviour is that it do not
10580 specify any objectclass names, and instead look for the attributes it
10581 need to generate a DNS reply.  This make it able to work with any
10582 objectclass that provide the needed attributes.&lt;/p&gt;
10583
10584 &lt;p&gt;The attributes are normally provided in the cosine (RFC 1274) and
10585 dnsdomain2 schemas.  The latter is used for reverse entries like
10586 ptrrecord and recent DNS additions like aaaarecord and srvrecord.&lt;/p&gt;
10587
10588 &lt;p&gt;In Debian Edu, we have created DNS objects using the object classes
10589 dcobject (for dc), dnsdomain or dnsdomain2 (structural, for the DNS
10590 attributes) and domainrelatedobject (for associatedDomain).  The use
10591 of structural object classes make it impossible to combine these
10592 classes with the object classes used by DHCP.&lt;/p&gt;
10593
10594 &lt;p&gt;There are other schemas that could be used too, for example the
10595 dnszone structural object class used by Gosa and bind-sdb for the DNS
10596 attributes combined with the domainrelatedobject object class, but in
10597 this case some unused attributes would have to be included as well
10598 (zonename and relativedomainname).&lt;/p&gt;
10599
10600 &lt;p&gt;My proposal for Debian Edu would be to switch PowerDNS to strict
10601 mode and not use any of the existing objectclasses (dnsdomain,
10602 dnsdomain2 and dnszone) when one want to combine the DNS information
10603 with DHCP information, and instead create a auxiliary object class
10604 defined something like this (using the attributes defined for
10605 dnsdomain and dnsdomain2 or dnszone):&lt;/p&gt;
10606
10607 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10608 objectclass ( some-oid NAME &#39;dnsDomainAux&#39;
10609     SUP top
10610     AUXILIARY
10611     MAY ( ARecord $ MDRecord $ MXRecord $ NSRecord $ SOARecord $ CNAMERecord $
10612           DNSTTL $ DNSClass $ PTRRecord $ HINFORecord $ MINFORecord $
10613           TXTRecord $ SIGRecord $ KEYRecord $ AAAARecord $ LOCRecord $
10614           NXTRecord $ SRVRecord $ NAPTRRecord $ KXRecord $ CERTRecord $
10615           A6Record $ DNAMERecord
10616     ))
10617 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10618
10619 &lt;p&gt;This will allow any object to become a DNS entry when combined with
10620 the domainrelatedobject object class, and allow any entity to include
10621 all the attributes PowerDNS wants.  I&#39;ve sent an email to the PowerDNS
10622 developers asking for their view on this schema and if they are
10623 interested in providing such schema with PowerDNS, and I hope my
10624 message will be accepted into their mailing list soon.&lt;/p&gt;
10625
10626 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ISC dhcp&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
10627
10628 &lt;p&gt;The DHCP server searches for specific objectclass and requests all
10629 the object attributes, and then uses the attributes it want.  This
10630 make it harder to figure out exactly what attributes are used, but
10631 thanks to the working example in Debian Edu I can at least get an idea
10632 what is needed without having to read the source code.&lt;/p&gt;
10633
10634 &lt;p&gt;In the DHCP server configuration, the LDAP base to use and the
10635 search filter to use to locate the correct dhcpServer entity is
10636 stored.  These are the relevant entries from
10637 /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf:&lt;/p&gt;
10638
10639 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10640 ldap-base-dn &quot;dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no&quot;;
10641 ldap-dhcp-server-cn &quot;dhcp&quot;;
10642 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10643
10644 &lt;p&gt;The DHCP server uses this information to nest all the DHCP
10645 configuration it need.  The cn &quot;dhcp&quot; is located using the given LDAP
10646 base and the filter &quot;(&amp;(objectClass=dhcpServer)(cn=dhcp))&quot;.  The
10647 search result is this entry:&lt;/p&gt;
10648
10649 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10650 dn: cn=dhcp,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10651 cn: dhcp
10652 objectClass: top
10653 objectClass: dhcpServer
10654 dhcpServiceDN: cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10655 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10656
10657 &lt;p&gt;The content of the dhcpServiceDN attribute is next used to locate the
10658 subtree with DHCP configuration.  The DHCP configuration subtree base
10659 is located using a base scope search with base &quot;cn=DHCP
10660 Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no&quot; and filter
10661 &quot;(&amp;(objectClass=dhcpService)(|(dhcpPrimaryDN=cn=dhcp,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no)(dhcpSecondaryDN=cn=dhcp,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no)))&quot;.
10662 The search result is this entry:&lt;/p&gt;
10663
10664 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10665 dn: cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10666 cn: DHCP Config
10667 objectClass: top
10668 objectClass: dhcpService
10669 objectClass: dhcpOptions
10670 dhcpPrimaryDN: cn=dhcp, dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10671 dhcpStatements: ddns-update-style none
10672 dhcpStatements: authoritative
10673 dhcpOption: smtp-server code 69 = array of ip-address
10674 dhcpOption: www-server code 72 = array of ip-address
10675 dhcpOption: wpad-url code 252 = text
10676 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10677
10678 &lt;p&gt;Next, the entire subtree is processed, one level at the time.  When
10679 all the DHCP configuration is loaded, it is ready to receive requests.
10680 The subtree in Debian Edu contain objects with object classes
10681 top/dhcpService/dhcpOptions, top/dhcpSharedNetwork/dhcpOptions,
10682 top/dhcpSubnet, top/dhcpGroup and top/dhcpHost.  These provide options
10683 and information about netmasks, dynamic range etc.  Leaving out the
10684 details here because it is not relevant for the focus of my
10685 investigation, which is to see if it is possible to merge dns and dhcp
10686 related computer objects.&lt;/p&gt;
10687
10688 &lt;p&gt;When a DHCP request come in, LDAP is searched for the MAC address
10689 of the client (00:00:00:00:00:00 in this example), using a subtree
10690 scoped search with &quot;cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no&quot; as
10691 the base and &quot;(&amp;(objectClass=dhcpHost)(dhcpHWAddress=ethernet
10692 00:00:00:00:00:00))&quot; as the filter.  This is what a host object look
10693 like:&lt;/p&gt;
10694
10695 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10696 dn: cn=hostname,cn=group1,cn=THINCLIENTS,cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10697 cn: hostname
10698 objectClass: top
10699 objectClass: dhcpHost
10700 dhcpHWAddress: ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00
10701 dhcpStatements: fixed-address hostname
10702 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10703
10704 &lt;p&gt;There is less flexiblity in the way LDAP searches are done here.
10705 The object classes need to have fixed names, and the configuration
10706 need to be stored in a fairly specific LDAP structure.  On the
10707 positive side, the invidiual dhcpHost entires can be anywhere without
10708 the DN pointed to by the dhcpServer entries.  The latter should make
10709 it possible to group all host entries in a subtree next to the
10710 configuration entries, and this subtree can also be shared with the
10711 DNS server if the schema proposed above is combined with the dhcpHost
10712 structural object class.
10713
10714 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
10715
10716 &lt;p&gt;The PowerDNS implementation seem to be very flexible when it come
10717 to which LDAP schemas to use.  While its &quot;tree&quot; mode is rigid when it
10718 come to the the LDAP structure, the &quot;strict&quot; mode is very flexible,
10719 allowing DNS objects to be stored anywhere under the base cn specified
10720 in the configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
10721
10722 &lt;p&gt;The DHCP implementation on the other hand is very inflexible, both
10723 regarding which LDAP schemas to use and which LDAP structure to use.
10724 I guess one could implement ones own schema, as long as the
10725 objectclasses and attributes have the names used, but this do not
10726 really help when the DHCP subtree need to have a fairly fixed
10727 structure.&lt;/p&gt;
10728
10729 &lt;p&gt;Based on the observed behaviour, I suspect a LDAP structure like
10730 this might work for Debian Edu:&lt;/p&gt;
10731
10732 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10733 ou=services
10734   cn=machine-info (dhcpService) - dhcpServiceDN points here
10735     cn=dhcp (dhcpServer)
10736     cn=dhcp-internal (dhcpSharedNetwork/dhcpOptions)
10737       cn=10.0.2.0 (dhcpSubnet)
10738         cn=group1 (dhcpGroup/dhcpOptions)
10739     cn=dhcp-thinclients (dhcpSharedNetwork/dhcpOptions)
10740       cn=192.168.0.0 (dhcpSubnet)
10741         cn=group1 (dhcpGroup/dhcpOptions)
10742     ou=machines - PowerDNS base points here
10743       cn=hostname (dhcpHost/domainrelatedobject/dnsDomainAux)
10744 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10745
10746 &lt;P&gt;This is not tested yet.  If the DHCP server require the dhcpHost
10747 entries to be in the dhcpGroup subtrees, the entries can be stored
10748 there instead of a common machines subtree, and the PowerDNS base
10749 would have to be moved one level up to the machine-info subtree.&lt;/p&gt;
10750
10751 &lt;p&gt;The combined object under the machines subtree would look something
10752 like this:&lt;/p&gt;
10753
10754 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10755 dn: dc=hostname,ou=machines,cn=machine-info,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10756 dc: hostname
10757 objectClass: top
10758 objectClass: dhcpHost
10759 objectclass: domainrelatedobject
10760 objectclass: dnsDomainAux
10761 associateddomain: hostname.intern
10762 arecord: 10.11.12.13
10763 dhcpHWAddress: ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00
10764 dhcpStatements: fixed-address hostname.intern
10765 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10766
10767 &lt;/p&gt;One could even add the LTSP configuration associated with a given
10768 machine, as long as the required attributes are available in a
10769 auxiliary object class.&lt;/p&gt;
10770 </description>
10771         </item>
10772
10773         <item>
10774                 <title>Combining PowerDNS and ISC DHCP LDAP objects</title>
10775                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Combining_PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_LDAP_objects.html</link>
10776                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Combining_PowerDNS_and_ISC_DHCP_LDAP_objects.html</guid>
10777                 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
10778                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For a while now, I have wanted to find a way to change the DNS and
10779 DHCP services in Debian Edu to use the same LDAP objects for a given
10780 computer, to avoid the possibility of having a inconsistent state for
10781 a computer in LDAP (as in DHCP but no DNS entry or the other way
10782 around) and make it easier to add computers to LDAP.&lt;/p&gt;
10783
10784 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve looked at how powerdns and dhcpd is using LDAP, and using this
10785 information finally found a solution that seem to work.&lt;/p&gt;
10786
10787 &lt;p&gt;The old setup required three LDAP objects for a given computer.
10788 One forward DNS entry, one reverse DNS entry and one DHCP entry.  If
10789 we switch powerdns to use its strict LDAP method (ldap-method=strict
10790 in pdns-debian-edu.conf), the forward and reverse DNS entries are
10791 merged into one while making it impossible to transfer the reverse map
10792 to a slave DNS server.&lt;/p&gt;
10793
10794 &lt;p&gt;If we also replace the object class used to get the DNS related
10795 attributes to one allowing these attributes to be combined with the
10796 dhcphost object class, we can merge the DNS and DHCP entries into one.
10797 I&#39;ve written such object class in the dnsdomainaux.schema file (need
10798 proper OIDs, but that is a minor issue), and tested the setup.  It
10799 seem to work.&lt;/p&gt;
10800
10801 &lt;p&gt;With this test setup in place, we can get away with one LDAP object
10802 for both DNS and DHCP, and even the LTSP configuration I suggested in
10803 an earlier email.  The combined LDAP object will look something like
10804 this:&lt;/p&gt;
10805
10806 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10807   dn: cn=hostname,cn=group1,cn=THINCLIENTS,cn=DHCP Config,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
10808   cn: hostname
10809   objectClass: dhcphost
10810   objectclass: domainrelatedobject
10811   objectclass: dnsdomainaux
10812   associateddomain: hostname.intern
10813   arecord: 10.11.12.13
10814   dhcphwaddress: ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00
10815   dhcpstatements: fixed-address hostname
10816   ldapconfigsound: Y
10817 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10818
10819 &lt;p&gt;The DNS server uses the associateddomain and arecord entries, while
10820 the DHCP server uses the dhcphwaddress and dhcpstatements entries
10821 before asking DNS to resolve the fixed-adddress.  LTSP will use
10822 dhcphwaddress or associateddomain and the ldapconfig* attributes.&lt;/p&gt;
10823
10824 &lt;p&gt;I am not yet sure if I can get the DHCP server to look for its
10825 dhcphost in a different location, to allow us to put the objects
10826 outside the &quot;DHCP Config&quot; subtree, but hope to figure out a way to do
10827 that.  If I can&#39;t figure out a way to do that, we can still get rid of
10828 the hosts subtree and move all its content into the DHCP Config tree
10829 (which probably should be renamed to be more related to the new
10830 content.  I suspect cn=dnsdhcp,ou=services or something like that
10831 might be a good place to put it.&lt;/p&gt;
10832
10833 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
10834 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
10835 </description>
10836         </item>
10837
10838         <item>
10839                 <title>Idea for storing LTSP configuration in LDAP</title>
10840                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_LTSP_configuration_in_LDAP.html</link>
10841                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_LTSP_configuration_in_LDAP.html</guid>
10842                 <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
10843                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Vagrant mentioned on IRC today that ltsp_config now support
10844 sourcing files from /usr/share/ltsp/ltsp_config.d/ on the thin
10845 clients, and that this can be used to fetch configuration from LDAP if
10846 Debian Edu choose to store configuration there.&lt;/p&gt;
10847
10848 &lt;p&gt;Armed with this information, I got inspired and wrote a test module
10849 to get configuration from LDAP.  The idea is to look up the MAC
10850 address of the client in LDAP, and look for attributes on the form
10851 ltspconfigsetting=value, and use this to export SETTING=value to the
10852 LTSP clients.&lt;/p&gt;
10853
10854 &lt;p&gt;The goal is to be able to store the LTSP configuration attributes
10855 in a &quot;computer&quot; LDAP object used by both DNS and DHCP, and thus
10856 allowing us to store all information about a computer in one place.&lt;/p&gt;
10857
10858 &lt;p&gt;This is a untested draft implementation, and I welcome feedback on
10859 this approach.  A real LDAP schema for the ltspClientAux objectclass
10860 need to be written.  Comments, suggestions, etc?&lt;/p&gt;
10861
10862 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
10863 # Store in /opt/ltsp/$arch/usr/share/ltsp/ltsp_config.d/ldap-config
10864 #
10865 # Fetch LTSP client settings from LDAP based on MAC address
10866 #
10867 # Uses ethernet address as stored in the dhcpHost objectclass using
10868 # the dhcpHWAddress attribute or ethernet address stored in the
10869 # ieee802Device objectclass with the macAddress attribute.
10870 #
10871 # This module is written to be schema agnostic, and only depend on the
10872 # existence of attribute names.
10873 #
10874 # The LTSP configuration variables are saved directly using a
10875 # ltspConfig prefix and uppercasing the rest of the attribute name.
10876 # To set the SERVER variable, set the ltspConfigServer attribute.
10877 #
10878 # Some LDAP schema should be created with all the relevant
10879 # configuration settings.  Something like this should work:
10880 #
10881 # objectclass ( 1.1.2.2 NAME &#39;ltspClientAux&#39;
10882 #     SUP top
10883 #     AUXILIARY
10884 #     MAY ( ltspConfigServer $ ltsConfigSound $ ... )
10885
10886 LDAPSERVER=$(debian-edu-ldapserver)
10887 if [ &quot;$LDAPSERVER&quot; ] ; then
10888     LDAPBASE=$(debian-edu-ldapserver -b)
10889     for MAC in $(LANG=C ifconfig |grep -i hwaddr| awk &#39;{print $5}&#39;|sort -u) ; do
10890         filter=&quot;(|(dhcpHWAddress=ethernet $MAC)(macAddress=$MAC))&quot;
10891         ldapsearch -h &quot;$LDAPSERVER&quot; -b &quot;$LDAPBASE&quot; -v -x &quot;$filter&quot; | \
10892             grep &#39;^ltspConfig&#39; | while read attr value ; do
10893             # Remove prefix and convert to upper case
10894             attr=$(echo $attr | sed &#39;s/^ltspConfig//i&#39; | tr a-z A-Z)
10895             # bass value on to clients
10896             eval &quot;$attr=$value; export $attr&quot;
10897         done
10898     done
10899 fi
10900 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10901
10902 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m not sure this shell construction will work, because I suspect
10903 the while block might end up in a subshell causing the variables set
10904 there to not show up in ltsp-config, but if that is the case I am sure
10905 the code can be restructured to make sure the variables are passed on.
10906 I expect that can be solved with some testing. :)&lt;/p&gt;
10907
10908 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
10909 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
10910
10911 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-07-17: I am aware of another effort to store LTSP
10912 configuration in LDAP that was created around year 2000 by
10913 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pcxperience.com/thinclient/documentation/ldap.html&quot;&gt;PC
10914 Xperience, Inc., 2000&lt;/a&gt;.  I found its
10915 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.redhat.com/alikins/ltsp/ldap/&quot;&gt;files&lt;/a&gt; on a
10916 personal home page over at redhat.com.&lt;/p&gt;
10917 </description>
10918         </item>
10919
10920         <item>
10921                 <title>jXplorer, a very nice LDAP GUI</title>
10922                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/jXplorer__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html</link>
10923                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/jXplorer__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html</guid>
10924                 <pubDate>Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
10925                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since
10926 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html&quot;&gt;my
10927 last post&lt;/a&gt; about available LDAP tools in Debian, I was told about a
10928 LDAP GUI that is even better than luma.  The java application
10929 &lt;a href=&quot;http://jxplorer.org/&quot;&gt;jXplorer&lt;/a&gt; is claimed to be capable of
10930 moving LDAP objects and subtrees using drag-and-drop, and can
10931 authenticate using Kerberos.  I have only tested the Kerberos
10932 authentication, but do not have a LDAP setup allowing me to rewrite
10933 LDAP with my test user yet.  It is
10934 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jxplorer.html&quot;&gt;available in
10935 Debian&lt;/a&gt; testing and unstable at the moment.  The only problem I
10936 have with it is how it handle errors.  If something go wrong, its
10937 non-intuitive behaviour require me to go through some query work list
10938 and remove the failing query.  Nothing big, but very annoying.&lt;/p&gt;
10939 </description>
10940         </item>
10941
10942         <item>
10943                 <title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades, apt vs aptitude with the Gnome desktop</title>
10944                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_desktop.html</link>
10945                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_desktop.html</guid>
10946                 <pubDate>Sat, 3 Jul 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
10947                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a short update on my &lt;a
10948 href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&quot;&gt;my
10949 Debian Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrade testing&lt;/a&gt;.  Here is a summary of the
10950 difference for Gnome when it is upgraded by apt-get and aptitude.  I&#39;m
10951 not reporting the status for KDE, because the upgrade crashes when
10952 aptitude try because of missing conflicts
10953 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584861&quot;&gt;#584861&lt;/a&gt; and
10954 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/585716&quot;&gt;#585716&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
10955
10956 &lt;p&gt;At the end of the upgrade test script, dpkg -l is executed to get a
10957 complete list of the installed packages.  Based on this I see these
10958 differences when I did a test run today.  As usual, I do not really
10959 know what the correct set of packages would be, but thought it best to
10960 publish the difference.&lt;/p&gt;
10961
10962 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
10963
10964 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
10965   at-spi cpp-4.3 finger gnome-spell gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
10966   libatspi1.0-0 libcupsys2 libeel2-data libgail-common libgdl-1-common
10967   libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomevfs2-bin
10968   libgtksourceview-common libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa
10969   libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libservlet2.4-java libxalan2-java
10970   libxerces2-java openoffice.org-writer2latex openssl-blacklist p7zip
10971   python-4suite-xml python-eggtrayicon python-gtkhtml2
10972   python-gtkmozembed svgalibg1 xserver-xephyr zip
10973 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10974
10975 &lt;p&gt;Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude&lt;/p&gt;
10976
10977 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
10978   bluez-utils dhcdbd djvulibre-desktop epiphany-gecko
10979   gnome-app-install gnome-mount gnome-vfs-obexftp gnome-volume-manager
10980   libao2 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5 libbind9-50
10981   libbluetooth2 libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7 libcucul0 libcurl3
10982   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdvdread3 libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9
10983   libeel2-2.20 libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libexchange-storage1.2-3
10984   libfaad0 libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libggz2 libggzcore9
10985   libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0 libgnome-desktop-2
10986   libgnome-pilot2 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0
10987   libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtkhtml2-0
10988   libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6 libhesiod0 libicu38 libisccc50
10989   libisccfg50 libiw29 libkpathsea4 libltdl3 liblwres50 libmagick++10
10990   libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmtp7 libmysqlclient15off libnautilus-burn4
10991   libneon27 libnm-glib0 libnm-util0 libopal-2.2 libosp5
10992   libparted1.8-10 libpisock9 libpisync1 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3
10993   libpt-1.10.10 libraw1394-8 libsensors3 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8
10994   libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1
10995   libtotem-plparser10 libtrackerclient0 libvoikko1 libxalan2-java-gcj
10996   libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12 libxtrap6 libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3
10997   mysql-common swfdec-gnome totem-gstreamer wodim
10998 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
10999
11000 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
11001
11002 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
11003   gnome gnome-desktop-environment hamster-applet python-gnomeapplet
11004   python-gnomekeyring python-wnck rhythmbox-plugins xorg
11005   xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
11006   xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
11007   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-all
11008   xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati
11009   xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
11010   xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
11011   xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
11012   xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-mach64
11013   xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
11014   xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nv
11015   xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
11016   xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-rendition
11017   xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
11018   xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
11019   xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb
11020   xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga
11021   xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng
11022   xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
11023   xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
11024 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11025
11026 &lt;p&gt;Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get&lt;/p&gt;
11027
11028 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
11029   deskbar-applet xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
11030   xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-intel
11031   xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
11032 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11033
11034 &lt;p&gt;I was told on IRC that the xorg-xserver package was
11035 &lt;a href=&quot;http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/xserver/xorg-server.git;a=commit;h=9c8080d06c457932d3bfec021c69ac000aa60120&quot;&gt;changed
11036 in git&lt;/a&gt; today to try to get apt-get to not remove xorg completely.
11037 No idea when it hits Squeeze, but when it does I hope it will reduce
11038 the difference somewhat.
11039 </description>
11040         </item>
11041
11042         <item>
11043                 <title>Caching password, user and group on a roaming Debian laptop</title>
11044                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Caching_password__user_and_group_on_a_roaming_Debian_laptop.html</link>
11045                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Caching_password__user_and_group_on_a_roaming_Debian_laptop.html</guid>
11046                 <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
11047                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For a laptop, centralized user directories and password checking is
11048 a bit troubling.  Laptops are typically used also when not connected
11049 to the network, and it is vital for a user to be able to log in or
11050 unlock the screen saver also when a central server is unavailable.
11051 This is possible by caching passwords and directory information (user
11052 and group attributes) locally, and the packages to do so are available
11053 in Debian.  Here follow two recipes to set this up in Debian/Squeeze.
11054 It is also possible to set up in Debian/Lenny, but require more manual
11055 setup there because pam-auth-update is missing in Lenny.&lt;/p&gt;
11056
11057 &lt;h2&gt;LDAP/Kerberos + nscd + libpam-ccreds + libpam-mklocaluser/pam_mkhomedir&lt;/h2&gt;
11058
11059 This is the traditional method with a twist.  The password caching is
11060 provided by libpam-ccreds (version 10-4 or later is needed on
11061 Squeeze), and the directory caching is done by nscd.  The directory
11062 lookup and password checking is done using LDAP.  If one want to use
11063 Kerberos for password checking the libpam-ldapd package can be
11064 replaced with libpam-krb5 or libpam-heimdal.  If one is happy having a
11065 local home directory with the path listed in LDAP, one can use the
11066 pam_mkhomedir module from pam-modules to make this happen instead of
11067 using libpam-mklocaluser.  A setup for pam-auth-update to enable
11068 pam_mkhomedir will have to be written until a fix for
11069 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/568577&quot;&gt;bug #568577&lt;/a&gt; is in the
11070 archive.  Because I believe it is a bad idea to have local home
11071 directories using misleading paths like /site/server/partition/, I
11072 prefer to create a local user with the home directory in /home/.  This
11073 is done using the libpam-mklocaluser package.&lt;/p&gt;
11074
11075 &lt;p&gt;These packages need to be installed and configured&lt;/p&gt;
11076
11077 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
11078 libnss-ldapd libpam-ldapd nscd libpam-ccreds libpam-mklocaluser
11079 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11080
11081 &lt;p&gt;The ldapd packages will ask for LDAP connection information, and
11082 one have to fill in the values that fits ones own site.  Make sure the
11083 PAM part uses encrypted connections, to make sure the password is not
11084 sent in clear text to the LDAP server.  I&#39;ve been unable to get TLS
11085 certificate checking for a self signed certificate working, which make
11086 LDAP authentication unsafe for Debian Edu (nslcd is not checking if it
11087 is talking to the correct LDAP server), and very much welcome feedback
11088 on how to get this working.&lt;/p&gt;
11089
11090 &lt;p&gt;Because nscd do not have a default configuration fit for offline
11091 caching until &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/485282&quot;&gt;bug #485282&lt;/a&gt;
11092 is fixed, this configuration should be used instead of the one
11093 currently in /etc/nscd.conf.  The changes are in the fields
11094 reload-count and positive-time-to-live, and is based on the
11095 instructions I found in the
11096 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flyn.org/laptopldap/&quot;&gt;LDAP for Mobile Laptops&lt;/a&gt;
11097 instructions by Flyn Computing.&lt;/p&gt;
11098
11099 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
11100         debug-level             0
11101         reload-count            unlimited
11102         paranoia                no
11103
11104         enable-cache            passwd          yes
11105         positive-time-to-live   passwd          2592000
11106         negative-time-to-live   passwd          20
11107         suggested-size          passwd          211
11108         check-files             passwd          yes
11109         persistent              passwd          yes
11110         shared                  passwd          yes
11111         max-db-size             passwd          33554432
11112         auto-propagate          passwd          yes
11113
11114         enable-cache            group           yes
11115         positive-time-to-live   group           2592000
11116         negative-time-to-live   group           20
11117         suggested-size          group           211
11118         check-files             group           yes
11119         persistent              group           yes
11120         shared                  group           yes
11121         max-db-size             group           33554432
11122         auto-propagate          group           yes
11123
11124         enable-cache            hosts           no
11125         positive-time-to-live   hosts           2592000
11126         negative-time-to-live   hosts           20
11127         suggested-size          hosts           211
11128         check-files             hosts           yes
11129         persistent              hosts           yes
11130         shared                  hosts           yes
11131         max-db-size             hosts           33554432
11132
11133         enable-cache            services        yes
11134         positive-time-to-live   services        2592000
11135         negative-time-to-live   services        20
11136         suggested-size          services        211
11137         check-files             services        yes
11138         persistent              services        yes
11139         shared                  services        yes
11140         max-db-size             services        33554432
11141 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11142
11143 &lt;p&gt;While we wait for a mechanism to update /etc/nsswitch.conf
11144 automatically like the one provided in
11145 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/496915&quot;&gt;bug #496915&lt;/a&gt;, the file
11146 content need to be manually replaced to ensure LDAP is used as the
11147 directory service on the machine.  /etc/nsswitch.conf should normally
11148 look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
11149
11150 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
11151 passwd:         files ldap
11152 group:          files ldap
11153 shadow:         files ldap
11154 hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
11155 networks:       files
11156 protocols:      files
11157 services:       files
11158 ethers:         files
11159 rpc:            files
11160 netgroup:       files ldap
11161 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11162
11163 &lt;p&gt;The important parts are that ldap is listed last for passwd, group,
11164 shadow and netgroup.&lt;/p&gt;
11165
11166 &lt;p&gt;With these changes in place, any user in LDAP will be able to log
11167 in locally on the machine using for example kdm, get a local home
11168 directory created and have the password as well as user and group
11169 attributes cached.
11170
11171 &lt;h2&gt;LDAP/Kerberos + nss-updatedb + libpam-ccreds +
11172   libpam-mklocaluser/pam_mkhomedir&lt;/h2&gt;
11173
11174 &lt;p&gt;Because nscd have had its share of problems, and seem to have
11175 problems doing proper caching, I&#39;ve seen suggestions and recipes to
11176 use nss-updatedb to copy parts of the LDAP database locally when the
11177 LDAP database is available.  I have not tested such setup, because I
11178 discovered sssd.&lt;/p&gt;
11179
11180 &lt;h2&gt;LDAP/Kerberos + sssd + libpam-mklocaluser&lt;/h2&gt;
11181
11182 &lt;p&gt;A more flexible and robust setup than the nscd combination
11183 mentioned earlier that has shown up recently, is the
11184 &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/&quot;&gt;sssd&lt;/a&gt; package from Redhat.
11185 It is part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freeipa.org/&quot;&gt;FreeIPA&lt;/A&gt; project
11186 to provide a Active Directory like directory service for Linux
11187 machines.  The sssd system combines the caching of passwords and user
11188 information into one package, and remove the need for nscd and
11189 libpam-ccreds.  It support LDAP and Kerberos, but not NIS.  Version
11190 1.2 do not support netgroups, but it is said that it will support this
11191 in version 1.5 expected to show up later in 2010.  Because the
11192 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sssd.html&quot;&gt;sssd package&lt;/a&gt;
11193 was missing in Debian, I ended up co-maintaining it with Werner, and
11194 version 1.2 is now in testing.
11195
11196 &lt;p&gt;These packages need to be installed and configured to get the
11197 roaming setup I want&lt;/p&gt;
11198
11199 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
11200 libpam-sss libnss-sss libpam-mklocaluser
11201 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11202
11203 The complete setup of sssd is done by editing/creating
11204 &lt;tt&gt;/etc/sssd/sssd.conf&lt;/tt&gt;.
11205
11206 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
11207 [sssd]
11208 config_file_version = 2
11209 reconnection_retries = 3
11210 sbus_timeout = 30
11211 services = nss, pam
11212 domains = INTERN
11213
11214 [nss]
11215 filter_groups = root
11216 filter_users = root
11217 reconnection_retries = 3
11218
11219 [pam]
11220 reconnection_retries = 3
11221
11222 [domain/INTERN]
11223 enumerate = false
11224 cache_credentials = true
11225
11226 id_provider = ldap
11227 auth_provider = ldap
11228 chpass_provider = ldap
11229
11230 ldap_uri = ldap://ldap
11231 ldap_search_base = dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
11232 ldap_tls_reqcert = never
11233 ldap_tls_cacert = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
11234 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11235
11236 &lt;p&gt;I got the same problem here with certificate checking.  Had to set
11237 &quot;ldap_tls_reqcert = never&quot; to get it working.&lt;/p&gt;
11238
11239 &lt;p&gt;With the libnss-sss package in testing at the moment, the
11240 nsswitch.conf file is update automatically, so there is no need to
11241 modify it manually.&lt;/p&gt;
11242
11243 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
11244 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
11245 </description>
11246         </item>
11247
11248         <item>
11249                 <title>LUMA, a very nice LDAP GUI</title>
11250                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html</link>
11251                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html</guid>
11252                 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
11253                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP
11254 directory in Debian Edu, and in the process I started to miss a GUI
11255 tool to browse the LDAP tree.  The only one I was able to find in
11256 Debian/Squeeze and Lenny is
11257 &lt;a href=&quot;http://luma.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;LUMA&lt;/a&gt;, which has proved to
11258 be a great tool to get a overview of the current LDAP directory
11259 populated by default in Skolelinux.  Thanks to it, I have been able to
11260 find empty and obsolete subtrees, misplaced objects and duplicate
11261 objects.  It will be installed by default in Debian/Squeeze.  If you
11262 are working with LDAP, give it a go. :)&lt;/p&gt;
11263
11264 &lt;p&gt;I did notice one problem with it I have not had time to report to
11265 the BTS yet.  There is no .desktop file in the package, so the tool do
11266 not show up in the Gnome and KDE menus, but only deep down in in the
11267 Debian submenu in KDE.  I hope that can be fixed before Squeeze is
11268 released.&lt;/p&gt;
11269
11270 &lt;p&gt;I have not yet been able to get it to modify the tree yet.  I would
11271 like to move objects and remove subtrees directly in the GUI, but have
11272 not found a way to do that with LUMA yet.  So in the mean time, I use
11273 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lichteblau.com/ldapvi/&quot;&gt;ldapvi&lt;/a&gt; for that.&lt;/p&gt;
11274
11275 &lt;p&gt;If you have tips on other GUI tools for LDAP that might be useful
11276 in Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
11277
11278 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-06-29: Ross Reedstrom tipped us about the
11279 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gq.html&quot;&gt;gq&lt;/a&gt; package as a
11280 useful GUI alternative.  It seem like a good tool, but is unmaintained
11281 in Debian and got a RC bug keeping it out of Squeeze.  Unless that
11282 changes, it will not be an option for Debian Edu based on Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
11283 </description>
11284         </item>
11285
11286         <item>
11287                 <title>Idea for a change to LDAP schemas allowing DNS and DHCP info to be combined into one object</title>
11288                 <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>
11289                 <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>
11290                 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
11291                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A while back, I
11292 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_new__LDAP_schemas_replacing_RFC_2307_.html&quot;&gt;complained
11293 about the fact&lt;/a&gt; that it is not possible with the provided schemas
11294 for storing DNS and DHCP information in LDAP to combine the two sets
11295 of information into one LDAP object representing a computer.&lt;/p&gt;
11296
11297 &lt;p&gt;In the mean time, I discovered that a simple fix would be to make
11298 the dhcpHost object class auxiliary, to allow it to be combined with
11299 the dNSDomain object class, and thus forming one object for one
11300 computer when storing both DHCP and DNS information in LDAP.&lt;/p&gt;
11301
11302 &lt;p&gt;If I understand this correctly, it is not safe to do this change
11303 without also changing the assigned number for the object class, and I
11304 do not know enough about LDAP schema design to do that properly for
11305 Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
11306
11307 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, for future reference, this is how I believe we could change
11308 the
11309 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-ldap-schema-00&quot;&gt;DHCP
11310 schema&lt;/a&gt; to solve at least part of the problem with the LDAP schemas
11311 available today from IETF.&lt;/p&gt;
11312
11313 &lt;pre&gt;
11314 --- dhcp.schema    (revision 65192)
11315 +++ dhcp.schema    (working copy)
11316 @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
11317  objectclass ( 2.16.840.1.113719.1.203.6.6
11318         NAME &#39;dhcpHost&#39;
11319         DESC &#39;This represents information about a particular client&#39;
11320 -       SUP top
11321 +       SUP top AUXILIARY
11322         MUST cn
11323         MAY  (dhcpLeaseDN $ dhcpHWAddress $ dhcpOptionsDN $ dhcpStatements $ dhcpComments $ dhcpOption)
11324         X-NDS_CONTAINMENT (&#39;dhcpService&#39; &#39;dhcpSubnet&#39; &#39;dhcpGroup&#39;) )
11325 &lt;/pre&gt;
11326
11327 &lt;p&gt;I very much welcome clues on how to do this properly for Debian
11328 Edu/Squeeze.  We provide the DHCP schema in our debian-edu-config
11329 package, and should thus be free to rewrite it as we see fit.&lt;/p&gt;
11330
11331 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
11332 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
11333 </description>
11334         </item>
11335
11336         <item>
11337                 <title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades, removals by apt and aptitude</title>
11338                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html</link>
11339                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html</guid>
11340                 <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
11341                 <description>&lt;p&gt;My
11342 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html&quot;&gt;testing
11343 of Debian upgrades&lt;/a&gt; from Lenny to Squeeze continues, and I&#39;ve
11344 finally made the upgrade logs available from
11345 &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;.
11346 I am now testing dist-upgrade of Gnome and KDE in a chroot using both
11347 apt and aptitude, and found their differences interesting.  This time
11348 I will only focus on their removal plans.&lt;/p&gt;
11349
11350 &lt;p&gt;After installing a Gnome desktop and the laptop task, apt-get wants
11351 to remove 72 packages when dist-upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze.  The
11352 surprising part is that it want to remove xorg and all
11353 xserver-xorg-video* drivers.  Clearly not a good choice, but I am not
11354 sure why.  When asking aptitude to do the same, it want to remove 129
11355 packages, but most of them are library packages I suspect are no
11356 longer needed.  Both of them want to remove bluetooth packages, which
11357 I do not know.  Perhaps these bluetooth packages are obsolete?&lt;/p&gt;
11358
11359 &lt;p&gt;For KDE, apt-get want to remove 82 packages, among them kdebase
11360 which seem like a bad idea and xorg the same way as with Gnome. Asking
11361 aptitude for the same, it wants to remove 192 packages, none which are
11362 too surprising.&lt;/p&gt;
11363
11364 &lt;p&gt;I guess the removal of xorg during upgrades should be investigated
11365 and avoided, and perhaps others as well.  Here are the complete list
11366 of planned removals.  The complete logs is available from the URL
11367 above.  Note if you want to repeat these tests, that the upgrade test
11368 for kde+apt-get hung in the tasksel setup because of dpkg asking
11369 conffile questions.  No idea why.  I worked around it by using
11370 &#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
11371 continue.&lt;/p&gt;
11372
11373 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;apt-get gnome 72&lt;/b&gt;
11374 &lt;br&gt;bluez-gnome cupsddk-drivers deskbar-applet gnome
11375   gnome-desktop-environment gnome-network-admin gtkhtml3.14
11376   iceweasel-gnome-support libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libgdl-1-0
11377   libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libmetacity0 libslab0 libxcb-xlib0
11378   nautilus-cd-burner python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras
11379   serpentine swfdec-mozilla update-manager xorg xserver-xorg
11380   xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
11381   xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
11382   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
11383   xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
11384   xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
11385   xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
11386   xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
11387   xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
11388   xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt
11389   xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
11390   xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
11391   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
11392   xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
11393   xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
11394   xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
11395   xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
11396   xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
11397   xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
11398   xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident
11399   xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
11400   xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
11401   xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9
11402   xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support&lt;/p&gt;
11403
11404 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;aptitude gnome 129&lt;/b&gt;
11405
11406 &lt;br&gt;bluez-gnome bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers dhcdbd
11407   djvulibre-desktop finger gnome-app-install gnome-mount
11408   gnome-network-admin gnome-spell gnome-vfs-obexftp
11409   gnome-volume-manager gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gtkhtml3.14 libao2
11410   libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2
11411   libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7 libcucul0 libcupsys2 libcurl3 libdatrie0
11412   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdvdread3 libedataserver1.2-9 libeel2-2.20
11413   libeel2-data libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libfaad0 libgail-common
11414   libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common
11415   libggz2 libggzcore9 libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0
11416   libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libgnomeprint2.2-0
11417   libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
11418   libgnomevfs2-bin libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtkhtml2-0
11419   libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6
11420   libhesiod0 libicu38 libiw29 libkpathsea4 libltdl3 libmagick++10
11421   libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmetacity0 libmtp7 libmysqlclient15off
11422   libnautilus-burn4 libneon27 libnm-glib0 libnm-util0 libopal-2.2
11423   libosp5 libparted1.8-10 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpt-1.10.10
11424   libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libraw1394-8
11425   libsensors3 libslab0 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8 libssh2-1
11426   libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1 libtotem-plparser10
11427   libtrackerclient0 libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0
11428   libxerces2-java libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12 libxtrap6
11429   libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3 mysql-common nautilus-cd-burner
11430   openoffice.org-writer2latex openssl-blacklist p7zip
11431   python-4suite-xml python-eggtrayicon python-gnome2-desktop
11432   python-gnome2-extras python-gtkhtml2 python-gtkmozembed
11433   python-numeric python-sexy serpentine svgalibg1 swfdec-gnome
11434   swfdec-mozilla totem-gstreamer update-manager wodim
11435   xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt
11436   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
11437   zip&lt;/p&gt;
11438
11439 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;apt-get kde 82&lt;/b&gt;
11440
11441 &lt;br&gt;cupsddk-drivers karm kaudiocreator kcoloredit kcontrol kde kde-core
11442   kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-bin-kde3
11443   kdebase-kio-plugins kdesktop kdeutils khelpcenter kicker
11444   kicker-applets knewsticker kolourpaint konq-plugins konqueror korn
11445   kpersonalizer kscreensaver ksplash libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libkiten1
11446   libxcb-xlib0 quanta superkaramba texlive-base-bin xorg xserver-xorg
11447   xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
11448   xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
11449   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
11450   xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
11451   xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
11452   xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
11453   xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
11454   xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
11455   xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt
11456   xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
11457   xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
11458   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
11459   xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
11460   xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
11461   xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
11462   xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
11463   xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
11464   xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
11465   xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident
11466   xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
11467   xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
11468   xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9&lt;/p&gt;
11469
11470 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;aptitude kde 192&lt;/b&gt;
11471 &lt;br&gt;bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers cvs dcoprss dhcdbd
11472   djvulibre-desktop dosfstools eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext
11473   ghostscript-x imlib-base imlib11 indi kandy karm kasteroids
11474   kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbstate kcoloredit kcontrol kcron kdat
11475   kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window
11476   kdebase-bin-kde3 kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu-data
11477   kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data
11478   kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
11479   kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdeprint kdesktop kdessh
11480   kdict kdnssd kdvi kedit keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfouleggs
11481   kghostview khelpcenter khexedit kiconedit kitchensync klatin
11482   klickety kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmoon kmrml kodo kolourpaint
11483   kooka korn kpager kpdf kpercentage kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler
11484   krec kregexpeditor ksayit ksim ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver
11485   ksnake ksokoban ksplash ksvg ksysv ktip ktnef kuickshow kverbos
11486   kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kworldclock
11487   kxsldbg libakode2 libao2 libarts1-akode libarts1-audiofile
11488   libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
11489   libavahi-core5 libavc1394-0 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2
11490   libboost-python1.34.1 libcucul0 libcurl3 libcvsservice0 libdatrie0
11491   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdvdread3 libfaad0 libfreebob0
11492   libgail-common libgd2-noxpm libgraphviz4 libgsmme1c2a libgtkhtml2-0
11493   libicu38 libiec61883-0 libindex0 libiw29 libk3b3 libkcal2b libkcddb1
11494   libkdeedu3 libkdepim1a libkgantt0 libkiten1 libkleopatra1 libkmime2
11495   libkpathsea4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1
11496   libksieve0 libktnef1 liblockdev1 libltdl3 libmagick10 libmimelib1c2a
11497   libmozjs1d libmpcdec3 libneon27 libnm-util0 libopensync0 libpisock9
11498   libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler3 libraw1394-8 libsmbios2
11499   libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libtalloc1 libtiff-tools
11500   libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0 libxerces2-java
11501   libxerces2-java-gcj libxtrap6 mpeglib networkstatus
11502   openoffice.org-writer2latex pmount poster psutils quanta quanta-data
11503   superkaramba svgalibg1 tex-common texlive-base texlive-base-bin
11504   texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
11505   xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt
11506   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
11507   xulrunner-1.9&lt;/p&gt;
11508
11509 </description>
11510         </item>
11511
11512         <item>
11513                 <title>Automatic upgrade testing from Lenny to Squeeze</title>
11514                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html</link>
11515                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html</guid>
11516                 <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
11517                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have done some upgrade testing in Debian, to
11518 see if the upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze will go smoothly.  A few bugs
11519 have been discovered and reported in the process
11520 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/585410&quot;&gt;#585410&lt;/a&gt; in nagios3-cgi,
11521 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584879&quot;&gt;#584879&lt;/a&gt; already fixed in
11522 enscript and &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584861&quot;&gt;#584861&lt;/a&gt; in
11523 kdebase-workspace-data), and to get a more regular testing going on, I
11524 am working on a script to automate the test.&lt;/p&gt;
11525
11526 &lt;p&gt;The idea is to create a Lenny chroot and use tasksel to install a
11527 Gnome or KDE desktop installation inside the chroot before upgrading
11528 it.  To ensure no services are started in the chroot, a policy-rc.d
11529 script is inserted.  To make sure tasksel believe it is to install a
11530 desktop on a laptop, the tasksel tests are replaced in the chroot
11531 (only acceptable because this is a throw-away chroot).&lt;/p&gt;
11532
11533 &lt;p&gt;A naive upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze using aptitude dist-upgrade
11534 currently always fail because udev refuses to upgrade with the kernel
11535 in Lenny, so to avoid that problem the file /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade
11536 is created.  The bug report
11537 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/566000&quot;&gt;#566000&lt;/a&gt; make me suspect
11538 this problem do not trigger in a chroot, but I touch the file anyway
11539 to make sure the upgrade go well.  Testing on virtual and real
11540 hardware have failed me because of udev so far, and creating this file
11541 do the trick in such settings anyway.  This is a
11542 &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
11543 issue&lt;/a&gt; and the current udev behaviour is intended by the udev
11544 maintainer because he lack the resources to rewrite udev to keep
11545 working with old kernels or something like that.  I really wish the
11546 udev upstream would keep udev backwards compatible, to avoid such
11547 upgrade problem, but given that they fail to do so, I guess
11548 documenting the way out of this mess is the best option we got for
11549 Debian Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
11550
11551 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, back to the task at hand, testing upgrades.  This test
11552 script, which I call &lt;tt&gt;upgrade-test&lt;/tt&gt; for now, is doing the
11553 trick:&lt;/p&gt;
11554
11555 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
11556 #!/bin/sh
11557 set -ex
11558
11559 if [ &quot;$1&quot; ] ; then
11560     desktop=$1
11561 else
11562     desktop=gnome
11563 fi
11564
11565 from=lenny
11566 to=squeeze
11567
11568 exec &amp;lt; /dev/null
11569 unset LANG
11570 mirror=http://ftp.skolelinux.org/debian
11571 tmpdir=chroot-$from-upgrade-$to-$desktop
11572 fuser -mv .
11573 debootstrap $from $tmpdir $mirror
11574 chroot $tmpdir aptitude update
11575 cat &gt; $tmpdir/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
11576 #!/bin/sh
11577 exit 101
11578 EOF
11579 chmod a+rx $tmpdir/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
11580 exit_cleanup() {
11581     umount $tmpdir/proc
11582 }
11583 mount -t proc proc $tmpdir/proc
11584 # Make sure proc is unmounted also on failure
11585 trap exit_cleanup EXIT INT
11586
11587 chroot $tmpdir aptitude -y install debconf-utils
11588
11589 # Make sure tasksel autoselection trigger.  It need the test scripts
11590 # to return the correct answers.
11591 echo tasksel tasksel/desktop multiselect $desktop | \
11592     chroot $tmpdir debconf-set-selections
11593
11594 # Include the desktop and laptop task
11595 for test in desktop laptop ; do
11596     echo &gt; $tmpdir/usr/lib/tasksel/tests/$test &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
11597 #!/bin/sh
11598 exit 2
11599 EOF
11600     chmod a+rx $tmpdir/usr/lib/tasksel/tests/$test
11601 done
11602
11603 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
11604 DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical
11605 export DEBIAN_FRONTEND DEBIAN_PRIORITY
11606 chroot $tmpdir tasksel --new-install
11607
11608 echo deb $mirror $to main &gt; $tmpdir/etc/apt/sources.list
11609 chroot $tmpdir aptitude update
11610 touch $tmpdir/etc/udev/kernel-upgrade
11611 chroot $tmpdir aptitude -y dist-upgrade
11612 fuser -mv
11613 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11614
11615 &lt;p&gt;I suspect it would be useful to test upgrades with both apt-get and
11616 with aptitude, but I have not had time to look at how they behave
11617 differently so far.  I hope to get a cron job running to do the test
11618 regularly and post the result on the web.  The Gnome upgrade currently
11619 work, while the KDE upgrade fail because of the bug in
11620 kdebase-workspace-data&lt;/p&gt;
11621
11622 &lt;p&gt;I am not quite sure what kind of extract from the huge upgrade logs
11623 (KDE 167 KiB, Gnome 516 KiB) it make sense to include in this blog
11624 post, so I will refrain from trying.  I can report that for Gnome,
11625 aptitude report 760 packages upgraded, 448 newly installed, 129 to
11626 remove and 1 not upgraded and 1024MB need to be downloaded while for
11627 KDE the same numbers are 702 packages upgraded, 507 newly installed,
11628 193 to remove and 0 not upgraded and 1117MB need to be downloaded&lt;/p&gt;
11629
11630 &lt;p&gt;I am very happy to notice that the Gnome desktop + laptop upgrade
11631 is able to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing and parallel
11632 booting without a hitch.  Was unsure if there were still bugs with
11633 packages failing to clean up their obsolete init.d script during
11634 upgrades, and no such problem seem to affect the Gnome desktop+laptop
11635 packages.&lt;/p&gt;
11636 </description>
11637         </item>
11638
11639         <item>
11640                 <title>Skolelinux er laget for sentraldrifting, naturligvis</title>
11641                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html</link>
11642                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html</guid>
11643                 <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
11644                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Det er merkelig hvordan myter om Skolelinux overlever.  En slik
11645 myte er at Skolelinux ikke kan sentraldriftes og ha sentralt plasserte
11646 tjenermaskiner.  I siste Computerworld Norge er
11647 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article169432.ece&quot;&gt;IT-sjef
11648 Viggo Billdal i Steinkjer intervjuet&lt;/a&gt;, og forteller uten
11649 blygsel:&lt;/p&gt;
11650
11651 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vi hadde Skolelinux, men det har vi sluttet med. Vi testet
11652 om det lønte seg med Microsoft eller en åpen plattform. Vi fant ut at
11653 Microsoft egentlig var totalt sett bedre egnet. Det var store
11654 driftskostnader med Skolelinux, blant annet på grunn av
11655 desentraliserte servere. Det var komplisert, så vi gikk vekk fra det
11656 og bruker nå bare Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11657
11658 &lt;p&gt;En &lt;a
11659 href=&quot;https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/bruker/2010-June/009101.html&quot;&gt;rask
11660 sjekk&lt;/a&gt; mot den norske brukerlista i Skolelinuxprosjektet forteller
11661 at Steinkjers forsøk foregikk fram til 2004/2005, og at Røysing skole
11662 i Steinkjer skal ha vært svært fornøyd med Skolelinux men at kommunen
11663 overkjørte skolen og krevde at de gikk over til Windows.  Et søk på
11664 nettet sendte meg til
11665 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dn.no/multimedia/archive/00090/Dagens_it_nr__18_90826a.pdf&quot;&gt;Dagens
11666 IT nr. 18 2005&lt;/a&gt; hvor en kan lese på side 18:&lt;/p&gt;
11667
11668 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inge Tømmerås ved Røysing skole i Steinkjer kjører ennå
11669 Microsoft, men forteller at kompetanseutfordringen med Skolelinux ikke
11670 var så stor.   Jeg syntes Skolelinux var utrolig lett å drifte uten
11671 forkunnskaper. Men man må jo selvsagt ha tilgang på ekstern kompetanse
11672 til installasjoner og maskinvarefeil, sier Tømmerås.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11673
11674 &lt;p&gt;Som systemarkitekten bak Skolelinux, kan jeg bare riste på hodet
11675 over påstanden om at Skolelinux krever desentraliserte tjenere.
11676 Skolelinux-arkitekturen er laget for sentralisert drift og plassering
11677 av tjenerne lokalt eller sentralt alt etter behov og nettkapasitet.
11678 Den er modellert på nettverks- og tjenerløsningen som brukes på
11679 Universitetet i Tromsø og Oslo, der jeg jobber med utvikling av
11680 driftstjenester.  Dette er det heldigvis noen som har fått med seg, og
11681 jeg er glad for å kunne sitere fra en kommentar på den overnevnte
11682 artikkelen.  Min venn og gamle kollega Sturle Sunde forteller der:
11683
11684 &lt;blockquote&gt;
11685 &lt;p&gt;I Flora kommune køyrer vi Skulelinux på skular med alt frå 15 til
11686 meir enn 500 elevar. Dei store skulane har eigen tenar, for det er
11687 mest praktisk. Eg, som er driftsansvarleg for heile nettet, ser
11688 sjeldan dei tenarane fysisk, men at dei står der gjer skulane mindre
11689 avhengige av eksterne linjer som er trege eller dyre. Dei minste
11690 skulane har ikkje eigen tenar. Å bruke sentral tenar er heller ikkje
11691 noko problem. Småskulane klarar seg fint med 1 mbit-linje til ein
11692 sentral tenar eller tenaren på ein større skule.&lt;/p&gt;
11693
11694 &lt;p&gt;Det beste med Skulelinux er halvtjukke klientar. Dei treng ikkje
11695 harddisk og brukar minimalt med ressursar på tenaren fordi dei køyrer
11696 programma lokalt. Eit klasserom med 30 sju-åtte år gamle maskiner har
11697 mykje meir CPU og RAM totalt enn nokon moderne tenar til under
11698 millionen. Det trengst to kommandoar på den sentrale tenaren for å
11699 oppdatere alle klientane, både tynne og halvtjukke. Vi har ingen
11700 problem med diskar som ryk heller, som var eit problem før fordi
11701 elevane sat og sparka i maskinene. Og dei krev lite bandbreidde i
11702 nettet, so det er fullt mogleg å køyre slike på småskular med trege
11703 linjer mot tenaren på ein større skule.&lt;/p&gt;
11704
11705 &lt;p&gt;Flora kommune har nesten 800 Linux-maskiner i sitt skulenett, og
11706 ein person som tek seg av drift av heile nettet, inkludert tenarar,
11707 klientar, operativsystem, programvare, heimekontorløysing og
11708 administrasjon av brukarar.&lt;/p&gt;
11709
11710 &lt;p&gt;No skal det seiast at vi ikkje køyrer rein Skulelinux ut av
11711 boksen. Vi har gjort ein del tilpassingar mot noko Novell-greier som
11712 var der frå før, og som har komplisert installasjonen vår. Etter at
11713 oppsettet var gjort har løysinga vore stabil og kravd minimalt med
11714 arbeid.&lt;/p&gt;
11715 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
11716
11717 &lt;p&gt;Jeg vet at Narvik, Harstad og Oslo er kommuner der Skolelinux
11718 sentraldriftes med sentrale tjenere.  Det forteller meg at Steinkjers
11719 IT-sjef neppe bør skylde på Skolelinux-løsningen for sine 5 år gamle
11720 minner.&lt;/p&gt;
11721 </description>
11722         </item>
11723
11724         <item>
11725                 <title>A manual for standards wars...</title>
11726                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html</link>
11727                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html</guid>
11728                 <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jun 2010 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
11729                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Via the
11730 &lt;a href=&quot;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/QzU4RgoAGMg/weekly-links-10.html&quot;&gt;blog
11731 of Rob Weir&lt;/a&gt; I came across the very interesting essay named
11732 &lt;a href=&quot;http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/wars.pdf&quot;&gt;The Art of
11733 Standards Wars&lt;/a&gt; (PDF 25 pages).  I recommend it for everyone
11734 following the standards wars of today.&lt;/p&gt;
11735 </description>
11736         </item>
11737
11738         <item>
11739                 <title>Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site</title>
11740                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html</link>
11741                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html</guid>
11742                 <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
11743                 <description>&lt;p&gt;When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible
11744 to get a list of the machine types in use thanks to the DMI
11745 information extracted from each machine.  The script to do so is
11746 included in the sitesummary package, and here is example output from
11747 the Skolelinux build servers:&lt;/p&gt;
11748
11749 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
11750 maintainer:~# /usr/lib/sitesummary/hardware-model-summary
11751   vendor                    count
11752   Dell Computer Corporation     1
11753     PowerEdge 1750              1
11754   IBM                           1
11755     eserver xSeries 345 -[8670M1X]-     1
11756   Intel                         2
11757   [no-dmi-info]                 3
11758 maintainer:~#
11759 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11760
11761 &lt;p&gt;The quality of the report depend on the quality of the DMI tables
11762 provided in each machine.  Here there are Intel machines without model
11763 information listed with Intel as vendor and no model, and virtual Xen
11764 machines listed as [no-dmi-info].  One can add -l as a command line
11765 option to list the individual machines.&lt;/p&gt;
11766
11767 &lt;p&gt;A larger list is
11768 &lt;a href=&quot;http://narvikskolen.no/sitesummary/&quot;&gt;available from the the
11769 city of Narvik&lt;/a&gt;, which uses Skolelinux on all their shools and also
11770 provide the basic sitesummary report publicly.  In their report there
11771 are ~1400 machines. I know they use both Ubuntu and Skolelinux on
11772 their machines, and as sitesummary is available in both distributions,
11773 it is trivial to get all of them to report to the same central
11774 collector.&lt;/p&gt;
11775 </description>
11776         </item>
11777
11778         <item>
11779                 <title>KDM fail at boot with NVidia cards - and no one try to fix it?</title>
11780                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html</link>
11781                 <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>
11782                 <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
11783                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to
11784 start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled.  The
11785 problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to
11786 initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to
11787 wait.&lt;/p&gt;
11788
11789 &lt;p&gt;I came across two bugs related to this issue,
11790 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/583312&quot;&gt;#583312&lt;/a&gt; initially filed
11791 against initscripts and passed on to nvidia-glx when it became obvious
11792 that the nvidia drivers were involved, and
11793 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/524751&quot;&gt;#524751&lt;/a&gt; initially filed against
11794 kdm and passed on to src:nvidia-graphics-drivers for unknown reasons.&lt;/p&gt;
11795
11796 &lt;p&gt;To me, it seem that no-one is interested in actually solving the
11797 problem nvidia video card owners experience and make sure the Debian
11798 distribution work out of the box for these users.  The nvidia driver
11799 maintainers expect kdm to be set up to wait longer, while kdm expect
11800 the nvidia driver maintainers to fix the driver to start faster, and
11801 while they wait for each other I guess the users end up switching to a
11802 distribution that work for them.  I have no idea what the solution is,
11803 but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.&lt;/p&gt;
11804
11805 &lt;p&gt;I wonder why we end up handling bugs this way.&lt;/p&gt;
11806 </description>
11807         </item>
11808
11809         <item>
11810                 <title>Parallellized boot seem to hold up well in Debian/testing</title>
11811                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html</link>
11812                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html</guid>
11813                 <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
11814                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, parallel booting was enabled in Debian/testing.
11815 The feature seem to hold up pretty well, but three fairly serious
11816 issues are known and should be solved:
11817
11818 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
11819
11820 &lt;li&gt;The wicd package seen to
11821 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/508289&quot;&gt;break NFS mounting&lt;/a&gt; and
11822 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/581586&quot;&gt;network setup&lt;/a&gt; when
11823 parallel booting is enabled.  No idea why, but the wicd maintainer
11824 seem to be on the case.&lt;/li&gt;
11825
11826 &lt;li&gt;The nvidia X driver seem to
11827 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/583312&quot;&gt;have a race condition&lt;/a&gt;
11828 triggered more easily when parallel booting is in effect.  The
11829 maintainer is on the case.&lt;/li&gt;
11830
11831 &lt;li&gt;The sysv-rc package fail to properly enable dependency based boot
11832 sequencing (the shutdown is broken) when old file-rc users
11833 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/575080&quot;&gt;try to switch back&lt;/a&gt; to
11834 sysv-rc.  One way to solve it would be for file-rc to create
11835 /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering, and another is to try to make
11836 sysv-rc more robust.  Will investigate some more and probably upload a
11837 workaround in sysv-rc to help those trying to move from file-rc to
11838 sysv-rc get a working shutdown.&lt;/li&gt;
11839
11840 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
11841
11842 &lt;p&gt;All in all not many surprising issues, and all of them seem
11843 solvable before Squeeze is released.  In addition to these there are
11844 some packages with bugs in their dependencies and run level settings,
11845 which I expect will be fixed in a reasonable time span.&lt;/p&gt;
11846
11847 &lt;p&gt;If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
11848 the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
11849 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
11850 list of usertagged bugs related to this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
11851
11852 &lt;p&gt;Update: Correct bug number to file-rc issue.&lt;/p&gt;
11853 </description>
11854         </item>
11855
11856         <item>
11857                 <title>More flexible firmware handling in debian-installer</title>
11858                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/More_flexible_firmware_handling_in_debian_installer.html</link>
11859                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/More_flexible_firmware_handling_in_debian_installer.html</guid>
11860                 <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
11861                 <description>&lt;p&gt;After a long break from debian-installer development, I finally
11862 found time today to return to the project.  Having to spend less time
11863 working dependency based boot in debian, as it is almost complete now,
11864 definitely helped freeing some time.&lt;/p&gt;
11865
11866 &lt;p&gt;A while back, I ran into a problem while working on Debian Edu.  We
11867 include some firmware packages on the Debian Edu CDs, those needed to
11868 get disk and network controllers working.  Without having these
11869 firmware packages available during installation, it is impossible to
11870 install Debian Edu on the given machine, and because our target group
11871 are non-technical people, asking them to provide firmware packages on
11872 an external medium is a support pain.  Initially, I expected it to be
11873 enough to include the firmware packages on the CD to get
11874 debian-installer to find and use them.  This proved to be wrong.
11875 Next, I hoped it was enough to symlink the relevant firmware packages
11876 to some useful location on the CD (tried /cdrom/ and
11877 /cdrom/firmware/).  This also proved to not work, and at this point I
11878 found time to look at the debian-installer code to figure out what was
11879 going to work.&lt;/p&gt;
11880
11881 &lt;p&gt;The firmware loading code is in the hw-detect package, and a closer
11882 look revealed that it would only look for firmware packages outside
11883 the installation media, so the CD was never checked for firmware
11884 packages.  It would only check USB sticks, floppies and other
11885 &quot;external&quot; media devices.  Today I changed it to also look in the
11886 /cdrom/firmware/ directory on the mounted CD or DVD, which should
11887 solve the problem I ran into with Debian edu.  I also changed it to
11888 look in /firmware/, to make sure the installer also find firmware
11889 provided in the initrd when booting the installer via PXE, to allow us
11890 to provide the same feature in the PXE setup included in Debian
11891 Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
11892
11893 &lt;p&gt;To make sure firmware deb packages with a license questions are not
11894 activated without asking if the license is accepted, I extended
11895 hw-detect to look for preinst scripts in the firmware packages, and
11896 run these before activating the firmware during installation.  The
11897 license question is asked using debconf in the preinst, so this should
11898 solve the issue for the firmware packages I have looked at so far.&lt;/p&gt;
11899
11900 &lt;p&gt;If you want to discuss the details of these features, please
11901 contact us on debian-boot@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
11902 </description>
11903         </item>
11904
11905         <item>
11906                 <title>Pieces of the roaming laptop puzzle in Debian</title>
11907                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pieces_of_the_roaming_laptop_puzzle_in_Debian.html</link>
11908                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pieces_of_the_roaming_laptop_puzzle_in_Debian.html</guid>
11909                 <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
11910                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, the last piece of the puzzle for roaming laptops in Debian
11911 Edu finally entered the Debian archive.  Today, the new
11912 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-mklocaluser.html&quot;&gt;libpam-mklocaluser&lt;/a&gt;
11913 package was accepted.  Two days ago, two other pieces was accepted
11914 into unstable.  The
11915 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pam-python.html&quot;&gt;pam-python&lt;/a&gt;
11916 package needed by libpam-mklocaluser, and the
11917 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sssd.html&quot;&gt;sssd&lt;/a&gt; package
11918 passed NEW on Monday.  In addition, the
11919 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-ccreds.html&quot;&gt;libpam-ccreds&lt;/a&gt;
11920 package we need is in experimental (version 10-4) since Saturday, and
11921 hopefully will be moved to unstable soon.&lt;/p&gt;
11922
11923 &lt;p&gt;This collection of packages allow for two different setups for
11924 roaming laptops.  The traditional setup would be using libpam-ccreds,
11925 nscd and libpam-mklocaluser with LDAP or Kerberos authentication,
11926 which should work out of the box if the configuration changes proposed
11927 for nscd in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/485282&quot;&gt;BTS report
11928 #485282&lt;/a&gt; is implemented.  The alternative setup is to use sssd with
11929 libpam-mklocaluser to connect to LDAP or Kerberos and let sssd take
11930 care of the caching of passwords and group information.&lt;/p&gt;
11931
11932 &lt;p&gt;I have so far been unable to get sssd to work with the LDAP server
11933 at the University, but suspect the issue is some SSL/GnuTLS related
11934 problem with the server certificate.  I plan to update the Debian
11935 package to version 1.2, which is scheduled for next week, and hope to
11936 find time to make sure the next release will include both the
11937 Debian/Ubuntu specific patches.  Upstream is friendly and responsive,
11938 and I am sure we will find a good solution.&lt;/p&gt;
11939
11940 &lt;p&gt;The idea is to set up the roaming laptops to authenticate using
11941 LDAP or Kerberos and create a local user with home directory in /home/
11942 when a usre in LDAP logs in via KDM or GDM for the first time, and
11943 cache the password for offline checking, as well as caching group
11944 memberhips and other relevant LDAP information.  The
11945 libpam-mklocaluser package was created to make sure the local home
11946 directory is in /home/, instead of /site/server/directory/ which would
11947 be the home directory if pam_mkhomedir was used.  To avoid confusion
11948 with support requests and configuration, we do not want local laptops
11949 to have users in a path that is used for the same users home directory
11950 on the home directory servers.&lt;/p&gt;
11951
11952 &lt;p&gt;One annoying problem with gdm is that it do not show the PAM
11953 message passed to the user from libpam-mklocaluser when the local user
11954 is created.  Instead gdm simply reject the login with some generic
11955 message.  The message is shown in kdm, ssh and login, so I guess it is
11956 a bug in gdm.  Have not investigated if there is some other message
11957 type that can be used instead to get gdm to also show the message.&lt;/p&gt;
11958
11959 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
11960 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
11961 </description>
11962         </item>
11963
11964         <item>
11965                 <title>Parallellized boot is now the default in Debian/unstable</title>
11966                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html</link>
11967                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html</guid>
11968                 <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
11969                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in
11970 Debian/unstable for machines using dependency based boot sequencing.
11971 Apparently the testing of concurrent booting has been wider than
11972 expected, if I am to believe the
11973 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html&quot;&gt;input
11974 on debian-devel@&lt;/a&gt;, and I concluded a few days ago to move forward
11975 with the feature this weekend, to give us some time to detect any
11976 remaining problems before Squeeze is frozen.  If serious problems are
11977 detected, it is simple to change the default back to sequential boot.
11978 The upload of the new sysvinit package also activate a new upstream
11979 version.&lt;/p&gt;
11980
11981 More information about
11982 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot&quot;&gt;dependency
11983 based boot sequencing&lt;/a&gt; is available from the Debian wiki.  It is
11984 currently possible to disable parallel booting when one run into
11985 problems caused by it, by adding this line to /etc/default/rcS:&lt;/p&gt;
11986
11987 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
11988 CONCURRENCY=none
11989 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
11990
11991 &lt;p&gt;If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
11992 the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
11993 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
11994 list of usertagged bugs related to this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
11995 </description>
11996         </item>
11997
11998         <item>
11999                 <title>Sitesummary tip: Listing MAC address of all clients</title>
12000                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_MAC_address_of_all_clients.html</link>
12001                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_MAC_address_of_all_clients.html</guid>
12002                 <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
12003                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In the recent Debian Edu versions, the
12004 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary&quot;&gt;sitesummary
12005 system&lt;/a&gt; is used to keep track of the machines in the school
12006 network.  Each machine will automatically report its status to the
12007 central server after boot and once per night.  The network setup is
12008 also reported, and using this information it is possible to get the
12009 MAC address of all network interfaces in the machines.  This is useful
12010 to update the DHCP configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
12011
12012 &lt;p&gt;To give some idea how to use sitesummary, here is a one-liner to
12013 ist all MAC addresses of all machines reporting to sitesummary.  Run
12014 this on the collector host:&lt;/p&gt;
12015
12016 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
12017 perl -MSiteSummary -e &#39;for_all_hosts(sub { print join(&quot; &quot;, get_macaddresses(shift)), &quot;\n&quot;; });&#39;
12018 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
12019
12020 &lt;p&gt;This will list all MAC addresses assosiated with all machine, one
12021 line per machine and with space between the MAC addresses.&lt;/p&gt;
12022
12023 &lt;p&gt;To allow system administrators easier job at adding static DHCP
12024 addresses for hosts, it would be possible to extend this to fetch
12025 machine information from sitesummary and update the DHCP and DNS
12026 tables in LDAP using this information.  Such tool is unfortunately not
12027 written yet.&lt;/p&gt;
12028 </description>
12029         </item>
12030
12031         <item>
12032                 <title>Forcing new users to change their password on first login</title>
12033                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forcing_new_users_to_change_their_password_on_first_login.html</link>
12034                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forcing_new_users_to_change_their_password_on_first_login.html</guid>
12035                 <pubDate>Sun, 2 May 2010 13:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
12036                 <description>&lt;p&gt;One interesting feature in Active Directory, is the ability to
12037 create a new user with an expired password, and thus force the user to
12038 change the password on the first login attempt.&lt;/p&gt;
12039
12040 &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m not quite sure how to do that with the LDAP setup in Debian
12041 Edu, but did some initial testing with a local account.  The account
12042 and password aging information is available in /etc/shadow, but
12043 unfortunately, it is not possible to specify an expiration time for
12044 passwords, only a maximum age for passwords.&lt;/p&gt;
12045
12046 &lt;p&gt;A freshly created account (using adduser test) will have these
12047 settings in /etc/shadow:&lt;/p&gt;
12048
12049 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
12050 root@tjener:~# chage -l test
12051 Last password change                                    : May 02, 2010
12052 Password expires                                        : never
12053 Password inactive                                       : never
12054 Account expires                                         : never
12055 Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
12056 Maximum number of days between password change          : 99999
12057 Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7
12058 root@tjener:~#
12059 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
12060
12061 &lt;p&gt;The only way I could come up with to create a user with an expired
12062 account, is to change the date of the last password change to the
12063 lowest value possible (January 1th 1970), and the maximum password age
12064 to the difference in days between that date and today.  To make it
12065 simple, I went for 30 years (30 * 365 = 10950) and January 2th (to
12066 avoid testing if 0 is a valid value).&lt;/p&gt;
12067
12068 &lt;p&gt;After using these commands to set it up, it seem to work as
12069 intended:&lt;/p&gt;
12070
12071 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
12072 root@tjener:~# chage -d 1 test; chage -M 10950 test
12073 root@tjener:~# chage -l test
12074 Last password change                                    : Jan 02, 1970
12075 Password expires                                        : never
12076 Password inactive                                       : never
12077 Account expires                                         : never
12078 Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
12079 Maximum number of days between password change          : 10950
12080 Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7
12081 root@tjener:~#
12082 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
12083
12084 &lt;p&gt;So far I have tested this with ssh and console, and kdm (in
12085 Squeeze) login, and all ask for a new password before login in the
12086 user (with ssh, I was thrown out and had to log in again).&lt;/p&gt;
12087
12088 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should set up something similar for Debian Edu, to make
12089 sure only the user itself have the account password?&lt;/p&gt;
12090
12091 &lt;p&gt;If you want to comment on or help out with implementing this for
12092 Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
12093
12094 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-05-02 17:20: Paul Tötterman tells me on IRC that the
12095 shadow(8) page in Debian/testing now state that setting the date of
12096 last password change to zero (0) will force the password to be changed
12097 on the first login.  This was not mentioned in the manual in Lenny, so
12098 I did not notice this in my initial testing.  I have tested it on
12099 Squeeze, and &#39;&lt;tt&gt;chage -d 0 username&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; do work there.  I have not
12100 tested it on Lenny yet.&lt;/p&gt;
12101
12102 &lt;p&gt;Update 2010-05-02-19:05: Jim Paris tells me via email that an
12103 equivalent command to expire a password is &#39;&lt;tt&gt;passwd -e
12104 username&lt;/tt&gt;&#39;, which insert zero into the date of the last password
12105 change.&lt;/p&gt;
12106 </description>
12107         </item>
12108
12109         <item>
12110                 <title>Thoughts on roaming laptop setup for Debian Edu</title>
12111                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thoughts_on_roaming_laptop_setup_for_Debian_Edu.html</link>
12112                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thoughts_on_roaming_laptop_setup_for_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
12113                 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
12114                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For some years now, I have wondered how we should handle laptops in
12115 Debian Edu.  The Debian Edu infrastructure is mostly designed to
12116 handle stationary computers, and less suited for computers that come
12117 and go.&lt;/p&gt;
12118
12119 &lt;p&gt;Now I finally believe I have an sensible idea on how to adjust
12120 Debian Edu for laptops, by introducing a new profile for them, for
12121 example called Roaming Workstations.  Here are my thought on this.
12122 The setup would consist of the following:&lt;/p&gt;
12123
12124 &lt;ul&gt;
12125
12126  &lt;li&gt;During installation, the user name of the owner / primary user of
12127    the laptop is requested and a local home directory is set up for
12128    the user, with uid and gid information fetched from the LDAP
12129    server.  This allow the user to work also when offline.  The
12130    central home directory can be available in a subdirectory on
12131    request, for example mounted via CIFS.  It could be mounted
12132    automatically when a user log in while on the Debian Edu network,
12133    and unmounted when the machine is taken away (network down,
12134    hibernate, etc), it can be set up to do automatic mounting on
12135    request (using autofs), or perhaps some GUI button on the desktop
12136    can be used to access it when needed.  Perhaps it is enough to use
12137    the fish protocol in KDE?&lt;/li&gt;
12138
12139  &lt;li&gt;Password checking is set up to use LDAP or Kerberos
12140    authentication when the machine is on the Debian Edu network, and
12141    to cache the password for offline checking when the machine unable
12142    to reach the LDAP or Kerberos server.  This can be done using
12143    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ccreds.html&quot;&gt;libpam-ccreds&lt;/a&gt;
12144    or the Fedora developed
12145    &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSD&quot;&gt;System
12146    Security Services Daemon&lt;/a&gt; packages.&lt;/li&gt;
12147
12148  &lt;li&gt;File synchronisation with the central home directory is set up
12149    using a shared directory in both the local and the central home
12150    directory, using unison.&lt;/li&gt;
12151
12152  &lt;li&gt;Printing should be set up to print to all printers broadcasting
12153    their existence on the local network, and should then work out of
12154    the box with CUPS.  For sites needing accurate printer quotas, some
12155    system with Kerberos authentication or printing via ssh could be
12156    implemented.&lt;/li&gt;
12157
12158  &lt;li&gt;For users that should have local root access to their laptop,
12159    sudo should be used to allow this to the local user.&lt;/li&gt;
12160
12161  &lt;li&gt;It would be nice if user and group information from LDAP is
12162    cached on the client, but given that there are entries for the
12163    local user and primary group in /etc/, it should not be needed.&lt;/li&gt;
12164
12165 &lt;/ul&gt;
12166
12167 &lt;p&gt;I believe all the pieces to implement this are in Debian/testing at
12168 the moment.  If we work quickly, we should be able to get this ready
12169 in time for the Squeeze release to freeze.  Some of the pieces need
12170 tweaking, like libpam-ccreds should get support for pam-auth-update
12171 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/566718&quot;&gt;#566718&lt;/a&gt;) and nslcd (or
12172 perhaps debian-edu-config) should get some integration code to stop
12173 its daemon when the LDAP server is unavailable to avoid long timeouts
12174 when disconnected from the net.  If we get Kerberos enabled, we need
12175 to make sure we avoid long timeouts there too.&lt;/p&gt;
12176
12177 &lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
12178 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
12179 </description>
12180         </item>
12181
12182         <item>
12183                 <title>Kerberos for Debian Edu/Squeeze?</title>
12184                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html</link>
12185                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html</guid>
12186                 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
12187                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20100413-kerberos/&quot;&gt;Yesterdays
12188 NUUG presentation&lt;/a&gt; about Kerberos was inspiring, and reminded me
12189 about the need to start using Kerberos in Skolelinux.  Setting up a
12190 Kerberos server seem to be straight forward, and if we get this in
12191 place a long time before the Squeeze version of Debian freezes, we
12192 have a chance to migrate Skolelinux away from NFSv3 for the home
12193 directories, and over to an architecture where the infrastructure do
12194 not have to trust IP addresses and machines, and instead can trust
12195 users and cryptographic keys instead.&lt;/p&gt;
12196
12197 &lt;p&gt;A challenge will be integration and administration.  Is there a
12198 Kerberos implementation for Debian where one can control the
12199 administration access in Kerberos using LDAP groups?  With it, the
12200 school administration will have to maintain access control using flat
12201 files on the main server, which give a huge potential for errors.&lt;/p&gt;
12202
12203 &lt;p&gt;A related question I would like to know is how well Kerberos and
12204 pam-ccreds (offline password check) work together.  Anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;
12205
12206 &lt;p&gt;Next step will be to use Kerberos for access control in Lwat and
12207 Nagios.  I have no idea how much work that will be to implement.  We
12208 would also need to document how to integrate with Windows AD, as such
12209 shared network will require two Kerberos realms that need to cooperate
12210 to work properly.&lt;/p&gt;
12211
12212 &lt;p&gt;I believe a good start would be to start using Kerberos on the
12213 skolelinux.no machines, and this way get ourselves experience with
12214 configuration and integration.  A natural starting point would be
12215 setting up ldap.skolelinux.no as the Kerberos server, and migrate the
12216 rest of the machines from PAM via LDAP to PAM via Kerberos one at the
12217 time.&lt;/p&gt;
12218
12219 &lt;p&gt;If you would like to contribute to get this working in Skolelinux,
12220 I recommend you to see the video recording from yesterdays NUUG
12221 presentation, and start using Kerberos at home.  The video show show
12222 up in a few days.&lt;/p&gt;
12223 </description>
12224         </item>
12225
12226         <item>
12227                 <title>After 6 years of waiting, the Xreset.d feature is implemented</title>
12228                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html</link>
12229                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html</guid>
12230                 <pubDate>Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
12231                 <description>&lt;p&gt;6 years ago, as part of the Debian Edu development I am involved
12232 in, I asked for a hook in the kdm and gdm setup to run scripts as root
12233 when the user log out.  A bug was submitted against the xfree86-common
12234 package in 2004 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/230422&quot;&gt;#230422&lt;/a&gt;),
12235 and revisited every time Debian Edu was working on a new release.
12236 Today, this finally paid off.&lt;/p&gt;
12237
12238 &lt;p&gt;The framework for this feature was today commited to the git
12239 repositry for the xorg package, and the git repository for xdm has
12240 been updated to use this framework.  Next on my agenda is to make sure
12241 kdm and gdm also add code to use this framework.&lt;/p&gt;
12242
12243 &lt;p&gt;In Debian Edu, we want to ability to run commands as root when the
12244 user log out, to get rid of runaway processes and do general cleanup
12245 after a user.  With this framework in place, we finally can do that in
12246 a generic way that work with all display managers using this
12247 framework.  My goal is to get all display managers in Debian use it,
12248 similar to how they use the Xsession.d framework today.&lt;p&gt;
12249 </description>
12250         </item>
12251
12252         <item>
12253                 <title>Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Lenny released, work continues</title>
12254                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html</link>
12255                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html</guid>
12256                 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
12257                 <description>&lt;p&gt;On Tuesday, the Debian/Lenny based version of
12258 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; was finally
12259 shipped.  This was a major leap forward for the project, and I am very
12260 pleased that we finally got the release wrapped up.  Work on the first
12261 point release starts imediately, as we plan to get that one out a
12262 month after the major release, to include all fixes for bugs we found
12263 and fixed too late in the release process to include last Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;
12264
12265 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps it even is time for some partying?&lt;/p&gt;
12266
12267 &lt;p&gt;After this first point release, my plan is to focus again on the
12268 next major release, based on Squeeze.  We will try to get as many of
12269 the fixes we need into the official Debian packages before the freeze,
12270 and have just a few weeks or months to make it happen.&lt;/p&gt;
12271 </description>
12272         </item>
12273
12274         <item>
12275                 <title>Automatic Munin and Nagios configuration</title>
12276                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html</link>
12277                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html</guid>
12278                 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
12279                 <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the new features in the next Debian/Lenny based release of
12280 Debian Edu/Skolelinux, which is scheduled for release in the next few
12281 days, is automatic configuration of the service monitoring system
12282 Nagios.  The previous release had automatic configuration of trend
12283 analysis using Munin, and this Lenny based release take that a step
12284 further.&lt;/p&gt;
12285
12286 &lt;p&gt;When installing a Debian Edu Main-server, it is automatically
12287 configured as a Munin and Nagios server.  In addition, it is
12288 configured to be a server for the
12289 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary&quot;&gt;SiteSummary
12290 system&lt;/a&gt; I have written for use in Debian Edu.  The SiteSummary
12291 system is inspired by a system used by the University of Oslo where I
12292 work.  In short, the system provide a centralised collector of
12293 information about the computers on the network, and a client on each
12294 computer submitting information to this collector.  This allow for
12295 automatic information on which packages are installed on each machine,
12296 which kernel the machines are using, what kind of configuration the
12297 packages got etc.  This also allow us to automatically generate Munin
12298 and Nagios configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
12299
12300 &lt;p&gt;All computers reporting to the sitesummary collector with the
12301 munin-node package installed is automatically enabled as a Munin
12302 client and graphs from the statistics collected from that machine show
12303 up automatically on http://www/munin/ on the Main-server.&lt;/p&gt;
12304
12305 &lt;p&gt;All non-laptop computers reporting to the sitesummary collector are
12306 automatically monitored for network presence (ping and any network
12307 services detected).  In addition, all computers (also laptops) with
12308 the nagios-nrpe-server package installed and configured the way
12309 sitesummary would configure it, are monitored for full disks, software
12310 raid status, swap free and other checks that need to run locally on
12311 the machine.&lt;/p&gt;
12312
12313 &lt;p&gt;The result is that the administrator on a school using Debian Edu
12314 based on Lenny will be able to check the health of his installation
12315 with one look at the Nagios settings, without having to spend any time
12316 keeping the Nagios configuration up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;
12317
12318 &lt;p&gt;The only configuration one need to do to get Nagios up and running
12319 is to set the password used to get access via HTTP.  The system
12320 administrator need to run &quot;&lt;tt&gt;htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
12321 nagiosadmin&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; to create a nagiosadmin user and set a password for
12322 it to be able to log into the Nagios web pages.  After that,
12323 everything is taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;
12324 </description>
12325         </item>
12326
12327         <item>
12328                 <title>Opphavet til Skolelinux-prosjektet</title>
12329                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html</link>
12330                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html</guid>
12331                 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
12332                 <description>&lt;p&gt;De færreste er klar over at Skolelinux-prosjektet kom som et resultat
12333 av en avgjørelse på årsmøtet i
12334 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; i 2000-06-29, der Håkon Wium
12335 Lie, da varamedlem i styret, tok på seg oppdraget om å starte et
12336 initiativ kalt &quot;Teach the Teacher&quot;, som skulle være et initiativ for
12337 å få fri programvare og unix-lignende operativsystemer inn i Skolen.
12338 Tanken var at en måtte starte med lærerne for at ungene skulle få
12339 mulighet til å møte en bedre IT-hverdag.  Jeg var tilstede på
12340 møtet, og hadde sans for ideen, men intet skjedde.  På vårparten
12341 2001 ble det arrangert en demonstrasjon i anledning at First Tuesday
12342 hadde invitert Microsoft til et møte for å fortelle om fremtidens
12343 Internet.  Dette provoserte endel av oss, og EFN og NUUG tok initiativ
12344 til å arrangere
12345 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/60982/first-tuesday-mote-med-microsoft-protest&quot;&gt;en
12346 demonstrasjon utenfor lokalene 2001-05-21&lt;/a&gt;.  Blant de som sto bak
12347 demonstrasjonen var Vidar Bakke fra NUUG og Håkon W. Lie fra EFN.
12348 Etter demonstrasjonen arrangerte Håkon en fest hjemme hos seg der alle
12349 som hadde vært aktive i demonstrasjonsplanlegging og gjennomføringen
12350 deltok.  Før festen var jeg blitt lei av å vente på at Håkon skulle ta
12351 initiativ til &quot;Teach the Teacher&quot;, og for å forsøke å få litt fremgang
12352 besteme jeg meg for å benytte anledningen hos Håkon til å snakke om
12353 behovet for å hjelpe skolene i gang med bedre datasystemer bestående
12354 av fri programvare og unix-lignende operativsystemer.  Flere var
12355 interessert, og Knut Yrvin tenkte på ideen.  Han
12356 &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.skolelinux.no/brev/2001-06-28-invitasjon-skolelinux.txt&quot;&gt;ropte
12357 sammen&lt;/a&gt; til et stiftelsesmøte i prosjektet i sin arbeidsgivers
12358 Objectwares lokaler ved Ullevål stadion 2001-07-02, og jeg ble med.
12359 Resten er historie. :)&lt;/p&gt;
12360 </description>
12361         </item>
12362
12363         <item>
12364                 <title>Endelig operativt webbasert medlemsregister for Fri programvare i skolen</title>
12365                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_operativt_webbasert_medlemsregister_for_Fri_programvare_i_skolen.html</link>
12366                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_operativt_webbasert_medlemsregister_for_Fri_programvare_i_skolen.html</guid>
12367                 <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
12368                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Under helgens utviklersamling i
12369 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; fikk jeg endelig
12370 satt meg ned sammen med Ronny Aasen i styret for å få et webbasert
12371 medlemsregister tilbake på plass for foreningen som passer på
12372 skolelinuxprosjektet.  Etter flere års knot og problemer, er nå
12373 memberdb satt opp og klart til bruk.  Import av det gamle
12374 medlemsregisteret har vist seg vanskelig, så alle medlemmer bes om å
12375 registrere seg på nytt.  Hvis du støtter FRiSKs formål så er du
12376 hjertelig velkommen til
12377 &lt;a href=&quot;http://medlem.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;å melde deg
12378 inn&lt;/a&gt;. Formålet lyder:&lt;/p&gt;
12379
12380 &lt;blockquote&gt;Linux i skolen skal tilrettelegge for og informere om bruk
12381 av fri programvare, i henhold til Debian Free Software Guidelines av
12382 2002-02-03, i den norske skolen, slik som f.eks. Linux og
12383 GNU.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
12384 </description>
12385         </item>
12386
12387         <item>
12388                 <title>Returning from Skolelinux developer gathering</title>
12389                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Returning_from_Skolelinux_developer_gathering.html</link>
12390                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Returning_from_Skolelinux_developer_gathering.html</guid>
12391                 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
12392                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m sitting on the train going home from this weekends Debian
12393 Edu/Skolelinux development gathering.  I got a bit done tuning the
12394 desktop, and looked into the dynamic service location protocol
12395 implementation avahi.  It look like it could be useful for us.  Almost
12396 30 people participated, and I believe it was a great environment to
12397 get to know the Skolelinux system.  Walter Bender, involved in the
12398 development of the Sugar educational platform, presented his stuff and
12399 also helped me improve my OLPC installation.  He also showed me that
12400 his Turtle Art application can be used in standalone mode, and we
12401 agreed that I would help getting it packaged for Debian.  As a
12402 standalone application it would be great for Debian Edu.  We also
12403 tried to get the video conferencing working with two OLPCs, but that
12404 proved to be too hard for us.  The application seem to need more work
12405 before it is ready for me.  I look forward to getting home and relax
12406 now. :)&lt;/p&gt;
12407 </description>
12408         </item>
12409
12410         <item>
12411                 <title>Time for new  LDAP schemas replacing RFC 2307?</title>
12412                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_new__LDAP_schemas_replacing_RFC_2307_.html</link>
12413                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_new__LDAP_schemas_replacing_RFC_2307_.html</guid>
12414                 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
12415                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The state of standardized LDAP schemas on Linux is far from
12416 optimal.  There is RFC 2307 documenting one way to store NIS maps in
12417 LDAP, and a modified version of this normally called RFC 2307bis, with
12418 some modifications to be compatible with Active Directory.  The RFC
12419 specification handle the content of a lot of system databases, but do
12420 not handle DNS zones and DHCP configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
12421
12422 &lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;,
12423 we would like to store information about users, SMB clients/hosts,
12424 filegroups, netgroups (users and hosts), DHCP and DNS configuration,
12425 and LTSP configuration in LDAP.  These objects have a lot in common,
12426 but with the current LDAP schemas it is not possible to have one
12427 object per entity.  For example, one need to have at least three LDAP
12428 objects for a given computer, one with the SMB related stuff, one with
12429 DNS information and another with DHCP information.  The schemas
12430 provided for DNS and DHCP are impossible to combine into one LDAP
12431 object.  In addition, it is impossible to implement quick queries for
12432 netgroup membership, because of the way NIS triples are implemented.
12433 It just do not scale.  I believe it is time for a few RFC
12434 specifications to cleam up this mess.&lt;/p&gt;
12435
12436 &lt;p&gt;I would like to have one LDAP object representing each computer in
12437 the network, and this object can then keep the SMB (ie host key), DHCP
12438 (mac address/name) and DNS (name/IP address) settings in one place.
12439 It need to be efficently stored to make sure it scale well.&lt;/p&gt;
12440
12441 &lt;p&gt;I would also like to have a quick way to map from a user or
12442 computer and to the net group this user or computer is a member.&lt;/p&gt;
12443
12444 &lt;p&gt;Active Directory have done a better job than unix heads like myself
12445 in this regard, and the unix side need to catch up.  Time to start a
12446 new IETF work group?&lt;/p&gt;
12447 </description>
12448         </item>
12449
12450         <item>
12451                 <title>Endelig er Debian Lenny gitt ut</title>
12452                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_er_Debian_Lenny_gitt_ut.html</link>
12453                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_er_Debian_Lenny_gitt_ut.html</guid>
12454                 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
12455                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Endelig er &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;
12456 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214&quot;&gt;Lenny&lt;/a&gt; gitt ut.
12457 Et langt steg videre for Debian-prosjektet, og en rekke nye
12458 programpakker blir nå tilgjengelig for de av oss som bruker den
12459 stabile utgaven av Debian.  Neste steg er nå å få
12460 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; /
12461 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; ferdig
12462 oppdatert for den nye utgaven, slik at en oppdatert versjon kan
12463 slippes løs på skolene.  Takk til alle debian-utviklerne som har
12464 gjort dette mulig.  Endelig er f.eks. fungerende avhengighetsstyrt
12465 bootsekvens tilgjengelig i stabil utgave, vha pakken
12466 &lt;tt&gt;insserv&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
12467 </description>
12468         </item>
12469
12470         <item>
12471                 <title>Endelig norsk stavekontroll med støtte for ord med bindestrek</title>
12472                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_norsk_stavekontroll_med_st_tte_for_ord_med_bindestrek.html</link>
12473                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Endelig_norsk_stavekontroll_med_st_tte_for_ord_med_bindestrek.html</guid>
12474                 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
12475                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter flere års mislykkede forsøk på å skrive om byggesystemet for
12476 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org/&quot;&gt;den norske stavekontrollen for bokmål
12477 og nynorsk&lt;/a&gt; til å ikke bruke bindestrek som ordskillemarkør, lyktes jeg
12478 endelig første juledag.  Bruken av bindestrek som ordskillemarkør har
12479 gjort det umulig å få med ord med bindestrek i
12480 stavekontrolldatagrunnlaget, slik at ord som e-post og CD-spiller ikke
12481 kunne godtas av stavekontrollen.  Hadde litt tid til overs å bruke på
12482 stavekontrollen, og satte meg ned med to kopier av byggsystemet og en
12483 liten testdatafil, og byttet ut - med = på utvalgte steder i
12484 byggsystemet og datafilen helt til jeg fikk samme resultat med det
12485 gamle og det nye byggsystemet.  Dette tror jeg var forsøk 4, der de
12486 foregående har feilet uten at jeg klarte å forstå hvorfor.  Det sier
12487 kanskje litt om kompleksiteten i det originale byggsystemet som Rune
12488 Kleveland laget i sin tid.&lt;/p&gt;
12489
12490 &lt;p&gt;Etter å ha endret byggsystemet, var neste steg å importere ordene
12491 med bindestrek.  Vi har en rekke slike i databasene for
12492 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tyge.sslug.dk/~korsvoll/nb.speling.org/htdocs/&quot;&gt;bokmål&lt;/a&gt;
12493 og
12494 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tyge.sslug.dk/~korsvoll/nn.speling.org/htdocs/&quot;&gt;nynorsk&lt;/a&gt;
12495 for korrektur av datagrunnlaget for stavekontrollen, og etter importen
12496 skulle nå 10350 nye ord bli godkjent som korrekt stavede ord av
12497 stavekontrollen.&lt;/p&gt;
12498 </description>
12499         </item>
12500
12501         <item>
12502                 <title>Devcamp brought us closer to the Lenny based Debian Edu release</title>
12503                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Devcamp_brought_us_closer_to_the_Lenny_based_Debian_Edu_release.html</link>
12504                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Devcamp_brought_us_closer_to_the_Lenny_based_Debian_Edu_release.html</guid>
12505                 <pubDate>Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
12506                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we had a small developer gathering for Debian Edu in
12507 Oslo.  Most of Saturday was used for the general assemly for the
12508 member organization, but the rest of the weekend I used to tune the
12509 LTSP installation.  LTSP now work out of the box on the 10-network.
12510 Acer Aspire One proved to be a very nice thin client, with both
12511 screen, mouse and keybard in a small box.  Was working on getting the
12512 diskless workstation setup configured out of the box, but did not
12513 finish it before the weekend was up.&lt;/p&gt;
12514
12515 &lt;p&gt;Did not find time to look at the 4 VGA cards in one box we got from
12516 the Brazilian group, so that will have to wait for the next
12517 development gathering.  Would love to have the Debian Edu installer
12518 automatically detect and configure a multiseat setup when it find one
12519 of these cards.&lt;/p&gt;
12520 </description>
12521         </item>
12522
12523         <item>
12524                 <title>The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</title>
12525                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html</link>
12526                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html</guid>
12527                 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
12528                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
12529 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
12530 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
12531 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
12532 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
12533 notes are available on
12534 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;the
12535 Debian wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
12536 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
12537 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
12538 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
12539 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
12540 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn&#39;t supported by the
12541 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
12542 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.&lt;/p&gt;
12543
12544 &lt;p&gt;For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
12545 be the only one fitting our needs. :/&lt;/p&gt;
12546 </description>
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