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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Do_you_need_an_agreement_with_MPEG_LA_to_publish_and_broadcast_H_264_video_in_Norway_.html">Do you need an agreement with MPEG-LA to publish and broadcast H.264 video in Norway?</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">25th August 2014</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Two years later, I am still not sure if it is legal here in Norway
  26 to use or publish a video in H.264 or MPEG4 format edited by the
  27 commercially licensed video editors, without limiting the use to
  28 create "personal" or "non-commercial" videos or get a license
  29 agreement with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com">MPEG LA</a>.  If one
  30 want to publish and broadcast video in a non-personal or commercial
  31 setting, it might be that those tools can not be used, or that video
  32 format can not be used, without breaking their copyright license.  I
  33 am not sure.
  34 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html">Back
  35 then</a>, I found that the copyright license terms for Adobe Premiere
  36 and Apple Final Cut Pro both specified that one could not use the
  37 program to produce anything else without a patent license from MPEG
  38 LA.  The issue is not limited to those two products, though.  Other
  39 much used products like those from Avid and Sorenson Media have terms
  40 of use are similar to those from Adobe and Apple.  The complicating
  41 factor making me unsure if those terms have effect in Norway or not is
  42 that the patents in question are not valid in Norway, but copyright
  43 licenses are.</p>
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  45 <p>These are the terms for Avid Artist Suite, according to their
  46 <a href="http://www.avid.com/US/about-avid/legal-notices/legal-enduserlicense2">published
  47 end user</a>
  48 <a href="http://www.avid.com/static/resources/common/documents/corporate/LICENSE.pdf">license
  49 text</a> (converted to lower case text for easier reading):</p>
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  51 <p><blockquote>
  52 <p>18.2. MPEG-4. MPEG-4 technology may be included with the
  53 software. MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this notice: </p>
  54
  55 <p>This product is licensed under the MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio
  56 license for the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer for (i)
  57 encoding video in compliance with the MPEG-4 visual standard (“MPEG-4
  58 video”) and/or (ii) decoding MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a
  59 consumer engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity and/or was
  60 obtained from a video provider licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4
  61 video.  No license is granted or shall be implied for any other
  62 use. Additional information including that relating to promotional,
  63 internal and commercial uses and licensing may be obtained from MPEG
  64 LA, LLC.  See http://www.mpegla.com. This product is licensed under
  65 the MPEG-4 systems patent portfolio license for encoding in compliance
  66 with the MPEG-4 systems standard, except that an additional license
  67 and payment of royalties are necessary for encoding in connection with
  68 (i) data stored or replicated in physical media which is paid for on a
  69 title by title basis and/or (ii) data which is paid for on a title by
  70 title basis and is transmitted to an end user for permanent storage
  71 and/or use, such additional license may be obtained from MPEG LA,
  72 LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for additional details.</p>
  73
  74 <p>18.3. H.264/AVC. H.264/AVC technology may be included with the
  75 software.  MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this notice:</p>
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  77 <p>This product is licensed under the AVC patent portfolio license for
  78 the personal use of a consumer or other uses in which it does not
  79 receive remuneration to (i) encode video in compliance with the AVC
  80 standard (“AVC video”) and/or (ii) decode AVC video that was encoded
  81 by a consumer engaged in a personal activity and/or was obtained from
  82 a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No license is granted
  83 or shall be implied for any other use. Additional information may be
  84 obtained from MPEG LA, L.L.C. See http://www.mpegla.com.</p>
  85 </blockquote></p>
  86
  87 <p>Note the requirement that the videos created can only be used for
  88 personal or non-commercial purposes.</p>
  89
  90 <p>The Sorenson Media software have
  91 <a href="http://www.sorensonmedia.com/terms/">similar terms</a>:</p>
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  95 <p>With respect to a license from Sorenson pertaining to MPEG-4 Video
  96 Decoders and/or Encoders: Any such product is licensed under the
  97 MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio license for the personal and
  98 non-commercial use of a consumer for (i) encoding video in compliance
  99 with the MPEG-4 visual standard (“MPEG-4 video”) and/or (ii) decoding
 100 MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a personal and
 101 non-commercial activity and/or was obtained from a video provider
 102 licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4 video. No license is granted or
 103 shall be implied for any other use. Additional information including
 104 that relating to promotional, internal and commercial uses and
 105 licensing may be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See
 106 http://www.mpegla.com.</p>
 107
 108 <p>With respect to a license from Sorenson pertaining to MPEG-4
 109 Consumer Recorded Data Encoder, MPEG-4 Systems Internet Data Encoder,
 110 MPEG-4 Mobile Data Encoder, and/or MPEG-4 Unique Use Encoder: Any such
 111 product is licensed under the MPEG-4 systems patent portfolio license
 112 for encoding in compliance with the MPEG-4 systems standard, except
 113 that an additional license and payment of royalties are necessary for
 114 encoding in connection with (i) data stored or replicated in physical
 115 media which is paid for on a title by title basis and/or (ii) data
 116 which is paid for on a title by title basis and is transmitted to an
 117 end user for permanent storage and/or use. Such additional license may
 118 be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for
 119 additional details.</p>
 120
 121 </blockquote></p>
 122
 123 <p>Some free software like
 124 <a href="https://handbrake.fr/">Handbrake</A> and
 125 <a href="http://ffmpeg.org/">FFMPEG</a> uses GPL/LGPL licenses and do
 126 not have any such terms included, so for those, there is no
 127 requirement to limit the use to personal and non-commercial.</p>
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 140       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2014_08_03.html">Lenker for 2014-08-03</a></div>
 141       <div class="date"> 3rd August 2014</div>
 142       <div class="body"><p>Lenge siden jeg har hatt tid til å publisere lenker til skriverier
 143 jeg har hatt glede og nytte av av å lese.  Her er en liten norsk
 144 lenkesamling.</p>
 145
 146 <p><ul>
 147
 148 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/sjoslag-om-fiskemilliardene-1.11576109">Sjøslag
 149 om fiskemilliardene</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-03-03) - litt om hvordan de
 150 norske felles matressurser røves fra felleskapet.</li>
 151
 152 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/Matkrisen-kan-komme-til-Norge-7522341.html">Matkrisen
 153 kan komme til Norge</a> (Aftenposten 2014-4-01) - hvordan miljøendringene vil gjøre matproduksjonen i Norge mer sårbar.</li>
 154
 155 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/norge-trenger-kornlager-1.11726744">Norge
 156 trenger kornlager</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-06-07) Chr. Anton Smedshaug
 157 forteller litt om Norges sårbare matsituasjon etter at Staten solgte
 158 Norges kornlager.</li>
 159
 160 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/norge/pst-vil-overvake-datatastaturer-1.11583286">PST
 161 vil overvåke datatastaturer</a> (NRK 2014-03-04) - PST ønsker retten
 162 til å bryte seg inn på private PC-er og legge inn spionprogrammer.
 163 Hvilket nok vil gjøre Linux mer populært, men gjør at en i enda mindre
 164 grad enn i dag kan stole på datamaskiner - neppe en god ide for
 165 samfunnet totalt sett.</li>
 166
 167 <li><a href="http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/Ruter-fremstar-som-et-pobelvelde-7490624.html">«Ruter
 168 fremstår som et pøbelvelde»</a> (OsloBy 2014-03-05) - et eksempel på
 169 hvordan kollektivtransportselskapet i Oslo håndterer sine kunder.</li>
 170
 171 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/05/nyheter/dbtv/reklame/clear_channel/32123808/">Clear
 172 Channel nektet å vise Greenpeace-reklame i Oslo</a> (Dagbladet
 173 2014-03-05) - forteller litt om hvordan hvilke budskap som når ut i
 174 det offentlige rom kontrolleres i Norge.</li>
 175
 176 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/06/kultur/meninger/debattinnlegg/kronikk/22_juli/32175854/">Svarte
 177 ikke på kritikken</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-06) - innlegg fra Norsk
 178 presseforbund der de nok en gang tar opp det forkastelige i at
 179 politiet nå har full tilgang til å bedrive telefonkontroll av
 180 advokater.</li>
 181
 182 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Putin-spiller-poker_-ikke-sjakk-I-sjakk-har-man-regler-7495368.html">«Putin
 183 spiller poker, ikke sjakk. I sjakk har man regler.»</a> (Aftenposten
 184 2014-03-08) - sjakklegenden Kasparov forklarer litt om hvordan han ser
 185 at Russlands politikk fungerer, blant annet i lys av started av
 186 Ukraina-krisen.</li>
 187
 188 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/I-seng-med-fienden-7492605.html">I
 189 seng med fienden</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-10) - kronikk fra Eirik
 190 H. Vinje om hvordan menn og kvinner settes opp mot hverandre i det
 191 offentlige ordskiftet, kanskje på sviktende grunnlag.</li>
 192
 193 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/Hvor-er-elevene-7501690.html">Fritt
 194 frem for skulk</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-14) - skildring av hvordan
 195 norske elever i dag ikke lenger har rimelig krav om oppmøte på
 196 skolen.</li>
 197
 198 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/digital/Datalagringsdirektiv-avslorte-abort_-sykdom-og-vapenkjop--7503014.html">«Datalagringsdirektiv»
 199 avslørte abort, sykdom og våpenkjøp</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-14) - om
 200 hvordan forskere har dokumentert hvordan innsamling av metadata om
 201 telefoni og Internett-bruk kan være svært avslørende.</li>
 202
 203 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/14/kultur/meninger/ideer/lordagskommentaren/agnes_ravatn/32302856/">Konsentrasjonssvikt
 204 på pensum</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-14) - Kommentar om hvordan (feil)
 205 bruk IKT i skolen kan ødelegge mer enn det bidrar til læring.</li>
 206
 207 <li><a href="http://doremusnor.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/reservasjonsrettsstaten/">Reservasjonsrettsstaten</a>
 208 (blogg fra Doremus 2014-02-09) - morsom beskrivelse om hvordan
 209 regjeringens forslag til reservasjonsrett for leger kan utvides til å
 210 gjelde alles samvittighet.</li>
 211
 212 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Autoritar-gjokunge-7514915.html">Autoritær
 213 gjøkunge</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-25) - Kronikk av Bjørn Stærk om
 214 snurpenots-overvåkningen som varsleren Snowden dokumenterte.</li>
 215
 216 <li><a href="http://blogg.friprog.no/2014/03/leveransekrise-i-offentlig-sektor-mener-mike-bracken-executive-director-of-digital-in-the-cabinet-office/">Leveransekrise
 217 i Offentlig sektor – mener Mike Bracken, Executive Director of Digital
 218 in the Cabinet Office</a> (blogg fra Friprog-senteret 2014-03-26).</li>
 219
 220 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/26/kultur/meninger/kronikk/etiopia/avlytting/32499687/">Norge
 221 må stanse avlyttingen</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-26) - leserinnlegg fra
 222 Felix Horne der han ber om at Norge gjør en innsats for å få slutt på
 223 overvåkning av innbyggerne som gjøres i Norge av Etiopiske
 224 myndigheter.</li>
 225
 226 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Demokrati-er-ingen-naturlig-styreform-7521957.html">Demokrati
 227 er ingen naturlig styreform</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-01) - kronikk av
 228 Stein Ringen om hvordan demokrati som styreform går tapt når
 229 innbyggerne tar det for gitt.</li>
 230
 231 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/ytringsansvar-ere-enhver-tilladte_-1.11618934">Ytringsansvar
 232 ere Enhver tilladte!</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-04-01) - innspill fra Trygve
 233 Svensson og Helge Svare om at hver enkelt av oss har et ansvar for å
 234 ytre oss i den offentlige debatten.</li>
 235
 236 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/Jeg-er-ingen-god-samfunnsborger-7527128.html">Jeg
 237 er ingen god samfunnsborger</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-16), kronikk av
 238 Simen Tveitereid om alternative måter å motiveres i samfunnet, uten å
 239 hige etter mer penger og flere ting.</li>
 240
 241 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Avgjorelsen-far-umiddelbar-virkning-7531811.html">DLD-dommen:
 242 Avgjørelsen får umiddelbar virkning</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-10) -
 243 kronikk av Høyres Michael Tetzschner, en partiutbryter i DLD-saken som
 244 stemte nei til DLD i Stortinget i 2011.</li>
 245
 246 <li><a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1466">Datalagringsdirektivets
 247 endelikt</a> (blogg fra John Wessel-Aas 2014-04-11) - oppsummering
 248 av hvordan direktivet ble funnet ugyldig i EU-domstolen.</li>
 249
 250 <li><a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/kronikk-kapitulasjonspresidenten/a/10147713/">Kronikk:
 251 Kapitulasjonspresidenten</a> (VG 2014-04-22) - kronikk av Einar
 252 Kr. Steffenak om hvordan Stortingspresidenten og regjeringen viser sin
 253 prinsippløshet i møte med Kina.</li>
 254
 255 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Innerst-inne-er-alle-nordmenn-7542617.html">Innerst
 256 inne er alle nordmenn</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-27) - kronikk fra Bjørn
 257 Stærk om hvordan vi i Vesten i stor grad baserer oss på en fantasi om
 258 at alle i verden bærer på en drøm om å bli som oss.</li>
 259
 260 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/uviten/Det-italienske-senatet-gav-seg-selv-134-milliarder-euro-i-sluttpakke--7575312.html">Det
 261 italienske senatet gav seg selv 134 milliarder euro i sluttpakke</a>
 262 (Aftenposten 2014-06-19) - forsker Simen Gaure forteller hvordan
 263 løgner og fantasi fra nettkilder i stor grad blir akseptert som
 264 sannhet - antagelig også av deg og meg.</li>
 265
 266 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/05/30/kultur/meninger/kronikk/skole/33576392/">Et
 267 forsvar for bråkmakerne</a> (Dagbladet 2014-05-30) - kronikk av Dag
 268 Øystein Nome som beskriver hvordan dagens skole ikke fungerer så godt
 269 for mange elever.</li>
 270
 271 <li><a href="http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/Betalte-med-slitt-seddel---havnet-i-arresten-7617208.html">Betalte
 272 med slitt seddel - havnet i arresten</a> (Osloby 2014-06-25)) -
 273 dokumentasjon av Oslopolitiets angrep på vår alles rett til å ferdes
 274 uten elektronisk sporing.  Jeg bruker kontanter i så stor grad som
 275 mulig da banken ikke har noe med hvor jeg er og hva jeg kjøper.  Vi
 276 som gjør dette risikerer som beskrevet overgrep som frihetsberøvelse
 277 og registrering og lagring av fingeravtrykk og bilde i politiets
 278 database over mistenkte.</li>
 279
 280 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/leder/Fredsprisen-til-Snowden-7620422.html">Fredsprisen
 281 til Snowden</a> (Aftenposten 2014-06-28) - leder som forklarer hvorfor
 282 varsleren Snowden bør få fredsprisen.</li>
 283
 284 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/08/01/kultur/meninger/dbmener/leder1/34598010/">Strategi
 285 for politistaten</a> (Dagbladet 2014-08-01) - leder som advarer om
 286 sterke krefter som bruker terrortrusselen til å lirke Norge nærmere å
 287 bli en politistat.</li>
 288
 289 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/vi-ma-tenke-nytt-om-narkotika-1.11859322">Vi
 290 må tenke nytt om narkotika</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-08-03) - Mark Lewis
 291 forklarer hvorfor legalisering og offentlig kontroll av
 292 narkotikamarkedet er mye bedre enn å overlate det til kriminelle.</li>
 293
 294
 295 </ul></p>
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 300         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
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 308       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Bernd_Zeitzen.html">Debian Edu interview: Bernd Zeitzen</a></div>
 309       <div class="date">31st July 2014</div>
 310       <div class="body"><p>The complete and free “out of the box” software solution for
 311 schools, <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 312 Skolelinux</a>, is used quite a lot in Germany, and one of the people
 313 involved is Bernd Zeitzen, who show up on the project mailing lists
 314 from time to time with interesting questions and tips on how to adjust
 315 the setup.  I managed to interview him this summer.</p>
 316
 317 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 318
 319 <p>My name is Bernd Zeitzen and I'm married with Hedda, a self
 320 employed physiotherapist.  My former profession is tool maker, but I
 321 haven't worked for 30 years in this job.  30 years ago I started to
 322 support my wife and become her officeworker and a few years later the
 323 administrator for a small computer network, today based on Ubuntu
 324 Server (Samba, OpenVPN). For her daily work she has to use Windows
 325 Desktops because the software she needs to organize her business only
 326 works with Windows . :-(</p>
 327
 328 <p>In 1988 we started with one PC and DOS, then I learned to use
 329 Windows 98, 2000, XP, …, 8, Ubuntu, MacOSX.  Today we are running a
 330 Linux server with 6 Windows clients and 10 persons (teacher of
 331 children with special needs, speech therapist, occupational therapist,
 332 psychologist and officeworkers) using our Samba shares via OpenVPN to
 333 work with the documentations of our patients.</p>
 334
 335 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 336 project?</strong></p>
 337
 338 <p>Two years ago a friend of mine asked me, if I want to get a job in
 339 his school (<a href="http://www.gymnasium-harsewinkel.de/">Gymnasium
 340 Harsewinkel</a>).  They started with Skolelinux / Debian Edu and they
 341 were looking for people to give support to the teachers using the
 342 software and the network and teaching the pupils increasing their
 343 computer skills in optional lessons.  I'm spending 4-6 hours a week
 344 with this job.</p>
 345
 346 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 347 Edu?</strong></p>
 348
 349 <p>The independence.</p>
 350
 351 <p>First: Every person is allowed to use, share and develop the
 352 software. Even if you are poor, you are allowed to use the software
 353 included in Skolelinux/Debian Edu and all the other Free Software.</p>
 354
 355 <p>Second: The software runs on old machines and this gives us the
 356 possibility to recycle computers, weeded out from offices.  The
 357 servers and desktops are running for more than two years and they are
 358 working reliable. </p>
 359
 360 <p>We have two servers (one tjener and one terminal server), 45
 361 workstations in three classrooms and seven laptops as a mobile
 362 solution for all classrooms.  These machines are all booting from the
 363 terminal server.  In the moment we are installing 30 laptops as mobile
 364 workstations.  Then the pupils have the possibility to work with these
 365 machines in their classrooms.  Internet access is realized by a WLAN
 366 router, connected to the schools network. This is all done without a
 367 dedicated system administrator or a computer science teacher.</p>
 368
 369 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 370 Edu?</strong></p>
 371
 372 <p>Teachers and pupils are Windows users.  &lt;Irony on&gt; And Linux
 373 isn't cool. It's software for freaks using the command line. &lt;Irony
 374 off&gt; They don't realize the stability of the system. </p>
 375
 376 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 377
 378 <p>Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Samba,
 379 Apache, MySQL, Joomla!, … and Skolelinux / Debian Edu)</p>
 380
 381 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 382 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 383
 384 <p>In Germany we have the situation: every school is free to decide
 385 which software they want to use. This decision is influenced by
 386 teachers who learned to use Windows and MS Office. They buy a PC with
 387 Windows preinstalled and an additional testing version of MS
 388 Office. They don't know about the possibility to use Free Software
 389 instead.  Another problem are the publisher of school books.  They
 390 develop their software, added to the school books, for Windows.</p>
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 401
 402     <div class="entry">
 403       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/98_6_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html">98.6 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</a></div>
 404       <div class="date">23rd July 2014</div>
 405       <div class="body"><p>This summer I finally had time to continue working on the Norwegian
 406 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
 407 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
 408 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with todays copyright
 409 law.  Yesterday, I finally completed translated the book text.  There
 410 are still some foot/end notes left to translate, the colophon page
 411 need to be rewritten, and a few words and phrases still need to be
 412 translated, but the Norwegian text is ready for the first proof
 413 reading. :) More spell checking is needed, and several illustrations
 414 need to be cleaned up.  The work stopped up because I had to give
 415 priority to other projects the last year, and the progress graph of
 416 the translation show this very well:</p>
 417
 418 <p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
 419
 420 <p>If you want to read the result, check out the
 421 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>
 422 project pages and the
 423 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>,
 424 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
 425 and HTML version available in the
 426 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive">archive
 427 directory</a>.</p>
 428
 429 <p>Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
 430 you find any.</p>
 431 </div>
 432       <div class="tags">
 433
 434
 435         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
 436
 437
 438       </div>
 439     </div>
 440     <div class="padding"></div>
 441
 442     <div class="entry">
 443       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html">From English wiki to translated PDF and epub via Docbook</a></div>
 444       <div class="date">17th June 2014</div>
 445       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 446 project</a> provide an instruction manual for teachers, system
 447 administrators and other users that contain useful tips for setting up
 448 and maintaining a Debian Edu installation.  This text is about how the
 449 text processing of this manual is handled in the project.</p>
 450
 451 <p>One goal of the project is to provide information in the native
 452 language of its users, and for this we need to handle translations.
 453 But we also want to make sure each language contain the same
 454 information, so for this we need a good way to keep the translations
 455 in sync.  And we want it to be easy for our users to improve the
 456 documentation, avoiding the need to learn special formats or tools to
 457 contribute, and the obvious way to do this is to make it possible to
 458 edit the documentation using a web browser.  We also want it to be
 459 easy for translators to keep the translation up to date, and give them
 460 help in figuring out what need to be translated. Here is the list of
 461 tools and the process we have found trying to reach all these
 462 goals.</p>
 463
 464 <p>We maintain the authoritative source of our manual in the
 465 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/">Debian
 466 wiki</a>, as several wiki pages written in English.  It consist of one
 467 front page with references to the different chapters, several pages
 468 for each chapter, and finally one "collection page" gluing all the
 469 chapters together into one large web page (aka
 470 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/AllInOne">the
 471 AllInOne page</a>).  The AllInOne page is the one used for further
 472 processing and translations.  Thanks to the fact that the
 473 <a href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a> installation on
 474 wiki.debian.org support exporting pages in
 475 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">the Docbook format</a>, we can fetch
 476 the list of pages to export using the raw version of the AllInOne
 477 page, loop over each of them to generate a Docbook XML version of the
 478 manual.  This process also download images and transform image
 479 references to use the locally downloaded images.  The generated
 480 Docbook XML files are slightly broken, so some post-processing is done
 481 using the <tt>documentation/scripts/get_manual</tt> program, and the
 482 result is a nice Docbook XML file (debian-edu-wheezy-manual.xml) and
 483 a handfull of images.  The XML file can now be used to generate PDF, HTML
 484 and epub versions of the English manual.  This is the basic step of
 485 our process, making PDF (using dblatex), HTML (using xsltproc) and
 486 epub (using dbtoepub) version from Docbook XML, and the resulting files
 487 are placed in the debian-edu-doc-en binary package.</p>
 488
 489 <p>But English documentation is not enough for us.  We want translated
 490 documentation too, and we want to make it easy for translators to
 491 track the English original.  For this we use the
 492 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poxml.html">poxml</a> package,
 493 which allow us to transform the English Docbook XML file into a
 494 translation file (a .pot file), usable with the normal gettext based
 495 translation tools used by those translating free software.  The pot
 496 file is used to create and maintain translation files (several .po
 497 files), which the translations update with the native language
 498 translations of all titles, paragraphs and blocks of text in the
 499 original.  The next step is combining the original English Docbook XML
 500 and the translation file (say debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.po), to
 501 create a translated Docbook XML file (in this case
 502 debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.xml).  This translated (or partly
 503 translated, if the translation is not complete) Docbook XML file can
 504 then be used like the original to create a PDF, HTML and epub version
 505 of the documentation.</p>
 506
 507 <p>The translators use different tools to edit the .po files.  We
 508 recommend using
 509 <a href="http://www.kde.org/applications/development/lokalize/">lokalize</a>,
 510 while some use emacs and vi, others can use web based editors like
 511 <a href="http://pootle.translatehouse.org/">Poodle</a> or
 512 <a href="https://www.transifex.com/">Transifex</a>.  All we care about
 513 is where the .po file end up, in our git repository.  Updated
 514 translations can either be committed directly to git, or submitted as
 515 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/src:debian-edu-doc">bug reports
 516 against the debian-edu-doc package</a>.</p>
 517
 518 <p>One challenge is images, which both might need to be translated (if
 519 they show translated user applications), and are needed in different
 520 formats when creating PDF and HTML versions (epub is a HTML version in
 521 this regard).  For this we transform the original PNG images to the
 522 needed density and format during build, and have a way to provide
 523 translated images by storing translated versions in
 524 images/$LANGUAGECODE/.  I am a bit unsure about the details here.  The
 525 package maintainers know more.</p>
 526
 527 <p>If you wonder what the result look like, we provide
 528 <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/">the content
 529 of the documentation packages on the web</a>.  See for example the
 530 <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/it/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.pdf">Italian
 531 PDF version</a> or the
 532 <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/de/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.html">German
 533 HTML version</a>.  We do not yet build the epub version by default,
 534 but perhaps it will be done in the future.</p>
 535
 536 <p>To learn more, check out
 537 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-edu-doc.html">the
 538 debian-edu-doc package</a>,
 539 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/">the
 540 manual on the wiki</a> and
 541 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Translations">the
 542 translation instructions</a> in the manual.</p>
 543 </div>
 544       <div class="tags">
 545
 546
 547         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 548
 549
 550       </div>
 551     </div>
 552     <div class="padding"></div>
 553
 554     <div class="entry">
 555       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">Hvordan enkelt laste ned filmer fra NRK med den "nye" løsningen</a></div>
 556       <div class="date">16th June 2014</div>
 557       <div class="body"><p>Jeg har fortsatt behov for å kunne laste ned innslag fra NRKs
 558 nettsted av og til for å se senere når jeg ikke er på nett, men
 559 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">min
 560 oppskrift fra 2011</a> sluttet å fungere da NRK byttet
 561 avspillermetode.  I dag fikk jeg endelig lett etter oppdatert løsning,
 562 og jeg er veldig glad for å fortelle at den enkleste måten å laste ned
 563 innslag er å bruke siste versjon 2014.06.07 av
 564 <a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a>.  Støtten i
 565 youtube-dl <a href="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2980">kom
 566 inn for 23 dager siden</a> og
 567 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/y/youtube-dl.html">versjonen i
 568 Debian</a> fungerer fint også som backport til Debian Wheezy.  Det er
 569 et lite problem, det håndterer kun URLer med små bokstaver, men hvis
 570 en har en URL med store bokstaver kan en bare gjøre alle store om til
 571 små bokstaver for å få youtube-dl til å laste ned.  Rapporterte
 572 nettopp
 573 <a href="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2980">problemet til
 574 utviklerne</a>, og antar de får fikset det snart.</p>
 575
 576 <p>Dermed er alt klart til å laste ned dokumentarene om
 577 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID23005014/usas-hemmelige-avlytting">USAs
 578 hemmelige avlytting</a> og
 579 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID23005114/selskapene-bak-usas-avlytting">Selskapene
 580 bak USAs avlytting</a>, i tillegg til
 581 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID20005814/et-moete-med-edward-snowden">intervjuet
 582 med Edward Snowden gjort av den tyske tv-kanalen ARD</a>.  Anbefaler
 583 alle å se disse, sammen med
 584 <a href="http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5713_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312301130_-_to_protect_and_infect_part_2_-_jacob.html">foredraget
 585 til Jacob Appelbaum på siste CCC-konferanse</a>, for å forstå mer om
 586 hvordan overvåkningen av borgerne brer om seg.</p>
 587
 588 <p>Takk til gode venner på foreningen NUUGs IRC-kanal
 589 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug på irc.freenode.net</a>
 590 for tipsene som fikk meg i mål</a>.</p>
 591
 592 <p><strong>Oppdatering 2014-06-17</strong>: Etter at jeg publiserte
 593 denne, ble jeg tipset om bloggposten
 594 "<a href="http://ingvar.blog.redpill-linpro.com/2012/05/31/downloading-hd-content-from-tv-nrk-no/">Downloading
 595 HD content from tv.nrk.no</a>" av Ingvar Hagelund, som har alternativ
 596 implementasjon og tips for å lage mkv-fil med undertekstene inkludert.
 597 Kanskje den passer bedre for deg?  I tillegg ble feilen i youtube-dl
 598 ble fikset litt senere ut på dagen i går, samt at youtube-dl fikk
 599 støtte for å laste ned undertitler.  Takk til Anders Einar Hilden for
 600 god innsats og youtube-dl-utviklerne for rask respons.</p>
 601 </div>
 602       <div class="tags">
 603
 604
 605         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 606
 607
 608       </div>
 609     </div>
 610     <div class="padding"></div>
 611
 612     <div class="entry">
 613       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_car_computer_solution_.html">Free software car computer solution?</a></div>
 614       <div class="date">29th May 2014</div>
 615       <div class="body"><p>Dear lazyweb.  I'm planning to set up a small Raspberry Pi computer
 616 in my car, connected to
 617 <a href="http://www.dx.com/p/400a-4-0-tft-lcd-digital-monitor-for-vehicle-parking-reverse-camera-1440x272-12v-dc-57776">a
 618 small screen</a> next to the rear mirror.  I plan to hook it up with a
 619 GPS and a USB wifi card too.  The idea is to get my own
 620 "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer">Carputer</a>".  But I
 621 wonder if someone already created a good free software solution for
 622 such car computer.</p>
 623
 624 <p>This is my current wish list for such system:</p>
 625
 626 <ul>
 627
 628  <li>Work on Raspberry Pi.</li>
 629
 630  <li>Show current speed limit based on location, and warn if going too
 631    fast (for example using color codes yellow and red on the screen,
 632    or make a sound).  This could be done either using either data from
 633    <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">Openstreetmap</a> or OCR
 634    info gathered from a dashboard camera.</li>
 635
 636  <li>Track automatic toll road passes and their cost, show total spent
 637    and make it possible to calculate toll costs for planned
 638    route.</li>
 639
 640  <li>Collect GPX tracks for use with OpenStreetMap.</li>
 641
 642  <li>Automatically detect and use any wireless connection to connect
 643    to home server.  Try IP over DNS
 644    (<a href="http://dev.kryo.se/iodine/">iodine</a>) or ICMP
 645    (<a href="http://code.gerade.org/hans/">Hans</a>) if direct
 646    connection do not work.</li>
 647
 648  <li>Set up mesh network to talk to other cars with the same system,
 649    or some standard car mesh protocol.</li>
 650
 651  <li>Warn when approaching speed cameras and speed camera ranges
 652    (speed calculated between two cameras).</li>
 653
 654  <li>Suport dashboard/front facing camera to discover speed limits and
 655    run OCR to track registration number of passing cars.</li>
 656
 657 </ul>
 658
 659 <p>If you know of any free software car computer system supporting
 660 some or all of these features, please let me know.</p>
 661 </div>
 662       <div class="tags">
 663
 664
 665         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 666
 667
 668       </div>
 669     </div>
 670     <div class="padding"></div>
 671
 672     <div class="entry">
 673       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html">Half the Coverity issues in Gnash fixed in the next release</a></div>
 674       <div class="date">29th April 2014</div>
 675       <div class="body"><p>I've been following <a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">the Gnash
 676 project</a> for quite a while now.  It is a free software
 677 implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser
 678 plugin.  Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the
 679 newer AVM2 format - see
 680 <a href="http://lightspark.github.io/">Lightspark</a> for that one),
 681 allowing several flash based sites to work.  Thanks to the friendly
 682 developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the
 683 Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to
 684 those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2
 685 support, but it has not happened yet.  If you install both Lightspark
 686 and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file,
 687 so you can get both handled as free software.  Unfortunately,
 688 Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many
 689 sites do not work yet.</p>
 690
 691 <p>A few months ago, I started looking at
 692 <a href="http://scan.coverity.com/">Coverity</a>, the static source
 693 checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks
 694 to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the
 695 company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of
 696 the projects I decided to check out.  Coverity is able to find lock
 697 errors, memory errors, dead code and more.  A few days ago they even
 698 extended it to also be able to find the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL.
 699 There are heaps of checks being done on the instrumented code, and the
 700 amount of bogus warnings is quite low compared to the other static
 701 code checkers I have tested over the years.</p>
 702
 703 <p>Since a few weeks ago, I've been working with the other Gnash
 704 developers squashing bugs discovered by Coverity.  I was quite happy
 705 today when I checked the current status and saw that of the 777 issues
 706 detected so far, 374 are marked as fixed.  This make me confident that
 707 the next Gnash release will be more stable and more dependable than
 708 the previous one.  Most of the reported issues were and are in the
 709 test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.</p>
 710
 711 <p>If you want to help out, you find us on
 712 <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev">the
 713 gnash-dev mailing list</a> and on
 714 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#gnash">the #gnash channel on
 715 irc.freenode.net IRC server</a>.</p>
 716 </div>
 717       <div class="tags">
 718
 719
 720         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 721
 722
 723       </div>
 724     </div>
 725     <div class="padding"></div>
 726
 727     <div class="entry">
 728       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html">Install hardware dependent packages using tasksel (Isenkram 0.7)</a></div>
 729       <div class="date">23rd April 2014</div>
 730       <div class="body"><p>It would be nice if it was easier in Debian to get all the hardware
 731 related packages relevant for the computer installed automatically.
 732 So I implemented one, using
 733 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">my Isenkram
 734 package</a>.  To use it, install the tasksel and isenkram packages and
 735 run tasksel as user root.  You should be presented with a new option,
 736 "Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)".  When you
 737 select it, tasksel will install the packages isenkram claim is fit for
 738 the current hardware, hot pluggable or not.<p>
 739
 740 <p>The implementation is in two files, one is the tasksel menu entry
 741 description, and the other is the script used to extract the list of
 742 packages to install.  The first part is in
 743 <tt>/usr/share/tasksel/descs/isenkram.desc</tt> and look like
 744 this:</p>
 745
 746 <p><blockquote><pre>
 747 Task: isenkram
 748 Section: hardware
 749 Description: Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)
 750  Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific packages are
 751  proposed.
 752 Test-new-install: mark show
 753 Relevance: 8
 754 Packages: for-current-hardware
 755 </pre></blockquote></p>
 756
 757 <p>The second part is in
 758 <tt>/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/for-current-hardware</tt> and look like
 759 this:</p>
 760
 761 <p><blockquote><pre>
 762 #!/bin/sh
 763 #
 764 (
 765     isenkram-lookup
 766     isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
 767 ) | sort -u
 768 </pre></blockquote></p>
 769
 770 <p>All in all, a very short and simple implementation making it
 771 trivial to install the hardware dependent package we all may want to
 772 have installed on our machines.  I've not been able to find a way to
 773 get tasksel to tell you exactly which packages it plan to install
 774 before doing the installation.  So if you are curious or careful,
 775 check the output from the isenkram-* command line tools first.</p>
 776
 777 <p>The information about which packages are handling which hardware is
 778 fetched either from the isenkram package itself in
 779 /usr/share/isenkram/, from git.debian.org or from the APT package
 780 database (using the Modaliases header).  The APT package database
 781 parsing have caused a nasty resource leak in the isenkram daemon (bugs
 782 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/719837">#719837</a> and
 783 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/730704">#730704</a>).  The cause is in
 784 the python-apt code (bug
 785 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/745487">#745487</a>), but using a
 786 workaround I was able to get rid of the file descriptor leak and
 787 reduce the memory leak from ~30 MiB per hardware detection down to
 788 around 2 MiB per hardware detection.  It should make the desktop
 789 daemon a lot more useful.  The fix is in version 0.7 uploaded to
 790 unstable today.</p>
 791
 792 <p>I believe the current way of mapping hardware to packages in
 793 Isenkram is is a good draft, but in the future I expect isenkram to
 794 use the AppStream data source for this.  A proposal for getting proper
 795 AppStream support into Debian is floating around as
 796 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">DEP-11</a>, and
 797 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects#SummerOfCode2014.2FProjects.2FAppStreamDEP11Implementation.AppStream.2FDEP-11_for_the_Debian_Archive">GSoC
 798 project</a> will take place this summer to improve the situation.  I
 799 look forward to seeing the result, and welcome patches for isenkram to
 800 start using the information when it is ready.</p>
 801
 802 <p>If you want your package to map to some specific hardware, either
 803 add a "Xb-Modaliases" header to your control file like I did in
 804 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">the pymissile
 805 package</a> or submit a bug report with the details to the isenkram
 806 package.  See also
 807 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">all my
 808 blog posts tagged isenkram</a> for details on the notation.  I expect
 809 the information will be migrated to AppStream eventually, but for the
 810 moment I got no better place to store it.</p>
 811 </div>
 812       <div class="tags">
 813
 814
 815         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
 816
 817
 818       </div>
 819     </div>
 820     <div class="padding"></div>
 821
 822     <div class="entry">
 823       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html">FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid</a></div>
 824       <div class="date">15th April 2014</div>
 825       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
 826 project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware to make
 827 it easy for non-technical people to host their data and communication
 828 at home, and being able to communicate with their friends and family
 829 encrypted and away from prying eyes.  It is still going strong, and
 830 today a major mile stone was reached.</p>
 831
 832 <p>Today, the last of the packages currently used by the project to
 833 created the system images were accepted into Debian Unstable.  It was
 834 the freedombox-setup package, which is used to configure the images
 835 during build and on the first boot.  Now all one need to get going is
 836 the build code from the freedom-maker git repository and packages from
 837 Debian.  And once the freedombox-setup package enter testing, we can
 838 build everything directly from Debian. :)</p>
 839
 840 <p>Some key packages used by Freedombox are
 841 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>,
 842 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/plinth">plinth</a>,
 843 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pagekite">pagekite</a>,
 844 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/tor">tor</a>,
 845 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>,
 846 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/owncloud">owncloud</a> and
 847 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/dnsmasq">dnsmasq</a>.  There
 848 are plans to integrate more packages into the setup.  User
 849 documentation is maintained on the Debian wiki.  Please
 850 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Jessie">check out
 851 the manual</a> and help us improve it.</p>
 852
 853 <p>To test for yourself and create boot images with the FreedomBox
 854 setup, run this on a Debian machine using a user with sudo rights to
 855 become root:</p>
 856
 857 <p><pre>
 858 sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
 859   mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
 860   u-boot-tools
 861 git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
 862   freedom-maker
 863 make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
 864 </pre></p>
 865
 866 <p>Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
 867 devices.  See the README in the freedom-maker git repo for more
 868 details on the build.  If you do not want all three images, trim the
 869 make line.  Note that the virtualbox-image target is not really
 870 virtualbox specific.  It create a x86 image usable in kvm, qemu,
 871 vmware and any other x86 virtual machine environment.  You might need
 872 the version of vmdebootstrap in Jessie to get the build working, as it
 873 include fixes for a race condition with kpartx.</p>
 874
 875 <p>If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed
 876 method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load
 877 the preseed values:</p>
 878
 879 <p><pre>
 880 url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat</a>
 881 </pre></p>
 882
 883 <p>I have not tested it myself the last few weeks, so I do not know if
 884 it still work.</p>
 885
 886 <p>If you wonder how to help, one task you could look at is using
 887 systemd as the boot system.  It will become the default for Linux in
 888 Jessie, so we need to make sure it is usable on the Freedombox.  I did
 889 a simple test a few weeks ago, and noticed dnsmasq failed to start
 890 during boot when using systemd.  I suspect there are other problems
 891 too. :) To detect problems, there is a test suite included, which can
 892 be run from the plinth web interface.</p>
 893
 894 <p>Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
 895 us get the new release published. :) Please join us on
 896 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC (#freedombox on
 897 irc.debian.org)</a> and
 898 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 899 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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