- <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Axel Bojer</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I serien med intervjuer av folk i
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet har jeg
-fått en av oversetterne som har vært med siden starten i tale.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Jeg heter Axel Bojer og er datalærer, tysklærer, oversetter med
-mere.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Tror jeg så en annonsering på nettet i slutten av 2001 og ville
-være med som oversetter. Jeg kom med på en utviklersamling og
-prosjektet var da helt i starten. Det var spennende å være med mens
-prosjektet vokste til og utviklet seg.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg har «alltid» vært språkinteressert og hadde nettopp startet med
-Linux og tror jeg tenkte det passet å bidra. Var også glad for å få
-en Debian-distribusjon, og ville gjerne bruke den selv. Til å begynne
-med brukte jeg først Mandrake og så Debian. Og siden jeg oppdaget at
-det ikke var noen mulighet for å bruke den som enkeltstående i lang
-tid, så gikk jeg etterhvert over til Kubuntu</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Løsningen er forholdsvis lett å sette opp, gratis, fri programvare
-og gjør det mulig å gjenbruke eldre maskiner. Det fine med Debian er
-at det er stabilt og har en veldig stor mengde programmer. Jeg liker
-også apt. :-) Jeg liker også friheten ved Linux og muligheten til å
-delta og forme sin egen datahverdag.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Skolelinux er for lite kjent og for sent ute med å gi ut nye
-versjoner.</p>
-
-<p>Da jeg selv i hovedsak bruker Kubuntu, så kan jeg egentlig ikke
-svare så detaljert rundt ulempene med Skolelinux. Hovedårsaken til at
-jeg bruker Kubuntu er nok at da vi begynte med det mener jeg det ikke
-var noen annen løsning. «Vandrende arbeidsstasjon» mener jeg ikke
-fantes da. Dessuten ville jeg ha siste versjon, da den KDE-versjonen
-som var i Skolelinux den gangen var en god del enklere (tror det var
-KDE 2) var dårligere i mine øyne enn versjon 3.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Jeg bruker blant annet Kubuntu, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox,
-Kate, <a href="http://comix.sourceforge.net/">Comix</a> og Konsole. Og
-en hel haug andre ved behov :-)</p>
-
-<p>Har oversatt Comix selv, men det er jo ikke skjedd noe med Comix
-siden 2009, så den er det nok bare jeg som har. Om andre vil ha den
-gir jeg den gjerne videre. Ser at noen har startet på
-<a href="http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/">MComix</a> siden jeg så på så
-på dette sist, så nå er jeg igang med å teste og oversette den
-også.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Det viktigste er å forankre beslutningen i kollegiet og med de som
-er ansvarlige for å vedlikeholde og bruke datamaskinene. Flest mulig
-bør være med på å holde det (sosialt) vedlike, kjenne og støtte
-prinsippene. Som enkeltmannsprosjekt blir det lett veldig sårbart,
-særlig når (Skole)linux ennå i stor grad er en motkultur og ikke noe
-en stor nok andel av beslutningstakere, brukere osv kjenner til og
-bruker.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg tror det viktigste er å fortsette å holde fri programvare godt,
-oppdatert, minimere antall feil, ha en god kontakt med brukerne og
-attraktivt og spennende programmer. Beholde alt som er bra og ha det
-tilgjengelig samtidig som man tilbyr det nyeste og rareste for de som
-vil ha det.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Saving power with Debian Edu / Skolelinux using shutdown-at-night</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Since the Lenny version of
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>, a
-feature to save power have been included. It is as simple as it is
-practical: Shut down unused clients at night, and turn them on again
-in the morning. This is done using the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shutdown-at-night.html">shutdown-at-night</a> Debian package.</p>
-
-<p>To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to
-the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts. For Debian Edu, this is done in
-LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check
-every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and
-shut it down if it is. If the hardware in question is supported by
-the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvram-wakeup.html">nvram-wakeup</a>
-package, the BIOS is told to turn the machine back on around 07:00 +-
-10 minutes. If this isn't working, one can configure wake-on-lan to
-try to turn on the client. The wake-on-lan option is only documented
-and not enabled by default in Debian Edu.</p>
-
-<p>It is important to not turn all machines on at once, as this can
-blow a fuse if several computers are connected to the same fuse like
-the common setup for a classroom. The nvram-wakeup method only work
-for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock. I've seen old
-machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were
-starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot. If you have one of
-those, you have to turn on the computer manually.</p>
-
-<p>The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can
-also be used outside the Debian Edu environment. For those without a
-central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file
-<tt>/etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night</tt> to enable it.
-Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
-publish the third beta version of
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> based
-on Squeeze. If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
-out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
-installing new machines, check it out. If you need a software
-solution for your school, check it out too. The full announcement is
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html">available</a>
-on the project announcement list.</p>
-
-<p>I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
-beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
- 10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
- the installation.</li>
-
-<li>Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
- Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.</li>
-
-<li>The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
- disabled queues are restarted every hour. This should cut down on
- the amount of manual administration needed for printers.</li>
-
-<li>The set of initial users have been changed. Now a personal user
- for the local system administrator is created during installation
- instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
- and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
- membership. This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
- up to date on the system.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
-private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home. I will use it look
-for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
-final Squeeze release is published.</p>
-
-<p>Next weekend the project organise a
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html">developer
-gathering</a> in Oslo. We will continue the work on the Squeeze
-version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version. Perhaps I
-will see you there?</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Germany is a core area for the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
+Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in
+Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school
+"<a href="http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/">Westfalen-Kolleg
+Dortmund</a>", a second chance school. Here, young adults is given
+the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
+examination 'Abitur', which will allow to study at a university. This
+second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
+or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.</p>
+
+<p>Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
+blended learning project called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other
+information technology related projects. For about ten years I've been
+teacher and coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my
+school. Being now in my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at
+the end of April this year.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
+attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
+Project). At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
+using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
+2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
+clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
+reach. At home I'm using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
+Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
+two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
+known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
+Skolelinux.</p>
+
+<p>Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
+better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
+clients. The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
+was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
+and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
+the admin teachers.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>It's open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it's
+Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
+So it was a perfect choice.</p>
+
+<p>Being open source, there are no license problems and so it's
+possible to point teachers and students to programs like
+OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp. It's of
+high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
+a school and to choose where to get support for this.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Nothing yet.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
+Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
+Annotator). At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
+LibreOffice.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
+that doesn't seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
+interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.</p>