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-               <title>Åpent møte på onsdag om bruken av Microsoft Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg jobber til daglig ved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;Universitetet
-i Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, en institusjon som lenge har vektlagt verdien av åpne
-standarder og fri programvare.  Men noe har endret seg, og for en
-liten stund tilbake annonserte USIT at dagens fungerende e-postsystemet
-basert på fri programvare skulle byttes ut med Microsoft Exchange og
-at Microsoft Outlook skulle bli den best fungerende men antagelig ikke
-eneste støttede e-postklienten.  Annonseringen har ført til flere
-protester og &lt;a href=&quot;http://folk.uio.no/dssantos/nooutlookatuio/&quot;&gt;en
-underskriftskampanje&lt;/a&gt;, initiert av Diana Santos, der så langt 253
-personer har signert.  Prosjektet
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike/&quot;&gt;NIKE (Ny integrert
-kalender/e-post)&lt;/a&gt; ble initiert for å se på mulige løsninger med
-utgangspunkt i at en kombinert epost/kalenderløsning var påkrevd, og
-prosjektet
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike-implementasjon/&quot;&gt;NIKE-implementasjon&lt;/a&gt;
-er igang med å rulle ut MS Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
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+                <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;For kun kort tid siden ble det annonsert at det blir et åpent møte
-med ledelsen hos universitetet i Oslo med disse planene som tema:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
+2013-07-03&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Tid: &lt;strong&gt;Onsdag 2013-06-05 kl. 10:00&lt;/strong&gt;
-&lt;br&gt;Sted: &lt;strong&gt;9. etasje i Lucy Smiths hus (admin-bygget)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt; Det kan være en god plass å stille opp hvis en som meg ikke tror
-valget av Microsoft Exchange som sentral epostinfrastruktur er et
-heldig valg for Norges ledende forskningsuniversitet, men at en er mer
-tjent med å selv
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://nuug.no/dokumenter/kronikk-friprog-itsikkerhet.shtml&quot;&gt;beholde
-kontrollen over egen infrastruktur&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Saken har ført til endel presseoppslag så langt.  Her er de jeg har
-fått med meg:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
+services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
+and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
+environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
+the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
+installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
+database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
+directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
+desktop contains
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 &lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;ul&gt;

+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian
+    submenu.  It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this
+    brings KDE in line with the others.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
+    they don&#39;t have a desktop menu entry and thus won&#39;t show up in the
+    menu now that menu-xdg was removed.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on
+    multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a
+    X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users
+    too.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
+    are too few to make the package useful.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
+  &lt;li&gt;Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
+    up for some language options.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
+    d-i is doing it.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
+    debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft
+    script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a
+    Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update system to install needed firmware packages during
+    installation, to work properly in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
+    and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
+    work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+    available yet (698840).&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Artwork not enabled for all desktops.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2013-05-29
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system&quot;&gt;Forsvarer
-  nytt IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;2013-05-23
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
-  innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;
-
-
-&lt;li&gt;2013-05-22
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system&quot;&gt;Protestgruppe
-  vil stanse IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;
-
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &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;
+  &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;
+  &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2013-05-15
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
-  må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &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;
+  &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;
+  &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;

 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 

+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&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;

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-               <title>Educational applications included in Debian Edu / Skolelinux (the screenshot collection :-)</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jun 2013 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Included in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
-Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, there are quite a lot of educational software.
-Created to help teachers teach, and pupils learn.  We have tried to
-tag them all using debtags use::learning and role::program, and using
-the debtags I was happy to be able to create a collage of the
-educational software packages installed by default, sorted by the
-debtag field.  Here it is.  Click on a image to learn more about the
-program.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&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;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::arts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::astronomy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::biology:structural&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::chemistry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::electronics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::geography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::linguistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::mathematics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::physics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;field::TODO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&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;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In total, 61 applications.  3 of them lacked screen shots on
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenshot.debian.net&quot;&gt;screenshot.debian.net&lt;/a&gt;.  If
-you know of some packages we should install by default, please let us
-know on &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;IRC, #debian-edu
-on irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;, or our
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;mailing list
-debian-edu@&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Automatically locate and install required firmware packages on Debian (Isenkram 0.4)</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It annoys me when the computer fail to do automatically what it is
+perfectly capable of, and I have to do it manually to get things
+working.  One such task is to find out what firmware packages are
+needed to get the hardware on my computer working.  Most often this
+affect the wifi card, but some times it even affect the RAID
+controller or the ethernet card.  Today I pushed version 0.4 of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;Isenkram package&lt;/a&gt;
+including a new script isenkram-autoinstall-firmware handling the
+process of asking all the loaded kernel modules what firmware files
+they want, find debian packages providing these files and install the
+debian packages.  Here is a test run on my laptop:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: kernel drivers requested extra firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw ipw2200-sniffer.fw
+info: fetching http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Contents-i386.gz
+info: locating packages with the requested firmware files
+info: Updating APT sources after adding non-free APT source
+info: trying to install firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+Preconfiguring packages ...
+Selecting previously deselected package firmware-ipw2x00.
+(Reading database ... 259727 files and directories currently installed.)
+Unpacking firmware-ipw2x00 (from .../firmware-ipw2x00_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb) ...
+Setting up firmware-ipw2x00 (0.28+squeeze1) ...
+# 
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When all the requested firmware is present, a simple message is
+printed instead:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules.  exiting
+# 
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It could use some polish, but it is already working well and saving
+me some time when setting up new machines. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;So, how does it work?  It look at the set of currently loaded
+kernel modules, and look up each one of them using modinfo, to find
+the firmware files listed in the module meta-information.  Next, it
+download the Contents file from a nearby APT mirror, and search for
+the firmware files in this file to locate the package with the
+requested firmware file.  If the package is in the non-free section, a
+non-free APT source is added and the package is installed using
+&lt;tt&gt;apt-get install&lt;/tt&gt;.  The end result is a slightly better working
+machine.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I hope someone find time to implement a more polished version of
+this script as part of the hw-detect debian-installer module, to
+finally fix &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;BTS report
+#655507&lt;/a&gt;.  There really is no need to insert USB sticks with
+firmware during a PXE install when the packages already are available
+from the nearby Debian mirror.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>How to install Linux on a Packard Bell Easynote LV preinstalled with Windows 8</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Two days ago, I asked
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html&quot;&gt;how
-I could install Linux on a Packard Bell EasyNote LV computer
-preinstalled with Windows 8&lt;/a&gt;.  I found a solution, but am horrified
-with the obstacles put in the way of Linux users on a laptop with UEFI
-and Windows 8.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I never found out if the cause of my problems were the use of UEFI
-secure booting or fast boot.  I suspect fast boot was the problem,
-causing the firmware to boot directly from HD without considering any
-key presses and alternative devices, but do not know UEFI settings
-enough to tell.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;There is no way to install Linux on the machine in question without
-opening the box and disconnecting the hard drive!  This is as far as I
-can tell, the only way to get access to the firmware setup menu
-without accepting the Windows 8 license agreement.  I am told (and
-found description on how to) that it is possible to configure the
-firmware setup once booted into Windows 8.  But as I believe the terms
-of that agreement are completely unacceptable, accepting the license
-was never an alternative.  I do not enter agreements I do not intend
-to follow.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I feared I had to return the laptops and ask for a refund, and
-waste many hours on this, but luckily there was a way to get it to
-work.  But I would not recommend it to anyone planning to run Linux on
-it, and I have become sceptical to Windows 8 certified laptops.  Is
-this the way Linux will be forced out of the market place, by making
-it close to impossible for &quot;normal&quot; users to install Linux without
-accepting the Microsoft Windows license terms?  Or at least not
-without risking to loose the warranty?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve updated the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv&quot;&gt;Linux Laptop
-wiki page for Packard Bell EasyNote LV&lt;/a&gt;, to ensure the next person
-do not have to struggle as much as I did to get Linux into the
-machine.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Bob Rosbag, Florian Weimer, Philipp Kern, Ben Hutching,
-Michael Tokarev and others for feedback and ideas.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>The value of a good distro wide test suite...</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; project, we include a post-installation test suite,
+which check that services are running, working, and return the
+expected results.  It runs automatically just after the first boot on
+test installations (using test ISOs), but not on production
+installations (using non-test ISOs).  It test that the LDAP service is
+operating, Kerberos is responding, DNS is replying, file systems are
+online resizable, etc, etc.  And it check that the PXE service is
+configured, which is the topic of this post.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The last week I&#39;ve fixed the DVD and USB stick ISOs for our Debian
+Edu Wheezy release.  These ISOs are supposed to be able to install a
+complete system without any Internet connection, but for that to
+happen all the needed packages need to be on them.  Thanks to our test
+suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
+cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
+When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
+using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
+working packages to get it working.  And ad the packages changed name
+from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
+debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
+packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we
+would never have discovered this before release.  Now it is fixed
+right after we got the ISOs operational.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system
+administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the
+test suite using &lt;tt&gt;/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install&lt;/tt&gt; and see if
+any errors are detected.  This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
+the problem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
+please join us on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt; and the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@&lt;/a&gt; mailing
+list.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>How can I install Linux on a Packard Bell Easynote LV preinstalled with Windows 8?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve run into quite a problem the last few days.  I bought three
-new laptops for my parents and a few others.  I bought Packard Bell
-Easynote LV to run Kubuntu on and use as their home computer.  But I
-am completely unable to figure out how to install Linux on it.  The
-computer is preinstalled with Windows 8, and I suspect it uses UEFI
-instead of a BIOS to boot.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The problem is that I am unable to get it to PXE boot, and unable
-to get it to boot the Linux installer from my USB stick.  I have yet
-to try the DVD install, and still hope it will work.  when I turn on
-the computer, there is no information on what buttons to press to get
-the normal boot menu.  I expect to get some boot menu to select PXE or
-USB stick booting.  When booting, it first ask for the language to
-use, then for some regional settings, and finally if I will accept the
-Windows 8 terms of use.  As these terms are completely unacceptable to
-me, I have no other choice but to turn off the computer and try again
-to get it to boot the Linux installer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have gathered my findings so far on a Linlap page about the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv&quot;&gt;Packard Bell
-EasyNote LV&lt;/a&gt; model.  If you have any idea how to get Linux
-installed on this machine, please get in touch or update that wiki
-page.  If I can&#39;t find a way to install Linux, I will have to return
-the laptop to the seller and find another machine for my parents.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I wonder, is this the way Linux will be forced out of the market
-using UEFI and &quot;secure boot&quot; by making it impossible to install Linux
-on new Laptops?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Victor Nițu</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; distribution have users and contributors all around the
+globe.  And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;our IRC channel
+#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt; and started asking questions about how Debian Edu
+worked.  We answered as good as we could, and even convinced him to
+help us with translations.  And today I managed to get an interview
+with him, to learn more about him.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 25 year old free software enthusiast, living in Romania,
+which is also my country of origin. Back in 2009, at a New Year&#39;s Eve
+party, I had a very nice &lt;strike&gt;beer&lt;/strike&gt; discussion with a
+friend, when we realized we have no organised Debian community in our
+country. A few days later, we put together the infrastructure for such
+community and even gathered a nice Debian-ish crowd. Since then, I
+began my quest as a free software hacker and activist and I am
+constantly trying to cover as much ground as possible on that
+field.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I founded a small web development company, which
+provided me the flexible schedule I needed so much for my
+activities. For the last 13 months, I have been the Technical Director
+of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ceata.org/&quot;&gt;Fundația Ceata&lt;/a&gt;, which is a free
+software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
+the only one we have in our country.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The idea of participating in the Debian Edu project was a surprise
+even to me, since I never used it before I began getting involved in
+it. This year I had a great opportunity to deliver a talk on
+educational software, and I knew immediately where to look. It was a
+love at first sight, since I was previously involved with some of the
+technologies the project incorporates, and I rapidly found a lot of
+ways to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
+configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
+haven&#39;t fixed them yet though), and I even got my eyes on some other
+areas where I can prove myself helpful. Since the appetite for free
+software in my country is pretty low, I&#39;ll be happy to be the first
+one around here advocating for the project&#39;s adoption in educational
+environments, and maybe even get my hands dirty in creating a flavour
+for our own needs. I am not used to make very advanced plannings, so
+from now on, time will tell what I&#39;ll be doing next, but I think I
+have a pretty consistent starting point.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Not a long time ago, I was in the position of configuring and
+maintaining a LDAP server on some Debian derivative, and I must say it
+took me a while. A long time ago, I was maintaining a bigger
+Samba-powered infrastructure, and I must say I spent quite a lot of
+time on it. I have similar stories about many of the services included
+with Skolelinux, and the main advantage I see about it is the
+out-of-the box availability of them, making it quite competitive when
+it comes to managing a school&#39;s network, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is more to say about Skolelinux than the
+availability of the software included, its flexibility in various
+scenarios is something I can&#39;t wait to experiment &quot;into the wild&quot; (I
+only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
+lot more I haven&#39;t discovered yet about it, being so new within the
+project.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, when it comes to Debian Blends, I see as the biggest
+disadvantage the lack of a numerous team dedicated to the
+project. Every day I see the same names in the changelogs, and I have
+a constantly fear of the bus factor in this story.  I&#39;d like to see
+Debian Edu advertised more as an entry point into the Debian
+ecosystem, especially amongst newcomers and students. IMHO there are a
+lot low-hanging fruits in terms of bug squashing, and enough
+opportunities to get the feeling of the Debian Project&#39;s dynamics. Not
+to mention it&#39;s a very fun blend to work on!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Derived from the previous statement, is the delay in catching up
+with the main Debian release and documentation. This is common though
+to all blends and derivatives, but it&#39;s an issue we can all work
+on.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I can hardly imagine myself spending a day without Vim, since my
+daily routine covers writing code and hacking configuration files. I
+am a fan of the Awesome window manager (but I also like the
+Enlightenment project a lot!),
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.claws-mail.org/‎&quot;&gt;Claws Mail&lt;/a&gt; due to its ease of
+use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/redshift&quot;&gt;Redshift&lt;/a&gt;, which helps me
+get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
+stuff in this bag, but I&#39;ll need a blog on my own for doing this!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Well, on this field, I cannot do much more than experiment right
+now. So, being far from having a recipe for success, I can only assume
+that:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;schools would like to get rid of proprietary software&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;students will love the openness of the system, and will want to
+    experiment with it - maybe we need to harvest the native curiosity
+    of teenagers more?&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;there is no &quot;right one&quot; when it comes to strategies, but it would
+    be useful to have some success stories published somewhere, so
+    other can get some inspiration from them (I know I&#39;d promote
+    them!)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;more active promotion - talks, conferences, even small school
+    lectures can do magical things if they encounter at least one
+    person interested. Who knows who that person might be? ;-)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also see some problems in getting Skolelinux into schools; for
+example, in our country we have a great deal of corruption issues, so
+it might be hard(er) to fight against proprietary solutions. Also,
+people who relied on commercial software for all their lives, would be
+very hard to convert against their will.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Nirosan Thiyagalingam</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;En ting
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-prosjektet&lt;/a&gt; har
-hatt mye glede av er studentprosjekter.  F.eks.  er
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.org/&quot;&gt;stillbildeanimasjonssystemet
-Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt; resultat av et studentprosjekt i Skolelinux.  De siste
-månedene har en ivrig student veiledet av Marius Kotsbak i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRiSK&lt;/a&gt; testet hva en
-kan få til med en datamaskin til NOK 400,- (antagelig 1700,- med
-skjerm, tastatur og mus) når det brukes i Skolelinux.  Jeg spurte han
-om et intervju.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Nirosan Thiyagalingam. Jeg er 24 år og studerer
-dataingeniør studiet ved Høgskolen i Sør Trøndelag. Interessen for
-data har siden ung alder vært tilstede og jeg har i tillegg alltid
-vært glad i å lære nye ting. Med teknologi som endres svært hurtig er
-det alltid noe nytt å lære.  Noe som igjen har gjort det svært
-interessant å følge med på utviklingen.  Jeg valgte dataingeniør
-studiet grunnet ønske om å lære enda mer om programmering og utvikling
-av store systemer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux prosjektet hørte jeg først om i media. Men det var først
-når jeg skulle velge bacheloroppgave at jeg fattet mer interesse for
-prosjektet. Et enkelt søk på nettet førte meg til skolelinux sine
-hjemmesider.  Informasjonen jeg fant der gjorde meg enda nysgjerrig og
-jeg valgte derfor en oppgave som gikk ut på å få en
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspberrypi.org&quot;&gt;Raspberry PI&lt;/a&gt;.  Altså en
-ultra-billig datamaskin til å kjøre Debian Edu på lik linje med
-vanlige datamaskiner. I løpet av prosjektet ble det gjort mye
-forskning på nettet. Det var mye jeg måtte forstå rundt hvordan
-operativsystemet Linux fungerte før jeg kunne angripe
-problemet. Prøvde først å finne ut hvordan man kunne transformere en
-vanlig installasjon av Skolelinux til Raspberry PI, men dette var
-altfor vanskelig å jeg endte opp med mer spørsmål enn svar. Det ble
-videre opprettet kontakt med Skolelinux utviklere på IRC der jeg fikk
-diskutert hvilken retning jeg burde gå for å få til en fullverdig
-løsning. Det ble bestemt at jeg skulle gå for å først installere
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspbian.org/&quot;&gt;Raspian&lt;/a&gt;. Dette er et
-operativsystem basert på Debian spesiallaget for Raspberry Pi sin
-maskinvare. Nå som Debian var installert på datamaskinen gjenstod det
-å installere de nødvendige Skolelinux pakkene for å få til et
-fullverdig system. Disse pakkene ble installert manuelt i første
-omgang, men ble senere installert automatisk via et script som Petter
-Reinholdtsen laget. Dette scriptet er så enkel å bruke at man er i
-gang med installasjonen i løpet av bare 5 minutter. Ikke nok med det,
-alt skjer helt automatisk. Alt i alt er jeg veldig fornøyd med
-resultatet av installasjonsprosessen. Raspberry Pi er en veldig svak
-maskin og det merkes godt når man har installert Skolelinux på
-den. Video og 3D-rendering fungerer utrolig dårlig, men nettsurfing og
-kontorprogrammer fungerer godt.  Det kan derfor konkluderes med at
-datamaskinen er egnet for enkle oppgaver.
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg syns det er viktig påpeke at dette kun er startfasen av en slik
-løsning. På markedet finnes det nå maskiner som har bedre hardware enn
-Raspberry Pi. Det er store muligheter for at man kan klare å
-installere Skolelinux på disse også, og da forsvinner nok mest
-sannsynlig ytelsesproblemene med Video og 3D rendering også.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det ble også prøvd med en løsning som gjorde at Raspberry Pi
-fungerte som en tynnklient. Denne løsningen hadde langt bedre ytelse
-med tanke på hastighet og brukeropplevelse. Men også her var video og
-3D rendering dårlig. Det ble brukt en liten Linux distribusjon kalt
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berryterminal.com/&quot;&gt;BerryTerminal&lt;/a&gt; for å få til
-dette.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Fordelen med Skolelinux er mange. At det er gratis er en stor
-fordel, men at det er så mange som er med på å utvikle det og
-vedlikeholde det er en enda større fordel. Allerede før jeg startet
-med prosjektet så jeg mange fordeler, og når jeg nærmet meg sluttfasen
-så jeg langt flere. At prosjektet skulle inneha en så høy kvalitet
-hadde jeg aldri trodd. En vanlig Skolelinux installasjon har de
-nødvendige programmene og funksjonen som både små og store skoler i
-tillegg til organisasjoner kan klare seg med.  At prosjektet tilbyr en
-så komplett løsning er en kjempefordel.  Installasjonen er knirkefri
-og det er svært enkelt å installere og komme i gang.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Ulempene jeg ser med prosjektet er ryddigheten av websidene. Selv
-om websidene er enkle og konsise er det allikevel ikke appellerende i
-like stor grad som for eksempel
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; sine sider.  Deres side
-tilbyr, i tillegg til godt design og presentasjon, en nettbasert
-emulator av deres operativsystem. Dette er en stor fordel slik jeg ser
-det.  Bortsett fra dette ser jeg absolutt ingen ulemper med
-Skolelinux-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Til daglig er jeg en flittig bruker av det åpne media
-sentersystemet &lt;a href=&quot;http://xbmc.org/&quot;&gt;XBMC&lt;/a&gt;. Det enorme
-samfunnet rundt dette prosjektet har gjort dette til et program som
-dekker alles behov. Man kan tilpasse det akkurat slik man vil både med
-tanke på utseende og funksjoner ved installere plug-ins eller
-scripts.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Strategien som burde brukes sett fra mine øyne er
-markedsføring. Jeg er sikker på at om flere skoler fikk et lite innsyn
-i hvor bra Skolelinux er så ville de ikke nølt med å gå over fra noe
-annet som koster de store summer. At skolelinux til de grader tilbyr
-en så komplett løsning bure komme frem. Enten via reklamekampanjer
-eller ved å sende ut folk til skoler for så å la skolenettverk
-ansvarlige få teste ut hvordan Skolelinux fungerer i praksis. Om det
-i tillegg ble utviklet gode websider og en emulator for å la brukere
-prøve operativsystemet ville nok dette ha styrket inntrykket
-betraktelig.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a certain cross-over between the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edubuntu.org/&quot;&gt;the Edubuntu
+project&lt;/a&gt;, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
+effort between the projects.  One person with a foot in both camps is
+Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
+days vary quite a bit since I&#39;m involved in too many things. As I&#39;m
+getting older I&#39;m learning how to focus a bit more :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
+opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
+each other.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
+first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
+[Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
+London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
+Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
+it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
+was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
+day I have a big todo list backlog that I&#39;m catching up with. I think
+over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
+been gradually improving, although I think there&#39;s a lot that we could
+still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I&#39;m sure
+we&#39;ll get there one day.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
+it for pages, but in essence I love that it&#39;s a very honest project
+that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
+very high quality work.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
+set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
+with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
+helps to standardise installations in schools so that it&#39;s easier for
+community members and commercial suppliers to support.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I had to re-type this one a few times because I&#39;m trying to
+separate &quot;disadvantages&quot; from &quot;areas that need improvement&quot; (which is
+what I originally rambled on about)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
+project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
+think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
+content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
+on. When you&#39;ve been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
+years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
+concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
+more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I&#39;d love to be one
+myself but I&#39;m already so over-committed that it&#39;s just not possible
+currently.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
+for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
+their skills in-house. I&#39;m often saddened to see how much money
+educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don&#39;t
+have access to after the service has ended and they could&#39;ve gotten so
+much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
+autonomous.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
+Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
+some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
+particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
+so I suppose I&#39;ll soon be able to regain that disk space :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
+git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I&#39;ve been torn on
+which desktop environment I like and I&#39;m taking some refuge in Xfce
+while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
+Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
+it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
+up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
+X.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
+using Norton Commander in the early 90&#39;s and it stuck (I think the
+people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don&#39;t know how to use
+it :p)
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
+many cases it&#39;s appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
+don&#39;t think that there&#39;s any particular moral or ethical problem with
+that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
+problems in educational institutions and it&#39;s just a shame not taking
+advantage of that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
+some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
+Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
+general concepts. I think that&#39;s very unproductive because firstly, MS
+Office&#39;s interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
+that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
+best solution for them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
+educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
+make a decision that would work for them.&lt;/p&gt;

 </description>
        </item>
        
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 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>How to transform a Debian based system to a Debian Edu installation</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is
-an operating system based on Debian intended for use in schools.  It
-contain a turn-key solution for the computer network provided to
-pupils in the primary schools.  It provide both the central server,
-network boot servers and desktop environments with heaps of
-educational software.  The project was founded almost 12 years ago,
-2001-07-02.  If you want to support the project, which is in need for
-cash to fund developer gatherings and other project related activity,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html&quot;&gt;please
-donate some money&lt;/a&gt;.
-
-&lt;p&gt;A topic that come up again and again on the Debian Edu mailing
-lists and elsewhere, is the question on how to transform a Debian or
-Ubuntu installation into a Debian Edu installation.  It isn&#39;t very
-hard, and last week I wrote a script to replicate the steps done by
-the Debian Edu installer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The script,
-&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;
-in the debian-edu-config package, will go through these six steps and
-transform an existing Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu (untested) installation
-into a Debian Edu Workstation:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ol&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Add skolelinux related APT sources.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Create /etc/debian-edu/config with the wanted configuration.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Install debian-edu-install to load preseeding values and pull in
-    our configuration.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Preseed debconf database with profile setup in
-    /etc/debian-edu/config, and run tasksel to install packages
-    according to the profile specified in the config above,
-    overriding some of the Debian automation machinery.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Run debian-edu-cfengine-D installation to configure everything
-    that could not be done using preseeding.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Ask for a reboot to enable all the configuration changes.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ol&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;There are some steps in the Debian Edu installation that can not be
-replicated like this.  Disk partitioning and LVM setup, for example.
-So this script just assume there is enough disk space to install all
-the needed packages.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Fixing the Linux black screen of death on machines with Intel HD video</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When installing RedHat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu on some machines,
+the screen just turn black when Linux boot, either during installation
+or on first boot from the hard disk.  I&#39;ve seen it once in a while the
+last few years, but only recently understood the cause.  I&#39;ve seen it
+on HP laptops, and on my latest acquaintance the Packard Bell laptop.
+The reason seem to be in the wiring of some laptops.  The system to
+control the screen background light is inverted, so when Linux try to
+turn the brightness fully on, it end up turning it off instead.  I do
+not know which Linux drivers are affected, but this post is about the
+i915 driver used by the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv&quot;&gt;Packard Bell
+EasyNote LV&lt;/a&gt;, Thinkpad X40 and many other laptops.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The problem can be worked around two ways.  Either by adding
+i915.invert_brightness=1 as a kernel option, or by adding a file in
+/etc/modprobe.d/ to tell modprobe to add the invert_brightness=1
+option when it load the i915 kernel module.  On Debian and Ubuntu, it
+can be done by running these commands as root:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
+update-initramfs -u -k all
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Since March 2012 there is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca20efb1a9c2efefc28ad2867e5d6c3f5e1955&quot;&gt;a
+mechanism in the Linux kernel&lt;/a&gt; to tell the i915 driver which
+hardware have this problem, and get the driver to invert the
+brightness setting automatically.  To use it, one need to add a row in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c&quot;&gt;the
+intel_quirks array&lt;/a&gt; in the driver source
+&lt;tt&gt;drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c&lt;/tt&gt; (look for &quot;&lt;tt&gt;static
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks&lt;/tt&gt;&quot;), specifying the PCI device
+number (vendor number 8086 is assumed) and subdevice vendor and device
+number.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My Packard Bell EasyNote LV got this output from &lt;tt&gt;lspci
+-vvnn&lt;/tt&gt; for the video card in question:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The script was created to help a Debian Edu student working on
-setting up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspberrypi.org&quot;&gt;Raspberry Pi&lt;/a&gt; as a
-Debian Edu client, and using it he can take the existing
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raspbian.org/FrontPage‎&quot;&gt;Raspbian&lt;/a&gt; installation and
-transform it into a fully functioning Debian Edu Workstation (or
-Roaming Workstation, or whatever :).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation \
+    3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] \
+    (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
+ Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0688]
+ Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- \
+    ParErr- Stepping- SE RR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast &gt;TAbort- \
+    &lt;TAbort- &lt;MAbort-&gt;SERR- &lt;PERR- INTx-
+ Latency: 0
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
+ Region 0: Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
+ Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
+ Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
+ Expansion ROM at &lt;unassigned&gt; [disabled]
+ Capabilities: &lt;access denied&gt;
+ Kernel driver in use: i915
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The default setting in the script is to create a KDE Workstation.
-If a LXDE based Roaming workstation is wanted instead, modify the
-PROFILE and DESKTOP values at the top to look like this instead:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The resulting intel_quirks entry would then look like this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-PROFILE=&quot;Roaming-Workstation&quot;
-DESKTOP=&quot;lxde&quot;
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
+       ...
+        /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
+       { 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
+       ...
+}

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;The script could even become useful to set up Debian Edu servers in
-the cloud, by starting with a virtual Debian installation at some
-virtual hosting service and setting up all the services on first
-boot.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
+&lt;tt&gt;modinfo i915&lt;/tt&gt;), information about hardware needing the
+invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel&quot;&gt;dri-devel
+(at) lists.freedesktop.org&lt;/a&gt; mailing list to reach the kernel
+developers.  But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
+yet shown up in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-June/thread.html&quot;&gt;the
+web archive for the mailing list&lt;/a&gt;, so I suspect they do not accept
+emails from non-subscribers.  Because of this, I sent my patch also to
+the Debian bug tracking system instead as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/710938&quot;&gt;BTS report #710938&lt;/a&gt;, to make
+sure the patch is not lost.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix the kernel to get Laptops
+with this problem working properly with Linux.  If you use Gnome, your
+worries should be over at this point.  But if you use KDE, there is
+something in KDE ignoring the invert_brightness setting and turning on
+the screen during login.  I&#39;ve reported it to Debian as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/711237&quot;&gt;BTS report #711237&lt;/a&gt;, and
+have no idea yet how to figure out exactly what subsystem is doing
+this.  Perhaps you can help?  Perhaps you know what the Gnome
+developers did to handle this, and this can give a clue to the KDE
+developers?  Or you know where in KDE the screen brightness is changed
+during login?  If so, please update the BTS report (or get in touch if
+you do not know how to update BTS).&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Second alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project&lt;/a&gt; is making great progress and made its second Wheezy based
-release today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released
-2013-05-14&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
+2013-06-10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
 
 &lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu

-alpha1, based on &lt;ahref=&quot;http://www.debian.org&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; with
-codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+alpha2, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
-on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
-configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
-server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
-waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
-Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
-initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
-other machines can be installed via the network.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
-not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
-version compared to the Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
+services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
+and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
+environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
+the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
+installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
+database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
+directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
+desktop contains
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

+

 &lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;ul&gt;

-  &lt;li&gt;Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
-    default.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
-    ibus-anthy.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1) 
+&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). 
+&lt;li&gt;Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4. 
+&lt;li&gt;Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default. 
+&lt;li&gt;Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default. 
+

 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

+

 &lt;ul&gt;
 
 &lt;ul&gt;
 

-  &lt;li&gt;Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
-    reliability improvements.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
-    of &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/706434&quot;&gt;706434&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
-    problems.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
-    direct:// URL.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
-    servers, to make room for all the software installed.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
-    log in (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/706753&quot;&gt;706753&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
+&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. 
+&lt;li&gt;Updated translation of the installation. 
+&lt;li&gt;New Romanian translation. 
+&lt;li&gt;Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat. 
+&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).
+&lt;li&gt;Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments. 
+&lt;li&gt;New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile. 
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS. 
+&lt;li&gt;More testsuite tests. 
+&lt;li&gt;Make automatic proxy configuration more robust. 
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration. 
+
+&lt;li&gt;Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
+LTSP in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
+them up with GOsa².&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Update IMAP server setup. &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
+slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
+entered password). &lt;/li&gt;
+

 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

+

 &lt;ul&gt;
 
 &lt;ul&gt;
 

-  &lt;li&gt;IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
-    (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/705900&quot;&gt;705900&lt;/a&gt;).  Only install
-    libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;DVD images are not yet ready.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
-    available yet (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;698840&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
-    (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
-    password submission problem
-    (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;700257&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
+missing import feature).&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
+own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
+unfixed.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;

+

 &lt;ul&gt;
 
 &lt;ul&gt;
 

-  &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;
-  &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;
-  &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;
+&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;

 
 

-&lt;/ul&gt;
+&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;
+
+&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178 
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&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;
+&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;

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-               <title>Debian, the Linux distribution of choice for LEGO designers?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;P&gt;In January,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html&quot;&gt;I
-announced a&lt;/a&gt; new &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego&quot;&gt;IRC
-channel #debian-lego&lt;/a&gt;, for those of us in the Debian and Linux
-community interested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lego.com/&quot;&gt;LEGO&lt;/a&gt;, the
-marvellous construction system from Denmark.  We also created
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners&quot;&gt;a wiki page&lt;/a&gt; to have
-a place to take notes and write down our plans and hopes.  And several
-people showed up to help.  I was very happy to see the effect of my
-call.  Since the small start, we have a debtags tag
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://debtags.debian.net/search/bytag?wl=hardware::hobby:lego&quot;&gt;hardware::hobby:lego&lt;/a&gt;
-tag for LEGO related packages, and now count 10 packages related to
-LEGO and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mindstorms.lego.com/&quot;&gt;Mindstorms&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;table&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/brickos&quot;&gt;brickos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;alternative OS for LEGO Mindstorms RCX. Supports development in C/C++&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/leocad&quot;&gt;leocad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;virtual brick CAD software&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/libnxt&quot;&gt;libnxt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NX&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/lnpd&quot;&gt;lnpd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;daemon for LNP communication with BrickOS&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/nbc&quot;&gt;nbc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/nqc&quot;&gt;nqc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt&quot;&gt;python-nxt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt-filer&quot;&gt;python-nxt-filer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;simple GUI to manage files on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/scratch&quot;&gt;scratch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/t2n&quot;&gt;t2n&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;simple command-line tool for Lego NXT&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Some of these are available in Wheezy, and all but one are
-currently available in Jessie/testing.  leocad is so far only
-available in experimental.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you care about LEGO in Debian, please join us on IRC and help
-adding the rest of the great free software tools available on Linux
-for LEGO designers.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Is there a PHP expert in the building?  Debian Edu need help!</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
+We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
+hope to get released soon.  The two problems require some with PHP
+skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
+the project:
+
+&lt;ol&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
+  (slbackup-php) using the root user and password.  This is
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;BTS report #700257&lt;/a&gt;.
+  This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
+  Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;It is not possible to &quot;mass import&quot; user lists in Gosa, neither
+  using ldif nor using CSV files.  The feature was disabled after a
+  major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
+  This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;BTS report
+  #698840&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you can help us, please join us on IRC
+(&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;) and provide patches via the BTS.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Narvik sparer minst 9 millioner på å bruke Skolelinux</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I fjor sommer ble jeg
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html&quot;&gt;gledelig
-overrasket&lt;/a&gt; over et oppslag i avisen Fremover om Narvik kommunes
-bruk av &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  Oppslaget
-var basert på et notat som besvarte spørsmål fra ordfører Tor Nysæter
-og rådgiver for skolesektoren, Petter Falkbu, om bruken av Skolelinux
-i Narvikskolene og konstnaden ved å gå over til Windows.  For litt
-over en uke siden siden fikk jeg endelig bedt kommunen om å få innsyn
-i dette notatet, og det ble oversendt på epost tirsdag.  Jeg fikk
-&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
-ut notatet&lt;/a&gt; samme dag, og fikk i dag sjekket postlista til Narvik,
-der jeg fant notatet som
-&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
-2013/1023&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Notatet forteller at Narvik ville måtte betalt minst 9 millioner
-for å gå over til Windows på skolene.  I tillegg dokumenterer notatet
-at læreplanens krav oppfylles uten problemer ved bruk av Skolelinux.
-Jeg anbefaler alle å lese de 10 sidene med gode argumenter for å kutte
-unødige utgifter på IT i skoleverket. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last English
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+interview last November.  But the developers and translators are still
+pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
+time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
+in the project, Cédric Boutillier.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
+professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
+mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
+probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
+and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
+packaging, publicity and translation.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals&quot;&gt;the
+Debian Edu manual&lt;/a&gt; for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
+then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
+manual.
+
+&lt;p&gt;I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
+virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
+shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
+how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
+ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
+by &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa²&lt;/a&gt;.  What pleased
+me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
+there were many &quot;traditional&quot; educative software to learn languages,
+to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
+artistic skills with music (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ardour.org/&quot;&gt;Ardour&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Audacity&lt;/a&gt;) and
+movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt;.
+Unfortunately, I don&#39;t much time to get more involved in this
+beautiful project.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
+community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
+fact that it provides a solution ready to use.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
+distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
+of educational free software.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
+project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
+not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
+solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
+is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;One can find support from a company by looking at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;the
+wiki dokumentation&lt;/a&gt;, where some countries already have a number of
+companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
+Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
+for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
+consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
+support for Debian Edu as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
+most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
+scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice.  I am
+also using the mathematical software
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about‎&quot;&gt;Scilab&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagemath.org/index.html‎&quot;&gt;Sage&lt;/a&gt; (built from
+source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
+using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
+statistics?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I do not have any &quot;nice&quot; recommendations for statistics. At our
+university, we use both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/‎&quot;&gt;R&lt;/a&gt; and
+Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
+geometry, there are nice programs:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drgeo.eu/&quot;&gt;drgeo&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig‎&quot;&gt;kig&lt;/a&gt; to do
+constructions in planar geometry
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html&quot;&gt;kali&lt;/a&gt;
+to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
+groups), although the interface looks a bit old.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I like also
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor&quot;&gt;cantor&lt;/a&gt;, which
+provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave‎&quot;&gt;Octave&lt;/a&gt;, etc...&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My suggestions would be to&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
+    well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
+    OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;advertise the living and strong community around the project.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
+    system.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;

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-               <title>Debian Wheezy is out - and Debian Edu / Skolelinux should soon follow! #newinwheezy</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 07:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;When I woke up this morning, I was very happy to see that the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504&quot;&gt;release announcement
-for Debian Wheezy&lt;/a&gt; was waiting in my mail box.  This is a great
-Debian release, and I expect to move my machines at home over to it fairly
-soon.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The new debian release contain heaps of new stuff, and one program
-in particular make me very happy to see included.  The
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://scratch.mit.edu/&quot;&gt;Scratch&lt;/a&gt; program, made famous by
-the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.code.org/&quot;&gt;Teach kids code&lt;/a&gt; movement, is
-included for the first time.  Alongside similar programs like
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/&quot;&gt;kturtle&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art&quot;&gt;turtleart&lt;/a&gt;,
-it allow for visual programming where syntax errors can not happen,
-and a friendly programming environment for learning to control the
-computer.  Scratch will also be included in the next release of Debian
-Edu.&lt;/a&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And now that Wheezy is wrapped up, we can wrap up the next Debian
-Edu/Skolelinux release too.  The
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/04/msg00132.html&quot;&gt;first
-alpha release&lt;/a&gt; went out last week, and the next should soon
-follow.&lt;p&gt;
+               <title>Åpent møte på onsdag om bruken av Microsoft Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg jobber til daglig ved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;Universitetet
+i Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, en institusjon som lenge har vektlagt verdien av åpne
+standarder og fri programvare.  Men noe har endret seg, og for en
+liten stund tilbake annonserte USIT at dagens fungerende e-postsystemet
+basert på fri programvare skulle byttes ut med Microsoft Exchange og
+at Microsoft Outlook skulle bli den best fungerende men antagelig ikke
+eneste støttede e-postklienten.  Annonseringen har ført til flere
+protester og &lt;a href=&quot;http://folk.uio.no/dssantos/nooutlookatuio/&quot;&gt;en
+underskriftskampanje&lt;/a&gt;, initiert av Diana Santos, der så langt 253
+personer har signert.  Prosjektet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike/&quot;&gt;NIKE (Ny integrert
+kalender/e-post)&lt;/a&gt; ble initiert for å se på mulige løsninger med
+utgangspunkt i at en kombinert epost/kalenderløsning var påkrevd, og
+prosjektet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike-implementasjon/&quot;&gt;NIKE-implementasjon&lt;/a&gt;
+er igang med å rulle ut MS Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For kun kort tid siden ble det annonsert at det blir et åpent møte
+med ledelsen hos universitetet i Oslo med disse planene som tema:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Tid: &lt;strong&gt;Onsdag 2013-06-05 kl. 10:00&lt;/strong&gt;
+&lt;br&gt;Sted: &lt;strong&gt;9. etasje i Lucy Smiths hus (admin-bygget)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt; Det kan være en god plass å stille opp hvis en som meg ikke tror
+valget av Microsoft Exchange som sentral epostinfrastruktur er et
+heldig valg for Norges ledende forskningsuniversitet, men at en er mer
+tjent med å selv
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://nuug.no/dokumenter/kronikk-friprog-itsikkerhet.shtml&quot;&gt;beholde
+kontrollen over egen infrastruktur&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Saken har ført til endel presseoppslag så langt.  Her er de jeg har
+fått med meg:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-29
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system&quot;&gt;Forsvarer
+  nytt IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-23
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
+  innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;
+
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-22
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system&quot;&gt;Protestgruppe
+  vil stanse IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;
+
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-15
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
+  må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+

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