- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html">Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 4th February 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
-publish the third beta version of
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> based
-on Squeeze. If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
-out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
-installing new machines, check it out. If you need a software
-solution for your school, check it out too. The full announcement is
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html">available</a>
-on the project announcement list.</p>
-
-<p>I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
-beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
- 10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
- the installation.</li>
-
-<li>Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
- Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.</li>
-
-<li>The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
- disabled queues are restarted every hour. This should cut down on
- the amount of manual administration needed for printers.</li>
-
-<li>The set of initial users have been changed. Now a personal user
- for the local system administrator is created during installation
- instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
- and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
- membership. This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
- up to date on the system.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
-private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home. I will use it look
-for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
-final Squeeze release is published.</p>
-
-<p>Next weekend the project organise a
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html">developer
-gathering</a> in Oslo. We will continue the work on the Squeeze
-version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version. Perhaps I
-will see you there?</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html">Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</a></div>
- <div class="date">27th January 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
-This is the sad fact of todays computers. In the next version of
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> based
-on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
-firmware blobs easier to handle. The common use case I run into is a
-laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
-work, but there are other use cases as well.</p>
-
-<p>First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
-with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
-included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
-during installation. This take care firmware for network devices used
-by the installer when installing from from local media. But for
-example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
-not taken care of by this.</p>
-
-<p>For non-network devices, we provide the script
-<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware</tt> which
-search through the <tt>dmesg</tt> output for drivers requesting extra
-firmware. The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
-file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
-the requested firmware file(s) is installed. I have proposed to do
-something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/655507">#655507</a>), to allow PXE
-installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better. Run the
-script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
-firmware packages.</p>
-
-<p>Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
-because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
-working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
-included to be able to install at all. To fill the PXE installation
-initrd with extra firmware, the
-<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware</tt> script is
-provided. Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
-PXE initrd with firmware packages.</p>
-
-<p>Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
-network cards working. For this,
-<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware</tt> is
-provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs. It is used
-the same way as the other firmware related tools.</p>
-
-<p>At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation. We
-do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
-non-free software, and it is their choice.</p>
-
-<p>We plan to release beta3 this weekend. You might want to give it a
-try.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html">Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication</a></div>
+ <div class="date">25th March 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
+
+<p>The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I
+published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how
+to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos,
+allowing users to check their local email account without providing
+any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size,
+and also available from <a href="https://vimeo.com/38601767">vimeo</a>
+and download as a
+<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg
+Theora</a> file. Check it out below.</p>
+
+<p><video id="kmail-kerberos-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
+ <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
+ <p>Download video as
+ <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
+</video></p>