-<p>Det viktigste er å forankre beslutningen i kollegiet og med de som
-er ansvarlige for å vedlikeholde og bruke datamaskinene. Flest mulig
-bør være med på å holde det (sosialt) vedlike, kjenne og støtte
-prinsippene. Som enkeltmannsprosjekt blir det lett veldig sårbart,
-særlig når (Skole)linux ennå i stor grad er en motkultur og ikke noe
-en stor nok andel av beslutningstakere, brukere osv kjenner til og
-bruker.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg tror det viktigste er å fortsette å holde fri programvare godt,
-oppdatert, minimere antall feil, ha en god kontakt med brukerne og
-attraktivt og spennende programmer. Beholde alt som er bra og ha det
-tilgjengelig samtidig som man tilbyr det nyeste og rareste for de som
-vil ha det.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Saving power with Debian Edu / Skolelinux using shutdown-at-night</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Since the Lenny version of
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>, a
-feature to save power have been included. It is as simple as it is
-practical: Shut down unused clients at night, and turn them on again
-in the morning. This is done using the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shutdown-at-night.html">shutdown-at-night</a> Debian package.</p>
-
-<p>To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to
-the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts. For Debian Edu, this is done in
-LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check
-every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and
-shut it down if it is. If the hardware in question is supported by
-the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvram-wakeup.html">nvram-wakeup</a>
-package, the BIOS is told to turn the machine back on around 07:00 +-
-10 minutes. If this isn't working, one can configure wake-on-lan to
-try to turn on the client. The wake-on-lan option is only documented
-and not enabled by default in Debian Edu.</p>
-
-<p>It is important to not turn all machines on at once, as this can
-blow a fuse if several computers are connected to the same fuse like
-the common setup for a classroom. The nvram-wakeup method only work
-for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock. I've seen old
-machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were
-starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot. If you have one of
-those, you have to turn on the computer manually.</p>
-
-<p>The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can
-also be used outside the Debian Edu environment. For those without a
-central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file
-<tt>/etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night</tt> to enable it.
-Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
-publish the third beta version of
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> based
-on Squeeze. If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
-out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
-installing new machines, check it out. If you need a software
-solution for your school, check it out too. The full announcement is
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html">available</a>
-on the project announcement list.</p>
-
-<p>I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
-beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
- 10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
- the installation.</li>
-
-<li>Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
- Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.</li>
-
-<li>The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
- disabled queues are restarted every hour. This should cut down on
- the amount of manual administration needed for printers.</li>
-
-<li>The set of initial users have been changed. Now a personal user
- for the local system administrator is created during installation
- instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
- and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
- membership. This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
- up to date on the system.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
-private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home. I will use it look
-for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
-final Squeeze release is published.</p>
-
-<p>Next weekend the project organise a
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html">developer
-gathering</a> in Oslo. We will continue the work on the Squeeze
-version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version. Perhaps I
-will see you there?</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><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>