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- <title>July 13th: Debian/Ubuntu BSP and Skolelinux/Debian Edu developer gathering in Oslo</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/July_13th__Debian_Ubuntu_BSP_and_Skolelinux_Debian_Edu_developer_gathering_in_Oslo.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>The upcoming Saturday, 2013-07-13, we are organising a combined
-Debian Edu developer gathering and Debian and Ubuntu bug squashing
-party in Oslo. It is organised by <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the
-member assosiation NUUG</a> and
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project</a> together with <a href="http://bitraf.no/">the hack space
-Bitraf</a>.</p>
-
-<p>It starts 10:00 and continue until late evening. Everyone is
-welcome, and there is no fee to participate. There is on the other
-hand limited space, and only room for 30 people. Please put your name
-on <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2013/07/13/no/Oslo">the event
-wiki page</a> if you plan to join us.</p>
+ <title>Testing sysvinit from experimental in Debian Hurd</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_sysvinit_from_experimental_in_Debian_Hurd.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_sysvinit_from_experimental_in_Debian_Hurd.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A few days ago I decided to try to help the Hurd people to get
+their changes into sysvinit, to allow them to use the normal sysvinit
+boot system instead of their old one. This follow up on the
+<a href="https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de//categories/gsoc.html">great
+Google Summer of Code work</a> done last summer by Justus Winter to
+get Debian on Hurd working more like Debian on Linux. To get started,
+I downloaded a prebuilt hard disk image from
+<a href="http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz">http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz</a>,
+and started it using virt-manager.</p>
+
+<p>The first think I had to do after logging in (root without any
+password) was to get the network operational. I followed
+<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">the
+instructions on the Debian GNU/Hurd ports page</a> and ran these
+commands as root to get the machine to accept a IP address from the
+kvm internal DHCP server:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+settrans -fgap /dev/netdde /hurd/netdde
+pkill pfinet
+pkill devnode
+dhclient -v /dev/eth0
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>After this, the machine had internet connectivity, and I could
+upgrade it and install the sysvinit packages from experimental and
+enable it as the default boot system in Hurd.</p>
+
+<p>But before I did that, I set a password on the root user, as ssh is
+running on the machine it for ssh login to work a password need to be
+set. Also, note that a bug somewhere in openssh on Hurd block
+compression from working. Remember to turn that off on the client
+side.</p>
+
+<p>Run these commands as root to upgrade and test the new sysvinit
+stuff:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list &lt;&lt;EOF
+deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ experimental main
+EOF
+apt-get update
+apt-get dist-upgrade
+apt-get install -t experimental initscripts sysv-rc sysvinit \
+ sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
+update-alternatives --config runsystem
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>To reboot after switching boot system, you have to use
+<tt>reboot-hurd</tt> instead of just <tt>reboot</tt>, as there is not
+yet a sysvinit process able to receive the signals from the normal
+'reboot' command. After switching to sysvinit as the boot system,
+upgrading every package and rebooting, the network come up with DHCP
+after boot as it should, and the settrans/pkill hack mentioned at the
+start is no longer needed. But for some strange reason, there are no
+longer any login prompt in the virtual console, so I logged in using
+ssh instead.
+
+<p>Note that there are some race conditions in Hurd making the boot
+fail some times. No idea what the cause is, but hope the Hurd porters
+figure it out. At least Justus said on IRC (#debian-hurd on
+irc.debian.org) that they are aware of the problem. A way to reduce
+the impact is to upgrade to the Hurd packages built by Justus by
+adding this repository to the machine:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hurd-ci.list &lt;&lt;EOF
+deb http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/hurd-ci/ sid main
+EOF
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>At the moment the prebuilt virtual machine get some packages from
+http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian, because some of the packages in
+unstable do not yet include the required patches that are lingering in
+BTS. This is the completely list of "unofficial" packages installed:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+# aptitude search '?narrow(?version(CURRENT),?origin(Debian Ports))'
+i emacs - GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
+i gdb - GNU Debugger
+i hurd-recommended - Miscellaneous translators
+i isc-dhcp-client - ISC DHCP client
+i isc-dhcp-common - common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages
+i libc-bin - Embedded GNU C Library: Binaries
+i libc-dev-bin - Embedded GNU C Library: Development binaries
+i libc0.3 - Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
+i A libc0.3-dbg - Embedded GNU C Library: detached debugging symbols
+i libc0.3-dev - Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
+i multiarch-support - Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatibilit
+i A x11-common - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
+i xorg - X.Org X Window System
+i A xserver-xorg - X.Org X server
+i A xserver-xorg-input-all - X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
+#
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>All in all, testing hurd has been an interesting experience. :)
+X.org did not work out of the box and I never took the time to follow
+the porters instructions to fix it. This time I was interested in the
+command line stuff.<p>
</description>
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- <title>The Thinkpad is dead, long live the Thinkpad X230?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 5 Jul 2013 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Half a year ago, I reported that I had to find a
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html">replacement
-for my trusty old Thinkpad X41</a>. Unfortunately I did not have much
-time to spend on it, and it took a while to find a model I believe
-will do the job, but two days ago the replacement finally arrived. I
-ended up picking a
-<a href="http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_x230">Thinkpad X230</a>
-with SSD disk (NZDAJMN). I first test installed Debian Edu Wheezy as
-a roaming workstation, and it seemed to work flawlessly. But my
-second installation with encrypted disk was not as successful. More
-on that below.</p>
-
-<p>I had a hard time trying to track down a good laptop, as my most
-important requirements (robust and with a good keyboard) are never
-listed in the feature list. But I did get good help from the search
-feature at <a href="http://www.prisjakt.no/">Prisjakt</a>, which
-allowed me to limit the list of interesting laptops based on my other
-requirements. A bit surprising that SSD disk are not disks according
-to that search interface, so I had to drop specifying the number of
-disks from my search parameters. I also asked around among friends to
-get their impression on keyboards and robustness.</p>
-
-<p>So the new laptop arrived, and it is quite a lot wider than the
-X41. I am not quite convinced about the keyboard, as it is
-significantly wider than my old keyboard, and I have to stretch my
-hand a lot more to reach the edges. But the key response is fairly
-good and the individual key shape is fairly easy to handle, so I hope
-I will get used to it. My old X40 was starting to fail, and I really
-needed a new laptop now. :)</p>
-
-<p>Turning off the touch pad was simple. All it took was a quick
-visit to the BIOS during boot it disable it.</p>
-
-<p>But there is a fatal problem with the laptop. The 180 GB SSD disk
-lock up during load. And this happen when installing Debian Wheezy
-with encrypted disk, while the disk is being filled with random data.
-I also tested to install Ubuntu Raring, and it happen there too if I
-reenable the code to fill the disk with random data (it is disabled by
-default in Ubuntu). And the bug with is already known. It was
-reported to Debian as <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/691427">BTS
-report #691427 2012-10-25</a> (journal commit I/O error on brand-new
-Thinkpad T430s ext4 on lvm on SSD). It is also reported to the Linux
-kernel developers as
-<a href="https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51861">Kernel bugzilla
-report #51861 2012-12-20</a> (Intel SSD 520 stops working under load
-(SSDSC2BW180A3L in Lenovo ThinkPad T430s)). It is also reported on the
-Lenovo forums, both for
-<a href="http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T430s-Intel-SSD-520-180GB-issue/m-p/1070549">T430
-2012-11-10</a> and for
-<a href="http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/x230-SATA-errors-with-180GB-Intel-520-SSD-under-heavy-write-load/m-p/1068147">X230
-03-20-2013</a>. The problem do not only affect installation. The
-reports state that the disk lock up during use if many writes are done
-on the disk, so it is much no use to work around the installation
-problem and end up with a computer that can lock up at any moment.
-There is even a
-<a href="https://git.efficios.com/?p=test-ssd.git">small C program
-available</a> that will lock up the hard drive after running a few
-minutes by writing to a file.</p>
-
-<p>I've contacted my supplier and asked how to handle this, and after
-contacting PCHELP Norway (request 01D1FDP) which handle support
-requests for Lenovo, his first suggestion was to upgrade the disk
-firmware. Unfortunately there is no newer firmware available from
-Lenovo, as my disk already have the most recent one (version LF1i). I
-hope to hear more from him today and hope the problem can be
-fixed. :)</p>
+ <title>A fist full of non-anonymous Bitcoins</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_fist_full_of_non_anonymous_Bitcoins.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_fist_full_of_non_anonymous_Bitcoins.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Bitcoin is a incredible use of peer to peer communication and
+encryption, allowing direct and immediate money transfer without any
+central control. It is sometimes claimed to be ideal for illegal
+activity, which I believe is quite a long way from the truth. At least
+I would not conduct illegal money transfers using a system where the
+details of every transaction are kept forever. This point is
+investigated in
+<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login">USENIX ;login:</a>
+from December 2013, in the article
+"<a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/03_meiklejohn-online.pdf">A
+Fistful of Bitcoins - Characterizing Payments Among Men with No
+Names</a>" by Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole,Grant Jordan, Kirill
+Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. They
+analyse the transaction log in the Bitcoin system, using it to find
+addresses belong to individuals and organisations and follow the flow
+of money from both Bitcoin theft and trades on Silk Road to where the
+money end up. This is how they wrap up their article:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>"To demonstrate the usefulness of this type of analysis, we turned
+our attention to criminal activity. In the Bitcoin economy, criminal
+activity can appear in a number of forms, such as dealing drugs on
+Silk Road or simply stealing someone else’s bitcoins. We followed the
+flow of bitcoins out of Silk Road (in particular, from one notorious
+address) and from a number of highly publicized thefts to see whether
+we could track the bitcoins to known services. Although some of the
+thieves attempted to use sophisticated mixing techniques (or possibly
+mix services) to obscure the flow of bitcoins, for the most part
+tracking the bitcoins was quite straightforward, and we ultimately saw
+large quantities of bitcoins flow to a variety of exchanges directly
+from the point of theft (or the withdrawal from Silk Road).</p>
+
+<p>As acknowledged above, following stolen bitcoins to the point at
+which they are deposited into an exchange does not in itself identify
+the thief; however, it does enable further de-anonymization in the
+case in which certain agencies can determine (through, for example,
+subpoena power) the real-world owner of the account into which the
+stolen bitcoins were deposited. Because such exchanges seem to serve
+as chokepoints into and out of the Bitcoin economy (i.e., there are
+few alternative ways to cash out), we conclude that using Bitcoin for
+money laundering or other illicit purposes does not (at least at
+present) seem to be particularly attractive."</p>
+</blockquote><p>
+
+<p>These researches are not the first to analyse the Bitcoin
+transaction log. The 2011 paper
+"<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524">An Analysis of Anonymity in
+the Bitcoin System</A>" by Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan is
+summarized like this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+"Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a
+complicated issue. Within the system, users are identified by
+public-keys only. An attacker wishing to de-anonymize its users will
+attempt to construct the one-to-many mapping between users and
+public-keys and associate information external to the system with the
+users. Bitcoin tries to prevent this attack by storing the mapping of
+a user to his or her public-keys on that user's node only and by
+allowing each user to generate as many public-keys as required. In
+this chapter we consider the topological structure of two networks
+derived from Bitcoin's public transaction history. We show that the
+two networks have a non-trivial topological structure, provide
+complementary views of the Bitcoin system and have implications for
+anonymity. We combine these structures with external information and
+techniques such as context discovery and flow analysis to investigate
+an alleged theft of Bitcoins, which, at the time of the theft, had a
+market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars."
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>I hope these references can help kill the urban myth that Bitcoin
+is anonymous. It isn't really a good fit for illegal activites. Use
+cash if you need to stay anonymous, at least until regular DNA
+sampling of notes and coins become the norm. :)</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>The Thinkpad is dead, long live the Thinkpad X230</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jul 2013 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Half a year ago, I reported that I had to find a replacement for my
-trusty old Thinkpad X41. Unfortunately I did not have much time to
-spend on it, but today the replacement finally arrived. I ended up
-picking a <a href="http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_x230">Thinkpad
-X230</a> with SSD disk (NZDAJMN). I first test installed Debian Edu
-Wheezy as a roaming workstation, and it worked flawlessly. As I write
-this, it is installing what I hope will be a more final installation,
-with a encrypted hard drive to ensure any dope head stealing it end up
-with an expencive door stop.</p>
-
-<p>I had a hard time trying to track down a good laptop, as my most
-important requirements (robust and with a good keyboard) are never
-listed in the feature list. But I did get good help from the search
-feature at <ahref="http://www.prisjakt.no/">Prisjakt</a>, which
-allowed me to limit the list of interesting laptops based on my other
-requirements. A bit surprising that SSD disk are not disks, so I had
-to drop number of disks from my search parameters.</p>
-
-<p>I am not quite convinced about the keyboard, as it is significantly
-wider than my old keyboard, and I have to stretch my hand a lot more
-to reach the edges. But the key response is fairly good and the
-individual key shape is fairly easy to handle, so I hope I will get
-used to it. My old X40 was starting to fail, and I really needed a
-new laptop now. :)</p>
-
-<p>I look forward to figuring out how to turn off the touch pad.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <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>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
-today. This is the release announcement:</p>
-
-<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
-2013-07-03</strong></p>
-
-<p>These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
-
-<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
-Skolelinux</a>, 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
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
-than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
-the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
-and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
-
-<p>This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
-this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
-Squeeze release.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
-<ul>
- <li>Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.</li>
- <li>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.</li>
- <li>Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
- they don't have a desktop menu entry and thus won't show up in the
- menu now that menu-xdg was removed.</li>
- <li>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.</li>
- <li>Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
- are too few to make the package useful.</li>
-</ul>
-<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
-<ul>
- <li>Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
- <li>Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.</li>
- <li>Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
- up for some language options.</li>
- <li>Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.</li>
- <li>Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.</li>
- <li>Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
- d-i is doing it.</li>
- <li>Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
- debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.</li>
- <li>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.</li>
- <li>Update system to install needed firmware packages during
- installation, to work properly in Wheezy.</li>
- <li>Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).</li>
- <li>Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
- and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.</li>
- <li>LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
- work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.</li>
-</ul>
-<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
-<ul>
- <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
- available yet (698840).</li>
- <li>Artwork not enabled for all desktops.</li>
-</ul>
-<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+ <title>New chrpath release 0.16</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_16.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_16.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="http://www.coverity.com/">Coverity</a> is a nice tool to
+find problems in C, C++ and Java code using static source code
+analysis. It can detect a lot of different problems, and is very
+useful to find memory and locking bugs in the error handling part of
+the source. The company behind it provide
+<a href="https://scan.coverity.com/">check of free software projects as
+a community service</a>, and many hundred free software projects are
+already checked. A few days ago I decided to have a closer look at
+the Coverity system, and discovered that the
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/">gnash</a> and
+<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool/">ipmitool</a>
+projects I am involved with was already registered. But these are
+fairly big, and I would also like to have a small and easy project to
+check, and decided to <a href="http://scan.coverity.com/projects/1179">request
+checking of the chrpath project</a>. It was
+added to the checker and discovered seven potential defects. Six of
+these were real, mostly resource "leak" when the program detected an
+error. Nothing serious, as the resources would be released a fraction
+of a second later when the program exited because of the error, but it
+is nice to do it right in case the source of the program some time in
+the future end up in a library. Having fixed all defects and added
+<a href="https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/chrpath-devel">a
+mailing list for the chrpath developers</a>, I decided it was time to
+publish a new release. These are the release notes:</p>
+
+<p>New in 0.16 released 2014-01-14:</p>
-<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
<ul>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso</a></li>
- <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .</li>
-</ul>
-<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
-<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8</p>
+ <li>Fixed all minor bugs discovered by Coverity.</li>
+ <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project.</li>
+ <li>Mention new project mailing list in the documentation.</li>
-<p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
-<ul>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso</a></li>
- <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .</li>
</ul>
-<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
-<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721</p>
-
-<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
-
-<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
+<p>You can
+<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the
+new version 0.16 from alioth</a>. Please let us know via the Alioth
+project if something is wrong with the new release. The test suite
+did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also
+include a test suite check.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <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><p>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
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">Isenkram package</a>
-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:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-# 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) ...
-#
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>When all the requested firmware is present, a simple message is
-printed instead:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
-info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules. exiting
-#
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>It could use some polish, but it is already working well and saving
-me some time when setting up new machines. :)</p>
-
-<p>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
-<tt>apt-get install</tt>. The end result is a slightly better working
-machine.</p>
-
-<p>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 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/655507">BTS report
-#655507</a>. 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.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <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><p>In the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
-Skolelinux</a> 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.</p>
-
-<p>The last week I'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.</p>
-
-<p>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 <tt>/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install</tt> and see if
-any errors are detected. This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
-the problem.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
-please join us on
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu on
-irc.debian.org</a> and the
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">debian-edu@</a> mailing
-list.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <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><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
-Skolelinux</a> distribution have users and contributors all around the
-globe. And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">our IRC channel
-#debian-edu</a> 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.</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Dominik George</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Dominik_George.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Dominik_George.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project</a> consist of both newcomers and old timers, and this time I
+was able to get an interview with a newcomer in the project who showed
+up on the IRC channel a few weeks ago to let us know about his
+successful installation of Debian Edu Wheezy in his School. Say hello
+to <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Natureshadow">Dominik
+George</a>.</p>
+
+<!-- http://www.dominik-george.de/images/foto.jpg -->
<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-<p>I'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's Eve
-party, I had a very nice <strike>beer</strike> 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.</p>
-
-<p>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 <a href="http://ceata.org/">Fundația Ceata</a>, which is a free
-software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
-the only one we have in our country.</p>
+<p>I am a 23 year-old student from Germany who has spent half of his
+life with open source. In "real life", I am, as already mentioned, a
+student in the fields of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
+Information Technologies and Anglistics. Due to my (only partially
+voluntary) huge engagement in the open source world, these things are
+a bit vacant right now however.</p>
+
+<p>I also have been working as a project teacher at a Gymasnium
+(public school) for various years now. I took up that work some time
+around 2005 when still attending that school myself and have continued
+it until today. I also had been running the (kind of very advanced)
+network of that school together with a team of very interested and
+talented students in the age of 11 to 15 years, who took the chance to
+learn a lot about open source and networking before I left the school
+to help building another school's informational education concept from
+scratch.</p>
+
+<p>That said, one might see me as a kind of "glue" between school kids
+and the elderly of teachers as well as between the open source
+ecosystem and the (even more complex) educational ecosystem.</p>
+
+<p>When I am not busy with open source or education, I like Geocaching
+and cycling.</p>
<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
project?</strong></p>
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p>My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
-configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
-haven'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'll be happy to be the first
-one around here advocating for the project'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'll be doing next, but I think I
-have a pretty consistent starting point.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+<p>I think that happened some time around 2009 when I first attended
+<a href="http://www.froscon.org">FrOSCon</a> and visited the project
+booth. I think I wasn't too interested back then because I used to
+have an attitude of disliking software that does too much stuff on its
+own. Maybe I was too inexperienced to realise the upsides of an
+"out-of-the-box" solution ;).</p>
+
+<p>The first time I actively talked to Skolelinux people was at
+<a href="http://www.openrheinruhr.de">OpenRheinRuhr</a> 2011 when the
+BiscuIT project, a home-grewn software used by my school for various
+really cool things from timetables and class contact lists to lunch
+ordering, student ID card printing and project elections first got to
+a stage where it could have been published. I asked the Skolelinux
+guys running the booth if the project were interested in it and gave a
+small demonstration, but there wasn't any real feedback and the guys
+seemed rather uninterested.</p>
+
+<p>After I left the school where I developed the software, it got
+mostly lost, but I am now reimplementing it for my new school. I have
+reusability and compatibility in mind, and I hop there will be a new
+basis for contributing it to the Skolelinux project ;)!</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
Edu?</strong></p>
-<p>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's network, for example.</p>
-
-<p>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't wait to experiment "into the wild" (I
-only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
-lot more I haven't discovered yet about it, being so new within the
-project.</p>
+<p>The most important advantage seems to be that it "just
+works". After overcoming some minor (but still very annoying) glitches
+in the installer, I got a fully functional, working school network,
+without the month-long hassle I experienced when setting all that up
+from scratch in earlier years. And above that, it rocked - I didn't
+have any real hardware at hand, because the school was just founded
+and has no money whatsoever, so I installed a combined server (main
+server, terminal services and workstation) in a VM on my personal
+notebook, bridging the LTSP network interface to the ethernet port,
+and then PXE-booted the Windows notebooks that were lying around from
+it. I could use 8 clients without any performance issues, by using a
+tiny little VM on a tiny little notebook. I think that's enough to say
+that it rocks!</p>
+
+<p>Secondly, there are marketing reasons. Life's bad, and so no
+politician will ever permit a setup described as "Debian, an universal
+operating system, with some really cool educational tools" while they
+will be jsut fine with "Skolelinux, a single-purpose solution for your
+school network", even if both turn out to be the very same thing (yes,
+this is unfair towards the Skolelinux project, and must not be taken
+too seriously - you get the idea, anyway).</p>
<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
Edu?</strong></p>
-<p>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'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's dynamics. Not
-to mention it's a very fun blend to work on!</p>
-
-<p>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's an issue we can all work
-on.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>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!),
-<a href="http://www.claws-mail.org/">Claws Mail</a> due to its ease of
-use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
-<a href="https://launchpad.net/redshift">Redshift</a>, which helps me
-get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
-stuff in this bag, but I'll need a blog on my own for doing this!</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>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:</p>
+<p>I have not been involved with Skolelinux long enough to really
+answer this question in a fair way. Thus, please allow me to put it in
+other words: "What do you expect from Skolelinux to keep liking it?" I
+can list a few points about that:</p>
<ul>
-<li>schools would like to get rid of proprietary software</li>
+ <li>always strive to get all things integrated into Debian upstream
+ <li>be open to discussion about changes and the like, even with newcomers
+ <li>be helpful at being helpful ;)
-<li>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?</li>
+</ul>
-<li>there is no "right one" 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'd promote
- them!)</li>
+<p>I'm really sorry I cannot say much more about that :(!</p>
-<li>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? ;-)</li>
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-</ul>
+<p>First of all, all software I use is free and open. I have abandoned
+all non-free software (except for firmware on my darned phone) this
+year.</p>
+
+<p>I run Debian GNU/Linux on all PC systems I use. On that, I mostly
+run text tools. I use
+<a href="https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm">mksh</a> as shell,
+<a href="https://www.mirbsd.org/jupp.htm">jupp</a> as very advanced
+text editor (I even got the developer to help me write a script/macro
+based full-featured student management software with the two),
+<a href="http://mcabber.com/">mcabber</a> for XMPP and
+<a href="http://www.irssi.org/">irssi</a> for IRC. For that overly
+coloured world called the WWW, I use
+<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Iceweasel
+(Firefox)</a>. Oh, and <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a> for
+e-mail.</p>
+
+<p>However, while I am personally aware of the fact that text tools
+are more efficient and powerful than anything else, I also use (or at
+least operate) some tools that are suitable to bring open source to
+kids. One of these things is <a href="http://jappix.org/">Jappix</a>,
+which I already introduced to some kids even before they got aware of
+Facebook, making them see for themselves that they do not need
+Facebook now ;).</p>
-<p>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.</p>
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Well, that's a two-sided thing. One side is what I believe, and one
+side is what I have experienced.</p>
+
+<p>I believe that the right strategy is showing them the benefits. But
+that won't work out as long as the acceptance of free alternatives
+grows globally. What I mean is that if all the kids are almost forced
+to use Windows, Facebook, Skype, you name it at home, they will not
+see why they would want to use alternatives at school. I have seen
+students take seat in front of a fully-functional, modern Debian
+desktop that could do anything their Windows at home could do, and
+they jsut refused to use it because "Linux sucks". It is something
+that makes the council of our city spend around 600000 € to buy
+software - not including hardware, mind you - for operating school
+networks, and for installing a system that, as has been proved, does
+not work. For those of you readers who are good at maths, have you
+already found out how many lives could have been saved with that money
+if we had instead used it to bring education to parts of the world
+that need it? I have, and found it to be nothing less dramatic than
+plain criminal.</p>
+
+<p>That said, the only feasible way appears to be the bottom up
+method. We have to bring free software to kids and parents. I have
+founded an association named
+<a href="https://www.teckids.org">Teckids</a> here in Germany that does
+just that. We organise several events for kids and adolescents in the
+area of free and open source software, for example the
+<a href="http://kids.froscon.org">FrogLabs</a>, which share staff with
+Teckids and are the youth programme of
+<a href="http://www.froscon.org">the Free and Open Source Software
+Conference (FrOSCon)</a>. We do a lot more than most other conferences
+- this year, we first offered the FrogLabs as a holiday camp for kids
+aged 10 to 16. It was a huge success, with approx. 30 kids taking part
+and learning with and about free software through a whole weekend. All
+of us had a lot of fun, and the results were really exciting.</p>
+
+<p>Apart from that, we are preparing a campaign that is supposed to bring
+the message of free alternatives to stuff kids use every day to them and
+their parents, e.g. the use of Jabber / Jappix instead of Facebook and
+Skype. To make that possible, we are planning to get together a team of
+clever kids who understand very well what their peers need and can bring
+it across to them. So we will have a peer-driven network of adolescents
+who teach each other and collect feedback from the community of minors.
+We then take that feedback and our own experience to work closely with
+open source projects, such as Skolelinux or Jappix, at improving their
+software in a way that makes it more and more attractive for the target
+group. At least I hope that we will have good cooperation with
+Skolelinux in the future ;)!</p>
+
+<p>So in conclusion, what I believe is that, if it weren't for the world
+being so bad, it should be very clear to the political decision makers
+that the only way to go nowadays is free software for various reasons,
+but I have learnt that the only way that seems to work is bottom up.</p>
+
+<!--
+
+> * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future?
+
+That's probably the hardest question of them all, as I do not know the
+community. However, I would be willing to do the following:
+
+ <li>Run an interview with a German headteacher who is very open to
+ free software, and also prefers it, but cannot really use it because
+ of the decision makers above;
+ <li>Run interviews with some kids, both with and without previous
+ knowledge about free software
+
+If that is wanted, just let me know ;).
+
+-->
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Dugnadsnett for alle stiller på Oslo Maker Faire i januar 2014</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle_stiller_p__Oslo_Maker_Faire_i_januar_2014.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle_stiller_p__Oslo_Maker_Faire_i_januar_2014.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Helga 18. og 19. januar 2014 arrangeres
+<a href="http://makerfaireoslo.no/no/program/dugnadsnett">Oslo Maker
+Faire</a>, og <a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnadsnett for
+alle</a> har fått plass! Planen er å ha et bord med en plakat der vi
+forteller om hva Dugnadsnett for alle er for noe, og et lite verksted
+der vi hjelper folk som er interessert i å få opp sin egen mesh-node.
+Jeg gleder meg til å se hvordan prosjektet blir mottatt der.</p>
+
+<p>Målet med dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo er å få på plass et datanett
+for kommunikasjon ved hjelp av radio-repeaterstasjoner (kalt
+mesh-noder) som gjør at en kan direkte kommunisere med slekt, venner
+og bekjente i Oslo via andre som deltar i dugnadsnettet, samt gjøre
+det mulig komme ut på internett via dugnadsnettet. Første delmål er å
+kunne sende SMS-meldinger vha. IP-telefoni løsningen
+<a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project</a> mellom
+deltagerne i Dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo. Formålet er å ta tilbake
+kontrollen over egen nett-infrastruktur og gjøre det dyrere å bedrive
+massiv innsamling av informasjon om borgernes bruk av datanett.</p>
+
+<p>Høres dette interessant ut? Bli med på prosjektet, fortell oss
+hvor du kunne tenke deg å sette opp en radio-repeater (slik at folk i
+nærheten kan finne hverandre ved hjelp av
+<a href="http://flynor.net/mesh/mesh.php">kartet over planlagte og
+eksisterende radio-repeatere</A>), bli med på epostlisten
+<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/dugnadsnett">dugnadsnett
+(at) nuug.no</a> og stikk innom
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#dugnadsnett.no">IRC-kanalen
+#dugnadsnett.no</a>. Så langt er det planlagt over 40
+radio-repeatere, med VPN-forbindelser via Internet for å la de delene
+av nettet som ikke når hverandre via radio kunne snakke med hverandre
+likevel.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <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><p>There is a certain cross-over between the
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project</a> and <a href="http://www.edubuntu.org/">the Edubuntu
-project</a>, 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.</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Klaus Knopper</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>It has been a while since I managed to publish the last interview,
+but the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a> community is still going strong, and yesterday we even
+had a new school administrator show up on
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu">#debian-edu</a> to share
+his success story with installing Debian Edu at their school. This
+time I have been able to get some helpful comments from the creator of
+Knoppix, Klaus Knopper, who was involved in a Skolelinux project in
+Germany a few years ago.</p>
<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-<p>I'm a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
-days vary quite a bit since I'm involved in too many things. As I'm
-getting older I'm learning how to focus a bit more :)</p>
-
-<p>I'm also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
-opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
-each other.</p>
+<p>I am Klaus Knopper. I have a master degree in electrical
+engineering, and is currently professor in information management at
+the university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern / Germany and
+freelance Open Source software developer and consultant.</p>
+
+<p>All of this is pretty much of the work I spend my days with. Apart
+from teaching, I'm also conducting some more or less experimental
+projects like the <a href="http://www.knoppix.org">Knoppix GNU/Linux live
+system</a> (Debian-based like Skolelinux),
+<a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html">ADRIANE</a>
+(a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and
+<a href="http://www.knopper.net/linbo/index-en.html">LINBO</a>
+(Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and repair
+system supporting various operating systems).</p>
<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
project?</strong></p>
-<p>I'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'm catching up with. I think
-over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
-been gradually improving, although I think there's a lot that we could
-still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I'm sure
-we'll get there one day.</p>
+<p>The credit for this have to go to Kurt Gramlich, who is the German
+coordinator for Skolelinux. We were looking for an all-in-one open
+source community-supported distribution for schools, and Kurt
+introduced us to Skolelinux for this purpose.</p>
<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
Edu?</strong></p>
-<p>Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
-it for pages, but in essence I love that it's a very honest project
-that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
-very high quality work.</p>
-
-<p>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's easier for
-community members and commercial suppliers to support.</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Quick installation,</li>
+ <li>works (almost) out of the box,</li>
+ <li>contains many useful software packages for teaching and learning,</li>
+ <li>is a purely community-based distro and not controlled by a
+ single company,</li>
+ <li>has a large number of supporters and teachers who share their
+ experience and problem solutions.</li>
+</ul>
<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
Edu?</strong></p>
-<p>I had to re-type this one a few times because I'm trying to
-separate "disadvantages" from "areas that need improvement" (which is
-what I originally rambled on about)</p>
-
-<p>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'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'd love to be one
-myself but I'm already so over-committed that it's just not possible
-currently.</p>
-
-<p>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'm often saddened to see how much money
-educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don't
-have access to after the service has ended and they could've gotten so
-much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
-autonomous.</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Skolelinux is - as we had to learn - not easily upgradable to
+ the next version. Opposed to its genuine Debian base, upgrading to
+ a new version means a full new installation from scratch to get it
+ working again reliably.
+
+ <li>Skolelinux is based on Debian/stable, and therefore always a
+ little outdated in terms of program versions compared to Edubuntu or
+ similar educational Linux distros, which rather use Debian/testing
+ as their base.
+
+ <li>Skolelinux has some very self-opinionated and stubborn default
+ configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is
+ not always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network
+ configuration is actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux
+ and not easy to change, so schools sometimes have to change their
+ network configuration to make it "Skolelinux-compatible".
+
+ <li>Some proposed extensions, which were made available as
+ contribution, like secure examination mode and lecture material
+ distribution and collection, were not accepted into the mainline
+ Skolelinux development and are now not easy to maintain in the
+ future because of Skolelinux somewhat undeterministic update
+ schemes.</li>
+
+ <li>Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers
+ compared to Debian.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>For these reasons and experience from our project, I would now
+rather consider using plain Debian for schools next time, until
+Skolelinux is more closely integrated into Debian and becomes
+upgradeable without reinstallation.</p>
<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-<p>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'll soon be able to regain that disk space :)</p>
-
-<p>Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
-git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I've been torn on
-which desktop environment I like and I'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.</p>
-
-<p>I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
-using Norton Commander in the early 90's and it stuck (I think the
-people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don't know how to use
-it :p)
+<p>GNU/Linux with LXDE desktop, bash for interactive dialog and
+programming, texlive for documentation and correspondence,
+occasionally LibreOffice for document format conversion. Various
+programming languages for teaching.</p>
<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-<p>I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
-many cases it's appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
-don't think that there's any particular moral or ethical problem with
-that.</p>
-
-<p>I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
-problems in educational institutions and it's just a shame not taking
-advantage of that.</p>
-
-<p>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's very unproductive because firstly, MS
-Office'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.</p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <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><p>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've seen it once in a while the
-last few years, but only recently understood the cause. I'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
-<a href="http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv">Packard Bell
-EasyNote LV</a>, Thinkpad X40 and many other laptops.</p>
-
-<p>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:</p>
-
-<pre>
-echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
-update-initramfs -u -k all
-</pre>
-
-<p>Since March 2012 there is
-<a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca20efb1a9c2efefc28ad2867e5d6c3f5e1955">a
-mechanism in the Linux kernel</a> 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
-<a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c">the
-intel_quirks array</a> in the driver source
-<tt>drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c</tt> (look for "<tt>static
-struct intel_quirk intel_quirks</tt>"), specifying the PCI device
-number (vendor number 8086 is assumed) and subdevice vendor and device
-number.</p>
-
-<p>My Packard Bell EasyNote LV got this output from <tt>lspci
--vvnn</tt> for the video card in question:</p>
+<p>Strong arguments are</p>
-<p><pre>
-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 >TAbort- \
- <TAbort- <MAbort->SERR- <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 <unassigned> [disabled]
- Capabilities: <access denied>
- Kernel driver in use: i915
-</pre></p>
+<ul>
-<p>The resulting intel_quirks entry would then look like this:</p>
+ <li>Knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for
+ teaching and learning.</li>
-<p><pre>
-struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
- ...
- /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
- { 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
- ...
-}
-</pre></p>
+ <li>Students can learn with and use the same software at school, at
+ home, and at their working place without running into license or
+ conversion problems.</li>
+
+ <li>Closed source or proprietary software hides knowledge rather
+ than exposing it, and proprietary software vendors try to bind
+ customers to certain products. But teachers need to teach
+ science, not products.</li>
+
+ <li>If you have everything you for daily work as open source, what
+ would you need proprietary software for?</li>
-<p>According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
-<tt>modinfo i915</tt>), information about hardware needing the
-invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
-<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel">dri-devel
-(at) lists.freedesktop.org</a> mailing list to reach the kernel
-developers. But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
-yet shown up in
-<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-June/thread.html">the
-web archive for the mailing list</a>, 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
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/710938">BTS report #710938</a>, to make
-sure the patch is not lost.</p>
-
-<p>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've reported it to Debian as
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/711237">BTS report #711237</a>, 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).</p>
+</ul>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <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><p>The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
-today. This is the release announcement:</p>
-
-<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
-2013-06-10</strong></p>
-
-<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
-alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
-
-<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
-Skolelinux</a>, 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
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
-than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
-the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
-and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
-
-<p>This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
-this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
-Squeeze release.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+ <title>Dugnadsnett for alle, a wireless community network in Oslo, take shape</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle__a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo__take_shape.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle__a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo__take_shape.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 10:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>If you want the ability to electronically communicate directly with
+your neighbors and friends using a network controlled by your peers in
+stead of centrally controlled by a few corporations, or would like to
+experiment with interesting network technology, the
+<a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnasnett for alle i Oslo</a>
+might be project for you. 39 mesh nodes are currently being planned,
+in the freshly started initiative from NUUG and Hackeriet to create a
+wireless community network. The work is inspired by
+<a href="http://freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a>,
+<a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan
+Network</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet">Roofnet</a>
+and other successful mesh networks around the globe. Two days ago we
+held a workshop to try to get people started on setting up their own
+mesh node, and there we decided to create a new mailing list
+<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/dugnadsnett">dugnadsnett
+(at) nuug.no</a> and IRC channel
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#dugnadsnett.no">#dugnadsnett.no</a> to
+coordinate the work. See also the NUUG blog post
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/E_postliste_og_IRC_kanal_for_Dugnadsnett_for_alle_i_Oslo.shtml">announcing
+the mailing list and IRC channel</a>.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Hvor godt fungerer Linux-klienter mot MS Exchange?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvor_godt_fungerer_Linux_klienter_mot_MS_Exchange_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvor_godt_fungerer_Linux_klienter_mot_MS_Exchange_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html">skrev
+i juni om protestene</a> på planene til min arbeidsplass,
+<a href="http://www.uio.no/">Universitetet i Oslo</a>, om å gå bort fra
+fri programvare- og åpne standardløsninger for å håndtere epost,
+vekk fra IETF-standarden SIEVE for filtrering av epost og over til
+godseide spesifikasjoner og epostsystemet Microsoft Exchange.
+Protestene har fått litt ny omtale i media de siste dagene, i tillegg
+til de oppslagene som kom i mai.</p>
<ul>
-<li>Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1)
-<li>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).
-<li>Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4.
-<li>Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default.
-<li>Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default.
-
-</ul>
+<li>2013-11-26 <a href="http://www.version2.dk/artikel/gigantisk-outlook-konvertering-moeder-protester-paa-universitet-55147">Gigantisk Outlook-konvertering møder protester på universitet</a> - versjon2.dk</li>
-<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+<li>2013-11-25
+ <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article279407.ece">Microsoft-protest
+ på Universitetet</a> - Computerworld</li>
-<ul>
+<li>2013-11-25
+ <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/11/uio-bor-bruke-apen-programvare.html">Kjemper
+ mot innføring av Microsoft Exchange på UiO</a> - Uniforum</li>
-<li>The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used.
-<li>Updated translation of the installation.
-<li>New Romanian translation.
-<li>Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat.
-<li>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).
-<li>Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments.
-<li>New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile.
-<li>Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS.
-<li>More testsuite tests.
-<li>Make automatic proxy configuration more robust.
-<li>Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration.
+<li>2013-11-25
+ <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/11/uio-utsetter-innforing-av-nytt-e-postsystem.html">Utsetter
+ innføring av nytt e-postsystem</a> - Uniforum</li>
-<li>Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
-LTSP in Wheezy.</li>
+<li>2013-05-29
+ <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system">Forsvarer
+ nytt IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
-<li>Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
-them up with GOsa².</li>
+<li>2013-05-23
+ <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html">UiO
+ innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy</a> - Uniforum</li>
-<li>Update IMAP server setup. </li>
+<li>2013-05-22
+ <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system">Protestgruppe
+ vil stanse IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
-<li>Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
-slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
-entered password). </li>
+<li>2013-05-15
+ <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html">UiO
+ må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem</a> - Uniforum</li>
</ul>
-<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+<p>Prosjektledelsen har fortalt at dette skal fungere like godt for
+Linux-brukere som for brukere av Microsoft Windows og Apple MacOSX,
+men jeg lurer på hva slags erfaringer Linux-brukere i eksisterende
+miljøer som bruker MS Exchange har gjort. Hvis du har slik erfaring
+hadet det vært veldig fint om du kan send et leserbrev til
+<a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/">Uniforum</a> og fortelle om hvor
+greit det er å bruke Exchange i kryss-platform-miljøer? De jeg har
+snakket med sier en greit får lest e-posten sin hvis Exchange har
+slått på IMAP-funksjonalitet, men at kalender og møtebooking ikke
+fungerer godt for Linux-klienter. Jeg har ingen personlig erfaring å
+komme med, så jeg er nysgjerrig på hva andre kan dele av erfaringer
+med universitetet.</p>
+
+<p>Mitt ankerpunkt mot å bytte ut fri programvare som fungerer godt
+med godseid programvare er at en mister kontroll over egen
+infrastruktur, låser seg inn i en løsning det vil bli dyrt å komme ut
+av, uten at en får funksjonalitet en ikke kunne skaffet seg med fri
+programvare, eventuelt videreutviklet med de pengene som brukes på
+overgangen til MS Exchange. Personlig planlegger jeg å fortsette å
+laste ned all eposten min til lokal maskin for indeksering og lesing
+med <a href=="http://notmuchmail.org">notmuch</a>, så jeg håper jeg
+ikke blir veldig skadelidende av overgangen.</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://dinis.linguateca.pt/Diana/ImotMSUiO.html">Underskriftslista
+for oss som er mot endringen</a>, som omtales i artiklene, er fortsatt
+åpen for de som vil signere på oppropet. Akkurat nå er det 298
+personer som har signert.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>New chrpath release 0.15</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_15.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_15.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>After many years break from the package and a vain hope that
+development would be continued by someone else, I finally pulled my
+acts together this morning and wrapped up a new release of chrpath,
+the command line tool to modify the rpath and runpath of already
+compiled ELF programs. The update was triggered by the persistence of
+Isha Vishnoi at IBM, which needed a new config.guess file to get
+support for the ppc64le architecture (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) he
+is working on. I checked the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/chrpath">Debian</a>,
+<a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chrpath">Ubuntu</a> and
+<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/chrpath">Fedora</a>
+packages for interesting patches (failed to find the source from
+OpenSUSE and Mandriva packages), and found quite a few nice fixes.
+These are the release notes:</p>
+
+<p>New in 0.15 released 2013-11-24:</p>
<ul>
-<li>DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.</li>
+ <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project to work
+ with newer architectures. Thanks to isha vishnoi for the heads
+ up.</li>
-<li>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).</li>
+ <li>Updated README with current URLs.</li>
-<li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). </li>
-
-<li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
-own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
-unfixed.</li>
-
-</ul>
+ <li>Added byteswap fix found in Ubuntu, credited Jeremy Kerr and
+ Matthias Klose.</li>
-<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+ <li>Added missing help for -k|--keepgoing option, using patch by
+ Petr Machata found in Fedora.</li>
-<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
-
-<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
-
-<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .</li>
+ <li>Rewrite removal of RPATH/RUNPATH to make sure the entry in
+ .dynamic is a NULL terminated string. Based on patch found in
+ Fedora credited Axel Thimm and Christian Krause.</li>
</ul>
-<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178
-<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419</p>
+<p>You can
+<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the
+new version 0.15 from alioth</a>. Please let us know via the Alioth
+project if something is wrong with the new release. The test suite
+did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also
+include a testsuite check.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>RSS-kilde for fritekstsøk i offentlige anbud hos Doffin</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RSS_kilde_for_friteksts_k_i_offentlige_anbud_hos_Doffin.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RSS_kilde_for_friteksts_k_i_offentlige_anbud_hos_Doffin.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I fjor sommer lagde jeg en
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html">offentlig
+tilgjengelig SQL-database over offentlig anbud</a> basert på skraping
+av HTML-data fra Doffin. Den har stått og gått siden da, og har nå
+ca. 28000 oppføringer. Jeg oppdaget da jeg tittet innom at noen
+oppføringer var ikke blitt med, antagelig på grunn av at de fikk
+tildelt sekvensnummer i Doffin en godt stund før de ble publisert,
+slik at min nettsideskraper som fortsatte skrapingen der den slapp
+sist ikke fikk dem med seg. Jeg har fikset litt slik at skraperen nå
+ser litt tilbake i tid for å se om den har gått glipp av noen
+oppføringer, og har skrapet på nytt fra midten av september 2013 og
+fremover. Det bør dermed bli en mer komplett database for kommende
+måneder. Hvis jeg får tid skal jeg forsøke å skrape "glemte" data fra
+før midten av september 2013, men tør ikke garantere at det blir
+prioritert med det første. </p>
+
+<p>Men målet med denne bloggposten er å vise hvordan denne
+Doffin-databasen kan brukes og integreres med en RSS-leser, slik at en
+kan la datamaskinen holde et øye med Doffin-annonseringer etter
+nøkkelord. En kan lage sitt eget søk ved å besøke
+<ahref="https://classic.scraperwiki.com/docs/api?name=norwegian-doffin#sqlite">API-et
+hos Scraperwiki</a>, velge format rss2 og så legge inn noe ala dette i
+"query in SQL":</p>
-<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+<p><pre>
+select title, scrapedurl as link, abstract as description,
+ publishdate as pubDate from 'swdata'
+ where abstract like '%linux%' or title like '%linux%'
+ order by seq desc limit 20
+</pre></p>
-<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
+<p>Dette vil søke opp alle anbud med ordet linux i oppsummering eller
+tittel. En kan lage mer avanserte søk hvis en ønsker det. URL-en som
+dukker opp nederst på siden kan en så gi til sin RSS-leser (jeg bruker
+akregator selv), og så automatisk få beskjed hvis det dukker opp anbud
+med det aktuelle nøkkelordet i teksten. Merk at kapasiteten og
+ytelsen hos Scraperwiki er begrenset, så ikke be RSS-leseren hente ned
+oftere enn en gang hver dag.</p>
+
+<p>Du lurer kanskje på hva slags informasjon en kan få ut fra denne
+databasen. Her er to RSS-kilder, med søkeordet
+"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25linux%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25linux%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">linux</a>",
+søkeordet
+"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">fri
+programvare</a>"
+og søkeordet
+"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25odf%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25odf%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">odf</a>".
+Det er bare å søke på det en er interessert i. Kopier gjerne
+datasettet og sett opp din egen tjeneste hvis du vil gjøre mer
+avanserte søk. SQLite-filen med Doffin-oppføringer kan lastes med fra
+Scraperwiki for de som vil grave dypere.</p>
</description>
</item>
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