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- <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Nirosan Thiyagalingam</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>En ting
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-prosjektet</a> har
-hatt mye glede av er studentprosjekter. F.eks. er
-<a href="http://linuxstopmotion.org/">stillbildeanimasjonssystemet
-Stopmotion</a> resultat av et studentprosjekt i Skolelinux. De siste
-månedene har en ivrig student veiledet av Marius Kotsbak i
-<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">FRiSK</a> testet hva en
-kan få til med en datamaskin til NOK 400,- (antagelig 1700,- med
-skjerm, tastatur og mus) når det brukes i Skolelinux. Jeg spurte han
-om et intervju.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Jeg heter Nirosan Thiyagalingam. Jeg er 24 år og studerer
-dataingeniør studiet ved Høgskolen i Sør Trøndelag. Interessen for
-data har siden ung alder vært tilstede og jeg har i tillegg alltid
-vært glad i å lære nye ting. Med teknologi som endres svært hurtig er
-det alltid noe nytt å lære. Noe som igjen har gjort det svært
-interessant å følge med på utviklingen. Jeg valgte dataingeniør
-studiet grunnet ønske om å lære enda mer om programmering og utvikling
-av store systemer.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Skolelinux prosjektet hørte jeg først om i media. Men det var først
-når jeg skulle velge bacheloroppgave at jeg fattet mer interesse for
-prosjektet. Et enkelt søk på nettet førte meg til skolelinux sine
-hjemmesider. Informasjonen jeg fant der gjorde meg enda nysgjerrig og
-jeg valgte derfor en oppgave som gikk ut på å få en
-<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry PI</a>. Altså en
-ultra-billig datamaskin til å kjøre Debian Edu på lik linje med
-vanlige datamaskiner. I løpet av prosjektet ble det gjort mye
-forskning på nettet. Det var mye jeg måtte forstå rundt hvordan
-operativsystemet Linux fungerte før jeg kunne angripe
-problemet. Prøvde først å finne ut hvordan man kunne transformere en
-vanlig installasjon av Skolelinux til Raspberry PI, men dette var
-altfor vanskelig å jeg endte opp med mer spørsmål enn svar. Det ble
-videre opprettet kontakt med Skolelinux utviklere på IRC der jeg fikk
-diskutert hvilken retning jeg burde gå for å få til en fullverdig
-løsning. Det ble bestemt at jeg skulle gå for å først installere
-<a href="http://www.raspbian.org/">Raspian</a>. Dette er et
-operativsystem basert på Debian spesiallaget for Raspberry Pi sin
-maskinvare. Nå som Debian var installert på datamaskinen gjenstod det
-å installere de nødvendige Skolelinux pakkene for å få til et
-fullverdig system. Disse pakkene ble installert manuelt i første
-omgang, men ble senere installert automatisk via et script som Petter
-Reinholdtsen laget. Dette scriptet er så enkel å bruke at man er i
-gang med installasjonen i løpet av bare 5 minutter. Ikke nok med det,
-alt skjer helt automatisk. Alt i alt er jeg veldig fornøyd med
-resultatet av installasjonsprosessen. Raspberry Pi er en veldig svak
-maskin og det merkes godt når man har installert Skolelinux på
-den. Video og 3D-rendering fungerer utrolig dårlig, men nettsurfing og
-kontorprogrammer fungerer godt. Det kan derfor konkluderes med at
-datamaskinen er egnet for enkle oppgaver.
-
-<p>Jeg syns det er viktig påpeke at dette kun er startfasen av en slik
-løsning. På markedet finnes det nå maskiner som har bedre hardware enn
-Raspberry Pi. Det er store muligheter for at man kan klare å
-installere Skolelinux på disse også, og da forsvinner nok mest
-sannsynlig ytelsesproblemene med Video og 3D rendering også.</p>
-
-<p>Det ble også prøvd med en løsning som gjorde at Raspberry Pi
-fungerte som en tynnklient. Denne løsningen hadde langt bedre ytelse
-med tanke på hastighet og brukeropplevelse. Men også her var video og
-3D rendering dårlig. Det ble brukt en liten Linux distribusjon kalt
-<a href="http://www.berryterminal.com/">BerryTerminal</a> for å få til
-dette.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Fordelen med Skolelinux er mange. At det er gratis er en stor
-fordel, men at det er så mange som er med på å utvikle det og
-vedlikeholde det er en enda større fordel. Allerede før jeg startet
-med prosjektet så jeg mange fordeler, og når jeg nærmet meg sluttfasen
-så jeg langt flere. At prosjektet skulle inneha en så høy kvalitet
-hadde jeg aldri trodd. En vanlig Skolelinux installasjon har de
-nødvendige programmene og funksjonen som både små og store skoler i
-tillegg til organisasjoner kan klare seg med. At prosjektet tilbyr en
-så komplett løsning er en kjempefordel. Installasjonen er knirkefri
-og det er svært enkelt å installere og komme i gang.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Ulempene jeg ser med prosjektet er ryddigheten av websidene. Selv
-om websidene er enkle og konsise er det allikevel ikke appellerende i
-like stor grad som for eksempel
-<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> sine sider. Deres side
-tilbyr, i tillegg til godt design og presentasjon, en nettbasert
-emulator av deres operativsystem. Dette er en stor fordel slik jeg ser
-det. Bortsett fra dette ser jeg absolutt ingen ulemper med
-Skolelinux-prosjektet.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Til daglig er jeg en flittig bruker av det åpne media
-sentersystemet <a href="http://xbmc.org/">XBMC</a>. Det enorme
-samfunnet rundt dette prosjektet har gjort dette til et program som
-dekker alles behov. Man kan tilpasse det akkurat slik man vil både med
-tanke på utseende og funksjoner ved installere plug-ins eller
-scripts.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Strategien som burde brukes sett fra mine øyne er
-markedsføring. Jeg er sikker på at om flere skoler fikk et lite innsyn
-i hvor bra Skolelinux er så ville de ikke nølt med å gå over fra noe
-annet som koster de store summer. At skolelinux til de grader tilbyr
-en så komplett løsning bure komme frem. Enten via reklamekampanjer
-eller ved å sende ut folk til skoler for så å la skolenettverk
-ansvarlige får teste ut hvordan Skolelinux fungerer i praksis. Om det
-i tillegg ble utviklet gode websider og en emulator for å la brukere
-prøve operativsystemet ville nok dette ha styrket inntrykket
-betraktelig.</p>
+ <title>Good causes: Debian Outreach Program for Women, EFF documenting the spying and Open access in Norway</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get
+wider attention. I recommend signing and donating to each one of
+these. :)</p>
+
+<p>Via <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/18/">Debian
+Project News for 2013-10-14</a> I came across the Outreach Program for
+Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get
+more women involved in free software. One debian sponsor has offered
+to match <a href="http://debian.ch/opw2013">any donation done to Debian
+earmarked</a> for this initiative. I donated a few minutes ago, and
+hope you will to. :)</p>
+
+<p>And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to
+create <a href="https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsa-videos">video
+documentaries about the excessive spying</a> on every Internet user that
+take place these days, and their need to fund the work. I've already
+donated. Are you next?</p>
+
+<p>For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og
+Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a
+statement under the heading
+<a href="http://saih.no/Bloggers_United/">Bloggers United for Open
+Access</a> for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the
+Norwegian government. So far 499 signatures. I hope you will sign it
+too.</p>
</description>
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- <title>How to transform a Debian based system to a Debian Edu installation</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> is
-an operating system based on Debian intended for use in schools. It
-contain a turn-key solution for the computer network provided to
-pupils in the primary schools. It provide both the central server,
-network boot servers and desktop environments with heaps of
-educational software. The project was founded almost 12 years ago,
-2001-07-02. If you want to support the project, which is in need for
-cash to fund developer gatherings and other project related activity,
-<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">please
-donate some money</a>.
-
-<p>A topic that come up again and again on the Debian Edu mailing
-lists and elsewhere, is the question on how to transform a Debian or
-Ubuntu installation into a Debian Edu installation. It isn't very
-hard, and last week I wrote a script to replicate the steps done by
-the Debian Edu installer.</p>
-
-<p>The script,
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/branches/wheezy/debian-edu-config/share/debian-edu-config/tools/debian-edu-bless?view=markup">debian-edu-bless<a/>
-in the debian-edu-config package, will go through these six steps and
-transform an existing Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu (untested) installation
-into a Debian Edu Workstation:</p>
+ <title>Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
+networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
+areas, depending on the radio technology used. Normal wifi equipment
+can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
+successful examples like
+<a href="http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a> and
+<a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network</a>
+(see
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia
+for a large list</a>) around the globe. To give you an idea how it
+work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
+can be seen from their
+<a href="http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically
+updated node graph and map</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes
+automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
+There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
+and that is the main topic of this blog post.</p>
+
+<p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
+to do it as part of my involvement with the <a
+href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation</a> community, and
+my recent involvement in
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project</a>
+finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
+Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
+when possible, given that most communication between people are
+between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
+communication patterns). It also allow people to communicate without
+any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
+private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
+important over the years.</p>
+
+<p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
+working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
+<a href="http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet</a> at Husmania. They seem to
+have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
+<a href="http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo
+Freifunk project</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people
+behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
+<a href="http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx</a>. Unfortunately the wiki
+site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
+reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
+the new project. A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
+from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks. I
+came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
+speakers about this talk (from
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube</a>):</p>
+
+<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
+
+<p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
+There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
+figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
+given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
+is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
+completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
+batman-adv for now. It sure help me to know that the very cool
+<a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
+is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
+organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
+less industrialized communities. Check out this cool video presenting
+that project (from
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>):</p>
+
+<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
+
+<p>According to the wikipedia page on
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
+mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
+packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
+B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
+based community mesh networks.</p>
+
+<p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
+(as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
+network. One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
+vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
+computer. The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
+least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up. A
+<a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
+introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project. These are
+the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
-<ol>
-
-<li>Add skolelinux related APT sources.</li>
-<li>Create /etc/debian-edu/config with the wanted configuration.</li>
-<li>Install debian-edu-install to load preseeding values and pull in
- our configuration.</li>
-<li>Preseed debconf database with profile setup in
- /etc/debian-edu/config, and run tasksel to install packages
- according to the profile specified in the config above,
- overriding some of the Debian automation machinery.</li>
-<li>Run debian-edu-cfengine-D installation to configure everything
- that could not be done using preseeding.</li>
-<li>Ask for a reboot to enable all the configuration changes.</li>
-
-</ol>
+<p><table>
+<tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
+<tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
+<tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
+<td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
+<td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
+</table></p>
-<p>There are some steps in the Debian Edu installation that can not be
-replicated like this. Disk partitioning and LVM setup, for example.
-So this script just assume there is enough disk space to install all
-the needed packages.</p>
-
-<p>The script was created to help a Debian Edu student working on
-setting up <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry Pi</a> as a
-Debian Edu client, and using it he can take the existing
-<a href="http://www.raspbian.org/FrontPage">Raspbian</a> installation and
-transform it into a fully functioning Debian Edu Workstation (or
-Roaming Workstation, or whatever :).</p>
-
-<p>The default setting in the script is to create a KDE Workstation.
-If a LXDE based Roaming workstation is wanted instead, modify the
-PROFILE and DESKTOP values at the top to look like this instead:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-PROFILE="Roaming-Workstation"
-DESKTOP="lxde"
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>The script could even become useful to set up Debian Edu servers in
-the cloud, by starting with a virtual Debian installation at some
-virtual hosting service and setting up all the services on first
-boot.</p>
+<p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
+in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers. (See a nice post from
+VillageTelco about
+"<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
+about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a>
+for details.) When these settings are activated and you have some
+other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
+network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
+any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p>
+
+<p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
+but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
+firmware supporting batman-adv. If anyone know how to use that old
+wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p>
+
+<p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
+us on IRC, either channel
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a>
+or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on
+irc.freenode.net.</p>
+
+<p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
+research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
+and Innovation called
+<a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
+reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere
+learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
+Grünerløkka in Oslo. So mesh networks are also interesting for
+commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
+to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
+know have closed down the experiment. Perhaps Telenor or others would
+be interested in a cooperation?</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2013-10-12</strong>: I was just
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html">told
+by the Serval project developers</a> that they no longer use
+batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
+mesh system.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
+Salvador had published a
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
+Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux profile. This is the profile intended for use at home or
+on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
+services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
+in other word a single user machine). The result is 11 minutes long,
+and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
+Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
+showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
+of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
+other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
+advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
+Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
+computers without hard drives by installing one central
+<a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
+
+<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+<p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux? Please let
+me know. :)</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
+Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team. The
+complete announcement text can be found at
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
+section</a>, translated to several languages. Please check it out.</p>
+
+<p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon. One
+can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
+partition is too small. A workaround is to extend the partition (use
+lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Second alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project</a> is making great progress and made its second Wheezy based
-release today. This is the release announcement:</p>
+ <title>Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
+project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
+vision, ideas and solution several places. Here is a little
+collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
-<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released
-2013-05-14</strong></p>
+<ul>
-<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
-alpha1, based on <ahref="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> with
-codename "Wheezy".</p>
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
+2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
-<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
+discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
-<p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
-on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
-configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
-server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
-waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
-Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
-initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
-other machines can be installed via the network.</p>
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
+Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
+Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
+(Youtube)</li>
-<p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
-not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
-version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
+Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
-<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
-<ul>
- <li>Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
- default.</li>
- <li>Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.</li>
- <li>Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.</li>
- <li>Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
- ibus-anthy.</li>
-</ul>
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
+the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
-<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
-<ul>
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
+Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
+York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
+to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
+(Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
+of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
+
+<li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
+1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
+FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
+2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
- <li>Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
- reliability improvements.</li>
- <li>Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
- of <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706434">706434</a>.</li>
- <li>Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
- problems.</li>
- <li>Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
- direct:// URL.</li>
- <li>Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.</li>
- <li>Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.</li>
- <li>Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.</li>
- <li>Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
- servers, to make room for all the software installed.</li>
- <li>Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
- log in (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706753">706753</a>).</li>
</ul>
-<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+<p>A larger list is available from
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
+Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
+
+<p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
+Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
+Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
+a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
+The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
+pending in NEW. The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
+metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload. Join
+us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
+(#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
+mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today. This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>Hi,</p>
+
+<p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
+short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p>
+
+<p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
+we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
+weekend. We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
+if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p>
+
+<p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
+another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p>
+
+<p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
+compared to beta1:</p>
+
<ul>
- <li>IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
- (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/705900">705900</a>). Only install
- libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.</li>
- <li>DVD images are not yet ready.</li>
- <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
- available yet (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698840">698840</a>).</li>
- <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).</li>
- <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.</li>
- <li>LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
- (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.</li>
- <li>Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
- password submission problem
- (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/700257">700257</a>).</li>
+<li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
+also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li>
+<li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
+understand ical/dav sources.</li>
+<li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
+main server.</li>
+<li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li>
+<li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
+(6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
+(0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
+(3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li>
</ul>
-<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+<p>Where to get it:</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~b2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
- <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</li>
+<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p>
+<p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
+<ul>
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li>
</ul>
-<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b</p>
+<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p>
-<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c</p>
+<p>The Source DVD image has the filename
+debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
+089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
+as the other isos.</p>
-<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+<p>How to report bugs</p>
-<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Debian, the Linux distribution of choice for LEGO designers?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><P>In January,
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">I
-announced a</a> new <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">IRC
-channel #debian-lego</a>, for those of us in the Debian and Linux
-community interested in <a href="http://www.lego.com/">LEGO</a>, the
-marvellous construction system from Denmark. We also created
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">a wiki page</a> to have
-a place to take notes and write down our plans and hopes. And several
-people showed up to help. I was very happy to see the effect of my
-call. Since the small start, we have a debtags tag
-<a href="http://debtags.debian.net/search/bytag?wl=hardware::hobby:lego">hardware::hobby:lego</a>
-tag for LEGO related packages, and now count 10 packages related to
-LEGO and <a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/">Mindstorms</a>:</p>
+<p>For information how to report bugs please see
+<br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
-<p><table>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/brickos">brickos</a></td><td>alternative OS for LEGO Mindstorms RCX. Supports development in C/C++</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/leocad">leocad</a></td><td>virtual brick CAD software</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/libnxt">libnxt</a></td><td>utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NX</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/lnpd">lnpd</a></td><td>daemon for LNP communication with BrickOS</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nbc">nbc</a></td><td>compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nqc">nqc</a></td><td>Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt">python-nxt</a></td><td>python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt-filer">python-nxt-filer</a></td><td>simple GUI to manage files on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/scratch">scratch</a></td><td>easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up</td></tr>
-<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t2n">t2n</a></td><td>simple command-line tool for Lego NXT</td></tr>
-</table></p>
-<p>Some of these are available in Wheezy, and all but one are
-currently available in Jessie/testing. leocad is so far only
-available in experimental.</p>
+<p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p>
-<p>If you care about LEGO in Debian, please join us on IRC and help
-adding the rest of the great free software tools available on Linux
-for LEGO designers.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Narvik sparer minst 9 millioner på å bruke Skolelinux</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I fjor sommer ble jeg
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html">gledelig
-overrasket</a> over et oppslag i avisen Fremover om Narvik kommunes
-bruk av <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>. Oppslaget
-var basert på et notat som besvarte spørsmål fra ordfører Tor Nysæter
-og rådgiver for skolesektoren, Petter Falkbu, om bruken av Skolelinux
-i Narvikskolene og konstnaden ved å gå over til Windows. For litt
-over en uke siden siden fikk jeg endelig bedt kommunen om å få innsyn
-i dette notatet, og det ble oversendt på epost tirsdag. Jeg fikk
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Narvik-kommune/2013-04-29-09:12-skolelinux-notat/PetterFalkbuogwindowsfornarvikskolen%20(L)351310.pdf">lagt
-ut notatet</a> samme dag, og fikk i dag sjekket postlista til Narvik,
-der jeg fant notatet som
-<a href="https://www.narvik.kommune.no/innsyn.aspx?response=arkivsak_detaljer&arkivsakid=2013001023&scripturi=/innsyn.aspx&skin=infolink&Mid1=301&">sak
-2013/1023</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Notatet forteller at Narvik ville måtte betalt minst 9 millioner
-for å gå over til Windows på skolene. I tillegg dokumenterer notatet
-at læreplanens krav oppfylles uten problemer ved bruk av Skolelinux.
-Jeg anbefaler alle å lese de 10 sidene med gode argumenter for å kutte
-unødige utgifter på IT i skoleverket. :)</p>
+<p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
+on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
+configured school network. 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 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 more than 60 educational software
+packages 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 seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p>
+
+<p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
+versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
+release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
+deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
+gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
+Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
+password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
+(backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
+to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
+directory.</p>
+
+
+<p>cheers,
+<br> Holger</p>
+</blockquote>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Debian Wheezy is out - and Debian Edu / Skolelinux should soon follow! #newinwheezy</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 07:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>When I woke up this morning, I was very happy to see that the
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504">release announcement
-for Debian Wheezy</a> was waiting in my mail box. This is a great
-Debian release, and I expect to move my machines at home over to it fairly
-soon.</p>
-
-<p>The new debian release contain heaps of new stuff, and one program
-in particular make me very happy to see included. The
-<a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/">Scratch</a> program, made famous by
-the <a href="http://www.code.org/">Teach kids code</a> movement, is
-included for the first time. Alongside similar programs like
-<a href="http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/">kturtle</a> and
-<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art">turtleart</a>,
-it allow for visual programming where syntax errors can not happen,
-and a friendly programming environment for learning to control the
-computer. Scratch will also be included in the next release of Debian
-Edu.</a>
-
-<p>And now that Wheezy is wrapped up, we can wrap up the next Debian
-Edu/Skolelinux release too. The
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/04/msg00132.html">first
-alpha release</a> went out last week, and the next should soon
-follow.<p>
+ <title>Recipe to test the Freedombox project on amd64 or Raspberry Pi</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I was introduced to the
+<a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
+in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
+of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
+within the legal protection of their own homes. The idea is to give
+people back the power over their network and machines, and return
+Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture. Instead of
+depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
+control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
+
+<p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
+taken priority. But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
+and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
+communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
+actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
+
+<p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
+Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
+create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
+up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
+communication. The initial deployment platform have been the
+<a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
+which is a piece of hardware I do not own. So to be able to test what
+the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
+it on some hardware I do have access to. I have rewritten the
+<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
+image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
+setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
+set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
+the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
+missing in Debian).</p>
+
+<p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
+scripts
+(<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
+and a administrative web interface
+(<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
+withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
+(freedombox-privoxy). There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
+client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
+trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
+(<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>). The
+web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
+services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc. Not much of
+this is really working yet, see
+<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
+project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories. Most of the code is
+on github at the moment. The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
+box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
+users. I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
+know there are several branches spread around github and other places
+with lots of half baked features.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
+following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
+at.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
+
+<ol>
+
+<li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
+<li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
+<li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
+to the Debian installer:<p>
+<pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
+
+<li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
+install on.</li>
+
+<li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
+few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
+<p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
+
+<ol>
+
+<li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
+<li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
+<li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
+<pre>
+deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
+</pre></li>
+<li><p>Run this as root:</p>
+<pre>
+wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
+ apt-key add -
+apt-get update
+apt-get install freedombox-setup
+/usr/lib/freedombox/setup
+</pre></li>
+<li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
+<p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
+freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
+the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
+in my APT repository. But do not let this stop you. It is only a
+short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
+
+<p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
+192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
+off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
+disable</tt>" as root.</p>
+
+<p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
+problems. We gather on the IRC channel
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
+irc.debian.org and the
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
+mailing list</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
+<tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
+welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
+get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
+to look at the rest of plinth. The default user is 'admin' and the
+default password is 'secret'.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Vårt konkurransebidrag til #apps4norge bruker @opnedata</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/V_rt_konkurransebidrag_til__apps4norge_bruker__opnedata.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/V_rt_konkurransebidrag_til__apps4norge_bruker__opnedata.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 1 May 2013 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>For noen uker siden, innen fristen 2013-04-15, leverte jeg og
-Morten Kjelkenes vårt bidrag til
-<a href="http://www.apps4norge.no/">DIFIs apps4norge-konkurranse</a>
-under lagnavnet <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>s tannlegeteam.
-Vi leverte følgende i idé-kategorien:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
+ <title>Datalagringsdirektivet gjør at Oslo Høyre og Arbeiderparti ikke får min stemme i år</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 8 Sep 2013 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
+Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
+folk. Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
+år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
+snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen. Det skal også
+registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
+til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte. Saken er kjent som
+<a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
+(DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges
+grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt. Det ble i praksis innført brev og
+besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen. Rapporter fra de landene som
+allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
+kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
+kriminalitetsbekjempelsen. Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
+millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
+arbeide. Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
+på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
+Se mer på
+<a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
+og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje? Et åpenbart problem er at
+medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut. Den innsamlede
+informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
+journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
+av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon. Et annet er at
+advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
+som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
+Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
+nettsteder en har besøkt. Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
+swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
+interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
+tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
+
+<p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for. Høyre og
+Arbeiderpartiet. Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
+DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
+fylkene). Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
+partiene. Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
+informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
+basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
+<a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
+Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
+Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
+
+<style type="text/css">
+.for {background-color:#F5A9A9;}
+.mot {background-color:#A9F5BC;}
+.ukjent { }
+</style>
+
+<table>
+<tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
+
+<tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
+<td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
+<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
+<td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
+<td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
+<td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
+<td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
+<td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
+<td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
+<td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
+<td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
+<td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
+<td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
+<td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
+<td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
+<td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
+<td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
+<td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
+<td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
+<td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
+<td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
+<td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
+
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
+<td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><strong>Tittel: Stikk innom tannlegen</strong><p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
+<td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-05-01-tannlegeportal.jpeg"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-05-01-tannlegeportal.jpeg"></a></p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
+<td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><strong>Beskrivelse:</strong><p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
+<td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><em>Idéen</em>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
+<td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p>Gjøre det enklere å finne en tannlege som er praktisk for deg, der
-pris og reisetid med kollektivt, til fots eller med bil er tatt med i
-beregningen, ved å oppgi hvor en bor og jobber, og få forslag til
-tannleger både i nærheten og på veien mellom disse stedene.</p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
+<td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p>Brukeren oppgir hjemmeadresse og jobbadresse, og kanskje også
-barnehage. Så kan en også oppgi egen timelønn (for å beregne taps
-arbeidsfortjeneste) og om en reiser med kollektivt, til fots eller
-kjører bil. Så trykker en søk, og får opp en todelt side med kart og
-tekstliste. I kartdelen vises aktuelle tannleger (for eksempel maks
-7), og i tekstdelen er de samme tannlegene listet opp, med pris og
-reisetid for kollektivtransport, og pris pluss reisekostnad hvis en
-reiser med bil. En kan endre sorteringsrekkefølge for listen ved å
-trykke på aktuell kolonne, og velge om en skal sortere på pris,
-reisetid eller totalkostnad. Kun tannleger som tar imot nye kunder tas
-i utganspunktet med i listen. Når brukeren trykker med musa en
-tannlegemarkør på kartet kommer det en popup med detaljer om
-tannlegen, den samme informasjonen som finnes i listen under kartet,
-og lenke til mer informasjon om tannlegen.</p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
+<td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p>For hvert enkelt tannlegekontor er det tilgjengelig en
-informasjonsside med adresse, hjemmesideurl, telefonnummer, lenke til
-side for å finne reisebeskrivelse, åpningstider, etc.</p>
+</table>
-<p><em>Nytteverdi for brukeren</em></p>
+<p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>sparer tid på tannlegebesøk</li>
-<li>kan utnytte normal reisevei mellom hjem/jobb/barnehage</li>
-<li>kan finne aktuell tannlege basert på flere kriterier</li>
-<li>sile bort tannleger som ikke tar imot flere kunder</li>
-<li>får kart som viser tannleger i nærheten, på tvers av kommunegrenser</li>
-</ul>
+<table>
-<p><em>Grad av innovasjon, nytenkning og kreativitet</em></p>
+<tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
-<p>Enkel tjeneste som fokuserer på det vi selv mener er relevant ved valg
-av tannlege.</p>
+<tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
+<td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
-<p>Tjenestekonseptet kan også brukes til andre næringer, f.eks. lege,
-butikk, leiebiler, hvis en har aktuell datakilde å koble med.</p>
+<tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
+<td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
+<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
-<p>Skulle gjerne hatt med vurdering av tannlegene tilgjengelig, slik
-at en kunne finne "flinke" tannleger basert på et eller annet
-kriterium.</p>
+<tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
+<td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
-<p><em>Markedspotensiale - potensiale for å slå gjennom hos mange
-brukere</em></p>
+<tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
+<td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
+<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
-<ul>
-<li>Alle som ønsker eller vurderer å skaffe seg ny tannlege, f.eks. nyinnflyttede og studenter</li>
-<li>Familier med en travel hverdag</li>
-</ul>
+<tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
+<td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
+<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
-<p>Felles er at den gjør tannlegen lettere tilgjengelig for de som vil spare tid eller penger.</p>
+<tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
+<td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
+<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
-<p><em>Samfunnsøkonomisk nytte - bidrar til å løse
-samfunnsutfordringer</em></p>
+<tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
+<td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
+<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
-<p>Kutter tid brukt på tannlegebesøk, og penger frigjøres som kan brukes på andre områder. Oppfordrer til bedre bruk av kollektivtransport ved å gi tips om tannleger i nærheten av allerede brukt reisevei mellom hjemme og jobb når en reiser kollektivt.</p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
+<td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><em>X-faktor - “Det lille ekstra...”</em></p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
+<td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p>Denne tjenesten gir det lille ekstra ved at den ikke slår opp
-avstand til tannlege fra et enkelt punkt men avstand fra en reisevei,
-slik at en får flere tannleger å velge imellom og kanskje kan spare
-enda mer tid og penger enn en ville gjort ved å sjekke kun de nærmest
-hjemme eller jobb.</p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
+<td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p>Tjenesten gir informasjonen både som kart og som tekstlig oversikt, for å sikre at blinde og svaksynte kan få tilgang til informasjonen selv om de ikke får brukt kartvisningen.</p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
+<td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><em>Datasett brukt</em></p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
+<td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<ul>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
+<td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<li><a href="http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/">http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/</a>
-(Ikke-publisert JSON-API), se f.eks. JSON-output fra
-<a href="http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/services/klinikker/oslo/undersokelse-med-2-rontgenbilder">http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/services/klinikker/oslo/undersokelse-med-2-rontgenbilder</a></li>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
+<td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<li>Kartdata,
-<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">http://www.openstreetmap.org/</a>
-<a href="http://mapit.nuug.no/">http://mapit.nuug.no/</a> (nabokommuner, postnummer)</li>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
+<td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<li><a href="http://labs.trafikanten.no/how-to-use-the-api.aspx">http://labs.trafikanten.no/how-to-use-the-api.aspx</a>
-(reisetid med kollektivtrafikk på Østlandet),
-<a href="http://data.norge.no/data/ruter-kollektivtrafikkdata">http://data.norge.no/data/ruter-kollektivtrafikkdata</a></li>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
+<td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<li><a href="http://reiseregningen.no">http://reiseregningen.no</a>
-(data om statens satser for biltransport)</li>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
+<td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<li>Kollektivtrafikkkart,
-<a href="http://öpnvkarte.de/?zoom=17&lat=59.91056&lon=10.75641&layers=BT">http://öpnvkarte.de/?zoom=17&lat=59.91056&lon=10.75641&layers=BT</a></li>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
+<td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<li>Routing med OpenStreetmap-data,
-<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/OnlineRouters">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/OnlineRouters</a></li>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
+<td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<li>Bilveiruting med OpenStreetmap-data, <a href="http://map.project-osrm.org/">http://map.project-osrm.org/</a></li>
-<li>Kollektivtrafikkruting for Norge med uviss datakilde, <a href="http://dit.no/">http://dit.no/</a></li>
-</ul>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
+<td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><strong>Åpne offentlige datasett brukt i applikasjonen:</strong></p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
+<td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<ul>
-<li>Reisetid med kollektivtrafikk på Østlandet</li>
-</ul>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
+<td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><strong>Øvrige datasett brukt i appen/tjenesten:</strong></p>
-<ul>
-<li>Fakta om tannleger, priser etc (upublisert JSON-API)</li>
-<li>Data om statens satser for biltransport</li>
-<li>Kartbilder, kartdata</li>
-<li>Kommunegrenser, nabokommuner, postnummer</li>
-<li>Bilveiruting med OpenStreetmap-data</li>
-<li>Kollektivtrafikkkart</li>
-<li>Routing med OpenStreetmap-data</li>
-<li>Kollektivtrafikkruting for Norge med uviss dataopphav</li>
-</ul>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
+<td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><strong>Kategori: </strong></p>
-<ul>
-<li>Arbeid og velferd</li>
-<li>Forbruker</li>
-<li>Økonomi</li>
-</ul>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
+<td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p><strong>Geografi (dekningsområde for app): </strong></p>
+<tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
+<td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
+<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
-<p>Hele landet</p>
+</table>
-</blockquote>
+<p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år. Jeg tror det blir
+<a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>. Hvis de kan bidra
+til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
+kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
+hatt så langt.</p>
-<p>Vinneren annonseres 2013-05-08 ved
-<a href="http://www.apps4norge.no/arrangement/2013-05-08-invitasjon-til-prisutdeling-apps4norge-8mai-2013">prisutdelingen
-hos DIFI 09:00 til 12:00</a>. Konkurransen blir hard. Det meldes at
-38 apper og 50 ideer er registrert som kandidater. Jeg frykter at jeg
-ikke rekker innom selv, på grunn av jobb og forpliktelser på
-hjemmebanen.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
-its first Wheezy based release today. This is the release
-announcement:</p>
+ <title>Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
+integration fixes . This is the release announcement:</p>
-<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
-2013-04-26</strong></p>
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
-<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
-edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+<p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+7.1+edu0~b1, 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. Immediatly after installation a school server running all
+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.</p>
-
-<p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
-not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
-version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
+the main server from CD 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 sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
+is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
+release.</p>
+
+<p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
+versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
+release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
+deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
+gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
+the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
+replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
+hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
+need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
+CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
<ul>
-<li>Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
- <ul>
- <li>Linux kernel 3.2.x</li>
- <li>Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
- (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
- manual.)</li>
- <li>Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR</li>
- <li>LibreOffice 3.5.4</li>
- <li>LTSP 5.4.2</li>
- <li>GOsa 2.7.4</li>
- <li>CUPS print system 1.5.3</li>
- <li>Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01</li>
- <li>Music creator Rosegarden 12.04</li>
- <li>Image editor Gimp 2.8.2</li>
- <li>Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1</li>
- <li>Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3</li>
- <li>Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6</li>
- <li>New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
- <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation
- manual</a> for more details.</li>
- <li>Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
- installation.</li>
- <li>More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
- <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes">release notes</a> and the <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation manual</a>.</li>
- </ul></li>
-</ul>
-<p><strong>Documentation</strong></p>
-<ul>
-<li>The (<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy">English</a>) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
- German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
- for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><Strong>LDAP related changes</strong></p>
-<ul>
-<li>Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
- choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
- server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.</li>
+<li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
+ work also without a attached tty.</li>
+<li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
+ make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
+ tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
+ has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
+ required).</li>
+
</ul>
-
+
<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+
<ul>
-<li>LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
- configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
- entry in lts.conf or LDAP.<li>
-<li>GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
- functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
- completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.</li>
+
+<li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
+needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
+<li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
+stick ISO image.</li>
+<li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
+<li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
+<li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
+ during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
+ cope with this.</li>
+<li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
+<li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
+ empty password hashes.</li>
+<li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
+ smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
+ from joining the Samba domain.</li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p><strong>Regressions</strong></p>
+
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+
<ul>
-<li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
- yet.</li>
+
+<li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
+ not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
+<li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
+ (using the KDE configuration).</li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p><strong>No updated artwork</strong></p>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
<ul>
-<li>Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
- screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
- had for our Squeeze based release.</li>
+
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
+
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
-To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
+
+<p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
+
<ul>
-<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
-<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</li>
+
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
+
</ul>
-
-<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c</p>
-
-<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2</p>
-
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</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>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Bitcoin er ikke anonymt - føres Stortinget bak lyset av finansministeren?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_er_ikke_anonymt___f_res_Stortinget_bak_lyset_av_finansministeren_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_er_ikke_anonymt___f_res_Stortinget_bak_lyset_av_finansministeren_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p><a href="http://bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a> er mye i mediene for
-tiden. Jeg følger med via Mylder for å finne
-<a href="http://mylder.no/?drill=bitcoin">artikler som omtaler
-temaet</a>, og takket være dette oppdaget jeg at stortingsrepresentant
-Ketil Solvik-Olsen fra FrP nylig har spurt finansminister Sigbjørn
-Johnsen om hans syn på Bitcoin, og
-<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Sporsmal/Skriftlige-sporsmal-og-svar/Skriftlig-sporsmal/?qid=57052">fått
-svar for noen dager siden</a>. Jeg bet meg spesielt merke til
-følgende formulering fra finansministeren:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-«Det er også utfordringer ved at handel med Bitcoins er uregulert og
-at transaksjonene er anonyme.»
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>At Bitcoin er anonymt er en myte som spres av både journalister og
-andre, så det er ikke veldig overraskende at også finansministeren har
-gått på limpinnen. Det er dog litt rart, da jeg håper at
-finansdepartementet ikke baserer seg på rykter og myter når de
-besvarer Stortinget. Men du trenger ikke bare tro på meg som kilde
-til påstanden om at Bitcoin ikke er anonymt. Sondre Rønjom har
-<a href="http://blogg.nsm.stat.no/archives/3241">via Sikkerhetsbloggen
-hos Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet</a> uttalt følgende:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-«At [bitcoin] i utgangspunktet
-<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524"><em>ikke</em> er anonymt</a>,
-kommer kanskje som en overraskelse på mange.»
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Enhver bevegelse av Bitcoin er offentlig tilgjengelig for alle på
-Internet, og en må legge svært mye innsats inn hvis en skal hindre at
-nettverksanalyse av transaksjonsloggene kan brukes til å identifisere
-brukerne. F.eks. kan en enkelt se hva jeg har mottatt til min
-offentliggjorte mottaksadresse ved å besøke blockexplorer og slå opp
-adressen
-<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>.
-Det virker dermed på meg ganske klart at å påstå at
-Bitcoin-transaksjoner er anonyme strengt tatt er å føre Stortinget bak
-lyset.</p>
-
-<p>Finansministeren er ikke den eneste som har latt seg forlede av
-medieomtalen. I spørsmålet fra Hr. Solvik-Olsen skriver han at «For
-noen dager siden kom den første bitcoin-minibanken på Kypros», hvilket
-så vidt jeg har klart å finne ut ikke er riktig. Det er annonsert
-planer om en slik minibank (fra
-<a href="http://www.bitcoinatm.com/">BitcoinATM</a>), men jeg finner
-intet tegn til at en slik minibank er utplassert noe sted.</p>
-
-<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-mine aktiviteter, så setter jeg pris på Bitcoin-donasjoner til min
-adresse
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>First Debian Edu / Skolelinux developer gathering in 2013 take place in Trondheim</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_developer_gathering_in_2013_take_place_in_Trondheim.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_developer_gathering_in_2013_take_place_in_Trondheim.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>This years first <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux /
-Debian Edu</a> developer gathering take place the coming weekend in Trondheim.
-Details about the gathering can be found
-<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2013-04-19-21-Trondheim">on
-the FRiSK wiki</a>. The dates are 19-21th of April 2013, and online
-participation for those unable to make it in person is very welcome,
-and I plan to participate online myself as I could not leave Oslo this
-weekend.</p>
-
-<p>The focus of the gathering is to work on the web pages and project
-infrastructure, and to continue the work on the Wheezy based Debian
-Edu release.</p>
-
-<p>See you on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">IRC, #debian-edu on irc.debian.org,</a> then?</p>
+ <title>Intel 180 SSD disk with Lenovo firmware can not use Intel firmware</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_180_SSD_disk_with_Lenovo_firmware_can_not_use_Intel_firmware.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_180_SSD_disk_with_Lenovo_firmware_can_not_use_Intel_firmware.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Earlier, I reported about
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my
+problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>. Friday I was
+told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away. And as
+there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
+today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
+currently on the disk.</p>
+
+<p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
+<a href="https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3472&DwnldID=18363&ProductFamily=Solid-State+Drives+and+Caching&ProductLine=Intel%c2%ae+High+Performance+Solid-State+Drive&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+SSD+520+Series+(180GB%2c+2.5in+SATA+6Gb%2fs%2c+25nm%2c+MLC)&lang=eng">issdfut_2.0.4.iso</a>
+(aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
+according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
+disks. I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
+booted the ISO from a USB stick. The disk was recognized, but the
+program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
+to insert any Intel firmware. So no change, and the disk is still
+unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
+working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware. No idea how likely
+that is. Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness. I
+got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
+the broken disks.</p>
</description>
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