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+ <title>Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The next version of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu
+/ Skolelinux</a> will include a new tool
+<tt>sitesummary2ldapdhcp</tt>, which can be used to quickly set up all
+the computers in a school without much manual labour. Here is a short
+summary on how to use it to set up a new school.</p>
+
+<p>First, install a combined Main Server and Thin Client Server as the
+central server in the network. Next, PXE boot all the client machines
+as thin clients and wait 5 minutes after the last client booted to
+allow the clients report their existence to the central server. When
+this is done, log on to the central server and run
+<tt>sitesummary2ldapdhcp</tt> in the <tt>konsole</tt> to use the
+collected information to generate system objects in LDAP. The output
+will look similar to this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% sitesummary2ldapdhcp
+info: Updating machine tjener.intern [10.0.2.2] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:05.
+info: Create GOsa machine for auto-mac-00-01-02-03-04-06 [10.0.16.20] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:06.
+
+Enter password if you want to activate these changes, and ^c to abort.
+
+Connecting to LDAP as cn=admin,ou=ldap-access,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
+enter password: *******
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>After providing the LDAP administrative password (the same as the
+root password set during installation), the LDAP database will be
+populated with system objects for each PXE booted machine with
+automatically generated names. The final step to set up the school is
+then to log into <a href="https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/">GOsa</a>,
+the web based user, group and system administration system to change
+system names, add systems to the correct host groups and finally
+enable DHCP and DNS for the systems. All clients that should be used
+as diskless workstations should be added to the workstation-hosts
+group. After this is done, all computers can be booted again via PXE
+and get their assigned names and group based configuration
+automatically.</p>
+
+<p>We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
+enabled this weekend. You might want to give it a try.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
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<title>Skolelinux-intervju: Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</link>
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- <title>Free e-book kiosk for the public libraries?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_e_book_kiosk_for_the_public_libraries_.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 7 Oct 2011 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Here in Norway the public libraries are debating with the
-publishing houses how to handle electronic books. Surprisingly, the
-libraries seem to be willing to accept digital restriction mechanisms
-(DRM) on books and renting e-books with artificial scarcity from the
-publishing houses. Time limited renting (2-3 years) is one proposed
-model, and only allowing X borrowers for each book is another.
-Personally I find it amazing that libraries are even considering such
-models.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, while reading <a href="http://boklaben.no/?p=220">part of
-this debate</a>, it occurred to me that someone should present a more
-sensible approach to the libraries, to allow its borrowers to get used
-to a better model. The idea is simple:</p>
-
-<p>Create a computer system for the libraries, either in the form of a
-Live DVD or a installable distribution, that provide a simple kiosk
-solution to hand out free e-books. As a start, the books distributed
-by <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> (abount
-36,000 books), <a href="http://runeberg.org/">Project Runenberg</a>
-(1149 books) and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/texts">The
-Internet Archive</a> (3,033,748 books) could be included, but any book
-where the copyright has expired or with a free licence could be
-distributed.</p>
-
-<p>The computer system would make it easy to:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Copy e-books into a USB stick, reading tablets, cell phones and
- other relevant equipment.</li>
-
-<li>Show the books for reading on the the screen in the library.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>In addition to such kiosk solution, there should probably be a web
-site as well to allow people easy access to these books without
-visiting the library. The site would be the distribution point for
-the kiosk systems, which would connect regularly to fetch any new
-books available.</p>
-
-<p>Are there anyone working on a system like this? I guess it would
-fit any library in the world, and not just the Norwegian public
-libraries. :)</p>
-</description>
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