+<p>Det viktigste er å forankre beslutningen i kollegiet og med de som
+er ansvarlige for å vedlikeholde og bruke datamaskinene. Flest mulig
+bør være med på å holde det (sosialt) vedlike, kjenne og støtte
+prinsippene. Som enkeltmannsprosjekt blir det lett veldig sårbart,
+særlig når (Skole)linux ennå i stor grad er en motkultur og ikke noe
+en stor nok andel av beslutningstakere, brukere osv kjenner til og
+bruker.</p>
+
+<p>Jeg tror det viktigste er å fortsette å holde fri programvare godt,
+oppdatert, minimere antall feil, ha en god kontakt med brukerne og
+attraktivt og spennende programmer. Beholde alt som er bra og ha det
+tilgjengelig samtidig som man tilbyr det nyeste og rareste for de som
+vil ha det.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Saving power with Debian Edu / Skolelinux using shutdown-at-night</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Since the Lenny version of
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>, a
+feature to save power have been included. It is as simple as it is
+practical: Shut down unused clients at night, and turn them on again
+in the morning. This is done using the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shutdown-at-night.html">shutdown-at-night</a> Debian package.</p>
+
+<p>To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to
+the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts. For Debian Edu, this is done in
+LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check
+every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and
+shut it down if it is. If the hardware in question is supported by
+the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvram-wakeup.html">nvram-wakeup</a>
+package, the BIOS is told to turn the machine back on around 07:00 +-
+10 minutes. If this isn't working, one can configure wake-on-lan to
+try to turn on the client. The wake-on-lan option is only documented
+and not enabled by default in Debian Edu.</p>
+
+<p>It is important to not turn all machines on at once, as this can
+blow a fuse if several computers are connected to the same fuse like
+the common setup for a classroom. The nvram-wakeup method only work
+for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock. I've seen old
+machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were
+starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot. If you have one of
+those, you have to turn on the computer manually.</p>
+
+<p>The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can
+also be used outside the Debian Edu environment. For those without a
+central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file
+<tt>/etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night</tt> to enable it.
+Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
+publish the third beta version of
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> based
+on Squeeze. If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
+out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
+installing new machines, check it out. If you need a software
+solution for your school, check it out too. The full announcement is
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html">available</a>
+on the project announcement list.</p>
+
+<p>I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
+beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
+ 10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
+ the installation.</li>
+
+<li>Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
+ Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.</li>
+
+<li>The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
+ disabled queues are restarted every hour. This should cut down on
+ the amount of manual administration needed for printers.</li>
+
+<li>The set of initial users have been changed. Now a personal user
+ for the local system administrator is created during installation
+ instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
+ and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
+ membership. This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
+ up to date on the system.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
+private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home. I will use it look
+for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
+final Squeeze release is published.</p>
+
+<p>Next weekend the project organise a
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html">developer
+gathering</a> in Oslo. We will continue the work on the Squeeze
+version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version. Perhaps I
+will see you there?</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
+This is the sad fact of todays computers. In the next version of
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> based
+on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
+firmware blobs easier to handle. The common use case I run into is a
+laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
+work, but there are other use cases as well.</p>
+
+<p>First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
+with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
+included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
+during installation. This take care firmware for network devices used
+by the installer when installing from from local media. But for
+example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
+not taken care of by this.</p>
+
+<p>For non-network devices, we provide the script
+<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware</tt> which
+search through the <tt>dmesg</tt> output for drivers requesting extra
+firmware. The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
+file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
+the requested firmware file(s) is installed. I have proposed to do
+something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/655507">#655507</a>), to allow PXE
+installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better. Run the
+script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
+firmware packages.</p>
+
+<p>Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
+because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
+working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
+included to be able to install at all. To fill the PXE installation
+initrd with extra firmware, the
+<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware</tt> script is
+provided. Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
+PXE initrd with firmware packages.</p>
+
+<p>Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
+network cards working. For this,
+<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware</tt> is
+provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs. It is used
+the same way as the other firmware related tools.</p>
+
+<p>At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation. We
+do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
+non-free software, and it is their choice.</p>
+
+<p>We plan to release beta3 this weekend. You might want to give it a
+try.</p>