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+               <title>Freedombox on Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and virtual x86 machine</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Freedombox_on_Dreamplug__Raspberry_Pi_and_virtual_x86_machine.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Freedombox_on_Dreamplug__Raspberry_Pi_and_virtual_x86_machine.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;Freedombox
+project&lt;/a&gt; is working on providing the software and hardware for
+making it easy for non-technical people to host their data and
+communication at home, and being able to communicate with their
+friends and family encrypted and away from prying eyes.  It has been
+going on for a while, and is slowly progressing towards a new test
+release (0.2).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;And what day could be better than the Pi day to announce that the
+new version will provide &quot;hard drive&quot; / SD card / USB stick images for
+Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and VirtualBox (or any other virtualization
+system), and can also be installed using a Debian installer preseed
+file.  The Debian based Freedombox is now based on Debian Jessie,
+where most of the needed packages used are already present.  Only one,
+the freedombox-setup package, is missing.  To try to build your own
+boot image to test the current status, fetch the freedom-maker scripts
+and build using
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/vmdebootstrap&quot;&gt;vmdebootstrap&lt;/a&gt;
+with a user with sudo access to become root:
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
+  freedom-maker
+sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
+  mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
+  u-boot-tools
+make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
+devices.  See the README for more details on the build. If you do not
+want all three images, trim the make line.  But note that thanks to &lt;a
+href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/741407&quot;&gt;a race condition in
+vmdebootstrap&lt;/a&gt;, the build might fail without the patch to the
+kpartx call.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed
+method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load
+the preseed values:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+url=&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat&quot;&gt;http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But note that due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/740673&quot;&gt;a
+recently introduced bug in apt in Jessie&lt;/a&gt;, the installer will
+currently hang while setting up APT sources.  Killing the
+&#39;&lt;tt&gt;apt-cdrom ident&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; process when it hang a few times during the
+installation will get the installation going.  This affect all
+installations in Jessie, and I expect it will be fixed soon.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
+us get the new release published. :) Please join us on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox&quot;&gt;IRC (#freedombox on
+irc.debian.org)&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss&quot;&gt;the
+mailing list&lt;/a&gt; if you want to help make this vision come true.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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                <title>How to add extra storage servers in Debian Edu / Skolelinux</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_add_extra_storage_servers_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</link>
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                <title>How to add extra storage servers in Debian Edu / Skolelinux</title>
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-                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>

                <description>&lt;p&gt;On larger sites, it is useful to use a dedicated storage server for
 storing user home directories and data.  The design for handling this
                <description>&lt;p&gt;On larger sites, it is useful to use a dedicated storage server for
 storing user home directories and data.  The design for handling this

-in Debian Edu / Skolelinux, is to update the automount rules in LDAP
-and let the automount daemon on the clients take care of the rest.  I
-was reminded about the need to document this better when one of the
-customers of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt;,
-where I am on the board of directors, asked about how to do this.  The
-steps to get this working are the following:&lt;/p&gt;
+in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is
+to update the automount rules in LDAP and let the automount daemon on
+the clients take care of the rest.  I was reminded about the need to
+document this better when one of the customers of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt;, where I am
+on the board of directors, asked about how to do this.  The steps to
+get this working are the following:&lt;/p&gt;

 
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@@ -35,7 +101,7 @@ tjener.intern do not use automount to avoid mounting loops.&lt;/li&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;DNS entries are added in GOsa², and not described here.  Follow the
 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/GettingStarted&quot;&gt;instructions
 
 &lt;p&gt;DNS entries are added in GOsa², and not described here.  Follow the
 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/GettingStarted&quot;&gt;instructions

-in the manual&lt;/a&gt; (Machine Management with GOsa² in section etting
+in the manual&lt;/a&gt; (Machine Management with GOsa² in section Getting

 started).&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;Ensure that the NFS export points on the server are exported to the
 started).&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;Ensure that the NFS export points on the server are exported to the


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-       <item>
-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Klaus Knopper</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since I managed to publish the last interview,
-but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
-Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; community is still going strong, and yesterday we even
-had a new school administrator show up on
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt; to share
-his success story with installing Debian Edu at their school.  This
-time I have been able to get some helpful comments from the creator of
-Knoppix, Klaus Knopper, who was involved in a Skolelinux project in
-Germany a few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I am Klaus Knopper.  I have a master degree in electrical
-engineering, and is currently professor in information management at
-the university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern / Germany and
-freelance Open Source software developer and consultant.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;All of this is pretty much of the work I spend my days with. Apart
-from teaching, I&#39;m also conducting some more or less experimental
-projects like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.knoppix.org&quot;&gt;Knoppix GNU/Linux live
-system&lt;/a&gt; (Debian-based like Skolelinux),
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html&quot;&gt;ADRIANE&lt;/a&gt;
-(a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.knopper.net/linbo/index-en.html&quot;&gt;LINBO&lt;/a&gt;
-(Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and repair
-system supporting various operating systems).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
-project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The credit for this have to go to Kurt Gramlich, who is the German
-coordinator for Skolelinux.  We were looking for an all-in-one open
-source community-supported distribution for schools, and Kurt
-introduced us to Skolelinux for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Quick installation,&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;works (almost) out of the box,&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;contains many useful software packages for teaching and learning,&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;is a purely community-based distro and not controlled by a
-    single company,&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;has a large number of supporters and teachers who share their
-    experience and problem solutions.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Skolelinux is - as we had to learn - not easily upgradable to
-  the next version.  Opposed to its genuine Debian base, upgrading to
-  a new version means a full new installation from scratch to get it
-  working again reliably.
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Skolelinux is based on Debian/stable, and therefore always a
-  little outdated in terms of program versions compared to Edubuntu or
-  similar educational Linux distros, which rather use Debian/testing
-  as their base.
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Skolelinux has some very self-opinionated and stubborn default
-  configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is
-  not always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network
-  configuration is actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux
-  and not easy to change, so schools sometimes have to change their
-  network configuration to make it &quot;Skolelinux-compatible&quot;.
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Some proposed extensions, which were made available as
-  contribution, like secure examination mode and lecture material
-  distribution and collection, were not accepted into the mainline
-  Skolelinux development and are now not easy to maintain in the
-  future because of Skolelinux somewhat undeterministic update
-  schemes.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers
-  compared to Debian.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For these reasons and experience from our project, I would now
-rather consider using plain Debian for schools next time, until
-Skolelinux is more closely integrated into Debian and becomes
-upgradeable without reinstallation.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;GNU/Linux with LXDE desktop, bash for interactive dialog and
-programming, texlive for documentation and correspondence,
-occasionally LibreOffice for document format conversion. Various
-programming languages for teaching.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Strong arguments are&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for
-    teaching and learning.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Students can learn with and use the same software at school, at
-    home, and at their working place without running into license or
-    conversion problems.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Closed source or proprietary software hides knowledge rather
-    than exposing it, and proprietary software vendors try to bind
-    customers to certain products.  But teachers need to teach
-    science, not products.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;If you have everything you for daily work as open source, what
-    would you need proprietary software for?&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
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