From: Petter Reinholdtsen
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 23:21:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Improve formatting, add some links.
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Improve formatting, add some links.
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diff --git a/blog/draft/2013-skolelinux-klaus-knopper.txt b/blog/draft/2013-skolelinux-klaus-knopper.txt
index a5824a20b3..ee3016a7c8 100644
--- a/blog/draft/2013-skolelinux-klaus-knopper.txt
+++ b/blog/draft/2013-skolelinux-klaus-knopper.txt
@@ -12,22 +12,25 @@ project
Who are you, and how do you spend your days?
I am Klaus Knopper. I have a master degree in electrical
-engineering, and is currently professor for information management at
+engineering, and is currently professor in information management at
the university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern / Germany and
freelance Open Source software developer and consultant.
All of this is pretty much of the work I spend my days with. Apart
from teaching, I'm also conducting some more or less experimental
-projects like the Knoppix GNU/Linux live system (Debian-based like
-Skolelinux), ADRIANE (a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and
-LINBO (Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and
-repair system supporting various operating systems).
+projects like the Knoppix GNU/Linux live
+system (Debian-based like Skolelinux),
+ADRIANE
+(a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and
+LINBO
+(Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and repair
+system supporting various operating systems).
How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
project?
-Credits for this have to go to Kurt Gramlich, who is the german
-coordinator for Skolelinux. We were looking for an all-in-one open
+
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.
@@ -48,30 +51,32 @@ Edu?
Edu?
- - 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.
+
- 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.
-
- 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.
+
- 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.
- Skolelinux has some very self-opinionated and stubborn default
- configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is not
- always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network configuration is
- actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux and not easy to change,
- so schools sometimes have to change their network configuration to make
- it "Skolelinux-compatible".
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers compared to
- Debian.
+ configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is
+ not always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network
+ configuration is actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux
+ and not easy to change, so schools sometimes have to change their
+ network configuration to make it "Skolelinux-compatible".
+
+
- 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.
+
+ - Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers
+ compared to Debian.
@@ -94,14 +99,14 @@ get schools to use free software?
- knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for
+ Knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for
teaching and learning.
- students can learn with and use the same software at school, at
+ 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.
- closed source or proprietary software hides knowledge rather
+ 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.