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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html">RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">19th April 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Here in Norway, the
  26 <a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339"> Ministry of
  27 Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs</a> is behind
  28 a <a href="http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder">directory of
  29 standards</a> that are recommended or mandatory for use by the
  30 government.  When the directory was created, the people behind it made
  31 an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the
  32 standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions
  33 to the government.  Free software and non-free software could compete
  34 on the same level.</p>
  35
  36 <p>But recently, some standards with RAND
  37 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing">Reasonable
  38 And Non-Discriminatory</a>) terms have made their way into the
  39 directory.  And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that
  40 standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from
  41 implementing them.  The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per
  42 user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone
  43 willing to pay will get a license.  Both sound great in theory.  In
  44 practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and
  45 be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user.  By
  46 definition, users of free software do not need to register their use.
  47 So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects.
  48 And given that people will use the software without handing any money
  49 to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free
  50 software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights
  51 to implement a standard when the income available is zero.  The result
  52 in these situations is that free software are locked out from
  53 implementing standards with RAND terms.</p>
  54
  55 <p>Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a
  56 standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is
  57 how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory.  Because free
  58 software developers are working in a global market, it does not really
  59 help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable
  60 in Norway.  The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here.
  61 I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more
  62 attention to these issues in the future.</p>
  63
  64 <p>You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms
  65 from Simon Phipps
  66 (<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/">RAND:
  67 Not So Reasonable?</a>).</p>
  68
  69 <p>Update 2012-04-21: Just came across a
  70 <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/of-microsoft-netscape-patents-and-open-standards/index.htm">blog
  71 post from Glyn Moody</a> over at Computer World UK warning about the
  72 same issue, and urging people to speak out to the UK government.  I
  73 can only urge Norwegian users to do the same for
  74 <a href="http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder">the
  75 hearing taking place at the moment</a> (respond before 2012-04-27).
  76 It proposes to require video conferencing standards including
  77 specifications with RAND terms.</p>
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  82         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
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  90       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html">Forskning: "GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker"</a></div>
  91       <div class="date">15th April 2012</div>
  92       <div class="body"><p>Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
  93 <a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309">en
  94 hovedfagsoppgave</a> ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
  95 av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer.  Jeg ble fascinert
  96 over det som presenteres der.  Her er sammendraget:</p>
  97
  98 <p><blockquote>
  99
 100 <p>Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
 101 over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
 102 økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
 103 for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
 104 fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
 105 økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
 106 programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.</p>
 107
 108 <p>Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
 109 programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
 110 programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
 111 disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
 112 manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
 113 er:</p>
 114
 115 <ul>
 116 <li>Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?</li>
 117 <li>Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? </li>
 118 </ul>
 119
 120 <p>Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
 121 modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
 122 kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
 123 frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
 124 dialog med informantene.</p>
 125
 126 <p>Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
 127 ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
 128 for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
 129 fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
 130 delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
 131 operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
 132 OpenOffice.org.</p>
 133
 134 <p>Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
 135 av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
 136 begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
 137 vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
 138 økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
 139 stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
 140 omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
 141 til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
 142 eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
 143 inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
 144 formater.</p>
 145
 146 <p>Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
 147 laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
 148 OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
 149 skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
 150 symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
 151 Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
 152 mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
 153 friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
 154 slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».</p>
 155 </blockquote></p>
 156
 157 <p>Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
 158 komplett oppgave tilgjengelig.  På tide å holde et øye med
 159 <a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux">Skolelinux-søket</a>
 160 til DUO...</p>
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 166         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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 174       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html">Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</a></div>
 175       <div class="date">15th April 2012</div>
 176       <div class="body"><p>Behind <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
 177 Skolelinux</a> there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
 178 setting together all the pieces.  This time I present to you Andreas
 179 Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
 180 years.  He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
 181 up in the recently released
 182 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
 183 Edu Squeeze</a> version.</p>
 184
 185 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 186
 187 <p>My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
 188 studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
 189 Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
 190 Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
 191 teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
 192 information technology and science/technology.</p>
 193
 194 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 195 project?</strong></p>
 196
 197 <p>Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
 198 project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
 199 qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
 200 contributing.</p>
 201
 202 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 203 Edu?</strong></p>
 204
 205 <p>The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
 206 out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
 207 Debian Project!</p>
 208
 209 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 210 Edu?</strong></p>
 211
 212 <p>As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
 213 downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
 214 setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
 215 possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
 216 long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
 217 because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
 218 rather small and often busy elsewhere.</p>
 219
 220 <p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN">Debian LAN</a>
 221 project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.</p>
 222
 223 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 224
 225 <p>I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
 226 on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
 227 mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
 228 have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.</p>
 229
 230 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 231 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 232
 233 <p>One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
 234 Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
 235 politicians, this works out great for the "market-leader".  The school
 236 administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
 237 Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
 238 free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
 239 of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.</p>
 240
 241 <p>To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
 242 political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
 243 However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to 'free'
 244 the system.  There is currently some discussion about "Open Data" and
 245 "Free/Open Standards".  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
 246 a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
 247 fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
 248 software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.</p>
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 253         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
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 261       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html">Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012</a></div>
 262       <div class="date">13th April 2012</div>
 263       <div class="body"><p>Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen <a href="http://www.goopen.no/">Go
 264 Open 2012</a> i Oslo 23. april.
 265 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Medlemsforeningen NUUG</a> deler ut
 266 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/prisen/">prisen for fremme av fri
 267 programvare i Norge</a> der i år.  Kommer du?</p>
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 272         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 280       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html">Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</a></div>
 281       <div class="date"> 8th April 2012</div>
 282       <div class="body"><p>It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
 283 like <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>,
 284 and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
 285 contributor to the
 286 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
 287 Edu Squeeze release manual</a>.
 288
 289 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 290
 291 <p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
 292 occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p>
 293
 294 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 295 project?</strong></p>
 296
 297 <p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
 298 reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
 299 around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
 300 they'd like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
 301 through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
 302 "localisation".</p>
 303
 304 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 305 Edu?</strong></p>
 306
 307 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 308 Edu?</strong></p>
 309
 310 <p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it!  In fact I
 311 had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the
 312 education system.</p>
 313
 314 <p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
 315 as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
 316 everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
 317 money on the latest hardware.</p>
 318
 319 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 320
 321 <p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
 322 software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
 323 words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</p>
 324
 325 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 326 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 327
 328 <p>Well, I don't know.  I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning
 329 with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
 330 you would hardly need a strategy.</p>
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 335         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
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 343       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html">Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</a></div>
 344       <div class="date"> 6th April 2012</div>
 345       <div class="body"><p>Recently I have spent time with
 346 <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a> on speeding
 347 up a <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
 348 Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
 349 process I discovered something very surprising.  The reason the KDE
 350 menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
 351 due to the way KDE find application icons.  I discovered that showing
 352 the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
 353 passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server.  Most of these were
 354
 355 NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response.  Because the
 356 ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
 357 ms, the menus would be very slow.  Looking at the strace of kicker in
 358 Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
 359 the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
 360 non-existing files.  KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
 361 one icon file.  In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
 362 around 230 access(2) calls.</p>
 363
 364 <p>The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
 365 directories, and the list of possible directories is large.  In
 366 (almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
 367 and .xpm.  The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
 368 mounted.  Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
 369 requests.  I am not the first one to discover this.  I found a
 370 <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416">KDE bug report
 371 from 2009</a> about this problem, and it is still unsolved.</p>
 372
 373 <p>My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
 374 kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
 375 used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
 376 for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
 377 icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/.  Finally, I add symlinks to
 378 these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
 379 for them.  This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
 380 one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
 381 almost instantaneous.  I'm not quite sure where to make the package
 382 publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.</p>
 383
 384 <p>The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
 385 and icon handling, but also the login process.  Not quite sure how to
 386 speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
 387 that is not really an option at the moment.</p>
 388
 389 <p>If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
 390 (at) lists.debian.org.</p>
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 395         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 403       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html">Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</a></div>
 404       <div class="date"> 5th April 2012</div>
 405       <div class="body"><p>About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
 406 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a> by
 407 Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News.  The result was made public for
 408 non-subscribers today.  I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution
 409 for schools.  Check out his article
 410 <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/">Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
 411 distribution for education</a> if you want to learn more.</p>
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 416         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 424       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html">Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</a></div>
 425       <div class="date"> 1st April 2012</div>
 426       <div class="body"><p>Germany is a core area for the
 427 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
 428 user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
 429 Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
 430
 431 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 432
 433 <p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in
 434 Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school
 435 "<a href="http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/">Westfalen-Kolleg
 436 Dortmund</a>", a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
 437 the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
 438 examination 'Abitur', which will allow to study at a university. This
 439 second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
 440 or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.</p>
 441
 442 <p>Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
 443 blended learning project called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other
 444 information technology related projects. For about ten years I've been
 445 teacher and coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my
 446 school. Being now in my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at
 447 the end of April this year.</p>
 448
 449 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 450 project?</strong></p>
 451
 452 <p>The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
 453 attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
 454 Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
 455 using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
 456 2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
 457 clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
 458 reach. At home I'm using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
 459 Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
 460 two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
 461 known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
 462 Skolelinux.</p>
 463
 464 <p>Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
 465 better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
 466 clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
 467 was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
 468 and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
 469 the admin teachers.</p>
 470
 471 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 472 Edu?</strong></p>
 473
 474 <p>It's open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it's
 475 Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
 476 So it was a perfect choice.</p>
 477
 478 <p>Being open source, there are no license problems and so it's
 479 possible to point teachers and students to programs like
 480 OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It's of
 481 high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
 482 a school and to choose where to get support for this.</p>
 483
 484 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 485 Edu?</strong></p>
 486
 487 <p>Nothing yet.</p>
 488
 489 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 490
 491 <p>At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
 492 Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
 493 Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
 494 LibreOffice.</p>
 495
 496 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 497 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 498
 499 <p>Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
 500 that doesn't seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
 501 interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.</p>
 502 </div>
 503       <div class="tags">
 504
 505
 506         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
 507
 508
 509       </div>
 510     </div>
 511     <div class="padding"></div>
 512
 513     <div class="entry">
 514       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/56_kommuner_omfavner_FiksGataMi.html">56 kommuner omfavner FiksGataMi</a></div>
 515       <div class="date">30th March 2012</div>
 516       <div class="body"><p>I dag omfavnet nok en kommune NUUGs
 517 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a>.  Med 56 kommuner
 518 som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er "markedsandelen"
 519 oppe i 13% (av 429 kommuner).  Sist ut er Sel kommune, som slår følge
 520 med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Bærum, Eide, Farsund,
 521 Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel, Halden, Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl,
 522 Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger, Kongsberg, Kristiansund, Kvinesdal,
 523 Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes, Luster, Lyngdal, Lørenskog, Løten,
 524 Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal, Nordreisa, Randaberg,
 525 Rindal, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland, Spydeberg, Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne,
 526 Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil, Tynset, Tysvær, Ullensvang Herad, Vennesla,
 527 Verdal, Vågan, Vågå og Åseral.</p>
 528
 529 <p>I snitt rapporteres det nå 150 meldinger fra innbyggerne i uka via
 530 FiksGataMi.</p>
 531 </div>
 532       <div class="tags">
 533
 534
 535         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
 536
 537
 538       </div>
 539     </div>
 540     <div class="padding"></div>
 541
 542     <div class="entry">
 543       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Linux_skoler_har_h_yere_PC_tetthet_enn_landsgjennomsnittet___pressemelding_fra_FRiSK.html">Linux-skoler har høyere PC-tetthet enn landsgjennomsnittet - pressemelding fra FRiSK</a></div>
 544       <div class="date">30th March 2012</div>
 545       <div class="body"><p>I dag har <a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no">FRiSK</a>
 546 sendt ut følgende pressemelding basert på mine beregninger av
 547 PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler:</p>
 548
 549 <p><strong>Linux-skoler har høyere PC-tetthet enn
 550 landsgjennomsnittet</strong></p>
 551
 552 <p>Oslo, 30 Mars 2012</p>
 553
 554 <p>Det er store forskjeller på skolenes digitale tilstand, viser
 555 undersøkelsen Monitor 2011 som er laget på oppdrag fra
 556 Kunnskapsdepartementet. Dette har ført til debatt om PC-tilgangen i
 557 skolen, og om de med Linux i skolen gjør det bedre bedre eller
 558 dårligere enn snittet i landet.</p>
 559
 560 <p>Nå har vi tallene. Skoler med Linux har 36% større PC-tetthet en
 561 landsgjennomsnittet. På spørsmål hvorfor skoler med Linux har større
 562 PC-tetthet, observerer Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken som er IKT-konsulent i
 563 Nord-Odal:</p>
 564
 565 <p><blockquote>"Vi erfarer at klienter med Skolelinux har god funksjon
 566 til de er 8 til 10 år gamle. Dette er omtrent dobbelt så lenge som
 567 andre løsninger, og skolene får mer datautstyr for
 568 pengene."</blockquote></p>
 569
 570 <p>Undersøkelsen baserer seg på 56 skoler som har gjort det offentlig
 571 at de kjører Skolelinux eller annen Linux-utgave. De kan også ha PC-er
 572 med Windows i skolenettet. Når en sammenligner PC-tetthetene på
 573 skolene i kommunene Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik, Nittedal,
 574 Nord-Odal og Randaberg, er det i snitt 2,28 elev pr. PC på skolene med
 575 Linux. På landsbasis er det 3.11 elev per PC i grunnskolen, i følge
 576 side 95 i Monitor-rapporten for 2011. Målingen viser dermed 36% større
 577 PC-tetthet i skoler med Linux.</p>
 578
 579 <p><strong>Om Skolelinux/Debian Edu</strong></p>
 580
 581 <p>Skolelinux har til hensikt å gi alle barn full tilgang til
 582 skoleaktuelle dataprogram på sitt eget morsmål. Derfor følger det med
 583 godt over 100 skoleaktuelle programmene laget for læring. De fleste
 584 programmene er oversatt til over 50 språk. Elevene skal også kunne
 585 studere alle sider av dataprogrammene. Derfor følger også kildekode
 586 med. Elever med interesse kan lære av eksperter som har laget
 587 systemet. Dette med enkelt programmering i læreprogram som KTurtle,
 588 til profesjonelle verktøy som Qt Creator eller Java.</p>
 589
 590 <p>Skolelinux er laget for sentralisert drift, der alt teknisk
 591 administrasjon av alle skolene kan gjøres sentralt fra kommunehuset
 592 eller sentralt i en region.  F.eks. drifter to-tre personer 70.000
 593 skoledatamaskiner på 200 skoler i delstaten Extremadura i
 594 Spania. Etter velykket bruk av Debian Edu i skolen, legger delstaten
 595 over til Debian på 40.000 datamaskiner i administrasjonen. Det er idag
 596 mange selskap som tilbyr profesjonell støtte til innføring og drift i
 597 Norge og verden.</p>
 598
 599 <p><strong>Om FRiSK</strong></p>
 600
 601 <p>Medlemsforeningen Fri Programvare i Skolen organiserer
 602 dugnadsprosjektet som står bak Skolelinux.</p>
 603
 604 <p><strong>Kontaktperson</strong></p>
 605
 606 <p>Knut Yrvin</p>
 607
 608 <p>Leder av Fri Programvare i Skolen (FRISK)</p>
 609
 610 <p>Epost: knuty at skolelinux.no
 611 <br>Mobil: +47 93 479 561</p>
 612
 613 <p><strong>Referanser</strong></p>
 614
 615 <p><ul>
 616
 617  <li><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">http://www.skolelinux.org/</a></li>
 618  <li><a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/</a></li>
 619  <li><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Download">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Download</a></li>
 620  <li><a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">https://www.wis.no/gsi</a></li>
 621  <li><a href="http://iktsenteret.no/sites/iktsenteret.no/files/attachments/monitor2011.pdf">http://iktsenteret.no/sites/iktsenteret.no/files/attachments/monitor2011.pdf</a></li>
 622  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html</a></li>
 623  <li><a href="https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/linuxiskolen/2012-March/018500.html">https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/linuxiskolen/2012-March/018500.html</a></li>
 624
 625 </ul></p>
 626 </div>
 627       <div class="tags">
 628
 629
 630         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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 642 <h2>Archive</h2>
 643 <ul>
 644
 645 <li>2012
 646 <ul>
 647
 648 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 649
 650 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 651
 652 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
 653
 654 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (8)</a></li>
 655
 656 </ul></li>
 657
 658 <li>2011
 659 <ul>
 660
 661 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 662
 663 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 664
 665 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 666
 667 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 668
 669 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
 670
 671 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 672
 673 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 674
 675 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 676
 677 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
 678
 679 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 680
 681 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 682
 683 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 684
 685 </ul></li>
 686
 687 <li>2010
 688 <ul>
 689
 690 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 691
 692 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 693
 694 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 695
 696 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
 697
 698 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 699
 700 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
 701
 702 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
 703
 704 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 705
 706 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 707
 708 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 709
 710 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 711
 712 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 713
 714 </ul></li>
 715
 716 <li>2009
 717 <ul>
 718
 719 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 720
 721 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
 722
 723 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
 724
 725 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
 726
 727 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 728
 729 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
 730
 731 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
 732
 733 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 734
 735 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 736
 737 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 738
 739 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 740
 741 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 742
 743 </ul></li>
 744
 745 <li>2008
 746 <ul>
 747
 748 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 749
 750 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 751
 752 </ul></li>
 753
 754 </ul>
 755
 756
 757
 758 <h2>Tags</h2>
 759 <ul>
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 761  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
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 784
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 786
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 788
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 790
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 796
 797  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (158)</a></li>
 798
 799  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (122)</a></li>
 800
 801  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
 802
 803  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (24)</a></li>
 804
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 816
 817  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (4)</a></li>
 818
 819  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (23)</a></li>
 820
 821  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
 822
 823  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (25)</a></li>
 824
 825  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (1)</a></li>
 826
 827  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (3)</a></li>
 828
 829  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (9)</a></li>
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 831  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (6)</a></li>
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