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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Perl_library_to_control_the_Spykee_robot_moved_to_github.html">Perl library to control the Spykee robot moved to github</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">19th October 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Back in 2010, I created a Perl library to talk to
  26 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spykee">the Spykee robot</a>
  27 (with two belts, wifi, USB and Linux) and made it available from my
  28 web page.  Today I concluded that it should move to a site that is
  29 easier to use to cooperate with others, and moved it to github.  If
  30 you got a Spykee robot, you might want to check out
  31 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/libspykee-perl">the
  32 libspykee-perl github repository</a>.</p>
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  37         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
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  45       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html">Good causes: Debian Outreach Program for Women, EFF documenting the spying and Open access in Norway</a></div>
  46       <div class="date">15th October 2013</div>
  47       <div class="body"><p>The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get
  48 wider attention.  I recommend signing and donating to each one of
  49 these. :)</p>
  50
  51 <p>Via <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/18/">Debian
  52 Project News for 2013-10-14</a> I came across the Outreach Program for
  53 Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get
  54 more women involved in free software.  One debian sponsor has offered
  55 to match <a href="http://debian.ch/opw2013">any donation done to Debian
  56 earmarked</a> for this initiative.  I donated a few minutes ago, and
  57 hope you will to. :)</p>
  58
  59 <p>And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to
  60 create <a href="https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsa-videos">video
  61 documentaries about the excessive spying</a> on every Internet user that
  62 take place these days, and their need to fund the work.  I've already
  63 donated.  Are you next?</p>
  64
  65 <p>For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og
  66 Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a
  67 statement under the heading
  68 <a href="http://saih.no/Bloggers_United/">Bloggers United for Open
  69 Access</a> for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the
  70 Norwegian government.  So far 499 signatures.  I hope you will sign it
  71 too.</p>
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  76         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
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  84       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html">Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania</a></div>
  85       <div class="date">11th October 2013</div>
  86       <div class="body"><p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
  87 networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
  88 areas, depending on the radio technology used.  Normal wifi equipment
  89 can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
  90 successful examples like
  91 <a href="http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a> and
  92 <a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network</a>
  93 (see
  94 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia
  95 for a large list</a>) around the globe.  To give you an idea how it
  96 work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
  97 can be seen from their
  98 <a href="http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically
  99 updated node graph and map</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes
 100 automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
 101 There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
 102 and that is the main topic of this blog post.</p>
 103
 104 <p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
 105 to do it as part of my involvement with the <a
 106 href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation</a> community, and
 107 my recent involvement in
 108 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project</a>
 109 finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
 110 Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
 111 when possible, given that most communication between people are
 112 between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
 113 communication patterns).  It also allow people to communicate without
 114 any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
 115 private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
 116 important over the years.</p>
 117
 118 <p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
 119 working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
 120 <a href="http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet</a> at Husmania.  They seem to
 121 have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
 122 <a href="http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo
 123 Freifunk project</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people
 124 behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
 125 <a href="http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx</a>.  Unfortunately the wiki
 126 site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
 127 reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
 128 the new project.  A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
 129 from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks.  I
 130 came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
 131 speakers about this talk (from
 132 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube</a>):</p>
 133
 134 <p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
 135
 136 <p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
 137 There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
 138 figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
 139 given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
 140 is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
 141 completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
 142 batman-adv for now.  It sure help me to  know that the very cool
 143 <a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
 144 is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
 145 organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
 146 less industrialized communities.  Check out this cool video presenting
 147 that project (from
 148 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>):</p>
 149
 150 <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
 151
 152 <p>According to the wikipedia page on
 153 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
 154 mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
 155 packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
 156 B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
 157 based community mesh networks.</p>
 158
 159 <p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
 160 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
 161 network.  One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
 162 vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
 163 computer.  The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
 164 least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up.  A
 165 <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
 166 introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project.  These are
 167 the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
 168
 169 <p><table>
 170 <tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
 171 <tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
 172 <tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
 173 <td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
 174 <td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
 175 </table></p>
 176
 177 <p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
 178 in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers.  (See a nice post from
 179 VillageTelco about
 180 "<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
 181 about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a>
 182 for details.)  When these settings are activated and you have some
 183 other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
 184 network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
 185 any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p>
 186
 187 <p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
 188 but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
 189 firmware supporting batman-adv.  If anyone know how to use that old
 190 wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p>
 191
 192 <p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
 193 us on IRC, either channel
 194 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a>
 195 or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on
 196 irc.freenode.net.</p>
 197
 198 <p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
 199 research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
 200 and Innovation called
 201 <a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
 202 reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere
 203 learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
 204 Grünerløkka in Oslo.  So mesh networks are also interesting for
 205 commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
 206 to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
 207 know have closed down the experiment.  Perhaps Telenor or others would
 208 be interested in a cooperation?</p>
 209
 210 <p><strong>Update 2013-10-12</strong>: I was just
 211 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html">told
 212 by the Serval project developers</a> that they no longer use
 213 batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
 214 mesh system.</p>
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 219         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 227       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador</a></div>
 228       <div class="date"> 8th October 2013</div>
 229       <div class="body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
 230 Salvador had published a
 231 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
 232 Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
 233 Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
 234 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
 235 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
 236 in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
 237 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
 238 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
 239 showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
 240 of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
 241 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
 242 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
 243 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
 244 computers without hard drives by installing one central
 245 <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
 246
 247 <p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
 248
 249 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 250
 251 <p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
 252 me know. :)</p>
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 257         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/video">video</a>.
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 265       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html">Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!</a></div>
 266       <div class="date">29th September 2013</div>
 267       <div class="body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
 268 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
 269 complete announcement text can be found at
 270 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
 271 section</a>, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.</p>
 272
 273 <p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
 274 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
 275 partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
 276 lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
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 281         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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 289       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html">Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning</a></div>
 290       <div class="date">27th September 2013</div>
 291       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
 292 project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
 293 vision, ideas and solution several places.  Here is a little
 294 collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
 295
 296 <ul>
 297
 298 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
 299 2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
 300
 301 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
 302 discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 303
 304 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
 305 Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
 306 Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
 307 (Youtube)</li>
 308
 309 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
 310 Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
 311
 312 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
 313 the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 314
 315 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
 316 Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
 317 York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
 318
 319 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
 320 to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
 321 (Youtube)</li>
 322
 323 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
 324 of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
 325
 326 <li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
 327 1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
 328
 329 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
 330 FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
 331 2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
 332
 333 </ul>
 334
 335 <p>A larger list is available from
 336 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
 337 Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
 338
 339 <p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
 340 Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
 341 Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
 342 a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
 343 The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
 344 pending in NEW.  The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
 345 metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload.  Join
 346 us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
 347 (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
 348 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 349 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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 354         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 362       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html">Third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy</a></div>
 363       <div class="date">16th September 2013</div>
 364       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 365 today.  This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p>
 366
 367 <blockquote>
 368 <p>Hi,</p>
 369
 370 <p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
 371 short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 372 Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p>
 373
 374 <p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
 375 we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
 376 weekend.  We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
 377 if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p>
 378
 379 <p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
 380 another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p>
 381
 382 <p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
 383 compared to beta1:</p>
 384
 385 <ul>
 386
 387 <li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
 388 also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li>
 389 <li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
 390 understand ical/dav sources.</li>
 391 <li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
 392 main server.</li>
 393 <li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li>
 394 <li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
 395 (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
 396 (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
 397 (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li>
 398
 399 </ul>
 400
 401 <p>Where to get it:</p>
 402
 403 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 404
 405 <ul>
 406 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
 407 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
 408 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li>
 409 </ul>
 410
 411 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is:  3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p>
 412
 413 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
 414 <ul>
 415 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
 416 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
 417 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li>
 418 </ul>
 419
 420 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p>
 421
 422 <p>The Source DVD image has the filename
 423 debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
 424 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
 425 as the other isos.</p>
 426
 427 <p>How to report bugs</p>
 428
 429 <p>For information how to report bugs please see
 430 <br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
 431
 432
 433 <p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p>
 434
 435 <p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
 436 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 437 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
 438 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 439 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 440 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 441 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
 442 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
 443 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
 444 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
 445 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
 446 packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
 447 can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 448
 449 <p>This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 450 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 451 Squeeze release.</p>
 452
 453 <p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p>
 454
 455 <p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 456 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 457 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 458 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 459 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
 460 Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
 461 password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
 462 (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
 463 to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
 464 directory.</p>
 465
 466
 467 <p>cheers,
 468 <br>        Holger</p>
 469 </blockquote>
 470 </div>
 471       <div class="tags">
 472
 473
 474         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>.
 475
 476
 477       </div>
 478     </div>
 479     <div class="padding"></div>
 480
 481     <div class="entry">
 482       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html">Recipe to test the Freedombox project on amd64 or Raspberry Pi</a></div>
 483       <div class="date">10th September 2013</div>
 484       <div class="body"><p>I was introduced to the
 485 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
 486 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
 487 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
 488 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
 489 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
 490 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
 491 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
 492 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
 493
 494 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
 495 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
 496 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
 497 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
 498 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
 499
 500 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
 501 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
 502 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
 503 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
 504 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
 505 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
 506 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
 507 the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
 508 it on some hardware I do have access to.  I have rewritten the
 509 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
 510 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
 511 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
 512 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
 513 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
 514 missing in Debian).</p>
 515
 516 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
 517 scripts
 518 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
 519 and a administrative web interface
 520 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
 521 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
 522 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
 523 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
 524 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
 525 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
 526 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
 527 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
 528 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
 529 this is really working yet, see
 530 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
 531 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
 532 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
 533 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
 534 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
 535 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
 536 with lots of half baked features.</p>
 537
 538 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
 539 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
 540 at.</p>
 541
 542 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
 543
 544 <ol>
 545
 546 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
 547 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
 548 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
 549 to the Debian installer:<p>
 550 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
 551
 552 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
 553 install on.</li>
 554
 555 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
 556 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
 557
 558 </ol>
 559
 560 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 561
 562 <ol>
 563
 564 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 565 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 566 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 567 <pre>
 568 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 569 </pre></li>
 570 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 571 <pre>
 572 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 573    apt-key add -
 574 apt-get update
 575 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 576 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 577 </pre></li>
 578 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 579
 580 </ol>
 581
 582 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 583 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 584 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 585 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 586 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 587
 588 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 589 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 590 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 591 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 592
 593 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 594 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 595 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 596 irc.debian.org and the
 597 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 598 mailing list</a>.</p>
 599
 600 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 601 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 602 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 603 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 604 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 605 default password is 'secret'.</p>
 606 </div>
 607       <div class="tags">
 608
 609
 610         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 611
 612
 613       </div>
 614     </div>
 615     <div class="padding"></div>
 616
 617     <div class="entry">
 618       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html">Datalagringsdirektivet gjør at Oslo Høyre og Arbeiderparti ikke får min stemme i år</a></div>
 619       <div class="date"> 8th September 2013</div>
 620       <div class="body"><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
 621 Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
 622 folk.  Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
 623 år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
 624 snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen.  Det skal også
 625 registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
 626 til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte.  Saken er kjent som
 627 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
 628 (DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges
 629 grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt.  Det ble i praksis innført brev og
 630 besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen.  Rapporter fra de landene som
 631 allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
 632 kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
 633 kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.  Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
 634 millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
 635 arbeide.  Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
 636 på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
 637 Se mer på
 638 <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
 639 og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
 640
 641 <p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje?  Et åpenbart problem er at
 642 medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut.  Den innsamlede
 643 informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
 644 journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
 645 av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon.  Et annet er at
 646 advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
 647 som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
 648 Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
 649 nettsteder en har besøkt.  Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
 650 swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
 651 interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
 652 tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
 653
 654 <p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for.  Høyre og
 655 Arbeiderpartiet.  Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
 656 DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
 657 fylkene).  Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
 658 partiene.  Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
 659 informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
 660 basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
 661 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
 662 Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
 663 Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
 664
 665 <style type="text/css">
 666 .for    {background-color:#F5A9A9;}
 667 .mot    {background-color:#A9F5BC;}
 668 .ukjent { }
 669 </style>
 670
 671 <table>
 672 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 673
 674 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 675 <td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
 676 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 677
 678 <tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
 679 <td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
 680 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
 681
 682 <tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
 683 <td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
 684 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
 685
 686 <tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
 687 <td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
 688 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 689
 690 <tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
 691 <td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
 692 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 693
 694 <tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
 695 <td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
 696 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 697
 698 <tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
 699 <td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
 700 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 701
 702 <tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
 703 <td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
 704 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 705
 706 <tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
 707 <td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
 708 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 709
 710 <tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
 711 <td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
 712 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 713
 714 <tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
 715 <td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
 716 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 717
 718 <tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
 719 <td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
 720 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 721
 722 <tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
 723 <td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
 724 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 725
 726 <tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
 727 <td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
 728 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 729
 730 <tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
 731 <td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
 732 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 733
 734 <tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
 735 <td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
 736 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 737
 738 <tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
 739 <td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
 740 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 741
 742 <tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
 743 <td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
 744 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 745
 746 <tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
 747 <td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
 748 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 749
 750 <tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
 751 <td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
 752 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 753
 754 <tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
 755 <td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
 756 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 757
 758 <tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
 759 <td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
 760 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 761
 762 <tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
 763 <td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
 764 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 765
 766 <tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
 767 <td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
 768 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 769
 770 <tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
 771 <td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
 772 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 773
 774 </table>
 775
 776 <p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
 777
 778 <table>
 779
 780 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 781
 782 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 783 <td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
 784 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 785
 786 <tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
 787 <td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
 788 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 789
 790 <tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
 791 <td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
 792 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 793
 794 <tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
 795 <td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
 796 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 797
 798 <tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
 799 <td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
 800 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 801
 802 <tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
 803 <td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
 804 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 805
 806 <tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
 807 <td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
 808 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 809
 810 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
 811 <td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
 812 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 813
 814 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
 815 <td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
 816 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 817
 818 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
 819 <td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
 820 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 821
 822 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
 823 <td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
 824 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 825
 826 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
 827 <td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
 828 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 829
 830 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
 831 <td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
 832 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 833
 834 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
 835 <td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
 836 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 837
 838 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
 839 <td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
 840 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 841
 842 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
 843 <td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
 844 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 845
 846 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
 847 <td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
 848 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 849
 850 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
 851 <td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
 852 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 853
 854 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
 855 <td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
 856 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 857
 858 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
 859 <td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
 860 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 861
 862 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
 863 <td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
 864 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 865
 866 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
 867 <td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
 868 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 869
 870 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
 871 <td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
 872 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 873
 874 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
 875 <td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
 876 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 877
 878 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
 879 <td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
 880 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 881
 882 </table>
 883
 884 <p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år.  Jeg tror det blir
 885 <a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>.  Hvis de kan bidra
 886 til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
 887 kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
 888 hatt så langt.</p>
 889
 890 </div>
 891       <div class="tags">
 892
 893
 894         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg</a>.
 895
 896
 897       </div>
 898     </div>
 899     <div class="padding"></div>
 900
 901     <div class="entry">
 902       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
 903       <div class="date">22nd August 2013</div>
 904       <div class="body"><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 905 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
 906 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
 907
 908 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
 909
 910 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 911 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 912
 913 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 914
 915 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 916 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 917 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 918 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 919 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 920 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 921 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 922 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
 923 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 924 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 925 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 926 desktop contains
 927 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 928 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 929 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 930 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 931
 932 <p>This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
 933 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
 934 release.</p>
 935
 936 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 937 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 938 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 939 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 940 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
 941 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
 942 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
 943 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
 944 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
 945 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
 946 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
 947
 948 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 949
 950 <ul>
 951
 952 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
 953     work also without a attached tty.</li>
 954 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
 955     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
 956     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
 957     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
 958     required).</li>
 959
 960 </ul>
 961
 962 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 963
 964 <ul>
 965
 966 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
 967 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
 968 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
 969 stick ISO image.</li>
 970 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
 971 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
 972 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
 973     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
 974     cope with this.</li>
 975 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
 976 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
 977     empty password hashes.</li>
 978 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
 979     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
 980     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
 981
 982 </ul>
 983
 984 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 985
 986 <ul>
 987
 988 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 989     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 990 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
 991     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
 992
 993 </ul>
 994
 995 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 996
 997 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 998
 999 <ul>
1000
1001 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
1002
1003 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
1004
1005 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
1006
1007 </ul>
1008
1009 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
1010 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
1011
1012 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
1013
1014 <ul>
1015
1016 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
1017 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
1018 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
1019
1020 </ul>
1021
1022 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
1023 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
1024
1025
1026 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
1027
1028 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
1029 </div>
1030       <div class="tags">
1031
1032
1033         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>.
1034
1035
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1044
1045 <h2>Archive</h2>
1046 <ul>
1047
1048 <li>2013
1049 <ul>
1050
1051 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1052
1053 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
1054
1055 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
1056
1057 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
1058
1059 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1060
1061 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
1062
1063 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (7)</a></li>
1064
1065 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1066
1067 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
1068
1069 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (4)</a></li>
1070
1071 </ul></li>
1072
1073 <li>2012
1074 <ul>
1075
1076 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1077
1078 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
1079
1080 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
1081
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1083
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1087
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1089
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1091
1092 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
1093
1094 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
1095
1096 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
1097
1098 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1099
1100 </ul></li>
1101
1102 <li>2011
1103 <ul>
1104
1105 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1106
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1128
1129 </ul></li>
1130
1131 <li>2010
1132 <ul>
1133
1134 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1135
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1149
1150 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1151
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1153
1154 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1155
1156 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1157
1158 </ul></li>
1159
1160 <li>2009
1161 <ul>
1162
1163 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1164
1165 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1166
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1168
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1170
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1176
1177 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1178
1179 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1180
1181 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1182
1183 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1184
1185 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1186
1187 </ul></li>
1188
1189 <li>2008
1190 <ul>
1191
1192 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1193
1194 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1195
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1197
1198 </ul>
1199
1200
1201
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1203 <ul>
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1205  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
1206
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1222
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1224
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1232
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1234
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1260
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1262
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1264
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1266
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1268
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1270
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1290
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