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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html">Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">25th March 2012</div>
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  27 <p>The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I
  28 published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how
  29 to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos,
  30 allowing users to check their local email account without providing
  31 any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size,
  32 and also available from <a href="https://vimeo.com/38601767">vimeo</a>
  33 and download as a
  34 <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg
  35 Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
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  37 <p><video id="kmail-kerberos-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
  38   <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
  39     <p>Download video as
  40       <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
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  54       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html">Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux?</a></div>
  55       <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
  56       <div class="body"><p>Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store
  57 forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse.
  58 Et eksempel er
  59 <a href="http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen">oppslaget
  60 i Digi</a>.  Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om
  61 Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet.  Grunnlaget
  62 for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen
  63 <a href="https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand">Monitor
  64 2011</a>, som bruker informasjon fra
  65 <a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem</a>
  66 (GSI).  GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil
  67 (intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler,
  68 hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de
  69 har rapportert inn.  For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å
  70 vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem
  71 opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.</p>
  72
  73 <p>Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik,
  74 Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller
  75 andre Linux-varianter.  Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg
  76 har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det
  77 bekreftet med offentlige kilder.</p>
  78
  79 <p>Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det "ifølge GSI
  80 (20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle
  81 grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)".  For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å
  82 koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin,
  83 hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn
  84 landsgjennomsnittet.  Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har
  85 notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev
  86 pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).</p>
  87
  88 <p>Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få
  89 flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en
  90 rekke andre fordeler.  Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?</p>
  91
  92 <p>Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel
  93 feilføringer.  Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9
  94 elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut.  Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0
  95 elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.</p>
  96
  97 <p>Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og
  98 Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.</p>
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 103         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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 111       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html">Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</a></div>
 112       <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
 113       <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
 114 users are spread all across the globe.  The second inteview after
 115 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the
 116 Squeeze release</a> was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
 117 long time Linux user in United Kingdom.</p>
 118
 119 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 120
 121 <p>I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
 122 Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
 123 author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
 124 contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
 125 encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
 126 years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
 127 weren't able to convert many of them into sustainable
 128 installations.</p>
 129
 130 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 131 project?</strong></p>
 132
 133 <p>Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
 134 London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
 135 just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
 136 along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
 137 mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
 138 well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
 139 have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
 140 LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
 141 these things we decided to try it.</p>
 142
 143 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 144 Edu?</strong></p>
 145
 146 <p>By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
 147 from that I have always believed in the same "sustainable computing"
 148 goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
 149 would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
 150 low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
 151 that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
 152 Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
 153 proprietary software everywhere.</p>
 154
 155 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 156 Edu?</strong></p>
 157
 158 <p>As a newcomer I'm just finding out who's who in the community and
 159 how you're organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
 160 various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
 161 English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
 162 users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!</p>
 163
 164 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 165
 166 <p>Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
 167 OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
 168 desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
 169 use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I'm not sure if
 170 that counts...)</p>
 171
 172 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 173 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 174
 175 <p>That's a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
 176 and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
 177 the notion of "computer" means simply "proprietary office
 178 applications".  However, schools today are experiencing budget
 179 constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
 180 XP.  At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
 181 iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
 182 longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
 183 realised that we need people with programming skills, so they're
 184 putting coding back in the curriculum! And it's encouraging that the
 185 first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.</p>
 186
 187 <p>I don't really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
 188 free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
 189 Edu users in this country has to be part of it.</p>
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 194         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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 202       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html">Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu</a></div>
 203       <div class="date">16th March 2012</div>
 204       <div class="body"><p>Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and
 205 it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the
 206 translated versions in sync.  To do this we have come up with what we
 207 believe is a very efficient work flow.</p>
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 209 <ol>
 210
 211 <li>The documentation is written in a
 212 <a href="http://moinmo.in">moinmoin wiki</a> (see for example
 213 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">the
 214 Squeeze release manual</a>) with support for exporting the content as
 215 docbook XML.</li>
 216
 217 <li>This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style
 218 .pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files
 219 with the translated text.</li>
 220
 221 <li>The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell
 222 which part of the original wiki document is new or changed.  They can
 223 use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write
 224 the translation.  There is even a system in place to handle translated
 225 images.</li>
 226
 227 <li>The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook
 228 XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.</li>
 229
 230 <li>The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and
 231 create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.</li>
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 233 </ol>
 234
 235 <p>This setup work very well, but have a few issues.  The biggest
 236 issue is that <a href="http://moinmo.in/DocBook">the docbook support
 237 we use in moinmoin</a> is not actively maintained.  The docbook
 238 support is also buggy, and our build system contain workarounds to
 239 make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these bugs.</p>
 240
 241 <p>If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the
 242 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc">debian-edu-doc
 243 package</a>.</p>
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 248         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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 256       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html">NUUG-presentasjon: Skolelinux - ferdig oppsatt skolenettløsning</a></div>
 257       <div class="date">13th March 2012</div>
 258       <div class="body"><p>I dag presenterte jeg ny versjon av Skolelinux for NUUGs medlemmer.
 259 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/20120313-skolelinux-squeeze.html">Lysark</a>
 260 er tilgjengelige allerede og
 261 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">video-opptak</a>
 262 kommer så snart videogruppa til NUUG får publisert den.  Jeg kom på
 263 endel punkter om nye ting i Squeeze-utgaven under veis som jeg burde
 264 hatt med, og har sikkert skrevet noe tull på lysarkene som jeg ennå
 265 ikke har oppdaget.  Denne presentasjonen ble smurt ihop på veldig kort
 266 tid, og jeg rakk ikke finpusse den.  Håper den kan være lærerik
 267 likevel.</p>
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 272         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>, <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/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html">Skolelinux-intervju: Kåre Nordby</a></div>
 281       <div class="date">12th March 2012</div>
 282       <div class="body"><p>Første ut i serien med intervjuer av folk i
 283 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet etter at
 284 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">ny
 285 versjon av Skolelinux</a> ble lansert i helga, er nylig valgte
 286 styremedlem i foreningen
 287 <a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">Fri programvare i
 288 Skolen</a> (FRiSK) som organiserer
 289 Skolelinux-utviklingen og daglig leder i
 290 <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>, selskapet
 291 prosjektet opprettet som et tilbud til skoler som ønsket en
 292 kommersiell samarbeidsparter.  Det bør nevnes at jeg er styremedlem i
 293 Skolelinux Drift AS og styreleder i selskapets hovedeier stiftelsen
 294 <a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/">SLX Debian Labs</a>
 295 som beskytter verdiene til Skolelinux-prosjektet, og kjenner Kåre den
 296 veien.</p>
 297
 298 <p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
 299
 300 <p>Jeg har siden januar 2010 vært daglig leder i Skolelinux Drift AS,
 301 som leverer support, installasjon, tilpasning, drift, og opplæring på
 302 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. Fra 2012 er jeg valgt inn som styremedlem i
 303 FRiSK.  Min forrige jobb var som KAM i Redpill Linpro (som er en av
 304 eierne i Skolelinux Drift).  Før det var jeg daglig leder i et eget 7
 305 manns konsulent selskap som også startet med fri programvare mot
 306 slutten.</p>
 307
 308 <p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
 309
 310 <p>Jeg hørte om det først når jeg jobbet i Redpill Linpro.  Men jeg
 311 har også en datter som går på en friskole, som også bruker Skolelinux.
 312 Som kjent har ikke friskoler de samme økonomiske rammebetingelsene som
 313 offentlige skoler, så for dem var det det absolutt beste alternativet.
 314 De anser også Skolelinux som et stabilt system, som bare går og går (i
 315 motsetning til det lille Windows-baserte nettverket de har på
 316 admin-siden).</p>
 317
 318 <p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
 319
 320 <p>Sentralisert drift av tynne og diskløse arbeidsstasjoner. Således
 321 lydløse og raskere arbeidsstasjoner som er bedre i klasserommet.
 322 Lengre levetid på PC'er.  Store besparelser på maskinvare og drift. Og
 323 så klart fjerning av alle lisenskostnader. Personlig synes jeg også at
 324 mange av programmene er bedre enn alternativene. Men dette er ofte en
 325 smakssak og avhengig om man må ha det man er vant til fra før.</p>
 326
 327 <p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
 328
 329 <p>For lite kjentskap til løsningen.  Noen ganger for dårlig
 330 kompatibilitet med arbeidsstasjoners/bærbare maskiner sine
 331 nettverksdrivere eller skjermkort. Men dette løser vi i skolene ved
 332 standardisering. Ellers er det få, om nesten ingen, av de kjente
 333 maskinvare / infrastruktur leverandørene til fylkes- / kommuner som
 334 tilbyr denne plattformen.  Skal dette endre seg så må kommunene selv
 335 sette slike krav til leverandørene.</p>
 336
 337 <p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
 338
 339 <p>Har brukt OpenOffice.org siden starten (2001 ?), Kun Linux på
 340 desktop siden 2005. Bruker i dag Kubuntu, Libreoffice og ymse annet
 341 programvare til ulik kontorbruk som er lett å installere / teste via
 342 alle programarkivene som finnes.</p>
 343
 344 <p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
 345 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
 346
 347 <p>Fortsette å presentere flere av de gode eksemplene hvor Debian Edu
 348 / Skolelinux brukes i kommuner og enkeltskoler.  Vi må få bedre frem
 349 at det er mulig tilknytte både Windows og Mac klienter på denne
 350 plattformen (selv om det vil øke driftskostnadene).  Dette gjøres
 351 mange steder.  Spesielt er det mange lærere som ønsker å bruke
 352 Windows/Mac-bærbare, gjerne som sin private PC også. Det er også mulig
 353 for kommunen å integrere med Active Directory i stedet for OpenLDAP
 354 som kommer med ut av boksen (selv om også dette øker kostnadene).
 355 Dette vil muligens bidra til å fjerne noe motstand hos noen
 356 potensielle brukere / driftpersonell for å ta i bruk noe
 357 nytt. Fremveksten av mobile brukere og nettbrett går i vår favør.
 358 Brukerne blir kjent og vant til flere nye operativsystemer /
 359 brukergrensesnitt. Så utviklerfellesskapet bør jobbe videre med å
 360 integrere flere nye klienttyper, som ultra lav-kostklienter og
 361 nettbrett (blant annet fri programvare-alternativet
 362 <a href="http://makeplaylive.com/">Spark</a> med
 363 <a href="http://www.merproject.org/">Mer OS</a> og
 364 <a href="http://plasma-active.org/">KDE Active Plasma</a>).</p>
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 369         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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 377       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out!</a></div>
 378       <div class="date">11th March 2012</div>
 379       <div class="body"><p>This weekend we finally published the first stable release of
 380 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a> based
 381 on Debian/Squeeze.  The full announcement is
 382 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">available</a>
 383 from the project announcement list.  Now is a good time to test if it
 384 you have not done so already.</p>
 385
 386 <p>I plan to present the new version at
 387 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">a NUUG
 388 meeting</a> on tuesday.  I look forward to seeing you there if you are
 389 in Oslo, Norway.</p>
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 394         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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 402       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html">Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</a></div>
 403       <div class="date"> 9th March 2012</div>
 404       <div class="body"><p>Inspired by <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/">the
 405 interview series</a> conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
 406 interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 407 community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
 408 more international audience.</p>
 409
 410 <p>While <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
 411 Skolelinux</a> originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
 412 Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
 413 from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
 414 and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
 415 work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
 416 and am happy to share the response with you. :)
 417
 418
 419 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 420
 421 <p>My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
 422 and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
 423 Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
 424 teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
 425 Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
 426 I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
 427 primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
 428 so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
 429 also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
 430 to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
 431 appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.</p>
 432
 433 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 434 project?</strong></p>
 435
 436 <p>In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
 437 server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
 438 samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
 439 Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn't really improve my setup. I
 440 did various desperate searches for things like "school Linux server"
 441 and ended up in a document called "Drift" something or other. Reading
 442 there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
 443 problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
 444 previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
 445 Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
 446 downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
 447 Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
 448 my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.</p>
 449
 450 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 451 Edu?</strong></p>
 452
 453 <p>For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
 454 workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
 455 ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
 456 designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
 457 doesn't necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
 458 school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
 459 Japan.</p>
 460
 461 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 462 Edu?</strong></p>
 463
 464 <p>The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
 465 have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
 466 make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
 467 who don't need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
 468 important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
 469 instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
 470 default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
 471 kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
 472 Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
 473 second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
 474 customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
 475 multiplies. For example, backup wasn't working properly in Lenny. It
 476 took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
 477 I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
 478 help.</p>
 479
 480 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 481
 482 <p>Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
 483 studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
 484 (customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
 485 still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
 486 house, that's very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
 487 the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
 488 have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
 489 day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
 490 installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
 491 have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
 492 and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.</p>
 493
 494 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 495 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 496
 497 <p>Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
 498 and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
 499 popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
 500 to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
 501 file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
 502 also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
 503 Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
 504 budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
 505 compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
 506 is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
 507 are not impressed when their USB drive doesn't work, or their browser
 508 doesn't play flash, for example.</p>
 509 </div>
 510       <div class="tags">
 511
 512
 513         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>.
 514
 515
 516       </div>
 517     </div>
 518     <div class="padding"></div>
 519
 520     <div class="entry">
 521       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html">Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</a></div>
 522       <div class="date"> 7th March 2012</div>
 523       <div class="body"><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
 524
 525 <p>One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
 526 screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
 527 Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
 528 also available from <a href="http://vimeo.com/37675399">vimeo</a> and
 529 download as a
 530 <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg
 531 Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
 532
 533 <p><video id="gosa-mass-user-create-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
 534   <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
 535     <p>Download video as
 536       <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
 537 </video></p>
 538 </div>
 539       <div class="tags">
 540
 541
 542         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>.
 543
 544
 545       </div>
 546     </div>
 547     <div class="padding"></div>
 548
 549     <div class="entry">
 550       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hamar_kommune_imponerer_i_FiksGataMi_rapportert_problem_i_dag.html">Hamar kommune imponerer i FiksGataMi-rapportert problem i dag</a></div>
 551       <div class="date"> 5th March 2012</div>
 552       <div class="body"><p>Tok nettopp en titt på listen over løste problemer i
 553 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> (hentet via
 554 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/open311">Open311-søkegrensesnittet</a>),
 555 og lot meg imponere over Hamar kommunes raske respons.  Sjekk
 556 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/report/10791">rapport #10791</a>, der
 557 Hamar kommune kl. 10:19 i dag får beskjed om at det er dårlig
 558 brøyting, allerede 10:50 melder kommunen tilbake at de er på saken.
 559 18:26 samme dag melder så innsender at problemet er løst.  Hatten av
 560 for folkene i Hamar kommune!</p>
 561
 562 <p>Apropos bra respons.  En bruker sendte for noen dager inn følgende
 563 tilbakemelding til oss som står bak tjenesten.</p>
 564
 565 <p><blockquote>Rapporterte inn slukte gatelys på Torsnesveien, og to
 566 uker etterpå er lysene tilbake. Flott service!</blockquote></p>
 567
 568 <p>Det er veldig hyggelig å høre at FiksGataMi fungerer bra for
 569 innbyggerne.  Måtte alle landets innbyggere få samme gode erfaring med
 570 FiksGataMi og det offentlige.  I dag er det 52 kommuner som har lenke
 571 til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider, og dermed indikerer at de liker vår
 572 tjeneste.  Måtte de få følge av resten av landets kommuner snart. :)</p>
 573 </div>
 574       <div class="tags">
 575
 576
 577         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>.
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 589 <h2>Archive</h2>
 590 <ul>
 591
 592 <li>2012
 593 <ul>
 594
 595 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 596
 597 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 598
 599 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (13)</a></li>
 600
 601 </ul></li>
 602
 603 <li>2011
 604 <ul>
 605
 606 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 607
 608 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 609
 610 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 611
 612 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 613
 614 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
 615
 616 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 617
 618 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 619
 620 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 621
 622 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
 623
 624 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 625
 626 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 627
 628 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 629
 630 </ul></li>
 631
 632 <li>2010
 633 <ul>
 634
 635 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 636
 637 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 638
 639 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 640
 641 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
 642
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 644
 645 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
 646
 647 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
 648
 649 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 650
 651 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 652
 653 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 654
 655 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 656
 657 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 658
 659 </ul></li>
 660
 661 <li>2009
 662 <ul>
 663
 664 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 665
 666 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
 667
 668 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
 669
 670 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
 671
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 673
 674 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
 675
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 677
 678 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 679
 680 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 681
 682 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 683
 684 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 685
 686 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 687
 688 </ul></li>
 689
 690 <li>2008
 691 <ul>
 692
 693 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 694
 695 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 696
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 698
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 764  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (23)</a></li>
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 767
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 771
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