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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  22     <h3>Entries from May 2012.</h3>
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  26         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intervju_med_digi_no_om_Norge_Digitalt_og_Openstreetmap.html">Intervju med digi.no om Norge Digitalt og Openstreetmap</a>
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  29         11th May 2012
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  32         <p>I går ble jeg kontaktet på epost av
  33 <a href="http://www.digi.no">digi.no</a>s Eirik Rossen som lurte på om
  34 jeg hadde noen kommentarer til
  35 <a href="http://www.statkart.no/statkart.ny.no/nor/Statens_kartverk/Om_Statens_kartverk/Pressesenter/Nyhetsarkiv/Nyheter_2012/mai/Norge+i+tet+på+digitale+kartdata.d25-SwZLMWg.ips">kartverkets
  36 pressemelding</a> om Norges tetplassering når det gjelder
  37 kart-tilgjengelighet.  Jeg svarte følgende, som resulterte i noen
  38 sitater i
  39 <a href="http://www.digi.no/895420/norge-i-tet-paa-digitale-kartdata#debatt">Digis
  40 dekning</a> av kartverkets pressemelding.</p>
  41
  42 <p><blockquote>
  43 <p>Takk for muligheten til å kommentere.</p>
  44
  45 <p>Pressemeldingen omhandler tilgjengeligheten av kart for aktører som er
  46 medlem i kartellet Norge Digitalt.  Det er ingen overraskelse for meg
  47 at tilgjengeligheten til kart hos disse medlemmene er god.  Men for
  48 oss på utsiden av kartellet er tilgjengelighet av det som burde være
  49 felleskapets og innbyggernes kart dårlig.</p>
  50
  51 <p>Bruksvilkårene til kartene fra medlemmene i Norge Digital hindrer
  52 nyskapning og selv om en er villig til å betale den ublu prisen som
  53 forlanges får en fortsatt ikke tilgang til kartdata uten
  54 bruksbegresninger.  Derfor bruker jeg heller tid på å gjøre
  55 fribrukskartet OpenStreetmap bedre.  Der fremmer bruksvilkårene
  56 nyskapning og lar meg skape nye tjenester uten å måtte søke om
  57 tillatelse fra det offentlige.</p>
  58
  59 <p>En annen problemstilling er jo sikkerhet til fjells og til sjøs.
  60 Mon tro hvor mange ulykker på sjøen som kunne vært unngått hvis
  61 sjøkartdata var tilgjengelig uten bruksbegrensninger, slik at enhver
  62 med GPS eller kartplotter tilnærmet kostnadsfritt kunne sikre seg mest
  63 mulig oppdaterte sjøkart?  Det hjelper jo ikke at offentlige etater
  64 har enkel tilgang til sjøkartene når det samme ikke gjelder hver
  65 båtkaptein og småbåtfører.  Jeg tror samfunnet som helhet hadde tjent
  66 på å unngå kostnadene ved disse ulykkene ved å tvinge sjøkartverket
  67 til å publisere sine kartdata på Internet uten bruksbegresninger.</p>
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  74         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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  83         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html">Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner</a>
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  86         13th May 2012
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  89         <p>It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
  90 publish another interview with the people behind
  91 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>.
  92 This time it is one of our German developers, who have helped out over the
  93 years to make sure both a lot of major but also a lot of the minor
  94 details get right before release.
  95
  96 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  97
  98 <p>My name is Jürgen Leibner, I'm 49 years old and living in
  99 Bielefeld, a town in northern Germany.  I worked nearly 20 years as
 100 certified engineer in the department for plant design and layout of an
 101 international company for machinery and equipment.  Since 2011 I'm a
 102 certified technical writer (tekom e.V.) and doing technical
 103 documentations for a steam turbine manufacturer.  From April this year
 104 I will manage the department of technical documentation at a
 105 manufacturer of automation and assembly line engineering.</p>
 106
 107 <p>My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used
 108 it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
 109 home since 2006.</p>
 110
 111 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 112 project?</strong></p>
 113
 114 <p>Once a day in the early year of 2001 when I wanted to fetch my
 115 daughter from primary school, there was a teacher sitting in the
 116 middle of 20 old computers trying to boot them and he failed. I helped
 117 him to get them booting. That was seen by the school director and she
 118 asked me if I would like to manage that the school gets all that old
 119 computers in use. I answered: "Yes".</p>
 120
 121 <p>Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer
 122 running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
 123 gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer
 124 network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time
 125 and with a lot of fun.  About one year later the school was connected
 126 to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school
 127 building.  That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a
 128 Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and
 129 being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra
 130 costs for things like licence and software.  So I searched for a
 131 school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of
 132 people nearby who founded 'skolelinux.de'. It was the Skolelinux
 133 prerelease 32 I first tried out for being used at the school.  I
 134 managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over
 135 the IT management and centralised the services for all schools in
 136 Bielefeld in December of 2006.</p>
 137
 138 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 139 Edu?</strong></p>
 140
 141 <p>When I'm looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages
 142 for me as today.</p>
 143
 144 <p>In the past there were advantages like:</p>
 145
 146 <p><ul>
 147
 148 <li>I don't need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
 149 they had little money to spent for computers and software.</li>
 150
 151 <li>It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
 152 cost.</li>
 153
 154 <li>It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
 155 schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
 156 clients because of it's preconfigured overall concept of being a
 157 infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
 158 server</li>
 159
 160 <li>I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
 161 school.</li>
 162
 163 </ul></p>
 164
 165 <p>Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones
 166 came up in this way:</p>
 167
 168 <p><ul>
 169
 170 <li>Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
 171 now.</li>
 172
 173 <li>They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
 174 have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
 175 because they are to close to Microsoft ideology.</li>
 176
 177 <li>With the Squeeze version of Debian Edu which now uses GOsa² for
 178 management I feel more able to manage the daily tasks than with the
 179 interfaces used in the past.</li>
 180
 181 <li>It is more modular than in the past and fits even better to the
 182 different needs.</li>
 183
 184 <li>The documentation is usable and gets better every day.</li>
 185
 186 <li>More people than ever before are using Debian Edu all over the
 187 world and so the community, which is an very important part I think,
 188 is sharing knowledge and minds.</li>
 189
 190 <li>Most, maybe all, of the technical requirements for schools are
 191 solved today by Debian Edu. </li>
 192
 193 </ul></p>
 194
 195 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 196 Edu?</strong></p>
 197
 198 <p><ul>
 199
 200 <li>There are too few IT companies able to integrate Debian Edu into
 201 their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
 202 whole municipality areas.</li>
 203
 204 <li>Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
 205 enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
 206 politicians.</li>
 207
 208 <li>Technically there are no disadvantages I'm aware of.</li>
 209
 210 </ul></p>
 211
 212 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 213
 214 <p>I use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
 215 computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I
 216 use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel,
 217 KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I
 218 need from the KDE environment.  On console I use newsbeuter, mutt,
 219 screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.</p>
 220
 221 <p>My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
 222 and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS,
 223 rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services
 224 with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me
 225 and the whole family.  I probably forgot something.</p>
 226
 227 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 228 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 229
 230 <p>I believe, we should provide concepts for IT companies to integrate
 231 Debian Edu into their product portfolio with use cases for different
 232 countries and areas all over the world.</p>
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 238         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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 246       <div class="title">
 247         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/D_r_Unix__eller_lever_den_videre_som_Linux_.html">Dør Unix, eller lever den videre som Linux?</a>
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 249       <div class="date">
 250         15th May 2012
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 252       <div class="body">
 253         <p>Peter Hidas fra Gartner melder i Computerworld at
 254 <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article245011.ece">Unix
 255 nedkjempes av Linux og Windows</a>.  For meg er påstanden meningsløs,
 256 da Linux er en variant av Unix, og hele diskusjonen om Linux er Unix
 257 eller ikke er utdatert og uinteressant.  Jeg ser at Helge Skrivervik
 258 deler mitt syn på saken i sin kommentar fra i går om at
 259 "<a href="http://www.mymayday.com/blogs/2012/unix-linux">Unix vs. Linux
 260 = uinteressant"</a>.</p>
 261
 262 <p>I <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>-sammenheng møter jeg av og
 263 til folk som tror NUUG er for avdankede folk som driver med den samme
 264 Unix-varianten som Peter Hidas skriver om i sin kommentar, og dermed
 265 er en foreningen for avdankede teknologer interessert i døende
 266 teknologi.  Intet kunne være lengre fra sannheten.</p>
 267
 268 <p>NUUG er en forening for oss som har sans for fri programvare, åpne
 269 standarder og Unix-lignende operativsystemer, som Ubuntu, FreeBSD,
 270 Debian, Mint, Gentoo, Android, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Firefox, LibreOffice,
 271 ODF, HTML, C++, ECMA-Script, etc.  Kort sagt der nyskapning skjer på
 272 IT-fronten i dag.  Det innebærer selvfølgelig også de som er
 273 interessert i de "gamle" Unix-ene som Solaris og HP-UX, men de er bare
 274 et lite mindretall blant NUUGs medlemmer.  De aller fleste medlemmene
 275 har i dag fokus på Linux.</p>
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 281         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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 296 <li>2012
 297 <ul>
 298
 299 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 300
 301 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 302
 303 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
 304
 305 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
 306
 307 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (3)</a></li>
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 309 </ul></li>
 310
 311 <li>2011
 312 <ul>
 313
 314 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 315
 316 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 317
 318 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 319
 320 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 321
 322 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
 323
 324 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 325
 326 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
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 328 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
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 330 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
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 332 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
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 334 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
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 336 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
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 338 </ul></li>
 339
 340 <li>2010
 341 <ul>
 342
 343 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 344
 345 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 346
 347 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
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 349 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
 350
 351 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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 353 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
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 355 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
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 357 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
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 359 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
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 361 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
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 363 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
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 365 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
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 367 </ul></li>
 368
 369 <li>2009
 370 <ul>
 371
 372 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 373
 374 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
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 376 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
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 378 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
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 380 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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 382 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
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 384 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
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 386 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
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 388 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
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 390 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
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 392 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
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 394 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
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 396 </ul></li>
 397
 398 <li>2008
 399 <ul>
 400
 401 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 402
 403 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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 414  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
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 454  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
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 472  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (23)</a></li>
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 474  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
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 476  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (27)</a></li>
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 482  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (9)</a></li>
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