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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 8th April 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
  26 like <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>,
  27 and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
  28 contributor to the
  29 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
  30 Edu Squeeze release manual</a>.
  31
  32 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
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  34 <p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
  35 occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p>
  36
  37 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
  38 project?</strong></p>
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  40 <p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
  41 reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
  42 around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
  43 they'd like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
  44 through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
  45 "localisation".</p>
  46
  47 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  48 Edu?</strong></p>
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  50 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  51 Edu?</strong></p>
  52
  53 <p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it!  In fact I
  54 had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the
  55 education system.</p>
  56
  57 <p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
  58 as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
  59 everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
  60 money on the latest hardware.</p>
  61
  62 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
  63
  64 <p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
  65 software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
  66 words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</p>
  67
  68 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
  69 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
  70
  71 <p>Well, I don't know.  I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning
  72 with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
  73 you would hardly need a strategy.</p>
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