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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
                <description></description>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
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                <title>First release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;One week delayed due to DVD build problems, we managed today to
wrap up and publish the first release candidate for
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
on the project announcement list.  Check it out if you need a software
solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Olav Dahlum</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Olav_Dahlum.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, får vi nå
høre fra et nyvalgt medlem i foreningen
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
Skolen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Olav Dahlum, og er frilans oversetter, tester,
prosjektleder og bruker av fri og åpen programvare som
LibreOffice. Jeg er også et av styremedlemmene i FRISK.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg kom i kontakt med prosjektet i 2009, da jeg ble ansatt i
stiftelsen Åpne kontorprogram på norsk for å oversette og teste den
norske utgaven av OpenOffice.org. Arbeidet har hele tiden vært
koordinert sammen med Skolelinux, og mange av de samme menneskene er
involvert, så på den måten ble jeg en del av den utvidede
familien.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux handler i likhet med utdanningssektoren om å dele
kunnskap med andre, og det er dette som er hovedstyrken til
prosjektet.  Selv om Skolelinux hovedsaklig er involvert i utvikling
av programvare, er det også et sted der man kan utfolde seg uavhengig
av bakgrunn og ferdigheter.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liten utbredelse og manglende støtte fra leverandører som leverer
pedagogisk programvare til skolebruk.  Kunne kanskje hatt flere
verktøy som letter administrasjonen ytterligere, slik at også mindre
erfarne databrukere kan utføre lett vedlikehold og rutinejobber.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg er nesten forpliktet til å si at jeg bruker LibreOffice... Jeg
bruker forøvrig frie og åpne operativsystemer basert på
operativsystemkjernen Linux, for tiden openSUSE 12,1 med KDE4.  Men
hvis jeg skal dra fram noen flere eksempler så er nok Mozilla Firefox
og Thunderbird to av de jeg bruker mest. I tillegg er jeg en flittig
bruker av OpenSSH, Irssi, Midnight Commander, Git, Subversion,
Translation Toolkit og Super Maryo Chronicles (litt gøy skal man ha,
og med to håndkontroller liggende er det ikke til å unngå).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Vi må få leverandører av pedagogisk programvare med på laget, men
også utvikle vår egen tilpasset det norske markedet.  Det er også
mulig å involvere utdanningssektoren direkte i arbeidet, for eksempel
gjennom studentprosjekter der elevene selv er med å utforme
programvare direkte eller indirekte gjennom aktive bidrag.  Dette gjør
ikke bare samarbeidet tettere, men fokuset på standarder og friheten
til å velge sin egen løsning vil kanskje stimulere interessen for
framtidig deltakelse i bransjen.  Vi som driver med fri og åpen
programvare ønsker oss ikke rene konsumenter, men tenkende og
selvstendige individer som kan være med å skape sin egen fremtid.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>How to figure out which RAID disk to replace when it fail</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_figure_out_which_RAID_disk_to_replace_when_it_fail.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Once in a while my home server have disk problems.  Thanks to Linux
Software RAID, I have not lost data yet (but
&lt;a href=&quot;http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/34532&quot;&gt;I was
close&lt;/a&gt; this summer :).  But once a disk is starting to behave
funny, a practical problem present itself.  How to get from the Linux
device name (like /dev/sdd) to something that can be used to identify
the disk when the computer is turned off?  In my case I have SATA
disks with a unique ID printed on the label.  All I need is a way to
figure out how to query the disk to get the ID out.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After fumbling a bit, I
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-getting-scsi-ide-harddisk-information/&quot;&gt;found
that hdparm -I&lt;/a&gt; will report the disk serial number, which is
printed on the disk label.  The following (almost) one-liner can be
used to look up the ID of all the failed disks:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
for d in $(cat /proc/mdstat |grep &#39;(F)&#39;|tr &#39; &#39; &quot;\n&quot;|grep &#39;(F)&#39;|cut -d\[ -f1|sort -u);
do
    printf &quot;Failed disk $d: &quot;
    hdparm -I /dev/$d |grep &#39;Serial Num&#39;
done
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Putting it here to make sure I do not have to search for it the
next time, and in case other find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At the moment I have two failing disk. :(&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
Failed disk sdd1:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1860823
Failed disk sdd2:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1860823
Failed disk sde2:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1840589
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The last time I had failing disks, I added the serial number on
labels I printed and stuck on the short sides of each disk, to be able
to figure out which disk to take out of the box without having to
remove each disk to look at the physical vendor label.  The vendor
label is at the top of the disk, which is hidden when the disks are
mounted inside my box.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I really wish the check_linux_raid Nagios plugin for checking Linux
Software RAID in the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nagios-plugins.html&quot;&gt;nagios-plugins-standard&lt;/a&gt;
debian package would look up this value automatically, as it would
make the plugin a lot more useful when my disks fail.  At the moment
it only report a failure when there are no more spares left (it really
should warn as soon as a disk is failing), and it do not tell me which
disk(s) is failing when the RAID is running short on disks.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Automatic proxy configuration with Debian Edu / Skolelinux</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;New in the Squeeze version of
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is the
ability for clients to automatically configure their proxy settings
based on their environment.  We want all systems on the client to use
the WPAD based proxy definition fetched from &lt;tt&gt;http://wpad/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt;, to
allow sites to control the proxy setting from a central place and make
sure clients do not have hard coded proxy settings.  The schools can
change the global proxy setting by editing
&lt;tt&gt;tjener:/etc/debian-edu/www/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt; and the change propagate
to all Debian Edu clients in the network.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The problem is that some systems do not understand the WPAD system.
In other words, how do one get from a WPAD file like this (this is a
simple one, they can run arbitrary code):&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
   if (!isResolvable(host) ||
       isPlainHostName(host) ||
       dnsDomainIs(host, &quot;.intern&quot;))
      return &quot;DIRECT&quot;;
   else
      return &quot;PROXY webcache:3128; DIRECT&quot;;
}
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;to a proxy setting in the process environment looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
http_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
ftp_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To do this conversion I developed a perl script that will execute
the javascript fragment in the WPAD file and return the proxy that
would be used for
&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;,
and insert this extracted proxy URL in &lt;tt&gt;/etc/environment&lt;/tt&gt; and
&lt;tt&gt;/etc/apt/apt.conf&lt;/tt&gt;.  The perl script wpad-extract work just
fine in Squeeze, but in Wheezy the library it need to run the
javascript code is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/631045&quot;&gt;no longer
able to build&lt;/a&gt; because the C library it depended on is now a C++
library.  I hope someone find a solution to that problem before Wheezy
is frozen.  An alternative would be for us to rewrite wpad-extract to
use some other javascript library currently working in Wheezy, but no
known alternative is known at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This automatic proxy system allow the roaming workstation (aka
laptop) setup in Debian Edu/Squeeze to use the proxy when the laptop
is connected to the backbone network in a Debian Edu setup, and to
automatically use any proxy present and announced using the WPAD
feature when it is connected to other networks.  And if no proxy is
announced, direct connections will be used instead.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Silently using a proxy announced on the network might be a privacy
or security problem.  But those controlling DHCP and DNS on a network
could just as easily set up a transparent proxy, and force all HTTP
and FTP connections to use a proxy anyway, so I consider that
distinction to be academic.  If you are afraid of using the wrong
proxy, you should avoid connecting to the network in question in the
first place.  In Debian Edu, the proxy setup is updated using dhcp and
ifupdown hooks, to make sure the configuration is updated every time
the network setup changes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The WPAD system is documented in a
&lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-wrec-wpad-01&quot;&gt;IETF
draft&lt;/a&gt; and a
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol&quot;&gt;Wikipedia
page&lt;/a&gt; for those that want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Axel Bojer</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet har jeg
fått en av oversetterne som har vært med siden starten i tale.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Axel Bojer og er datalærer, tysklærer, oversetter med
mere.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Tror jeg så en annonsering på nettet i slutten av 2001 og ville
være med som oversetter.  Jeg kom med på en utviklersamling og
prosjektet var da helt i starten.  Det var spennende å være med mens
prosjektet vokste til og utviklet seg.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg har «alltid» vært språkinteressert og hadde nettopp startet med
Linux og tror jeg tenkte det passet å bidra.  Var også glad for å få
en Debian-distribusjon, og ville gjerne bruke den selv.  Til å begynne
med brukte jeg først Mandrake og så Debian. Og siden jeg oppdaget at
det ikke var noen mulighet for å bruke den som enkeltstående i lang
tid, så gikk jeg etterhvert over til Kubuntu&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Løsningen er forholdsvis lett å sette opp, gratis, fri programvare
og gjør det mulig å gjenbruke eldre maskiner.  Det fine med Debian er
at det er stabilt og har en veldig stor mengde programmer. Jeg liker
også apt.  :-) Jeg liker også friheten ved Linux og muligheten til å
delta og forme sin egen datahverdag.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er for lite kjent og for sent ute med å gi ut nye
versjoner.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Da jeg selv i hovedsak bruker Kubuntu, så kan jeg egentlig ikke
svare så detaljert rundt ulempene med Skolelinux.  Hovedårsaken til at
jeg bruker Kubuntu er nok at da vi begynte med det mener jeg det ikke
var noen annen løsning.  «Vandrende arbeidsstasjon» mener jeg ikke
fantes da.  Dessuten ville jeg ha siste versjon, da den KDE-versjonen
som var i Skolelinux den gangen var en god del enklere (tror det var
KDE 2) var dårligere i mine øyne enn versjon 3.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker blant annet Kubuntu, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox,
Kate, &lt;a href=&quot;http://comix.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Comix&lt;/a&gt; og Konsole.  Og
en hel haug andre ved behov :-)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Har oversatt Comix selv, men det er jo ikke skjedd noe med Comix
siden 2009, så den er det nok bare jeg som har.  Om andre vil ha den
gir jeg den gjerne videre.  Ser at noen har startet på
&lt;a href=&quot;http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;MComix&lt;/a&gt; siden jeg så på så
på dette sist, så nå er jeg igang med å teste og oversette den
også.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det viktigste er å forankre beslutningen i kollegiet og med de som
er ansvarlige for å vedlikeholde og bruke datamaskinene.  Flest mulig
bør være med på å holde det (sosialt) vedlike, kjenne og støtte
prinsippene. Som enkeltmannsprosjekt blir det lett veldig sårbart,
særlig når (Skole)linux ennå i stor grad er en motkultur og ikke noe
en stor nok andel av beslutningstakere, brukere osv kjenner til og
bruker.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg tror det viktigste er å fortsette å holde fri programvare godt,
oppdatert, minimere antall feil, ha en god kontakt med brukerne og
attraktivt og spennende programmer. Beholde alt som er bra og ha det
tilgjengelig samtidig som man tilbyr det nyeste og rareste for de som
vil ha det.&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
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                <title>Saving power with Debian Edu / Skolelinux using shutdown-at-night</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Saving_power_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_using_shutdown_at_night.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Since the Lenny version of
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, a
feature to save power have been included.  It is as simple as it is
practical: Shut down unused clients at night, and turn them on again
in the morning.  This is done using the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shutdown-at-night.html&quot;&gt;shutdown-at-night&lt;/a&gt; Debian package.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to
the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts.  For Debian Edu, this is done in
LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check
every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and
shut it down if it is.  If the hardware in question is supported by
the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvram-wakeup.html&quot;&gt;nvram-wakeup&lt;/a&gt;
package, the BIOS is told to turn the machine back on around 07:00 +-
10 minutes.  If this isn&#39;t working, one can configure wake-on-lan to
try to turn on the client.  The wake-on-lan option is only documented
and not enabled by default in Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is important to not turn all machines on at once, as this can
blow a fuse if several computers are connected to the same fuse like
the common setup for a classroom.  The nvram-wakeup method only work
for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock.  I&#39;ve seen old
machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were
starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot.  If you have one of
those, you have to turn on the computer manually.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can
also be used outside the Debian Edu environment.  For those without a
central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file
&lt;tt&gt;/etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night&lt;/tt&gt; to enable it.
Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
publish the third beta version of
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
on Squeeze.  If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
installing new machines, check it out.  If you need a software
solution for your school, check it out too.  The full announcement is
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
on the project announcement list.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
  10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
  the installation.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
  Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
  disabled queues are restarted every hour.  This should cut down on
  the amount of manual administration needed for printers.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;The set of initial users have been changed.  Now a personal user
  for the local system administrator is created during installation
  instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
  and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
  membership.  This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
  up to date on the system.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home.  I will use it look
for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
final Squeeze release is published.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Next weekend the project organise a
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;developer
gathering&lt;/a&gt; in Oslo.  We will continue the work on the Squeeze
version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version.  Perhaps I
will see you there?&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
This is the sad fact of todays computers.  In the next version of
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
firmware blobs easier to handle.  The common use case I run into is a
laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
work, but there are other use cases as well.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
during installation.  This take care firmware for network devices used
by the installer when installing from from local media.  But for
example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
not taken care of by this.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For non-network devices, we provide the script
&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; which
search through the &lt;tt&gt;dmesg&lt;/tt&gt; output for drivers requesting extra
firmware.  The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
the requested firmware file(s) is installed.  I have proposed to do
something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;#655507&lt;/a&gt;), to allow PXE
installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better.  Run the
script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
included to be able to install at all.  To fill the PXE installation
initrd with extra firmware, the
&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; script is
provided.  Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
PXE initrd with firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
network cards working.  For this,
&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; is
provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs.  It is used
the same way as the other firmware related tools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation.  We
do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
non-free software, and it is their choice.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 this weekend.  You might want to give it a
try.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;For morro skyld har jeg gjennomført en nordsamisk installasjon for
neste utgave av &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
(Squeeze) og knipset skjermbilder av resultatet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Som en kan se der er det noen oversettelser som mangler.  Det hadde
vært hyggelig hvis alle tekstene som vises i Skolelinux-installasjonen
ble oversatt til nordsamisk, men for å få det til må noen som forstår
språket melde seg til dyst.  Det er mangel på nordsamiske oversettere
av fri programvare.  Hvis noen starter raskt, så bør en rekke å
fullføre Wheezy-utgaven før den gis ut. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Se &lt;a href=&quot;http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/&quot;&gt;oversetterstatistikk for
debian installer&lt;/a&gt; for detaljert status.  Jeg har tipset
&lt;a href=&quot;https://lister.ping.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/i18n-sme&quot;&gt;epostlisten for samiskoversettelser&lt;/a&gt;,
men det har vært veldig liten aktivitet der de siste årene.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
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                <title>Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;The next version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
/ Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; will include a new tool
&lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp&lt;/tt&gt;, which can be used to quickly set up all
the computers in a school without much manual labour.  Here is a short
summary on how to use it to set up a new school.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;First, install a combined Main Server and Thin Client Server as the
central server in the network.  Next, PXE boot all the client machines
as thin clients and wait 5 minutes after the last client booted to
allow the clients to report their existence to the central server.  When
this is done, log on to the central server and run
&lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a&lt;/tt&gt; in the &lt;tt&gt;konsole&lt;/tt&gt; to use the
collected information to generate system objects in LDAP.  The output
will look similar to this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
% sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a
info: Updating machine tjener.intern [10.0.2.2] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:05.
info: Create GOsa machine for auto-mac-00-01-02-03-04-06 [10.0.16.20] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:06.

Enter password if you want to activate these changes, and ^c to abort.

Connecting to LDAP as cn=admin,ou=ldap-access,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
enter password: *******
% 
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After providing the LDAP administrative password (the same as the
root password set during installation), the LDAP database will be
populated with system objects for each PXE booted machine with
automatically generated names.  The final step to set up the school is
then to log into &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa&lt;/a&gt;,
the web based user, group and system administration system to change
system names, add systems to the correct host groups and finally
enable DHCP and DNS for the systems.  All clients that should be used
as diskless workstations should be added to the workstation-hosts
group.  After this is done, all computers can be booted again via PXE
and get their assigned names and group based configuration
automatically.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
enabled this weekend.  You might want to give it a try.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Update 2012-01-28: When calling sitesummary2ldapdhcp to add new
hosts, one need to add the option -a.  I forgot to mention this in my
original text, and have added it to the text now.&lt;/p&gt;
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