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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
  24       <div class="date"> 3rd July 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
  26 today.  This is the release announcement:</p>
  27
  28 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
  29 2013-07-03</strong></p>
  30
  31 <p>These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
  32 7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
  33
  34 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
  35
  36 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
  37 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
  38 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
  39 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
  40 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
  41 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
  42 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
  43 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
  44 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
  45 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
  46 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
  47 desktop contains
  48 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
  49 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
  50 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
  51 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
  52
  53 <p>This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
  54 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
  55 Squeeze release.</p>
  56
  57 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
  58 <ul>
  59   <li>Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.</li>
  60   <li>Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian
  61     submenu.  It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this
  62     brings KDE in line with the others.</li>
  63   <li>Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
  64     they don't have a desktop menu entry and thus won't show up in the
  65     menu now that menu-xdg was removed.</li>
  66   <li>Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on
  67     multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a
  68     X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users
  69     too.</li>
  70   <li>Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
  71     are too few to make the package useful.</li>
  72 </ul>
  73 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
  74 <ul>
  75   <li>Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
  76   <li>Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.</li>
  77   <li>Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
  78     up for some language options.</li>
  79   <li>Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.</li>
  80   <li>Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.</li>
  81   <li>Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
  82     d-i is doing it.</li>
  83   <li>Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
  84     debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.</li>
  85   <li>Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft
  86     script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a
  87     Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.</li>
  88   <li>Update system to install needed firmware packages during
  89     installation, to work properly in Wheezy.</li>
  90   <li>Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).</li>
  91   <li>Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
  92     and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.</li>
  93   <li>LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
  94     work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.</li>
  95 </ul>
  96 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
  97 <ul>
  98   <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
  99     available yet (698840).</li>
 100   <li>Artwork not enabled for all desktops.</li>
 101 </ul>
 102 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 103
 104 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 105 <ul>
 106   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso</a></li>
 107   <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso</a></li>
 108   <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .</li>
 109 </ul>
 110
 111 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
 112 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8</p>
 113
 114 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 115 <ul>
 116   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso</a></li>
 117   <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso</a></li>
 118   <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .</li>
 119 </ul>
 120
 121 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
 122 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721</p>
 123
 124 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 125
 126 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
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 131         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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 139       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html">Automatically locate and install required firmware packages on Debian (Isenkram 0.4)</a></div>
 140       <div class="date">25th June 2013</div>
 141       <div class="body"><p>It annoys me when the computer fail to do automatically what it is
 142 perfectly capable of, and I have to do it manually to get things
 143 working.  One such task is to find out what firmware packages are
 144 needed to get the hardware on my computer working.  Most often this
 145 affect the wifi card, but some times it even affect the RAID
 146 controller or the ethernet card.  Today I pushed version 0.4 of the
 147 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">Isenkram package</a>
 148 including a new script isenkram-autoinstall-firmware handling the
 149 process of asking all the loaded kernel modules what firmware files
 150 they want, find debian packages providing these files and install the
 151 debian packages.  Here is a test run on my laptop:</p>
 152
 153 <p><pre>
 154 # isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
 155 info: kernel drivers requested extra firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw ipw2200-sniffer.fw
 156 info: fetching http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Contents-i386.gz
 157 info: locating packages with the requested firmware files
 158 info: Updating APT sources after adding non-free APT source
 159 info: trying to install firmware-ipw2x00
 160 firmware-ipw2x00
 161 firmware-ipw2x00
 162 Preconfiguring packages ...
 163 Selecting previously deselected package firmware-ipw2x00.
 164 (Reading database ... 259727 files and directories currently installed.)
 165 Unpacking firmware-ipw2x00 (from .../firmware-ipw2x00_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb) ...
 166 Setting up firmware-ipw2x00 (0.28+squeeze1) ...
 167 #
 168 </pre></p>
 169
 170 <p>When all the requested firmware is present, a simple message is
 171 printed instead:</p>
 172
 173 <p><pre>
 174 # isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
 175 info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules.  exiting
 176 #
 177 </pre></p>
 178
 179 <p>It could use some polish, but it is already working well and saving
 180 me some time when setting up new machines. :)</p>
 181
 182 <p>So, how does it work?  It look at the set of currently loaded
 183 kernel modules, and look up each one of them using modinfo, to find
 184 the firmware files listed in the module meta-information.  Next, it
 185 download the Contents file from a nearby APT mirror, and search for
 186 the firmware files in this file to locate the package with the
 187 requested firmware file.  If the package is in the non-free section, a
 188 non-free APT source is added and the package is installed using
 189 <tt>apt-get install</tt>.  The end result is a slightly better working
 190 machine.</p>
 191
 192 <p>I hope someone find time to implement a more polished version of
 193 this script as part of the hw-detect debian-installer module, to
 194 finally fix <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/655507">BTS report
 195 #655507</a>.  There really is no need to insert USB sticks with
 196 firmware during a PXE install when the packages already are available
 197 from the nearby Debian mirror.</p>
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 202         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
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 210       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html">The value of a good distro wide test suite...</a></div>
 211       <div class="date">22nd June 2013</div>
 212       <div class="body"><p>In the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 213 Skolelinux</a> project, we include a post-installation test suite,
 214 which check that services are running, working, and return the
 215 expected results.  It runs automatically just after the first boot on
 216 test installations (using test ISOs), but not on production
 217 installations (using non-test ISOs).  It test that the LDAP service is
 218 operating, Kerberos is responding, DNS is replying, file systems are
 219 online resizable, etc, etc.  And it check that the PXE service is
 220 configured, which is the topic of this post.</p>
 221
 222 <p>The last week I've fixed the DVD and USB stick ISOs for our Debian
 223 Edu Wheezy release.  These ISOs are supposed to be able to install a
 224 complete system without any Internet connection, but for that to
 225 happen all the needed packages need to be on them.  Thanks to our test
 226 suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
 227 cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
 228 When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
 229 using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
 230 working packages to get it working.  And ad the packages changed name
 231 from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
 232 debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
 233 packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we
 234 would never have discovered this before release.  Now it is fixed
 235 right after we got the ISOs operational.</p>
 236
 237 <p>Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system
 238 administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the
 239 test suite using <tt>/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install</tt> and see if
 240 any errors are detected.  This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
 241 the problem.</p>
 242
 243 <p>If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
 244 please join us on
 245 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu on
 246 irc.debian.org</a> and the
 247 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">debian-edu@</a> mailing
 248 list.</p>
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 253         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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 261       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html">Debian Edu interview: Victor Nițu</a></div>
 262       <div class="date">17th June 2013</div>
 263       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
 264 Skolelinux</a> distribution have users and contributors all around the
 265 globe.  And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
 266 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">our IRC channel
 267 #debian-edu</a> and started asking questions about how Debian Edu
 268 worked.  We answered as good as we could, and even convinced him to
 269 help us with translations.  And today I managed to get an interview
 270 with him, to learn more about him.</p>
 271
 272 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 273
 274 <p>I'm a 25 year old free software enthusiast, living in Romania,
 275 which is also my country of origin. Back in 2009, at a New Year's Eve
 276 party, I had a very nice <strike>beer</strike> discussion with a
 277 friend, when we realized we have no organised Debian community in our
 278 country. A few days later, we put together the infrastructure for such
 279 community and even gathered a nice Debian-ish crowd. Since then, I
 280 began my quest as a free software hacker and activist and I am
 281 constantly trying to cover as much ground as possible on that
 282 field.</p>
 283
 284 <p>A few years ago I founded a small web development company, which
 285 provided me the flexible schedule I needed so much for my
 286 activities. For the last 13 months, I have been the Technical Director
 287 of <a href="http://ceata.org/">Fundația Ceata</a>, which is a free
 288 software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
 289 the only one we have in our country.</p>
 290
 291 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 292 project?</strong></p>
 293
 294 <p>The idea of participating in the Debian Edu project was a surprise
 295 even to me, since I never used it before I began getting involved in
 296 it. This year I had a great opportunity to deliver a talk on
 297 educational software, and I knew immediately where to look. It was a
 298 love at first sight, since I was previously involved with some of the
 299 technologies the project incorporates, and I rapidly found a lot of
 300 ways to contribute.</p>
 301
 302 <p>My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
 303 configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
 304 haven't fixed them yet though), and I even got my eyes on some other
 305 areas where I can prove myself helpful. Since the appetite for free
 306 software in my country is pretty low, I'll be happy to be the first
 307 one around here advocating for the project's adoption in educational
 308 environments, and maybe even get my hands dirty in creating a flavour
 309 for our own needs. I am not used to make very advanced plannings, so
 310 from now on, time will tell what I'll be doing next, but I think I
 311 have a pretty consistent starting point.</p>
 312
 313 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 314 Edu?</strong></p>
 315
 316 <p>Not a long time ago, I was in the position of configuring and
 317 maintaining a LDAP server on some Debian derivative, and I must say it
 318 took me a while. A long time ago, I was maintaining a bigger
 319 Samba-powered infrastructure, and I must say I spent quite a lot of
 320 time on it. I have similar stories about many of the services included
 321 with Skolelinux, and the main advantage I see about it is the
 322 out-of-the box availability of them, making it quite competitive when
 323 it comes to managing a school's network, for example.</p>
 324
 325 <p>Of course, there is more to say about Skolelinux than the
 326 availability of the software included, its flexibility in various
 327 scenarios is something I can't wait to experiment "into the wild" (I
 328 only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
 329 lot more I haven't discovered yet about it, being so new within the
 330 project.</p>
 331
 332 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 333 Edu?</strong></p>
 334
 335 <p>As usual, when it comes to Debian Blends, I see as the biggest
 336 disadvantage the lack of a numerous team dedicated to the
 337 project. Every day I see the same names in the changelogs, and I have
 338 a constantly fear of the bus factor in this story.  I'd like to see
 339 Debian Edu advertised more as an entry point into the Debian
 340 ecosystem, especially amongst newcomers and students. IMHO there are a
 341 lot low-hanging fruits in terms of bug squashing, and enough
 342 opportunities to get the feeling of the Debian Project's dynamics. Not
 343 to mention it's a very fun blend to work on!</p>
 344
 345 <p>Derived from the previous statement, is the delay in catching up
 346 with the main Debian release and documentation. This is common though
 347 to all blends and derivatives, but it's an issue we can all work
 348 on.</p>
 349
 350 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 351
 352 <p>I can hardly imagine myself spending a day without Vim, since my
 353 daily routine covers writing code and hacking configuration files. I
 354 am a fan of the Awesome window manager (but I also like the
 355 Enlightenment project a lot!),
 356 <a href="http://www.claws-mail.org/‎">Claws Mail</a> due to its ease of
 357 use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
 358 <a href="https://launchpad.net/redshift">Redshift</a>, which helps me
 359 get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
 360 stuff in this bag, but I'll need a blog on my own for doing this!</p>
 361
 362 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 363 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 364
 365 <p>Well, on this field, I cannot do much more than experiment right
 366 now. So, being far from having a recipe for success, I can only assume
 367 that:</p>
 368
 369 <ul>
 370
 371 <li>schools would like to get rid of proprietary software</li>
 372
 373 <li>students will love the openness of the system, and will want to
 374     experiment with it - maybe we need to harvest the native curiosity
 375     of teenagers more?</li>
 376
 377 <li>there is no "right one" when it comes to strategies, but it would
 378     be useful to have some success stories published somewhere, so
 379     other can get some inspiration from them (I know I'd promote
 380     them!)</li>
 381
 382 <li>more active promotion - talks, conferences, even small school
 383     lectures can do magical things if they encounter at least one
 384     person interested. Who knows who that person might be? ;-)</li>
 385
 386 </ul>
 387
 388 <p>I also see some problems in getting Skolelinux into schools; for
 389 example, in our country we have a great deal of corruption issues, so
 390 it might be hard(er) to fight against proprietary solutions. Also,
 391 people who relied on commercial software for all their lives, would be
 392 very hard to convert against their will.</p>
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 405       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html">Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</a></div>
 406       <div class="date">12th June 2013</div>
 407       <div class="body"><p>There is a certain cross-over between the
 408 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 409 project</a> and <a href="http://www.edubuntu.org/">the Edubuntu
 410 project</a>, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
 411 effort between the projects.  One person with a foot in both camps is
 412 Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.</p>
 413
 414 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 415
 416 <p>I'm a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
 417 days vary quite a bit since I'm involved in too many things. As I'm
 418 getting older I'm learning how to focus a bit more :)</p>
 419
 420 <p>I'm also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
 421 opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
 422 each other.</p>
 423
 424 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 425 project?</strong></p>
 426
 427 <p>I've been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
 428 first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
 429 [Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
 430 London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
 431 Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
 432 it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
 433 was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
 434 day I have a big todo list backlog that I'm catching up with. I think
 435 over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
 436 been gradually improving, although I think there's a lot that we could
 437 still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I'm sure
 438 we'll get there one day.</p>
 439
 440 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 441 Edu?</strong></p>
 442
 443 <p>Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
 444 it for pages, but in essence I love that it's a very honest project
 445 that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
 446 very high quality work.</p>
 447
 448 <p>I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
 449 set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
 450 with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
 451 helps to standardise installations in schools so that it's easier for
 452 community members and commercial suppliers to support.</p>
 453
 454 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 455 Edu?</strong></p>
 456
 457 <p>I had to re-type this one a few times because I'm trying to
 458 separate "disadvantages" from "areas that need improvement" (which is
 459 what I originally rambled on about)</p>
 460
 461 <p>The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
 462 project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
 463 think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
 464 content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
 465 on. When you've been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
 466 years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
 467 concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
 468 more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I'd love to be one
 469 myself but I'm already so over-committed that it's just not possible
 470 currently.</p>
 471
 472 <p>I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
 473 for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
 474 their skills in-house. I'm often saddened to see how much money
 475 educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don't
 476 have access to after the service has ended and they could've gotten so
 477 much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
 478 autonomous.</p>
 479
 480 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 481
 482 <p>My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
 483 Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
 484 some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
 485 particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
 486 so I suppose I'll soon be able to regain that disk space :)</p>
 487
 488 <p>Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
 489 git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I've been torn on
 490 which desktop environment I like and I'm taking some refuge in Xfce
 491 while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
 492 Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
 493 it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
 494 up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
 495 X.</p>
 496
 497 <p>I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
 498 using Norton Commander in the early 90's and it stuck (I think the
 499 people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don't know how to use
 500 it :p)
 501
 502 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 503 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 504
 505 <p>I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
 506 many cases it's appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
 507 don't think that there's any particular moral or ethical problem with
 508 that.</p>
 509
 510 <p>I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
 511 problems in educational institutions and it's just a shame not taking
 512 advantage of that.</p>
 513
 514 <p>I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
 515 some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
 516 Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
 517 general concepts. I think that's very unproductive because firstly, MS
 518 Office's interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
 519 that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
 520 best solution for them.</p>
 521
 522 <p>To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
 523 educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
 524 make a decision that would work for them.</p>
 525 </div>
 526       <div class="tags">
 527
 528
 529         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>.
 530
 531
 532       </div>
 533     </div>
 534     <div class="padding"></div>
 535
 536     <div class="entry">
 537       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html">Fixing the Linux black screen of death on machines with Intel HD video</a></div>
 538       <div class="date">11th June 2013</div>
 539       <div class="body"><p>When installing RedHat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu on some machines,
 540 the screen just turn black when Linux boot, either during installation
 541 or on first boot from the hard disk.  I've seen it once in a while the
 542 last few years, but only recently understood the cause.  I've seen it
 543 on HP laptops, and on my latest acquaintance the Packard Bell laptop.
 544 The reason seem to be in the wiring of some laptops.  The system to
 545 control the screen background light is inverted, so when Linux try to
 546 turn the brightness fully on, it end up turning it off instead.  I do
 547 not know which Linux drivers are affected, but this post is about the
 548 i915 driver used by the
 549 <a href="http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv">Packard Bell
 550 EasyNote LV</a>, Thinkpad X40 and many other laptops.</p>
 551
 552 <p>The problem can be worked around two ways.  Either by adding
 553 i915.invert_brightness=1 as a kernel option, or by adding a file in
 554 /etc/modprobe.d/ to tell modprobe to add the invert_brightness=1
 555 option when it load the i915 kernel module.  On Debian and Ubuntu, it
 556 can be done by running these commands as root:</p>
 557
 558 <pre>
 559 echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
 560 update-initramfs -u -k all
 561 </pre>
 562
 563 <p>Since March 2012 there is
 564 <a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca20efb1a9c2efefc28ad2867e5d6c3f5e1955">a
 565 mechanism in the Linux kernel</a> to tell the i915 driver which
 566 hardware have this problem, and get the driver to invert the
 567 brightness setting automatically.  To use it, one need to add a row in
 568 <a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c">the
 569 intel_quirks array</a> in the driver source
 570 <tt>drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c</tt> (look for "<tt>static
 571 struct intel_quirk intel_quirks</tt>"), specifying the PCI device
 572 number (vendor number 8086 is assumed) and subdevice vendor and device
 573 number.</p>
 574
 575 <p>My Packard Bell EasyNote LV got this output from <tt>lspci
 576 -vvnn</tt> for the video card in question:</p>
 577
 578 <p><pre>
 579 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation \
 580     3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] \
 581     (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 582  Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0688]
 583  Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- \
 584     ParErr- Stepping- SE RR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 585  Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- \
 586     <TAbort- <MAbort->SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 587  Latency: 0
 588  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
 589  Region 0: Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
 590  Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 591  Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
 592  Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
 593  Capabilities: <access denied>
 594  Kernel driver in use: i915
 595 </pre></p>
 596
 597 <p>The resulting intel_quirks entry would then look like this:</p>
 598
 599 <p><pre>
 600 struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
 601        ...
 602         /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
 603         { 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
 604        ...
 605 }
 606 </pre></p>
 607
 608 <p>According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
 609 <tt>modinfo i915</tt>), information about hardware needing the
 610 invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
 611 <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel">dri-devel
 612 (at) lists.freedesktop.org</a> mailing list to reach the kernel
 613 developers.  But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
 614 yet shown up in
 615 <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-June/thread.html">the
 616 web archive for the mailing list</a>, so I suspect they do not accept
 617 emails from non-subscribers.  Because of this, I sent my patch also to
 618 the Debian bug tracking system instead as
 619 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/710938">BTS report #710938</a>, to make
 620 sure the patch is not lost.</p>
 621
 622 <p>Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix the kernel to get Laptops
 623 with this problem working properly with Linux.  If you use Gnome, your
 624 worries should be over at this point.  But if you use KDE, there is
 625 something in KDE ignoring the invert_brightness setting and turning on
 626 the screen during login.  I've reported it to Debian as
 627 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/711237">BTS report #711237</a>, and
 628 have no idea yet how to figure out exactly what subsystem is doing
 629 this.  Perhaps you can help?  Perhaps you know what the Gnome
 630 developers did to handle this, and this can give a clue to the KDE
 631 developers?  Or you know where in KDE the screen brightness is changed
 632 during login?  If so, please update the BTS report (or get in touch if
 633 you do not know how to update BTS).</p>
 634 </div>
 635       <div class="tags">
 636
 637
 638         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 639
 640
 641       </div>
 642     </div>
 643     <div class="padding"></div>
 644
 645     <div class="entry">
 646       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
 647       <div class="date">10th June 2013</div>
 648       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 649 today.  This is the release announcement:</p>
 650
 651 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
 652 2013-06-10</strong></p>
 653
 654 <p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
 655 alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 656
 657 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 658
 659 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 660 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 661 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 662 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 663 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 664 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 665 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 666 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
 667 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 668 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 669 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 670 desktop contains
 671 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 672 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 673 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 674 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 675
 676 <p>This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 677 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 678 Squeeze release.</p>
 679
 680 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 681
 682 <ul>
 683
 684 <li>Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1)
 685 <li>Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703).
 686 <li>Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4.
 687 <li>Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default.
 688 <li>Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default.
 689
 690 </ul>
 691
 692 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 693
 694 <ul>
 695
 696 <li>The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used.
 697 <li>Updated translation of the installation.
 698 <li>New Romanian translation.
 699 <li>Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat.
 700 <li>Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
 701 <li>Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments.
 702 <li>New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile.
 703 <li>Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS.
 704 <li>More testsuite tests.
 705 <li>Make automatic proxy configuration more robust.
 706 <li>Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration.
 707
 708 <li>Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
 709 LTSP in Wheezy.</li>
 710
 711 <li>Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
 712 them up with GOsa².</li>
 713
 714 <li>Update IMAP server setup. </li>
 715
 716 <li>Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
 717 slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
 718 entered password). </li>
 719
 720 </ul>
 721
 722 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 723
 724 <ul>
 725
 726 <li>DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.</li>
 727
 728 <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
 729 available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
 730 missing import feature).</li>
 731
 732 <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). </li>
 733
 734 <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
 735 own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
 736 unfixed.</li>
 737
 738 </ul>
 739
 740 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 741
 742 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 743
 744 <ul>
 745
 746 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
 747
 748 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
 749
 750 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .</li>
 751
 752 </ul>
 753
 754 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178
 755 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419</p>
 756
 757 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 758
 759 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
 760 </div>
 761       <div class="tags">
 762
 763
 764         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>.
 765
 766
 767       </div>
 768     </div>
 769     <div class="padding"></div>
 770
 771     <div class="entry">
 772       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html">Is there a PHP expert in the building?  Debian Edu need help!</a></div>
 773       <div class="date"> 5th June 2013</div>
 774       <div class="body"><p>Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
 775 We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
 776 hope to get released soon.  The two problems require some with PHP
 777 skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
 778 the project:
 779
 780 <ol>
 781
 782 <li>It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
 783   (slbackup-php) using the root user and password.  This is
 784   <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/700257">BTS report #700257</a>.
 785   This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
 786   Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?</li>
 787
 788 <li>It is not possible to "mass import" user lists in Gosa, neither
 789   using ldif nor using CSV files.  The feature was disabled after a
 790   major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
 791   This is <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698840">BTS report
 792   #698840</a>.</li>
 793
 794 </ol>
 795
 796 <p>If you can help us, please join us on IRC
 797 (<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu on
 798 irc.debian.org</a>) and provide patches via the BTS.</p>
 799 </div>
 800       <div class="tags">
 801
 802
 803         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>.
 804
 805
 806       </div>
 807     </div>
 808     <div class="padding"></div>
 809
 810     <div class="entry">
 811       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html">Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</a></div>
 812       <div class="date"> 4th June 2013</div>
 813       <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since my last English
 814 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
 815 interview last November.  But the developers and translators are still
 816 pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
 817 time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
 818 in the project, Cédric Boutillier.</p>
 819
 820 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 821
 822 <p>I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
 823 professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
 824 mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
 825 probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.</p>
 826
 827 <p>I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
 828 and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
 829 packaging, publicity and translation.</p>
 830
 831 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 832 project?</strong></p>
 833
 834 <p>I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
 835 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals">the
 836 Debian Edu manual</a> for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
 837 then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
 838 manual.
 839
 840 <p>I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
 841 virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
 842 shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
 843 how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.</p>
 844
 845 <p>What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
 846 ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
 847 by <a href="https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/">GOsa²</a>.  What pleased
 848 me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
 849 there were many "traditional" educative software to learn languages,
 850 to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
 851 artistic skills with music (<a href="http://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>,
 852 <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a>) and
 853 movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
 854 <a href="http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/">Stopmotion</a>).</p>
 855
 856 <p>I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
 857 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu</a>.
 858 Unfortunately, I don't much time to get more involved in this
 859 beautiful project.</p>
 860
 861 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 862 Edu?</strong></p>
 863
 864 <p>For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
 865 community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
 866 fact that it provides a solution ready to use.</p>
 867
 868 <p>I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
 869 distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
 870 of educational free software.</p>
 871
 872 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 873 Edu?</strong></p>
 874
 875 <p>Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
 876 project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
 877 not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
 878 solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
 879 is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.</p>
 880
 881 <p>One can find support from a company by looking at
 882 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp">the
 883 wiki dokumentation</a>, where some countries already have a number of
 884 companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
 885 Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
 886 for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
 887 consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
 888 support for Debian Edu as well.</p>
 889
 890 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 891
 892 <p>I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
 893 most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
 894 scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice.  I am
 895 also using the mathematical software
 896 <a href="http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about‎">Scilab</a> and
 897 <a href="http://www.sagemath.org/index.html‎">Sage</a> (built from
 898 source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
 899
 900 <p><strong>Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
 901 using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
 902 statistics?</strong></p>
 903
 904 <p>I do not have any "nice" recommendations for statistics. At our
 905 university, we use both <a href="http://www.r-project.org/‎">R</a> and
 906 Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
 907 geometry, there are nice programs:</p>
 908
 909 <ul>
 910
 911 <li><a href="http://www.drgeo.eu/">drgeo</a> and
 912 <a href="http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig‎">kig</a> to do
 913 constructions in planar geometry
 914
 915 <li><a href="http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html">kali</a>
 916 to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
 917 groups), although the interface looks a bit old.</li>
 918
 919 </ul>
 920
 921 <p>I like also
 922 <a href="http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor">cantor</a>, which
 923 provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
 924 <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave‎">Octave</a>, etc...</p>
 925
 926 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 927 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 928
 929 <p>My suggestions would be to</p>
 930
 931 <ul>
 932
 933 <li>advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.</li>
 934
 935 <li>communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
 936     well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
 937     OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.</li>
 938
 939 <li>advertise the living and strong community around the project.</li>
 940
 941 <li>show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
 942     system.</li>
 943
 944 </ul>
 945 </div>
 946       <div class="tags">
 947
 948
 949         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>.
 950
 951
 952       </div>
 953     </div>
 954     <div class="padding"></div>
 955
 956     <div class="entry">
 957       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html">Åpent møte på onsdag om bruken av Microsoft Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo</a></div>
 958       <div class="date"> 3rd June 2013</div>
 959       <div class="body"><p>Jeg jobber til daglig ved <a href="http://www.uio.no/">Universitetet
 960 i Oslo</a>, en institusjon som lenge har vektlagt verdien av åpne
 961 standarder og fri programvare.  Men noe har endret seg, og for en
 962 liten stund tilbake annonserte USIT at dagens fungerende e-postsystemet
 963 basert på fri programvare skulle byttes ut med Microsoft Exchange og
 964 at Microsoft Outlook skulle bli den best fungerende men antagelig ikke
 965 eneste støttede e-postklienten.  Annonseringen har ført til flere
 966 protester og <a href="http://folk.uio.no/dssantos/nooutlookatuio/">en
 967 underskriftskampanje</a>, initiert av Diana Santos, der så langt 253
 968 personer har signert.  Prosjektet
 969 <a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike/">NIKE (Ny integrert
 970 kalender/e-post)</a> ble initiert for å se på mulige løsninger med
 971 utgangspunkt i at en kombinert epost/kalenderløsning var påkrevd, og
 972 prosjektet
 973 <a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike-implementasjon/">NIKE-implementasjon</a>
 974 er igang med å rulle ut MS Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo.</p>
 975
 976 <p>For kun kort tid siden ble det annonsert at det blir et åpent møte
 977 med ledelsen hos universitetet i Oslo med disse planene som tema:</p>
 978
 979 <p>Tid: <strong>Onsdag 2013-06-05 kl. 10:00</strong>
 980 <br>Sted: <strong>9. etasje i Lucy Smiths hus (admin-bygget)</strong></p>
 981
 982 <p> Det kan være en god plass å stille opp hvis en som meg ikke tror
 983 valget av Microsoft Exchange som sentral epostinfrastruktur er et
 984 heldig valg for Norges ledende forskningsuniversitet, men at en er mer
 985 tjent med å selv
 986 <a href="http://nuug.no/dokumenter/kronikk-friprog-itsikkerhet.shtml">beholde
 987 kontrollen over egen infrastruktur</a>.</p>
 988
 989 <p>Saken har ført til endel presseoppslag så langt.  Her er de jeg har
 990 fått med meg:</p>
 991
 992 <ul>
 993
 994 <li>2013-05-29
 995   <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system">Forsvarer
 996   nytt IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
 997
 998 <li>2013-05-23
 999   <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html">UiO
1000   innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy</a> - Uniforum</li>
1001
1002
1003 <li>2013-05-22
1004   <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system">Protestgruppe
1005   vil stanse IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
1006
1007
1008 <li>2013-05-15
1009   <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html">UiO
1010   må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem</a> - Uniforum</li>
1011
1012 </ul>
1013
1014
1015 </div>
1016       <div class="tags">
1017
1018
1019         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
1020
1021
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1030
1031 <h2>Archive</h2>
1032 <ul>
1033
1034 <li>2013
1035 <ul>
1036
1037 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1038
1039 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
1040
1041 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
1042
1043 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
1044
1045 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1046
1047 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
1048
1049 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (1)</a></li>
1050
1051 </ul></li>
1052
1053 <li>2012
1054 <ul>
1055
1056 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1057
1058 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
1059
1060 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
1061
1062 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
1063
1064 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
1065
1066 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
1067
1068 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
1069
1070 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
1071
1072 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
1073
1074 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
1075
1076 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
1077
1078 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1079
1080 </ul></li>
1081
1082 <li>2011
1083 <ul>
1084
1085 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1086
1087 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
1088
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1090
1091 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
1092
1093 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
1094
1095 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
1096
1097 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
1098
1099 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
1100
1101 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
1102
1103 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1104
1105 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1106
1107 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1108
1109 </ul></li>
1110
1111 <li>2010
1112 <ul>
1113
1114 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1115
1116 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1117
1118 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
1119
1120 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
1121
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1125
1126 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
1127
1128 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
1129
1130 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1131
1132 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
1133
1134 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1135
1136 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1137
1138 </ul></li>
1139
1140 <li>2009
1141 <ul>
1142
1143 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1144
1145 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1146
1147 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
1148
1149 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
1150
1151 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1152
1153 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
1154
1155 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
1156
1157 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1158
1159 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1160
1161 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1162
1163 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1164
1165 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1166
1167 </ul></li>
1168
1169 <li>2008
1170 <ul>
1171
1172 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1173
1174 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1175
1176 </ul></li>
1177
1178 </ul>
1179
1180
1181
1182 <h2>Tags</h2>
1183 <ul>
1184
1185  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
1186
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1199  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (78)</a></li>
1200
1201  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (136)</a></li>
1202
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1204
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1206
1207  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
1208
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1214
1215  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (11)</a></li>
1216
1217  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (11)</a></li>
1218
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1220
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1224
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1232
1233  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (234)</a></li>
1234
1235  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (152)</a></li>
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1237  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (8)</a></li>
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1239  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
1240
1241  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (44)</a></li>
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1245  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
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1247  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
1248
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1250
1251  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (7)</a></li>
1252
1253  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
1254
1255  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (4)</a></li>
1256
1257  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (2)</a></li>
1258
1259  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (29)</a></li>
1260
1261  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
1262
1263  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
1264
1265  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (43)</a></li>
1266
1267  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (3)</a></li>
1268
1269  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (7)</a></li>
1270
1271  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (15)</a></li>
1272
1273  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (1)</a></li>
1274
1275  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (7)</a></li>
1276
1277  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (38)</a></li>
1278
1279  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (4)</a></li>
1280
1281  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (26)</a></li>
1282
1283 </ul>
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