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