Petter Reinholdtsen

På tur mot jobb i dag fikk jeg se en av Ruters billettautomater i Nydalen som var brutt sammen. Tok bilde av det hele, og lot meg overraske over at den så ut til å kjøre Windows 2000 Professional.

Jeg ble overrasket da den versjonen av operativsystemene til Microsoft så vidt jeg vet ikke lenger mottar sikkerhetsoppdateringer. I følge Wikipedia og Microsoft har den ikke hatt støtte fra Microsoft siden 2010-07-13. Det er en ganske stor sikkerhetsrisiko å bruke operativsystemer i et og et halvt år etter at de ikke lenger blir tatt vare på sikkerhetsmessig.

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Many years ago, the Skolelinux / Debian Edu project initiated a student project to create a tool for making stop motion movies. The proposal came from a teacher needing such tool on Skolelinux. The project, called "stopmotion", was manned by two extraordinary students and won a school award and a national aware with this great project. The project was initiated and mentored by Herman Robak, and manned by the students Bjørn Erik Nilsen and Fredrik Berg Kjølstad. They got in touch with people at Aardman Animation studio and received feedback on how professionals would like such stopmotion tool to work, and the end result was and is used by animators around the globe. But as is usual after studying, both got jobs and went elsewhere, and did not have time to properly tend to the project, and it has been lingering for a few years now. Until last year...

Last year some of the users got together with Herman, and moved the project to Sourceforge and in effect restarted the project under a new name, linuxstopmotion. The name change was done to make it possible to find the project using Internet search engines (try to search for 'stopmotion' to see what I mean). I've been following the mailing list and the improvement already in place and planned for the future is encouraging. If you want to make stop motion movies. Check it out. :)

This weekend we wrapped up and published the third release candidate for Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze. The full announcement is available from the project announcement list. Check it out if you need a software solution for your school.