+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 8th October 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
+Salvador had published a
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
+Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux profile. This is the profile intended for use at home or
+on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
+services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
+in other word a single user machine). The result is 11 minutes long,
+and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
+Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
+showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
+of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
+other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
+advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
+Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
+computers without hard drives by installing one central
+<a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
+
+<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+<p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux? Please let
+me know. :)</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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/video">video</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html">Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!</a></div>
+ <div class="date">29th September 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
+Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team. The
+complete announcement text can be found at
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
+section</a>, translated to several languages. Please check it out.</p>
+
+<p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon. One
+can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
+partition is too small. A workaround is to extend the partition (use
+lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html">Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning</a></div>
+ <div class="date">27th September 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
+project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
+vision, ideas and solution several places. Here is a little
+collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
+2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
+discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
+Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
+Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
+(Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
+Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
+the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
+Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
+York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
+to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
+(Youtube)</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
+of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
+
+<li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
+1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
+FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
+2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>A larger list is available from
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
+Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
+
+<p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
+Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
+Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
+a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
+The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
+pending in NEW. The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
+metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload. Join
+us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
+(#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
+mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html">Third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy</a></div>
<div class="date">16th September 2013</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">How to fix a Thinkpad X230 with a broken 180 GB SSD disk</a></div>
- <div class="date">17th July 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Today I switched to
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html">my
-new laptop</a>. I've previously written about the problems I had with
-my new Thinkpad X230, which was delivered with an
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_SSD_520_Series_180_GB_with_Lenovo_firmware_still_lock_up_from_sustained_writes.html">180
-GB Intel SSD disk with Lenovo firmware</a> that did not handle
-sustained writes. My hardware supplier have been very forthcoming in
-trying to find a solution, and after first trying with another
-identical 180 GB disks they decided to send me a 256 GB Samsung SSD
-disk instead to fix it once and for all. The Samsung disk survived
-the installation of Debian with encrypted disks (filling the disk with
-random data during installation killed the first two), and I thus
-decided to trust it with my data. I have installed it as a Debian Edu
-Wheezy roaming workstation hooked up with my Debian Edu Squeeze main
-server at home using Kerberos and LDAP, and will use it as my work
-station from now on.</p>
-
-<p>As this is a solid state disk with no moving parts, I believe the
-Debian Wheezy default installation need to be tuned a bit to increase
-performance and increase life time of the disk. The Linux kernel and
-user space applications do not yet adjust automatically to such
-environment. To make it easier for my self, I created a draft Debian
-package <tt>ssd-setup</tt> to handle this tuning. The
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ssd-setup.git">source
-for the ssd-setup package</a> is available from collab-maint, and it
-is set up to adjust the setup of the machine by just installing the
-package. If there is any non-SSD disk in the machine, the package
-will refuse to install, as I did not try to write any logic to sort
-file systems in SSD and non-SSD file systems.</p>
-
-<p>I consider the package a draft, as I am a bit unsure how to best
-set up Debian Wheezy with an SSD. It is adjusted to my use case,
-where I set up the machine with one large encrypted partition (in
-addition to /boot), put LVM on top of this and set up partitions on
-top of this again. See the README file in the package source for the
-references I used to pick the settings. At the moment these
-parameters are tuned:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Set up cryptsetup to pass TRIM commands to the physical disk
- (adding discard to /etc/crypttab)</li>
-
-<li>Set up LVM to pass on TRIM commands to the underlying device (in
- this case a cryptsetup partition) by changing issue_discards from
- 0 to 1 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.</li>
-
-<li>Set relatime as a file system option for ext3 and ext4 file
- systems.</li>
-
-<li>Tell swap to use TRIM commands by adding 'discard' to
- /etc/fstab.</li>
-
-<li>Change I/O scheduler from cfq to deadline using a udev rule.</li>
-
-<li>Run fstrim on every ext3 and ext4 file system every night (from
- cron.daily).</li>
-
-<li>Adjust sysctl values vm.swappiness to 1 and vm.vfs_cache_pressure
- to 50 to reduce the kernel eagerness to swap out processes.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>During installation, I cancelled the part where the installer fill
-the disk with random data, as this would kill the SSD performance for
-little gain. My goal with the encrypted file system is to ensure
-those stealing my laptop end up with a brick and not a working
-computer. I have no hope in keeping the really resourceful people
-from getting the data on the disk (see
-<a href="http://xkcd.com/538/">XKCD #538</a> for an explanation why).
-Thus I concluded that adding the discard option to crypttab is the
-right thing to do.</p>
-
-<p>I considered using the noop I/O scheduler, as several recommended
-it for SSD, but others recommended deadline and a benchmark I found
-indicated that deadline might be better for interactive use.</p>
-
-<p>I also considered using the 'discard' file system option for ext3
-and ext4, but read that it would give a performance hit ever time a
-file is removed, and thought it best to that that slowdown once a day
-instead of during my work.</p>
-
-<p>My package do not set up tmpfs on /var/run, /var/lock and /tmp, as
-this is already done by Debian Edu.</p>
-
-<p>I have not yet started on the user space tuning. I expect
-iceweasel need some tuning, and perhaps other applications too, but
-have not yet had time to investigate those parts.</p>
-
-<p>The package should work on Ubuntu too, but I have not yet tested it
-there.</p>
-
-<p>As for the answer to the question in the title of this blog post,
-as far as I know, the only solution I know about is to replace the
-disk. It might be possible to flash it with Intel firmware instead of
-the Lenovo firmware. But I have not tried and did not want to do so
-without approval from Lenovo as I wanted to keep the warranty on the
-disk until a solution was found and they wanted the broken disks
-back.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- 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>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_SSD_520_Series_180_GB_with_Lenovo_firmware_still_lock_up_from_sustained_writes.html">Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB with Lenovo firmware still lock up from sustained writes</a></div>
- <div class="date">10th July 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>A few days ago, I wrote about
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html">the
-problems I experienced with my new X230 and its SSD disk</a>, which
-was dying during installation because it is unable to cope with
-sustained write. My supplier is in contact with
-<a href="http://www.lenovo.com/">Lenovo</a>, and they wanted to send a
-replacement disk to try to fix the problem. They decided to send an
-identical model, so my hopes for a permanent fix was slim.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, today I got the replacement disk and tried to install
-Debian Edu Wheezy with encrypted disk on it. The new disk have the
-same firmware version as the original. This time my hope raised
-slightly as the installation progressed, as the original disk used to
-die after 4-7% of the disk was written to, while this time it kept
-going past 10%, 20%, 40% and even past 50%. But around 60%, the disk
-died again and I was back on square one. I still do not have a new
-laptop with a disk I can trust. I can not live with a disk that might
-lock up when I download a new
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> ISO or
-other large files. I look forward to hearing from my supplier with
-the next proposal from Lenovo.</p>
-
-<p>The original disk is marked Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB,
-11S0C38722Z1ZNME35X1TR, ISN: CVCV321407HB180EGN, SA: G57560302, FW:
-LF1i, 29MAY2013, PBA: G39779-300, LBA 351,651,888, LI P/N: 0C38722,
-Pb-free 2LI, LC P/N: 16-200366, WWN: 55CD2E40002756C4, Model:
-SSDSC2BW180A3L 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA SSD 180G 5V 1A, ASM P/N 0C38732, FRU
-P/N 45N8295, P0C38732.</p>
-
-<p>The replacement disk is marked Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB,
-11S0C38722Z1ZNDE34N0L0, ISN: CVCV315306RK180EGN, SA: G57560-302, FW:
-LF1i, 22APR2013, PBA: G39779-300, LBA 351,651,888, LI P/N: 0C38722,
-Pb-free 2LI, LC P/N: 16-200366, WWN: 55CD2E40000AB69E, Model:
-SSDSC2BW180A3L 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA SSD 180G 5V 1A, ASM P/N 0C38732, FRU
-P/N 45N8295, P0C38732.</p>
-
-<p>The only difference is in the first number (serial number?), ISN,
-SA, date and WNPP values. Mentioning all the details here in case
-someone is able to use the information to find a way to identify the
-failing disk among working ones (if any such working disk actually
-exist).</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- 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>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/July_13th__Debian_Ubuntu_BSP_and_Skolelinux_Debian_Edu_developer_gathering_in_Oslo.html">July 13th: Debian/Ubuntu BSP and Skolelinux/Debian Edu developer gathering in Oslo</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 9th July 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>The upcoming Saturday, 2013-07-13, we are organising a combined
-Debian Edu developer gathering and Debian and Ubuntu bug squashing
-party in Oslo. It is organised by <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the
-member assosiation NUUG</a> and
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project</a> together with <a href="http://bitraf.no/">the hack space
-Bitraf</a>.</p>
-
-<p>It starts 10:00 and continue until late evening. Everyone is
-welcome, and there is no fee to participate. There is on the other
-hand limited space, and only room for 30 people. Please put your name
-on <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2013/07/13/no/Oslo">the event
-wiki page</a> if you plan to join us.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <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/nuug">nuug</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
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