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-Title: Debian Edu interview: Roger Marsal
-Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
-Date: 2014-03-30 11:40
-
-<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
-keep gaining new users. Some weeks ago, a person showed up on IRC,
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu">#debian-edu</a>, with a
-wish to contribute, and I managed to get a interview with this great
-contributor Roger Marsal to learn more about his background.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>My name is Roger Marsal, I'm 27 years old (1986 generation) and I
-live in Barcelona, Spain. I've got a strong business background and I
-work as a patrimony manager and as a real estate agent. Additionally,
-I've co-founded a British based tech company that is nowadays on the
-last development phase of a new social networking concept.</p>
-
-<p>I'm a Linux enthusiast that started its journey with Ubuntu four years
-ago and have recently switched to Debian seeking rock solid stability
-and as a necessary step to gain expertise.</p>
-
-<p>In a nutshell, I spend my days working and learning as much as I
-can to face both my job, entrepreneur project and feed my Linux
-hunger.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I discovered the <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP</a> advantages
-with "Ubuntu 12.04 alternate install" and after a year of use I
-started looking for an alternative. Even though I highly value and
-respect the Ubuntu project, I thought it was necessary for me to
-change to a more robust and stable alternative. As far as I was using
-Debian on my personal laptop I thought it would be fine to install
-Debian and configure an LTSP server myself. Surprised, I discovered
-that the Debian project also supported a kind of Edubuntu equivalent,
-and after having some pain I obtained a Debian Edu network up and
-running. I just loved it.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I found a main advantage in that, once you know "the tips and
-tricks", a new installation just works out of the box. It's the most
-complete alternative I've found to create an LTSP network. All the
-other distributions seems to be made of plastic, Debian Edu seems to
-be made of steel.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I found two main disadvantages.</p>
-
-<p>I'm not an expert but I've got notions and I had to spent a considerable
-amount of time trying to bring up a standard network topology. I'm quite
-stubborn and I just worked until I did but I'm sure many people with few
-resources (not big schools, but academies for example) would have switched
-or dropped.</p>
-
-<p>It's amazing how such a complex system like Debian Edu has achieved
-this out-of-the-box state. Even though tweaking without breaking gets
-more difficult, as more factors have to be considered. This can
-discourage many people too.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I use Debian, Firefox, Okular, Inkscape, LibreOffice and
-Virtualbox.</p>
-
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I don't think there is a need for a particular strategy. The free
-attribute in both "freedom" and "no price" meanings is what will
-really bring free software to schools. In my experience I can think of
-the <a href="http://www.r-project.org/">"R" statistical language</a>; a
-few years a ago was an extremely nerd tool for university people.
-Today it's being increasingly used to teach statistics at many
-different level of studies. I believe free and open software will
-increasingly gain popularity, but I'm sure schools will be one of the
-first scenarios where this will happen.</p>
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