From: Petter Reinholdtsen Debian Edu and Skolelinux
-
-Jürgen Leibner
+ It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
+publish another interview with the people behind
+Debian Edu and Skolelinux.
+This time it is of our German developers, who have helped out over the
+years to make sure a lot of the minor details get right before release.
Who are you, and how do you spend your days?
My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used -it at company and at home repeatedly but not exclusive as I do now at +it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at home since 2006.
How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu @@ -33,15 +35,15 @@ computers in use. I answered: "Yes".
Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as -gift and installed a first computer room with a peer-to-peer +gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time and with a lot of fun. About one year later the school was connected to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school building. That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a -linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and -being able to do this in a transparent and economic way and without -extra costs like licence and software costs. So I searched for a -school server system running under linux and I found a couple of +Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and +being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra +costs for things like licence and software. So I searched for a +school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of people nearby who founded 'skolelinux.de'. It was the Skolelinux prerelease 32 I first tried out for being used at the school. I managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over @@ -59,15 +61,19 @@ for me as today.
Which free software do you use daily?
I use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop -computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. On applications I use -on my laptop and my desktop Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel, KMail, -DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I need -from the KDE environment. On console I use newsbeuter, mutt, screen, -irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.
+computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I +use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel, +KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I +need from the KDE environment. On console I use newsbeuter, mutt, +screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube -and mutt over ssh on console, file services with samba, nfs, rsync, -web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services with -gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with mysql for me and the -whole family. Maybe I forgot something.
+and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS, +rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services +with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me +and the whole family. I probably forgot something.Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to get schools to use free software?