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Skolelinux Project Releases Version 1.0

Posted by timothy on from the free-as-in-right-on dept.

jakobgrimstveit writes "After about three years of hard work, Skolelinux (with its own cute Tux-with-bag-mascot) 1.0 is released to the public. The distribution was started as a reaction to how much the Norwegian schools and the government relied on systems using closed source. Skolelinux is meant to be an easy way to set up a large and secure network of LTSP thin clients (normally PXE boot) for regular users. The Skolelinux-organization won the Norwegian Free Software Prize in 2002. The distribution is based in Debian GNU/Linux, and is also being used and evaluated [1] [2] several places in Africa due to its low demands for the client PC. Kudos to the developers and good luck!"

7 of 131 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Learn to spell by shlaf · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's "SchoolLinux", not SkoleLinux... what the hell language is this guy speaking?

    Norwegian, maybe?

  2. Bad name by neurojab · · Score: 3, Funny

    >Skolelinux

    sounds too much like

    SKOAL linux (linux for rednecks)

    or

    SCO Linux (Linux for litigious bastards and masochists)

  3. Re:Learn to spell by orzetto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Du får nok lære norsk, din selvopptatte engelsksentrige tulling!
    This is all the Norwegian you need to know (download the wav file!).

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  4. IT'S A TRAP!!! by pyrrhonist · · Score: 1, Funny
    Skolelinux --> SCOlinux

    It's just SCO trying to prove they own Linux!

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  5. Re:Fun Fact by Atmchicago · · Score: 3, Funny

    That explains why their logo is a penguin with a hat on backwards and a backpack. All Norwegian children are now expected to conform to that look, or else peer pressure will get the best of them and they will commit suicide.

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  6. Skol, skol, skol, skol! by BlightThePower · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't remember the rest of the words...

    Well, its better than the Free Software Song anyway.

    [Time to find out how US-centric moderation is...]

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  7. Skoal Linux? by Chessucat · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't that distrobution with the penguin with a wad in it's beak and brown stains on it's lower beak?;-)

    You might be a Linux RedNeck if,

    * You're 'fixin' to install the latest version
    of the kernel.
    * You wear a Stetson when you're programming.
    * You have a SKOAL Can in your CD-ROM Drive.
    * Your root password is "Bubba".
    * Your outgoing FAXes, using efax of course,
    have tobacco stains on them.
    * You have a spit cup hanging from your
    computer.

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