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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!"

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  1. Re:Great! by Orgazmus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From my experience, debian unstable is far more stable than fedora ;)

    AlexB:
    What would it take to maintain your own packages?

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    The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images