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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. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well someone had to...

  2. første post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    første post

  3. Welcome to a new distribution ! by ehack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, yet another distro. One year from now, half the original contributors will have lost interest and no one will want to maintai it any more, and the poor users will spend their lives under the hood.

    Linux needs a couple of well maintained distros, not willions of roll-your-owns

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  4. Re:Linux in schools, yep, but not skolelinux by jakobgrimstveit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My guess is that this is a troll. Please don't take it seriously.

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