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  It is an advanced network solution that allows both technical and non-technical installation process depending on the user needs and expertise. It provides many pre-configured services out-of-the-box and it highly simplifies middle to large system deployments and configurations.
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  == A bit of history ==
  
- It all started on a warm summer day in 2001 when a group of four computer-savvy people started talking about the computer situation in schools. They totally disliked the predominant market domination of proprietary software and all its associated restrictions and costs. They thought of a better scenario where Norwegian students could have software natively translated into their own language or were they could access to the source code of any program they ran arguing that children who are interested should be able to learn from expert programmers to create their own software. They were conscious about schools' issues about license cost and constant renewing equipments cost.
+ It all started on a warm summer day in 2001 when a group of four computer-savvy people started talking about the computer situation in schools. They totally disliked the predominant market domination of proprietary software and all its associated restrictions and costs. They thought of a better scenario where Norwegian students could have software natively translated into their own language or were they could access to the source code of any program they ran arguing that children who are interested should be able to learn from expert programmers to create their own software. They were conscious about schools' issues about license cost and constant renewing equipments cost.<<BR>>
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  With great enthusiasm and computer knowledge, they decided to stop just talking and actually do something about it and so they took action and officially founded Skolelinux project on July 2, 2001. Twenty-five computer programmers and translators agreed to improve the use of software in education. Other developers, especially the translators, were interested in providing computer programs in the students' native languages. These developers thought that students should be able to navigate the internet by having "road signs" they would understand.
  
+ The Skolelinux project was associated with the member organisation "Linux in schools", which was founded on July 16, 2001. "Linux in schools" later changed its name to "Free Software in Schools" by the annual meeting on October 16, 2004. German teachers, developers and translators joined Skolelinux throughout 2002. In 2003, Skolelinux was included step-by-step as a standard part of Debian. Since 2003, many developers from around the world have joined the project, with developers in France, Greece and Germany being the most active. The Skolelinux project also cooperates with many other free educational software projects such as LTSP, gnuLinEx, Edubuntu, K12LTSP, KDE, Gnome, Firefox and OpenOffice.org. Similar organisations have also been established in Spain, Germany, Latvia, France, Brasil and Denmark.
- The Skolelinux project was associated with the member organisation "Linux in schools", which was founded on July 16, 2001. "Linux in schools" later changed its name to "Free Software in Schools" by the annual meeting on October 16, 2004. German teachers, developers and translators joined Skolelinux throughout 2002. In 2003, Skolelinux was included step-by-step as a standard part of Debian.
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- Since 2003, many developers from around the world have joined the project, with developers in France, Greece and Germany being the most active. The Skolelinux project also cooperates with many other free educational software projects such as LTSP, gnuLinEx, Edubuntu, K12LTSP, KDE, Gnome, Firefox and OpenOffice.org. Similar organisations have also been established in Spain, Germany, Latvia, France, Brasil and Denmark.
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  The skolelinux project was launched on 2 July founded in 2001, around the same time Raphael Herzog began in France with Debian Edu. Since 2003, the two projects are one, and the names are synonyms. Some say that Debian Edu is the name of the project, and skolelinux the name of the distribution. Today, many working volunteers on the further development of the project: Over 130 programmers support skolelinux, as the Debian Edu developer from Norway , France , Spain , Germany , Lithuania , Brazil and the U.S. including. 2009 skolelinux is in a pilot phase at eleven schools in the country Rhineland-Palatinate tested after already Hamburg introduced the system in its schools. [1]
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  == Recogntions ==
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  = Who is behind it? =
  
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  Enable teachers to provide high quality IT teaching to their students.
  Localize the IT infrastructure by translating the software pages to both official writing forms of Norwegian — Bokmål and Nynorsk, as well as Northern Sami. This goal is later extended to reach out to all languages though in schools around the world.
  
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  The goal of our customization of Debian is to make it easy to install and maintain for schools.  – with all applications available in the students mother tongue.
  
   * It is a network architecture tailored for use in schools.
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   * It gives the students their own usernames, home directories and services.
   * It includes [[http://www.openoffice.org|OpenOffice.org]]
   * its auxiliary software components are free software
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   * Central user catalogue: One username and one password for several machines and services.
   * Central storage: Regardless of which machine you use in a Skolelinux network, you have access to your files and meet an interface with your settings – an interface you are familiar with.