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  = What is it? =
  
  '''DebianEdu/Skolelinux''' is an operating system intended for educational use and a [[DebianPureBlends| Debian Pure Blend]] . As skole [`skuːl`] is the norvegian word for school, Skolelinux's literal translation is "school linux". It has been created as an overall free software computer solution designed to fit on school's resources and needs and is currently being internationally developed by a large international and growing community.<<BR>>
- It is an advanced network solution that provides a terminal server environment suitable to many educational scenarios and it comes with most of its services pre-configured out-of-the-box. It allows both a technical and non-technical installation process depending on the user needs and expertise and it highly simplifies middle to large system deployments and configurations.
+ It is an advanced network solution that provides a terminal server environment suitable to most educational scenarios and it comes with most of its services pre-configured out-of-the-box. It allows both a technical and non-technical installation process depending on the user needs and expertise and highly simplifies middle to large system deployments and configurations.
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  == A bit of history ==
  
+ Skolelinux seed appeared during a warm summer day in 2001 when a group of four computer-savvy people started debating about the computer situation at schools and how much they disliked the predominant market domination of proprietary software. They dreamt of a better scenario where Norwegian students could enjoy software natively translated and where they could have access to the source code to be able to learn from it. They were also conscious about schools' problems with all high costs and restrictions that proprietary software impose.
- 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>>
- 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.
+ With great enthusiasm and high computer skills, they started working and officially founded Skolelinux project on July 2, 2001. Twenty-five computer programmers and translators combined efforts to improve and promote educational software. Naturally, some of this pioneers were more interested about software itself and some others about providing as much native translations as possible.<<BR>>
+ More or less at the same time, Raphael Herzog started the Debian Edu project in France to create an education-related meta-packages collection until 2003 when the two projects merged.
  
- 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]
+ Soon DebianEdu/Skolelinux importance grew and it associated with the "Free Software in Schools" organization (earlier called "Linux in schools") which was founded on July 16, 2001. During 2002 german teachers, developers and translators joined Skolelinux. In 2003, Skolelinux was included step-by-step as a standard part of Debian and since then many developers from around the world have collaborated to the project. During 2009 was tested on a pilot phase at eleven Norway schools and it was introduced in Hamburg schools too.
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+ Nowadays the project has established cooperation with many other free educational software projects such as LTSP, gnuLinEx, Edubuntu, K12LTSP, KDE, Gnome, Firefox and OpenOffice.org.
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  == DebianEdu or Skolelinux? ==
  
- At some point during the spring and summer of 2001 both DebianEdu and Skolelinux projects started as an attempt to create a GNU/Linux distribution for educational purposes. DebianEdu started from a french group called IIRC as a project intended to create education-related meta-packages and Skolelinux from a Norwegian group as a project intended to create a CD distribution.
+ At some point during the spring and summer of 2001 both DebianEdu and Skolelinux projects started as an attempt to create a GNU/Linux distribution for educational purposes. Raphael Herzog started DebianEdu project as a member of a group called IIRC with objective to create education-related meta-packages and Skolelinux started from a Norwegian group as a project intended to create a CD distribution.
- After some minimal collaborations, the french group left package maintenance to the norwegian group which started to include them on their CD. By that time people all over the world were contributing but was at that point that both projects effectively became one. So nowadays both names actually refer to the same project.
+ After some minimal collaborations, the french group left package maintenance to the norwegian group which started to include them on their CD. By that time people all over the world were contributing but was at that point that both projects effectively became one. Some say that DebianEdu is the name of the project, and skolelinux is the name of the distribution but in practice nowadays both name actually refer to the same project.
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