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Skoleliux wins the Scandinavian Free Software award!| written by: Lars Risan 9th of December 2007
Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce that the Norwegian project Skolelinux is the winner of the first Free Software Scandinavian Award handed out at during the Free Software Conference Scandinavia 2007 in Göteborg friday 2007-12-07. Read the entire press release.


Skoleliux receives 450.000,- NOK of funding!| written by: Anders Kringstad 7th of December 2007
Free software in schools Norway, the Debian Edu local organization in Norway along with the municipality of Hurum, the University of Agder and others has received a funding of 450.000,- for 2008 by the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform (FAD) to further develop the Skolelinux-distribution. The Minister cited the high-held goals of the project - creating a common ground to foster knowledge and education among pupils; and sharing the software created under open licenses as primary reasons for the funding decision.


Skoleliux 3.0r1 released| written by: Anders Kringstad 5th of December 2007
The Debian Edu project has released version 3.0r1 of the Custom Debian Distribution (CDD) Skolelinux. This 3.0r1 release of Skolelinux includes many updated features along with an extensive list of bug-fixes to make this the most complete free software distribution for educational use in recent years. A complete press-release is available.


Next release iminent| written by: Anders Kringstad 9th of July 2007
The next release of the Custom Debian Distribution (CDD) Skolelinux from the Debian-edu-team dubbed 'Terra' is due to be released the following week. This 3.0 release of Skolelinux includes many new features along with great many new contributions to make this the most complete free software distribution for educational use in recent years. Watch this space for more as the release draws near.


Developer gathering | written by: Anders Kringstad 1st of May 2007
On the 1st of June developers of Skolelinux are gathering to work on the project. Currently six of the main developers have signed up for this gathering and others are in the pipeline. Two months before the gathering both norwegian and german developers have signed to work.You can read more about the developer gathering here: http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2007-06-Trondheim




New web pages | written by: Anders Kringstad 30th of April 2007
For a long time the public face of Skolelinux have been suffering without a proper web page. These new pages will enable us to deliver information and pointers to our solutions quickly to a rapid growing crowd of interested schools and communities. If you feel that the pages lack some feature or you have a sugestion to make, plase contact the board of FRISK (Skolelinux Norway) through email atstyret@friprogramvareiskolen.no. Welcome!