For the interested, a few excerpts about something we will be an
automatic part of when we achieve Debian inclusion.

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Yes, Skolelinux, a project to create a Linux distribution with the goal
of replacing the proprietary operating systems in schools throughout
Norway.
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Knut, thank you very much for your time. Firstly, can you tell us about
the beginnings of Skolelinux? What motivated the initiation of the
project?

It all started when Petter [Reinholdtsen, the project's system
architect] and myself, were attending a summer party one day in June
2001. We talked about how sad it was that most local schools had little
besides old computers and a few applications running on Windows, and
very little money for upgrades. We found it frustrating that
closed-source software prevented our pupils interested in technical,
under-the-hood things from learning by example - from source code
written by expert programmers. That's when we decided to stop talking
about it and simply do it. We had a start-up meeting on July 2, 2001,
with 13 participants and 12 other interested parties who could not
attend personally. 
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How many schools are using Skolelinux at present?

Officially about 20. But unofficially we have reports of entire towns,
municipalities and counties that are testing Skolelinux in one or two
schools before making an official commitment.
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You have chosen Debian GNU/Linux as a base for your distribution. Any
particular reasons?

The openness, Debian project's acceptance of our contributions, apt-get,
the conservative and well-tested packages and of course, the community -
these were the main reasons. 
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Daniel