That's very cool to hear. How do you/Linex deal with the SqueakL?
separate distribution via an extra line in the sources.list?

Daniel

diegogomezdeck at consultar.com wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> We are there!!!!!!!
> 
> As some of you knows We (we=small-land) are working hard with LinEx
> (www.linex.org).  Linex will install 80000 PCs with a debian subdistro and
> I'm (just these days) giving a course of Squeak to 30 early teachers-early-
> adopters.
> 
> We have an almost complete-Spanish version of squeak instalable with APT.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Diego
> 
> 
> > For the interested, a few excerpts about something we will be an
> > automatic part of when we achieve Debian inclusion.
> >
> > ************
> > Yes, Skolelinux, a project to create a Linux distribution with the goal
> > of replacing the proprietary operating systems in schools throughout
> > Norway.
> > ...
> > 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.
> > ...
> > 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.
> > ...
> > 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.
> > *********
> >
> > The entire article is available at LWN, a high quality Linux newsletter
> > at http://lwn.net/Articles/46850/. Their policy is that paying
> > subscribers can read content now, non-payers a week later.
> >
> >
> > Daniel