{"id":1995,"date":"2003-11-27T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T11:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2003-11-27T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2003-11-27T11:34:57","slug":"afrikas-f%c3%b8rste-distro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2003\/11\/27\/afrikas-f%c3%b8rste-distro\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrikas f\u00f8rste distro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"impi_logo_sml.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/archives\/impi_logo_sml.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"119\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" \/>Det har lenge v\u00e6rt hevdet at Linux er spesielt velegnet for brukere i den 3. verden, ikke bare fordi de kan unng\u00e5 &#8220;Microsoft-skatten&#8221;, men ogs\u00e5 fordi Linux kan skreddersys til \u00e5 kj\u00f8re p\u00e5 gamle maskiner. N\u00e5 har en s\u00f8rafrikansk brukergruppe med det (sikkert ikke utilsiktet) artige navnet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glug.org.za\/\">GLUG<\/a> s\u00f8rget for \u00e5 lage kontinentets f\u00f8rste Linux-versjon (eller distro). Navnet er <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impi.org.za\/\">Impi Linux<\/a>, og den er basert p\u00e5 den tyske Knoppix-distroen (som jeg kj\u00f8rer p\u00e5 min b\u00e6rbare).<\/p>\n<p>Gruppen bak Impi har ogs\u00e5 en klar politisk begrunnelse:<i>&#8220;Africa is not for sissies&#8221; as the saying goes, epitomises the challenges on the continent. Many parts of Africa are still suffering from crushing poverty and the negative effects of colonialism. Just as we have liberated ourselves from European colonialism, we now need to liberate ourselves from &#8220;digital colonialism&#8221;.<\/i> H\u00f8yt p\u00e5 prioriteringslista st\u00e5r oversettelse av distroen til S\u00f8rafrikas elleve (!) offisielle spr\u00e5k. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/\">allAfrica.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Logoen er for\u00f8vrig veldig kul, bare synd man ikke brukte anledningen til \u00e5 avbilde en av de lokale pingvinene som er i ferd med \u00e5 invadere den lille byen Simonstown noen mil s\u00f8r for Cape Town. Har en gang g\u00e5tt p\u00e5 stranda som er <a href=\"http:\/\/caleb.smith.tripod.com\/penguins.htm\">avbildet her<\/a>, og kan derfor bekrefte at pingviner kan v\u00e6re mye mer p\u00e5g\u00e5ende og t\u00f8ffe i trynet enn st\u00f8rrelsen skulle tilsi. Simonstown-pingvinene er dermed en glimrende metafor for Linux&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Det har lenge v\u00e6rt hevdet at Linux er spesielt velegnet for brukere i den 3. verden, ikke bare fordi de kan unng\u00e5 &#8220;Microsoft-skatten&#8221;, men ogs\u00e5 fordi Linux kan skreddersys til \u00e5 kj\u00f8re p\u00e5 gamle maskiner. N\u00e5 har en s\u00f8rafrikansk brukergruppe&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2003\/11\/27\/afrikas-f%c3%b8rste-distro\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afrika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}