Interactive whiteboard software comparison

The past days have been spent on test preparations. We have been doing first test installations and finding out how the accompanying software works for each of the interactive whiteboards. The installations have been done on stock Ubuntu 10.04 LTS setup. We have been...

Interactive whiteboards and linux

Interactive whiteboards have been coming to classrooms for some years already and here at Opinsys we’ve seen the growing interest towards their linux compatibility. The situation for schools using linux is challenging as there is not much information available...

Puavo’s organisation model

There are many system management tools that provide user and device management for linux systems, but most of tools are built on the assumption that all data belongs to a single organisation like a company or a school district. Managing user databases for two school...

Easy linux administration for schools with Puavo

Here at Opinsys we’ve been scratching our itch for better user management tools for quite some time. We work with some hundred schools around Finland and provide them Ubuntu based systems. Although the needs differ quite a bit between them, there are also quite...

Migrating Bazaar repository to Git

Over the years we have been using multiple version control systems and earlier this year we decided to start using Bazaar instead of Subversion because we were planning to start using Launchpad for our development. For various reasons we didn’t start using...