Eee PC - eerily popular
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| Australian retailers are wondering if they might have another Blackberry
| phenomenon on their hands, with the rapid sell-out of the first shipments of
| Asus’ diminutive $A499 Eee PC (pronounced simply “the E PC”).
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15630/1144/
More Linux prospects in Australia:
Computing finds down-under disty, targets Aussie schools
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| NComputing has appointed Ingram Micro as its distributor in Australia, and
| expects the company's network of integrators and resellers help it reach
| target markets including education
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15629/1054/
Recent:
Forget the OLPC: Here's a 30-children-per-desktop solution
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| 500,000 students already using NComputing's PC-sharing tech
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9042679&pageNumber=4
Asus EeePC sold out across Australia
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| The word from our ear on the ground is that the Asus EeePC sub-notebook,
| which made its Australian debut in the Myer department store chain on 2
| December, was sold out completely across stores in the major capitals by
| Sunday.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15610/1023/
GNU/Linux hits the mainstream again this year with ASUS eEE PC!
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| Finally, this awesome little machine has been released in Australia and I am
| sure it will be a sellout here also as it has been everywhere else.
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http://thewizardalbany.blogspot.com/2007/12/gnulinux-hits-mainstream-again-this.html
Review: Asus Eee PC
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| Less truly is more, at least when it comes to the Eee PC. While Asus
| considers this mainly as a robust little laptop for kids, it's ideal as a
| second computer that can be shared among the family or taken on holidays.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/reviews/review-asus-eee-pc/2007/12/02/1196530469545.html
Related and recent:
Ministry of Education from Brazil is buying 90,000 Debian GNU Linux computers
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| All computers will be installed at 9000 brazilian schools.
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http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/mec_buying_90000_debian_computers
Schools across Japan may switch to Linux
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| Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the
| Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce
| the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms
| across the country in the near future.
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http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000112
Russian Linux (ALTLinux) to be installed in every school in Russia
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| Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009.
| Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied
| software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication
| stated at a press conference. According to Mr. Reiman, that might
| significantly reduce Russian dependence on foreign software.
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http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F09%2F14%2F266177
Kubuntu Takes Over the Canary Islands
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| The Canary Islands have two derivatives of Kubuntu, one which is being
| installed in all their schools and one used by the largest university.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1142
Linux Makes the Grade
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| Today, more than 100,000 Indiana school kids (in all, 300,000 high schoolers
| are slated to receive one) have their own $298 computer and monitor with
| numerous free software applications, and, in turn, schools across the state
| have secure, reliable, sophisticated server systems thanks to Linux-based
| open source technology.
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http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604800
Kid-size Supinfo aims to certify 10,000 students on SuSE Linux
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| All students of the prestigious School of Information Supinfo will be
| certified on Suse Linux Enterprise in the next 5 years
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http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=www.silicon.fr/fr/news/2007/11/12/supinfo_ambitionne_de__proposer_des_certifications_sur_suse&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=resultcomputers
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| Fresno Unified officials buy 1,000 wireless [Eee] laptops that will fit on
| students' desktops.
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http://www.fresnobee.com/263/v-printerfriendly/story/187043.html
Related:
Nigerian students power up their laptops
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| Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per
| Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East, has spent the
| last year touring schools in Nigeria. He and his team chose a school
| 10 miles outside Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to deploy the company's
| first child-friendly laptops in the region.
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http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6175025-1.html?part=rss&tag=6175025&subj=news
CICT to computerize 320 public high schools
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| The PCs are loaded with several open-source tools including EdUbuntu (a
| version of Ubuntu designed for schools), OpenOffice, Apache, MySQL and
| Mozilla Firefox, among others.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=95414
Kerala On Linux Express Highway
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| The Linux slip-road that the state took is slowly becoming an
| express highway.
|
| [...]
|
| If we twist Napoleon's quote on China a bit, we can safely say, "Linux is a
| sleeping giant, let it sleep, because when Linux moves the world moves!"
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=16139&magid=11
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