Pawtucket School District: A Virtual Iron Success Story
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| St. Jean then turned to VMware Server. He told me that he liked the price
| (VMware server is free). The management utilities, especially with the
| web-based extensions were also very nice. It had multi-platform
| capabilities - enabling it to support Linux Guests on Windows Hosts, and
| Windows Guests on Linux Hosts. St. Jean was able to build, copy, migrate and
| destroy a dozen virtual machines with no problems.Overall, VMware Server was
| very easy to use and very stable.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=377
Mandriva and Novatice Technologies present Edutice, The ready to use solution
dedicated to educationand multimedia spaces
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| Edutice enables work spaces to be automatically deployed on schoolroom,
| archive centre or library computers.
|
| Mandriva, the leading European Linux publisher, and Novatice Technologies,
| are developing in partnership information technology solutions to permit the
| management and dynamic creation of work environments.
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http://www.mandriva.com/enterprise/en/company/press/mandriva-and-novatice-technologies-present-edutice-the-ready-to-use-solution-dedica
Days ago:
Debian Linux powers science education device
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| An education supplies company has announced a portable science education
| computer that runs embedded Debian Linux. Pasco says it designed its
| sensor-equipped Spark Science Learning System for collaborative science
| experiments by students, for example measuring cond uctivity or tracking
| temperature changes.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4450252700.html
Related:
Mandriva Linux selected as "Product of the Year 2007" at the Russian Softool
event
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| Mandriva has been selected as 'Product of the Year 2007' in the Linux
| category at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. The 'Product of the Year 2007'
| competition was held by the department of information technologies and
| computing systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Agency of
| Information Technologies, the publishing house SK Press, and IT-expo.
|
| [...]
|
| Mandriva Linux will also soon be certified by the Federal Service of Export
| and Technical Control, allowing public sector agencies and organizations
| dealing with confidential information to use Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/nov/19/mandriva_linux_selected_as_product_of_the_year_2007_at_the_russian_softool_event
Russian public agencies choose Mandriva
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| Mandriva development is carried out jointly by Mandriva's offices in Russia,
| France and Brazil. The Mandriva Linux OS is thus considered a national OS for
| Russia. The decision of FSTEC of the Russian Federation (RF) implied that
| Russian public agencies will be authorised to use the Mandriva Linux OS on
| PCs running confidential information.
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http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr/russian_public_agencies_choose_mandriva
Russian Government Will Migrate to OpenSource
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| Russia decided to follow after EU countries, where opensource
| solutions are more spread then in Russia. Currently, some Russian
| companies can offer their own Desktop Linux OS (the major companies
| are ASPLinux, ALTLinux, Linux-Online and LinuxCenter).
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http://danays.blogspot.com/2006/12/russian-government-will-migrate-to.html
Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare
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| Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it
| appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped
| off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
|
| [..]
|
| According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed
| software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps,
| Ekho Moskvi reports.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460
Linux Education in America: Inspiration from Russia?
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| The reason that the Russian announcement is funny boils down to the
| perception over the years that Russia equates to totalitarianism, whilst here
| in America we're all about Freedom and innovation. Yet our educational
| system -- the very underpinnings of how we're growing out future
| technological talent, is based upon the inversion of what one would expect
| given the respective reputations of both countries.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/93171/index.html
Russia is latest country to move towards OpenDocument format and open standards
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| The stated rationale for this legislation is that “open standards will
| contribute to an increased number of bidders for government contracts and
| will increase opportunities for Russian software developers... [and] the
| problem of interoperability will be addressed as will the ability to access
| information into the future.”
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http://www.itrportal.com/absolutenm/templates/article-docsoft.aspx?articleid=4410&zoneid=57
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
Linux being launched at schools
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| Besides the operating system the package is to comprise some freely
| distributed programs, close to MS Office by their functionality, which are to
| be used on computers with the following characteristics: 233 MHz and 128MB
| DDR.
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http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/10/25/272200
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