Re: [News] Another School Dumps Microsoft, Moves to GNU/Linux
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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School switches to Linux, hopes to keep MS funds
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| Complete switch to Linux has been approved by the Ministry of Education
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| Warrington School, in Otago, has decided to jump ship and deploy the
| GNU/Linux operating system with free software across the board by a target
| date of 2010, says the school’s principal, Nathan Parker.
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| The complete switch to Linux has been approved by the Ministry of Education,
| and Parker is now hoping that a portion of the money that would normally be
| paid to Microsoft for software licences will continue to be paid to the
| school. Parker says he would use the money to employ a local technician and
| further develop the Linux environment.
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| “Otherwise we are being disadvantaged,” he says.
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| [...]
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| Parker would definitely recommend using Linux to other schools. “There is a
| third way,” he says. “There is Apple, Microsoft and there is GNU/Linux.”
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/A000A8F459252EDECC25747F00172D28
He even says "GNU/Linux".
Last week:
Whitfield School Picks Linux and ThinkPad Laptops for Computing Program
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| The program enriches the education of students by equipping each student with
| a computer. The program has given Whitfield’s students and faculty new
| avenues for interaction and learning by using Lenovo ThinkPads (powered by
| Linux) in the classrooms.
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http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/32861-whitfield-school-picks-linux-thinkpad-laptops-computing-program.htm
Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux
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| One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to
| students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided
| to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics
| for academic users.
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| [...]
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| Though it could be sour grapes at having its unbundled OS proposal scuppered
| by Microsoft, ELCOT now says it recommends only Linux. On its website, the
| organization says, "ELCOT has been using SUSE Linux and Ubuntu Linux
| operating systems on desktop and laptop computers numbering over 2,000 during
| the past two years and found them far superior as compared to other operating
| systems, notably the Microsoft Operating System."
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6504473525.html
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This is actually good news IMO. The majority of kids are being brought
up with Windows and are overly reliant on it. The OS market isn't
healthy at the moment, and if more schools make moves like this, it
might help improve competition on the OS market in the long run, with
more people raised with other operating systems, trained and willing to
use them both at home and at work.
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