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NSW considers giving students Linux laptops
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| Jim McAlpine, NSW Secondary Principals' Council president, said sellers could
| look at offering non-proprietary software for the laptops, such as Edubuntu,
| the education version of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24490953-15306,00.html
Recent:
Linux in schools: a teacher speaks
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| Catching them young is a popular slogan and one that yields dividends too, no
| matter whether one applies it to the adoption of software or the learning of
| a language. And with a small window seemingly open for Australia's FOSS
| community to push for the use of free and open source software in schools,
| the question arises - how does one go about making the first inroads?
|
| [...]
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| A group of advocates is pushing for the adoption of FOSS in schools and
| recently sent a letter to the deputy prime minister, trying press their case.
| For people like them, Nic Baxter has some simple advice: petitions sent to
| government ministers will not help to bear fruit. "It has to be bottom up.
| Start at the schools with local evangelists helping make teachers lives
| easier."
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19407/1148/
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.
|
| “Otherwise we are being disadvantaged,” he says.
|
| [...]
|
| 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
Community to Gilliard: 'Consider Open Source'
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| The Australian Open Source community has called for the consideration of Free
| and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the implementation of the Rudd
| Government’s Digital Education Revolution Policy.
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| In an open letter that was submitted last week to the Deputy Prime Minister
| Julia Gilliard, members of the community expressed its support of the
| Government’s investment in Australian ICT capabilities, education and
| training.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/79966,community-to-gilliard-consider-open-source.aspx
Bid to push FOSS in Australian secondary schools
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| A group of free and open source advocates in Australia has made a timely move
| to try and increase the use of FOSS in the nation's secondary schools.
|
| [...]
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| Among the other signatories were Max McLaren, the general manager for Red Hat
| Linux in the Asia-Pacific region, and Karen Koomen, who handles government
| affairs for IBM Australia. Local Linux luminaries Stewart Smith, the current
| president of Linux Australia, well-known kernel hacker Paul "Rusty" Russell
| and Andrew Tridgell, Australia's best known free software personality and the
| developer of Samba and rsync, are also part of the push.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19209/1148/
Related:
Sydney school tames twofold IT shop
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| SCEGGS has about 830 students, 100 staff, 500 desktops, 200
| laptops, 13 servers, and an IT team of eight.
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| The school's mail is delivered with the Postfix MTA on Linux and
| gets distributed to GroupWise.
|
| "We have moved the Linux servers to a clustered file system with
| OCFS2 which is supported natively in SUSE 10 and the data is stored
| in an Apple raid array with 1.8TB of storage,' Ralph said.
|
| Also in use are a number of MySQL-based applications for learning
| management systems. The school is now moving off one open source
| application, AUC, which it has used since 1999, to Moodle, a modern
| learning and content management system.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=905401168&rid=-50
School turns to open source to cut cost, foster student thinking
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| The school's workstations operate on the Mandriva 2006 Operating System,
| and run free and open source software options including: Open Office
| for office applications; Mozilla Firefox for Web browsing; GIMP for
| image editing; and Evolution mail for sending and receiving e-mail.
|
| At the core of the network is a simple HP ProLiant ML 110 server
| running Mandrake 10.1, NIS and NFS, and that connects to the Internet
| via a 1.5Mbps broadband connection.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1708539119;fp;2;fpid;1
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