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[News] More Schools Catch 'Linux Fever', Extend Number of Workstations

Integrator Goes Back To School With Linux Desktops

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| "We're providing word processing, spreadsheets, educational computer 
| games," Hargadon said. "We can have five or 10 computers in a classroom 
| instead of two."
| 
| And because the solution centers on Linux rather than Microsoft Windows, 
| the result is that more classrooms are putting more desktops to use for 
| more students for greater amounts of time, Hargadon added.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Hargadon said his own son last year told him that most of his computer
| time in the classroom was spent watching a Windows 98 PC simply
| boot up.
| 
| "The schools most proactively interested in a Linux solution are
| typically private schools," Hargadon said. "They have a different
| decision-making process, and they don't have choices. They'll tell me,
| 'I've got to raise $50,000 to put in 50 more brand-new computers, and I
| don't have it. We're using Windows 98 and limping along. We're just sort
| of patching things as we go.' " 
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