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Re: 60,000 Linux PCs, and not a Sqeak!

__/ [ B Gruff ] on Saturday 18 November 2006 16:03 \__

> Interesting.
> 
> Extremadura is a particularly poor area of Spain.
> They have 60,000 Linux (actually, LinEx) PCs for the kids.
> 
> It's been an amazing success - but we hear little about it.
> 
> http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/
> 
> Well worth watching the (long) video.
> PJ raises it in the context of the "knocking" of the OLPC project.

60,000? That's nothing. The OLPC will soon reach 6,000,000 kids in Latin
America alone. And you know what they say... the children are the future.

Best wishes,

Roy

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