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Skegness Grammar School, using GNU/Linux and thin-clients across the school
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| Garry Saddington is ICT co-ordinator at Skegness Grammar School. It is a
| specialist sports college and a specialist maths and computing college with
| nearly 800 pupils, and has a boarding provision for around 60. Alistair Crust
| is responsible for serving the technology needs of the Skegness Grammar
| School community. All the school’s 180 curriculum computers run GNU/Linux.
| These run as thin-clients using the Linux Terminal Server Project, which uses
| low power clients with most of the processing being done on fewer, more
| powerful, servers.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/community_posts/skegness_grammar_school_using_gnu_linux_and_thin_clients_across_school
http://tinyurl.com/5km7ow
"It just tells you how desperate Microsoft is for a competitor that they’re
holding up a software box produced by 100 guys in the hills of North Carolina.
Who are they trying to kid?"
--Robert Young, CEO of Red Hat
Recent:
The kids are all right with Linux
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| Apparently my son’s school spent the summer ripping out the old PC system and
| replacing it with a centralized Linux server and terminals.
|
| Now here’s the real shocking part.
|
| No one noticed. There’s not even a mention of it on the school Web site.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2769
Teaching tech to tots: The use of Linux and open source in pre-schools
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| What started as wondering how to contribute to my 5 year old son’s pre-school
| lead to the discovery of some absolutely terrific open source software that
| really aids the educational process. Here’s why even in this Microsoft world
| Linux is the best platform for early childhood education.
|
| [...]
|
| Yet, there was another option: Ubuntu Linux, rapidly becoming the best known
| Linux distribution available and which specifically has an educational add-on
| called Edubuntu.
|
| [...]
|
| If you are a parent or educator, do look into what open source software has
| to offer you, and do so without fear that your child will have difficulties
| transitioning from Microsoft Windows to a Linux environment.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19805/1141/
Russian Schools A-Rushin' to Free Software
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| [Via Google Translate: In more than 50% of schools pilot regions, where the
| scheduled installation of free software packages (PSPO), distributions have
| been installed.
|
| So far a total of PSPO installed in 572 schools in the republic of Tatarstan,
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Perm Territory, and Tomsk region (of the planned 1084).]
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/07/russian-schools-rushin-to-free-software.html
10 Reasons why Free Software and GNU/Linux should be used in schools
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| I’ve got a pet peeve. I love reading “Why GNU/Linux should be used in
| schools” articles. My pet peeve is the fact that the main focus of most of
| these articles is cost. The way it is portrayed by the media turns it into a
| cheap “alternative” that you use if you can’t afford Windows or hate
| Microsoft. This isn’t what makes GNU/Linux truly great for schools. Using
| that as my motivational drive, I decided to compile a list of the top 10
| reasons that make GNU/Linux and other Free Software essential for schools.
|
| 1. No vendor lock-ins ...
|
| 2. Freedom to redistribute ...
|
| 3. Security ...
|
| 4. No pressure to upgrade ...
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http://trombonechamp.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/10-reasons-why-free-software-and-gnulinux-should-be-used-in-schools/
http://tinyurl.com/6y9pns
Koreans to showcase open source experience in Cebu summit
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| KIPA has been actively pushing open source use in government. One of its
| projects resulted in a local version of Linux (called Buyeo) now used in
| nearly 200 schools in South Korea.
|
| KIPA is likewise working to make Linux more readily available to companies in
| Korea. It has publicly stated its goal to run 40 percent of servers in the
| country on open source.
|
| [...]
|
| Hansoft, meanwhile, will also be sending speakers to the conference. The
| company is one of Korea's biggest software firms and has active participation
| in various open source projects, including Asianux, a Linux version targeted
| at Asian markets.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080614-142687/Koreans-to-showcase-open-source-experience-in-Cebu-summit
http://tinyurl.com/55k4qo
Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications
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| At the grade school level though, we need to teach children not only how to
| use technology, but how to learn to use technology too. If we can offer
| students the use of Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, and be versed in Web 2.0,
| handheld computing, and application concepts -- we prepare them to succeed.
| Isn't that what we ultimately want for kids? For them to succeed in whatever
| they do?
|
| Linux is the PERFECT tool for education. It plays well with other operating
| systems, and offers such a wide variety of applications, that it's silly not
| to expose children to its usage. Oh, and there's also that little thing
| called cost. For many schools, that alone can seal the deal. Linux offers
| more, costs less, and can even fit well with existing tools.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-education-concepts-not-applications
Related:
Schools across Japan may switch to Linux
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| Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the
| Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce
| the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms
| across the country in the near future.
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http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000112
FR: Education Ministry encourages Open Source use
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| The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling
| purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source
| offerings to some 1.5 million teachers and education workers in 250
| institutes France.
|
| [...]
|
| The discount agreement with Mandriva is valid for the next four years. How
| many of France's postgraduate schools and universities today use GNU/Linux
| distribution Mandriva is not recorded, said Verez.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7663/469
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
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