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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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| 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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