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Debian Weekly News - May 9th, 2008
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| The Debian Project announced to participate again in Googles Summer of Code
| Program. Twelve students will get the opportunity to work on different
| projects during their summer vacation while Google will fund them.
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http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/02/
It's seen as a bit controversial.
Yesterday:
Debian GNU/Linux SuiteTelecentro: millions of users for the digital society
every year
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| The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro benefits more than 4
| millions users every year.
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/suitetelecentro_millions_users_digital_society_every_year
Recent:
Debian is participating in the 2008 Google Summer of Code
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| The Debian project is proud to announce that it has again been accepted by
| Google as a mentor organisation for the Summer of Code programme. We have
| been allocated twelve tasks for this year. Google will fund the students
| mentioned here to work full time on those tasks during their summer vacation,
| from May 26th to August 18th. They will be guided and evaluated during this
| time by a team of Debian developers.
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http://itsmylife.thehackshop.com/2008/04/27/debian-is-participating-in-the-2008-google-summer-of-code/
Canadian British Columbia's School District #73 opts for Debian GNU / Linux
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| Kamloops Thompson School District #73, British Columbia, Canada, with 55
| elementary and secondary schools, chose a majority of open source software on
| Debian GNU / Linux as it is easier to maintain and in their experience offers
| better support.
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http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/british_columbian_school_district_73_chose_debian
Deploying KDE [+Debian GNU/Linux] to 52 million young people
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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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