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____/ JeffM on Thursday 10 Nov 2011 02:06 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>http://news.techeye.net/software/spanish-government-orders-open-sauce-on-older-computers
>>|The Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science (MEC)[...]
>>|wants schools to keep their old computers and install free Linux software
>>|instead as part of an austerity measure.
>>
> There were several extra bits in the Slashdot coverage of this:
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AzjtDGPVkH4J:yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/30/024228/schools-in-portugal-moving-to-oss+*-*.*-*-both-
Portuguese+*-*-*-*.Helsinki-*-*-*+*.*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.*-*-*-*.*.Caixa-*+inc+inc+*-not-close-enough-*-*-*-*+*-*-*-*-*.*.*-High-School-*-*-*-*-*-*-*+*-*-*.*-
*-*-*-same-vocabulary-*-*-*+*-*-has-to-support-*.*-*-*-*-*.*-*-*-*+inc+inc+*-*-just-work&strip=1
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/30/024228/schools-in-portugal-moving-to-oss
> http://tinyurl.com/Linux-in-Portuguese-schools
>
> :Dot.Com.CEO writes:
> :[in Portugal] Teaching software has to support
> :(and in fact does support) Linux and Windows.
>
> :icebraining writes:
> :I went to a (public) High School here in Portugal around eight years
> ago;
> :at the time, all the machines we used in IT classes
> :already dual-booted between Windows
> :and a Portuguese GNU/Linux distro ("Caixa Magica")
> :and we had to learn how to get around on the Gnome desktop.
>
> icebraining also answered a question I was wondering about:
> ::they might the educational software for free from Brazil.
> ::Same language
> ::
> :[...]not really. While they're both Portuguese,
> :until recently they didn't even use the same orthography,
> :and while that has been fixed,
> :we still don't use the same vocabulary nor phrase constructions.
> :
> :Don't get me wrong, we can understand it just fine
> :(as it's evidenced by the millions of Portuguese people
> :who watch Brazilian soap operas [every] night),
> :but it's not close enough for an educational setting.
>
> ...and Kari might especially approve
> of this slightly-OT comment made by an anonymous poster:
> :At our university (Helsinki University of Technology)[,]
> :there are large Linux-only computer classes,
> :and those computers just work.
In our department they are all being converted to dual-boot. They
still count as "Windows" by Microsoft's definition.
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