Wednesday, December 07, 2005

5000 Gnome Desktops in macedonian schools

The software group Free Software Macedonia has deployed Linux in 468 schools 182 computer labs. Specifically the Ubuntu distro.

This is a neat distro on Linux, I have been looking at it for a few weeks, and think it would really help schools with a bare-bones budget. But, I am not sure the students would like it. Our American students are spoiled rotten! I just wish my spoiled brats could see the smiles on the faces of the Macedonian student's as they learn how to "out score" our students on International math assessments. Oh well--time to head to work.

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