[Fwd: [seul-edu] Extremadura to use linux at schools.]

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> <snip>
> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51994,00.html
> 
> Extremadura Measures: Linux
> By Julia Scheeres
> 
> 3:06 p.m. April 19, 2002 PDT
> The poorest region of Spain has adopted Linux as the official operating system
> of public schools and offices, in hopes of improving the area's vast
> technological and economic lag.
> 
> The move by the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, a rural zone that borders
> Portugal, will mark the first time a European public school system has switched
> to open source, said Luis Millán Vázquez de Miguel, the community's minister of
> education, science and technology.
> 
> The government has burned 80,000 CDs with the
> Debian Linux operating system and software ranging
> from text editors to an Internet browser. The disks
> will be sent to the area's 670 schools and distributed
> to the public through newspaper inserts.
> 
> </snip>
> 
> #########################################
> #Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
> #Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
> #BSD: Are you guys coming or what?
> 

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The article also mentions the government funding appropriate
training for the region's 15,000 teachers :)

The project's site is at:
http://www.linex.org/
(spanish language site)


- Richard

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