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Wired News: Extremadura Measures: Linux
Apr 22, 2002, 17 :30 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (8951 reads)

(Other stories by Julia Scheeres)

[ Thanks to A. Chavan for this link. ]

"The poorest region of Spain has adopted Linux as the official operating system of pulic 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..."

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That's Good Thing(tm). If it didn&#3 ...   Seems that many people is learning from my country   
Alastor
Apr 22, 2002, 17:47:30
 
... my country pioneering this movement  ...   Glad to see...   
none
Apr 22, 2002, 18:12:56
 
"The government has burned 80,000 CDs wi ...   Wow.   
certron
Apr 22, 2002, 18:14:25
 
> "The government has burned 80,000 CDs  ...   Re: Wow.   
Norman
Apr 22, 2002, 19:15:32
 
            ~Viva!!! Espana!!! :)cheers- ...   Tux says...   
Xunil Ung
Apr 22, 2002, 22:32:27
 
Combine with what is happening on the we ...   Oregon   
a.c.
Apr 22, 2002, 23:57:01
 
Is there any ftp, http, ... to download  ...   Debian?. I would like try that package   
Davi
Apr 23, 2002, 07:32:38
 
by Bill and his huge checkbook. Lets see ...   Time for a little visit   
John Helms
Apr 23, 2002, 16:07:52
 
I wonder where they bought their PCs and ...   80,000 Windows licenses also?   
Don Brock
Apr 25, 2002, 00:46:02
 
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