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

[Paul Bauer <paul@shorttermwhat.com>]

Considering the thread on this mailing list today, I thought I would post this 
here.

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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. 


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