Wired: Penguin Enrolls in U.S. Schools
Aug 20, 2001, 17:48 (20 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Angel Gonzalez)
"Tux the penguin may become the preferred mascot of
America's financially strained public education system - for Linux
represents a way to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars
for software.
More than 98 percent of the schools in the U.S. have Internet
access, according to a recent Department of Education report. But
software costs can be prohibitive, especially now that Microsoft is
stepping up efforts to stop license infringement in schools,
forcing them to pay for every single copy of Windows they run.
IT specialist Kirk Rheinlander and others are volunteering their
time to install a computer network in the Fort Collins, Colorado,
K-12 charter school where his boys are enrolled. For him, open
source was the logical choice."
Complete
Story
Related Stories:
- WIRED: Mexican Schools Embrace Windows (followup to the 'RedEscolar' story)(Aug 02, 2001)
- SEUL.org: Linux in education report #49 for July 23(Jul 23, 2001)
- LinuxPR: K12LTSP will be officially released on July 4th, 2001.
(Jun 28, 2001)
- kmLinux-2.0 - New Version of German Linux distribution for Schools
Released(Jun 05, 2001)
- LinuxPR: Free SuSE Linux for US High Schools
(Apr 11, 2001)
- LinuxWorld: French schools using Linux - More than 350 schools access the Internet using Linux and OSS(Feb 13, 2001)
- Linux Gazette: Linux in British Schools(Feb 03, 2001)
- LinuxPR: SuSE Connects Schools in Spain
(Jan 12, 2001)
- Chicago Tribune: Web computers slated for Chicago schools [NIC Linux-based 'net appliances]
(Dec 14, 2000)
- LinuxPlanet: From the Desktop: E Stands For Education
(Oct 24, 2000)
- kmLinux : new German Linux distribution for schools(Sep 17, 2000)
- Advogato.org: GNU/Linux in Public Schools?(Aug 22, 2000)
