From Windows to Linux--And Back Again | Linux Today

From Windows to Linux–And Back Again

Written By
SV
Sam Varghese
Feb 20, 2008

[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese
for this link. ]

“Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which
is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it
stand out from other educational institutions.

“The school decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly
large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the
free operating system. The open source word processing suite,
StarOffice, also came into the picture…”

Complete
Story

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Sam Varghese

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