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NewsForge: Switching Art Students to GNU/Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 24, 2006

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“I’m an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an
exciting new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the
Macintoshes in our digital media lab and installing Ubuntu in its
place.

“I began seriously planning this change last school year, when I
realized how fully the current feature sets of free software
programs could satisfy the technical needs of the students in my
classes. I decided that the time had come to teach our
undergraduate art students about free software programs such as the
GIMP, Scribus, and Quanta Plus, instead of proprietary programs
such as Photoshop, QuarkXpress, and Dreamweaver…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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