[ Thanks to Doug Loss
for this link. ]
“A year ago, Greek goverment decided that all public
schools of Greece should be equiped with a 12 clients – 1 server
lab at least, with all the machines being dual boot (Linux +
win2000). Also the school books of the public technical schools
have been rewritten. Now 15 year old kids learn about who, rm, cp,
tar, telnet etc, and 16 year old kids learn about /dev/…, | ,
gnome, kde, adduser, lpr as a part of their normal everyday school
lab activities. Distro is SuSE because of excellent greekalization
support. Till now about 3000 labs have been delivered and are up
and working, and more and more are being installed every day.(and a hint: very important, even more than the free+open
sourced things is the localization aspect : Greek tranlated HOWTOs,
ispell, GNOME, installation prodecure, fonts, keyboard switch,
messages etc…)If anyone worries about the luck of linux admins, operators,
programmers, power users in companies, just wait 2-3 years for the
first school graduates. Greece will be a major Linux admin exporter
:-)”