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Tectonic: New Tuxlab Looks to Community for Sustainability

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 16, 2006

“A new model for sustainably implementing computer laboratories
in underprivileged schools is being piloted by Tuxlabs, a division
of the Shuttleworth Foundation. Tuxlabs has partnered with a
Sowetan entrepreneur, who will sell services in a school’s open
source laboratory to the community once the school day ends.

“St Martin’s High School in Orlando West, Soweto, is expected to
get its 30-PC lab next Tuesday 23 May. Running Edubuntu–an
education-specific port of Ubuntu–the lab sports brand new
equipment from Acer…”

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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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