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3 Reasons Linux Doesn’t Star In U.S. Schools

Come December, about 500 Indonesian schools will be running openSUSE Edu Li-f-e(Linux for Education).

In the Indonesian deployment, which began in 2010, each school has one local server running about 20 client PCs. Using rsync, the schools’ Moodle course management databases are synchronized with a central data center weekly. Each school also has a Web page, through which students access coursework via a Flash-enabled Web browser, such as Firefox

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