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9000 PCs in Swiss Schools Going Linux Only

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 7, 2008

“9000 computers in Swiss schools have been dual-booting Windows
and and Ubuntu for some time now in anticipation of guidelines from
the Switzerland’s Department of Public Instruction, whose motto is
‘Long Live Free Software.’ The Tribune de Geneve featured a story
on Friday about the elimination of dual boot capabilities in all of
these machines and a migration exclusively to Linux (the original
story is available here in French or here in English courtesy of
Google’s language tools).

“Beginning this September, all 9000 computers will run only
Ubuntu and free and open source software…”

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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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