52 Million school kids to use Linux

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52 Million school kids to use Linux

Post by LinuxMint-4 » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:46 am

52 Million school kids to use Linux

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9016897370.html

"Brazil's Ministry of Education ("MEC") is installing Linux in labs used by 52 million schoolchildren, reports KDE developer Mauricio Piacentini. Piacentini's blog post describes MEC's "Linux Educacional 2.0" as "a very clean Debian-based distribution, with KDE 3.5, KDE-Edu, KDE-Games, and some tools developed by the project."
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Re: 52 Million school kids to use Linux

Post by Patrick » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:53 am

<sarcasm>So another 52 million users will leave Linux market share at 1% right?</sarcasm>
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Re: 52 Million school kids to use Linux

Post by dann » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:55 am

Patrick wrote:<sarcasm>So another 52 million users will leave Linux market share at 1% right?</sarcasm>
They'll all be discounted after MS makes a deal to get these dual booting the free version of Windows XP they will give them which will morph into 52 million computers shipping with XP, the Linux side of things quietly disappearing (as a few gov't officials move into their new mansions).
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