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Spanish Province Dist-Upgrades

Posted by michael on from the choice-of-a-gnu-generation dept.

Johnny Mnemonic writes "The Spanish province of Extremadura has adopted Linux for the official OS of schools and offices, largely because of price. Simply, they don't have enough money for other OSes, and they promise to handle the rollout more gracefully than a similar Linux initiative in Mexico. According to Wired, this is the first time a European school system has switched to Linux."

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  1. Just a minor correction... by mfarah · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Spanish province of Extremadura has[...]

    Actually, Extremadura is an autonomous community (formerly a region under the older division of the country). It's composed of TWO provinces: Cáceres and Badajoz.

    There. Mod me down as redundant if you will.

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