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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."

3 of 217 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bored during the blackout? You need this! by Fiver-rah · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This is why God made pdf2ps, if you're going to be a real stinker about it.

    Sheesh.

    But if you insist: here it is . Somebody else with real bandwidth grab this; this is one of our research group computers and I'll be truly smitten by my advisor if it gets slashdotted.

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    Read Bujold. Free (as in
  2. Re:Installing apps by Rhinobird · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ah, but i LIKE the default linux installation wizard.

    ./configure
    make
    make install

    simple

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    If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
  3. Re:What's most interesting... by Ratsarse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Har! There be no parrot on me poop deck, but I do be having a false eye.