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Indian Government Chooses Linux for Academia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-introducing-the-gnu-utilities dept.

Nilesh Chaudhari writes "Following the footsteps of various governments around the world, the Indian Government has decided to standardize on Linux and open source software for academic purposes. The Department of Information Technology says, 'As a first step we are persuading all government institutions to offer courses on Linux and programming for Linux environment. We would also set up Linux Resource Centres in academic institutes (with co-funding from government and industry).' Going by the high targets they have set for mass adoption of IT, this is a step in the absolute right direction."

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  1. Dupe by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Timothy, this story was already posted. By, um, Timothy.

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  2. Re:Another a repeat by timothy. by ewithrow · · Score: 2, Funny

    This story is OBVIOUSLY much different from last weeks. I mean look: this story has the 2+2=5 Education icon while the previous story has the GNU is not unix icon.. :)

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  3. You might have missed the announcement by Sheetrock · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is 'Best of Slashdot' week. They're rerunning all the top stories, and I think this Friday they're playing 'Voices From The Hellmouth 11: Katz Strikes Back'.

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  4. Indians? by phalse+phace · · Score: 2, Funny

    So will they be using Sioux Linux?

  5. Check out that max uptime by codepunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not exactly anything to brag about, 17 days uptime. I guess we now know why they are switching from a toy to a man's operating system.

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  6. Am I the only one... by E-Rock-23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Who thinks that Bill Gates will be doing a whole bunch of globetrotting in the near future? I'll bet he's at the terminal now, with a briefcase full of "Free Software" for the Indonesian Government, and a Switch Story for them to read... Oh, wait...

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  7. Re:Another a repeat by timothy. by scott1853 · · Score: 4, Funny


    How rowdy can that party be? All the /. crew laying around on couches shining their ThinkGeek LED lights around the room while listening to "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", in Ogg format of course.

  8. Big deal by LineNoiz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see the rest of the world adopting Linux. Fine, let them. That doesn't mean America will do it; just look at that stupid metric thing the rest of the world is all gaa-gaa over...

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    1. Re:Big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The Peruvian congress is trying to switch to Linux.

      Brazil (Conectiva) is also playing with it.

      Argentina is doing some efforts to save some cash too.

      I can't understand which "America" will stay messing around with M$.

      In the strict sense of the word America != USA.

      Thanks,
      An American.

  9. Re:Another a repeat by timothy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No... That site can withstand the sheer power of slashdot. Let's slashdot that site once again and see whether they were aware of our second coming....

  10. Re:Language by NortWind · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...I find that the majority of the educated population has a better command of English than most Americans.

    That ain't sayin much.