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Egypt's LUG Will Use Linux To Train Schoolchildren

Posted by timothy on from the free-is-nice dept.

kbahey writes "The Information and Communication Technology for Development in the Arab World (Arab Dev) has teamed up with Egypt's LUG to provide training for school children in upper Egypt with training on FOSS and GNU/Linux. As you may recall, a while back Slashdot interviewed Egypt's LUG. Here are the questions and here are the answers."

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  1. Barrier removed by amran · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The main barrier for average users wanting to move over from Windows to Linux is that they have used Windows forever, and are so used to it that they find a change uncomfortable, and would just rather continue using what they are familiar with.
    But teaching children how to use Linux really removes this barrier, since it allows them to become familiar with how it works, the genral look-and-feel of the desktop, etc.
    Bravo Egypt LUG.