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Macedonia Deploys 5,000 Ubuntu Desktops in Schools
vladoboss writes "The latest GNOME Journal is running a story about the deployment of 5000 Ubuntu desktops in public schools. The Republic of Macedonia is a small country in Southern Europe with a population of around 2 million. Internet penetration is only around 5% and software piracy rate is rampant. Also, the government does not play any major role in the development of the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and a private sector is dominated by Microsoft technologies. Given the circumstances, one would not expect any free software related stories to make the headlines. Yet the presence of a small volunteer organization by the name Free Software Macedonia is making a big difference in this small country."
Are they adding MP3 support to the base Ubuntu system, to support their local culture of IP piracy?
Have you read my blog lately?
Of the two Linux desktops:
1) A crappy Win95 ripoff - KDE
2) An even crappier Win95 ripoff - Gnome
the poor kids got number 2...
This is slashdot man. News for nerds. Most if not all nerds know what a GUI is. It just baffles me when people feel like they have to "define an acronym" to make themselves look smarter, especially "GUI". I mean who are you trying to impress? Oh and mods I know this will be modded flamebait but geez!
Beer! It's what's for breakfast!
...once Greeks discover this Slashdot article, they will start boycotting Ubuntu over the FYROM name dispute. I hope we'll suceed to totally eliminate it from Greece and replace it with what people should have stayed with from the beggining : Pure debian :>
"Red Hat" means "Rode Hatred" in Swedish. That's a strange name, almost offensive.
But oh, I'm sorry, it has to be in English to be accepted!
"Stop failing the Turing test!" -- Dilbert
In one of the biggest frauds planetwise, the culture and heritage of one of the Hellenic tribes is attributed to people of Slavian origin...yes, this post is a troll, flamebait, and whatever else you would like to accuse me, and I don't give a fsck about how it is modded, but the truth shall be heard:
"MACEDONIA" IS HELLENIC HERITAGE.
Skopjia as a country have any right to exist...but you can't just steal the identity of other people.
My university degree says graduaded from University of Macedonia. It's a greek University, in Thesalloniki.
You Americans have been brainwashed to the death, you are naive to the bone, and you are willing to sacrifise morals in order to support your own little interests. The President that fooled you there are WMDs in Iraq, the government that consistently lies to you about the environment is the same group of people that decided to steal an identity from one country and to assign it to another.
There are large deposits of a rare metal alloy 10 times stronger than depleted Uranium in Skopjia.That's the real reason behind supporting "Macedonia". And the rest of the countries follow USA blindly, due to fear.
USA behaves exactly the same as the ancient Athenians did. But Athens was destroyed in the 30-year all-out war in the Greek region that destroyed the Greeks. Read your history (i.e. our history, because you don't have one), and stop doing the same mistakes.
You don't have to wonder "why do they hate us". It's right there, in front of you.