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Macedonia Deploys 5,000 Ubuntu Desktops in Schools

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the getting-schooled-in-being-1337 dept.

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."

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  1. In Full Battle Array by 3Suns · · Score: 3, Funny

    All right! only 2000 more to go before we have...

    Seven Thousand Macedonian Linux Desktops in Full Battle Array!

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    -3Suns

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  2. Re:The Article by ndansmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but there are also aspects of KDE which are harmful to education. For instance, konstantly kspelling keverything kwith "K" kannot kbe kood kfor kyoung kstudents.

  3. Re:Office Apps by vertinox · · Score: 2, Funny

    What I am not sure is the career future of these children of the future.

    Well they can learn how to flameware with Greeks on the net about the name of the country and learn how to avoid getting shot by Serbs by playing Quake.

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    -Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
  4. flights booked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I work at the MS travel office in Redmond.
    We read Slashdot all the time so we know in advance where the salespersons will want to go next.
    We have chartered a plane for next week.
    Expect a "Macedonian ministry of education revokes linux deployment plan" article here come January.

  5. Re:Operating System classes by cdc179 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It used to be the argument between rich & poor schools. "We have a gym, swimming pool, theater, you don't have anything!!!" Now its, "We run Windows, your poor, you run Linux!!!"

    More like, "We run GNU/Linux, where we know what the shit we are doing. You poor bastard, running windows, have no freedoms and are left with a piece of shit."

  6. Only 5% are online? by Milton+Waddams · · Score: 3, Funny

    How does the other 95% get their porn!?!?

    1. Re:Only 5% are online? by donscarletti · · Score: 2, Funny

      Macedonia is close enough to Hungary so that they can go get most of the internet's porn in person after a short trip up the Danube.

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  7. Re:The Article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gthat's gwhy gUbuntu guses Gnome, Gnot kde. Gno gproblem gwith gall gthose gpesky Ks.

  8. Re:Correction.. by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They still have nothing on the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya! Which of course is used far more often than that pedestrian form, "Libya."

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  9. Re:Office Apps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    As a Serb I have to admit, you have just discovered our evil consipracy plan.
    This is not about Linux or Ubuntu. This is about us trying to invade Greece (among other countries on this planet and in universe), and to ... don't know what... maybe install Linux on all your computers and make you type in black console (horror!).

    Get a life.