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Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops
Whiteox writes "The Australian Prime Minister's plan to equip high schools with 'one laptop per child' may go open source. Kevin Rudd's $56 million digital revolution will include 'laptops [that will] run on an open source operating system with a suite of open source applications like those packaged under Edubuntu. This would include Open Office for productivity software, Gimp for picture editing and the Firefox internet browser.' So far this has been considered for New South Wales and I think other states may follow."
What's that for, punishment? Poor guys.
Given how Rudd behaves, the fist time a child is caught using the computer to access porn the whole program will be axed.
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"Australian State Threatens To Give Students Linux Laptops to Force Microsoft to Lower Prices"
There, fixed that for you.
Getting him a Vista laptop will ensure his parents will never have trouble getting him out of bed on school days.
The NSW State Govt can't organise a chook raffle let alone something such as equiping kids with open source laptops. It has bigger fish to fry.
/me digs through boxes of books in the basement, finds collection of "Footrot Flats" cartoons given to him by Aussie roomate in the 80's.
Aha! It says right here that a *chook* is a chicken... and yet, the reference to *other* fish. Have you dastardly antipodean meddlers in GAWD's sacred genome finally perfected the chickenfish?
(Man, I'd forgotten how good Footrot Flats was. I like some barnyard humour, me.)
Stabby Stingray?
/me runs
Yes, because getting work done requires OS X... >.>
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