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Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops

Posted by kdawson on from the keep-it-cheap dept.

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."

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  1. Re:To bad... by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  2. Headline wrong by daBass · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Australian State Threatens To Give Students Linux Laptops to Force Microsoft to Lower Prices"

    There, fixed that for you.

  3. Re:Times are different now. by mdhoover · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stabby Stingray?

    /me runs