linux in school

2. WHY LINUX IS USED IN SCHOOLS?Linux is available free of charge
includes a large body of free/open source software.

3. EXAMPLES OF LARGE SCALE ADOPTION OF LINUX IN EDUCATION :
The OLPC XO-1 , is an inexpensive laptop running Linux, which will be distributed to millions of children
as part of the One Laptop Per Child project.

4. • 560,000 students in 33
schools will migrate to
Linux.

5. EUROPE

6. Schools with a student
population of 16,000,
switched to a custom
distribution of Linux.

7. 35 million students
over 50,000 schools
using 523,400
computer stations all
running Linux.

8. 1.5 million Linux PCs as
part of its plans to
support its domestic
industry

9. The Indian government's tablet
computer initiative for student
use employs Linux as the
operating system as part of its
drive to produce a tablet PC.

10. R
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• All its school
computers will run
on Linux.
• This is to avoid cost
of licensing
currently unlicensed
software.

11. • has deployed 13,000
desktops running
on Fedora
• 10,000 desktops of
Edubuntu and Kubuntu
are planned.

12. Runs all its school
computers and LTSP thin
clients on Linux, mainly
using Kubuntu, Ubuntu and
stripped Fedora-based
distros.

20. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
http://www.linuxschools.com/forum/index-main.php