Linux is used widely in schools around the world because it is free to use, comes with many free and open source software options, and has been adopted by millions of students in large-scale education projects like One Laptop Per Child which aims to provide inexpensive laptops preloaded with Linux to children globally. Examples of countries adopting Linux in schools extensively include Europe, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa.
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.
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
U
S
S
I
A
• 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 ar
e planned.
12. Runs all its school computers
and LTSP thin clients on Linux,
mainly
using Kubuntu, Ubuntu and
stripped Fedora-based distros.
