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September 1, 2006

Linux on the Education Desktop??

I’m still working my way through the NECC podcasts and today I listened to March of the Penguins: Linux Comes to Student Desktops by David Thornburg.

Thornburg makes a very convincing case that all of education should be moving to an open source platform and especially endorses Edubuntu, an education friendly version of Linux. Thornburg goes through a whole list of cost savings ranging from the operating system to the basic apps to educational apps. He cites numerous companies, including Sprint and Microsoft, who use Linux for many central business processes. Brazil uses Linux exclusively on all government computers. Recently, the state of Indiana has adopted Linux for all of the public schools. This rollout is in progress for the 06-07 school year.

Although all this sounds good, it will be most educational to see how schools and districts make the transition Linux from their current comfortable positions with Windows and Mac OSes. Perhaps the trip point will be the Microsoft release of Vista.

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