School districts serve up lessons in Linux

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Apr 2, 2008 5:16 AM EDT
Computerworld Australia; By Andrew Hendry 		Mail this story
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Windows may boast the lion's share of the desktop education market, but the economic and technical benefits of open source software has seen many schools and education institutions implement various flavours of Linux across their desktops and server back-ends. In a two-part series, Computerworld investigates the role of Linux and open source software in education institutions in Australia and North America. In this, Part 1, the technology co-ordinator and network support technician from two large school districts in Canada and the US explain why Linux and other open source software is the plat du jour on their education menu. The institutions Computerworld spoke to are linked through School Forge, an open forum that unifies independent organisations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education.

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