Hoosier Daddy? In Indiana Schools, It's Linux

Indiana schools' department is ready to ramp up its rollout of Linux desktops in classrooms.

A interesting move by a school department by allowing local distric schools choose there platform, though there may be some conflict in some areas, including graphics, and journalism, with the fact that many of these programs are on the Mac or Windows, though more standard writing, web surfing, and research, can be done just as well on windows. There is the GIMP on linux, but it doesn't quite reach the level of photoshop...anyway yet another success for open source in the education sector. What is odd is that in the article they don't menion any of them using Edubuntu, but there is the possiblity they just generalized it...

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