A batch of 7,000 PCs with Ubuntu Linux have been sent to Macedonian
schools, the first of a collection that Ubuntu sponsor Canonical
expects will reach 20,000.
Through a program called Computer for Every Child, the Macedonia
Ministry of Education and Science plans to install the PCs throughout
its elementary and secondary school system. Ubuntu will run on the
20,000 PCs, but 160,000 more students will be able to share those
machines using hardware from NComputing, Canonical plans to announce
Tuesday. The PCs are being supplied and installed by Haier, a Chinese
PC maker.
"The Computer for Every Child initiative is the largest and most
important education project undertaken in the 15-year history of the
Republic of Macedonia," said Ivo Ivanovski, Macedonia's minister for
the information society, in a statement. "By selecting Ubuntu as the
operating system for all of our classroom virtual PCs, our education
system can provide computer-based education for all schoolchildren
within the limited financial and infrastructural confines that most
institutions face today."
The schools are using version 7.04 of Edubuntu, a version of Ubuntu
tailored for classroom use.
With PCs already commonplace in richer countries, companies such as
Intel, Microsoft, and Canonical are focusing on reaching markets in
developing countries.
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