Comments on: Linux: 9000 PCs in Swiss schools will switch to Ubuntu only http://pitsblog.dev.displayme.net/linux-9000-pcs-in-swiss-schools-will-switch-to-ubuntu-only/ Magento, WordPress, Typo3, HTML/CSS, Angular, JAVA, SAP Hybris Tue, 13 May 2008 09:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.4 By: Praveen.V.Nair , Systems Executive http://pitsblog.dev.displayme.net/linux-9000-pcs-in-swiss-schools-will-switch-to-ubuntu-only/#comment-52 Tue, 13 May 2008 09:10:51 +0000 http://www.pitsolutions.com/blog/?p=205#comment-52 Lucky – “without making it compulsory”

It is not correct. Check these links:

1. http://www.financialexpress.com/old/latest_full_story.php?content_id=138497
2. http://www.indianexpress.com/story/280323.html
3. http://www.abhishekkant.net/2006/09/technology-myopia-in-kerala.html

]]> By: Tennyson Varghese http://pitsblog.dev.displayme.net/linux-9000-pcs-in-swiss-schools-will-switch-to-ubuntu-only/#comment-51 Tue, 13 May 2008 04:10:18 +0000 http://www.pitsolutions.com/blog/?p=205#comment-51 still now its is successful movement named IT@School. The IT @ School Project, launched four years ago, has remodeled convectional teaching methodologies in classrooms through use of Information Technology. The project, in its first stage, is being implemented in 2,738 High Schools in the Kerala, Mahe in Pondicherry, Lakshwadeep and the Gulf. Over 40,000 teachers were given 90 hours of training on IT skills. Computer labs with 10 to 60 computers are available in all High Schools. IT@School project had developed its own OS in Linux in association with Free Software foundation namely IT@School Linux The platform of IT education completely shifted from WINDOWS to non proprietary software – Linux.

]]> By: Lucky Sheen Bhanu , Systems Executive http://pitsblog.dev.displayme.net/linux-9000-pcs-in-swiss-schools-will-switch-to-ubuntu-only/#comment-50 Tue, 13 May 2008 03:36:40 +0000 http://www.pitsolutions.com/blog/?p=205#comment-50 That’s nice! A couple of years back, the Indian state of Kerala too had taken the initiative to promote the widespread use of Red Hat OS and free and open-source software in education, without making it compulsory.

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