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Schools in Kerala state of India to use homebrew Debian distro
The southern Indian state of Kerala is in the process of migrating all computers in its 12,500 high schools from Windows to Linux and they plan to use a homegrown, Debian-offshoot dubbed "IT@School GNU/Linux."
The southern Indian state of Kerala is in the process of migrating all computers in its 12,500 high schools from Windows to Linux and they plan to use a homegrown, Debian-offshoot dubbed "IT@School GNU/Linux."
IT@School GNU/Linux is a
customized, single-CD distribution that includes the applications
typically required by a high school student or teacher, according to
the project. Apart from a wide range of typical desktop software, it
also contains educational programs such as TuxPaint, Ghemical, Kalzium,
DrGeo, and Gcompris.
The CD was developed by the IT@School Project, in association with the Free Software Foundation of India.
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