Linux

Computer Weekly polls organisations on Microsoft vs Open Source products

http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/computerweekly/CWRES/HTML/SurveyResults2.pdf

This highlights the uptake of OSS various sized organisations have done. MS is unsurprisingly the winner. The trialled statistics are interesting.

Implications for education?

1. MS dominates and therefore we should make sure we are using MS products to best prepare our pupils for their futures.

2. Using OSS in education is clearly more important as we remove obstacles to use OSS by providing rich and dependable experiences for our young people who will feed this into industry.

3.

RSS-bot's picture

New OLPC Laptop 1.5 Dual-Boots Sugar, Gnome Desktop

griffjon writes "The new hardware release (you can read about the upgrade here) also comes with a dual-boot option. Start rejoicing now; it's not XP or Sugar (the native, education-centric OS) — it's Sugar or Gnome. And of course there are other homebrew distributions like Xtra Ordinary, built off of Debian."

Syndicate content