Australian students will receive laptops with Linux

Secondary school students of the Australian state of New South Wales is likely to receive laptops running the operating system GNU / Linux. The purchases amount to 56 million USD.

According to Jim McAlpine (Jim McAlpine), president of the board of secondary schools in New South Wales (Australia), providers should consider such options for free software for laptops, as Edubuntu - kind of popular distribution Ubuntu, application-oriented education.

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