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80,000 school computers using GNOME in Spain

Submitted by drfickle on Wed, 2003-06-18 13:42. Gnome 2.x

Representatives of the Junta of Extremadura (regional government) announced that a sweeping initiative has put 80,000 computers in schools across that region. The
announcement came at the 4th annual GUADEC conference in Dublin, Ireland. See the full press release for more details.

A comment from Spain

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2003-06-20 02:50.

I'm from Spain and I'd like to say something about this...

I live so near Extremadura and the new is OK, about 80.000 PC's are running Linux with Gnome. It's Debian, but with a very important modification. People of Extremadura don't see aplications like "OpenOffice", "Gimp", "Evolution" etc, This Distribution use "nicks". For example, when you lunch "owriter", they click on a soft link: "Espronceda" (a very important writer from ancient history of Spain). The other aplications are in the say way.

This is so important because make it easy for ALL the people: boys, grandfather's, "newbies", etc.

Where I live (Andalucia), we're neibourgs, the goverment sign an agreement to do all that is happening in Extremadura. Also, other regions are in the same way. Andalucia has about 1/6 of the population of Spain and Extremadura 1/25 aprox.

The problem? Well, The Statal Goverment sign 3 years ago a 1.200.000.000$ sale with Microsoft and they use MS in the statal administration. Our president is so problematic for us (they give his agree to Irak war when 90% of spanish people was againt war...)

Problems in future? Money, money, money.... MS has a lot and they put when/where they need it. But in Spain, like in other countries things are changing ;)

P.D: Sorry about my english, I hope that you can understand all that I tried to say.

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