On 4/3/07, eric pareja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What other schools in the Philippines do you know of that have started using GNU/Linux or some other Free Software/Open Source Software in their computer labs or other facilities?
I don't have much info on high schools but as far as I know, there's been quite a history of FOSS use in several universities. The Physics Department of the Mindanao State University campus in Iligan (MSU-IIT) has been using FOSS since 1998 (probably much earlier). Last time I was there, most of their desktops and servers for physics computing have only Linux installed depending on the user's taste: OpenSUSE, (K)Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, and Fedora Core. Internet Explorer and MS Office were ditched officially so those who use Windows XP for clerical use were using OpenOffice and Firefox. And there were plans to have 100% of the PCs switched to Linux. I don't know what's the status now though. The only reason some guys there stick with Windows (actually, dual boot in with their fave Linux distro) is the Adobe Photoshop and some nifty video editing software. (Don't ask me why a Physics Dept needs these stuff, hehehe...) Cheers, Allister -- Allister Levi C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Chargé de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, École Polytechnique http://allistersanchez.blogspot.com
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