Kannur varsity students help reduce hardware cost KOCHI: Even as talks between the State Government and Microsoft are deadlocked over the issue of using legal software, the hardware optimisation for schools in Kannur parliamentary constituency is being implemented on a free software platform - GNU/Linux.
The IT@School programme will be taught in Kannur schools utilising this facility. The usage of Etherboot on GNU/Linux has helped in reducing the hardware cost of the project to less than 66 percent and will help schools to have more computers. All this was possible because of the technical support rendered by a bunch of students of Kannur varsity?s MSc Computer Science course and the Social Entrepreneurship Promotion Society on Information Technology (SEPSIT), the charitable society they floated recently for promoting use of software under General Public Licence (GPL). </excerpt> Full story at http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IER20021204231822&Page=R&Title=Kerala&rLink=0 -- Raju -- Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
