[dot] KDE Desktop Trial in US Schools

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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: clever-merkins
Date: Friday 05/Aug/2005, @17:28

KDE Desktop Trial in US Schools
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   Linspire [http://www.linspire.com/] has announced that their KDE
based operating system is being trialed for use by schools in Indiana
state [http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases.php].  The
Indiana Access Program will provide every classroom with computers for
all their pupils. There are already several thousand Linspire machines
running KDE in use in dozens of classrooms across the state to explore
the benefits of one-to-one classroom computing.  Introducing KDE to high
school students in this manner will equip these young people with the
skills necessary to be comfortable and familiar with the Open Source
platform. Many of these students will likely go on to use KDE after
school and perhaps even join the KDE project as contributors, helping to
spread KDE and GNU/Linux on the desktop even further in North America.