| Macedonia installs 5,000 Linux PCs in schools |
Dec. 05, 2005
Macedonia may be well known for its place in books on ancient history, but it's now on the cutting edge of desktop Linux adoption. The Republic of Macedonia decided to deploy about 5,000 Linux desktop computers in 468 public schools and 182 computer labs nationwide last summer, based on a Ubuntu distribution with a GNOME desktop, the GNOME Journal reports.
The deployment was part of a joint project called E-School.MK, involving the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Education Development Center (EDC), and the Macedonian Ministry of Education and Science (MoES).
The Republic of Macedonia is a small country in Southern Europe with a population of around 2 million. Internet penetration is only around 5 percent, and software piracy rate is rampant. Also, the government does not play any major role in the development of information and communication technologies, and the private sector is dominated by Microsoft technologies, the Journal reported.
GNOME's Arangel Angov met with Darko Arso, Macedonia's Technology Integration Manager at the Education Development Center, to find out more about their reasons for using GNOME.
What resulted was an interesting Q&A article that you can read on the GNOME Journal website, here.
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