Stampede?

[Stephen Bannasch <stephen@concord.org>]

This sounded interesting:

The first $25K IDG Linus Torvalds award was presented at LinuxWorld to Jay Salzburger and The Stampede Foundation.  They make a new Linux distribution.  Evidently they are putting it into New York schools.

  http://www.stampede.org/

quoted from: http://lwn.net/1999/0304/a/lw-keynote.html

>At the end, IDG and Linus awarded the $25,000 IDG Linus Torvalds award
>to be split between Jay Salzburger [sp?] and The Stampede Foundation.
>Jay Salzburger and his organization are "teaching the virtues of open
>source to the high schools of urban new york by installing Linux on
>their servers."  Linus has never met the guy.  Jay commented that New
>York has about a thousand high schools and he doesn't think it is
>justifiable that *any* of them are running anything but Linux.  (Jay
>was an interesting person, "Like a character actor", comments someone
>in the press behind me).

Any experiences with these folks or this distribution.

-s