[seul-edu] Linux in Greek schools

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

I saw this in a reply to a posting on LinuxToday:

"A year ago, Greek goverment decided that all public schools of
greece should be  equiped with a 12 clients - 1 server lab at
least, with all the machines being dual boot (Linux + win2000). 
Also the school books of the public technical schools have been
rewritten. Now 15 year old kids learn about who, rm, cp, tar,
telnet etc, and 16 year old kids learn about /dev/..., | ,
gnome, kde, adduser, lpr as a part of their normal everyday
school lab activities. Distro is SuSE because of excellent
greekalization support. Till now about 3000 labs have been
delivered and are up and working, and more and more are being
installed every day.

"(and a hint: very important, even more than the free+open
sourced things is the localization aspect : greek tranlated
HOWTOs, ispell, GNOME, installation prodecure, fonts, keyboard
switch, messages etc...)

"If anyone worries about the luck of linux admins, operators,
programmers, power users in companies, just wait 2-3 years for
the first school graduates. Greece will be a major Linux admin
exporter :-)"

A Greek school teacher friend of mine then told me, "They
allready sent us the 13
PCs with Linux.....Now I have to install them and learn how to
use them  Wish me luck.."

Do any of our Greek members have any more information about
this?

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