07 September 2006
Another School System Switches to Linux
We can add another area to the growing list of places that have switched to Linux.
Oxfordshire has switched over 282 schools over to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. These are not classroom computers like some systems have done, but the school servers. The project is designed to provide the schools with local web caching and to improve the response time for their "safe schools" Internet connection.
The school system decided on the system because of the cost and as well because of the stability and reliability of enterprise Linux.
Oxfordshire now joins New Zealand, India and New York school systems among others as the latest school systems to switch to Linux although others have also used Linux in a classroom setting.
Oxfordshire has switched over 282 schools over to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. These are not classroom computers like some systems have done, but the school servers. The project is designed to provide the schools with local web caching and to improve the response time for their "safe schools" Internet connection.
The school system decided on the system because of the cost and as well because of the stability and reliability of enterprise Linux.
Oxfordshire now joins New Zealand, India and New York school systems among others as the latest school systems to switch to Linux although others have also used Linux in a classroom setting.
