The French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as part of a strategy to invest in open-source solutions and avoid ...

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a Linux consortium funded by most of the computing industry's major companies, has launched the open-source industry's latest counterattack to the SCO Group's ...

One of the biggest arguments used against Linux in grade school level education is that we aren't teaching kids to use the applications they'll use in the "real world". As the Technology Director for ...

Red Hat and SuSE Linux launch new discounts to attract students and educational institutions, a strategically important customer set for technology companies. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Four years ago I wrote an article for Linux Journal about my use of Linux software for music instruction. A lot has changed since then, so I thought I should update that article to reflect my current ...

Computers are becoming pervasive learning tools in K-12 education, whether in individual classrooms or in a shared media center. Both Apple and Microsoft have donated millions of dollars worth of ...

As the cost of equipping classrooms with everything from chalk to chairs continues to escalate, many school districts are turning to open source solutions as a viable alternative to expensive software ...

Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so ...

Wikipedia gives a short history of Linux. A list of some of the more popular versions for 2015 together with their relative virtues can be found here. Until the development of Windows 8, it was ...