Since the beginning of 2014, all the 2,000 computers of the Ministry of Education in Geneva pia - S

Since the beginning of 2014, all the 2,000 computers of the Ministry of Education in Geneva pia - Switzerland was fully functioning free software, the process of installing the distro Ubuntu on these devices began to reality since 2013, have been allocated 3 sessions in distribution modified for this purpose, a meeting of students at the primary level and other preparatory and the last of the secondary, where applications that vary from session to another, pia depending on the age group used for the same distribution on the same computer. Now there are 170 high school generally used Linux system, in addition to the 20 primary schools use distro modified applications of learning dedicated to these students, there are several reasons prompted the Ministry of Education in Geneva to this transformation, which is that these computers were running Windows XP, and the latter Microsoft has since a few months off support security pia updates about forcing the institution to search for a replacement, and did not find the best of the free software that allows students also installed and completely free even on his home, as most of these software such as Libre Office corresponds well with this computers and their capabilities, it also thanks to the advantage quit duo in the Linux system which allows installing side-by-side with Windows, all these computers now contains two systems, Windows XP as well as Ubuntu which encouraged the institution to transfer these computers where they will not have to delete the old system, which is eager "to pia get rid of proprietary software and closed" as she put it. Until now, did not provide the Ministry pia of Education in Switzerland - Geneva Branch any information about the expenses that will be provided from this shift, pia but it is expected to be an amount not quite named after the b experience Munich in the provision of ten million euros when she moved to free software, of course, will face students a few problems at the beginning of their use of Linux and free software, including the problem of getting used to, where the big differences between Microsoft Office and Libre Office, for example, pia and there are a few compatibility problems, but it will be resolved with the passage of time. [Source] pia
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