Linux and the formation of 10 success stories
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
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While architects, designers and accountants prove that Linux has no future as a desktop OS (In terms of their own needs and workloads), has at least one area in which Linux distributions have made significant progress.
We are talking about the use of the operating system as the main working environment in universities, schools and colleges. The educational system of many large and small countries in the world is not the first year of successfully implementing local and national educational projects based on Linux. Together, let us look at 10 examples of the introduction of the OS in the life of ordinary students, pupils and teachers. And who knows, maybe in your university / school / graduate school a similar project will be in the near future?
The assistants in today's post will call on Wikipedia, which already collected some examples introduction open BY for the problems not only of science, but also to businesses, government agencies and institutions in different countries. Today, however, we are only interested in the educational sphere.
Linux - one of the major operating systems in most technical universities and research centers around the world. The reasons for this popularity a few: free, open, flexible customization and lower level insistence to user resources compared to many commercial software products. In addition, research and educational environment a significant role played by information campaigns from major vendors: alone IBM and Dell have made great contribution to the promotion and distribution of laptops, servers and computing systems based on Linux.
The largest projects in the introduction of Linux distributions to date include:
- Project OLPCXO-1: Cheap laptop, developed with the participation of experts from the MIT, which is intended for developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the framework of the program One Laptop Per ChildWhose purpose - to provide access to education, IT and the Internet to children in schools, even the poorest and most technically unprepared countries.
- School Education of the Republic of Macedonia: It bought about 5 thousand. Desktop PCs based on Ubuntu to be installed in 468 schools and 182 IT laboratories across the country (and did so at the end of 2005). In 2007-2010, the program was extended through the installation of hundreds of thousands of thin clients in schools, universities and research labs across the country, and again - based on Ubuntu.
- The educational systems in India and Brazil: Each country has bought more than 20 thousand. PCs based on Linux for primary and secondary schools in order to reduce the cost of modernizing its education system and at the same time instill in the students the basics of IT literacy and provide access to the Internet, even the poorest areas.
- Developed countries are also actively implementing the Linux, but no longer in schools and in universities: Since 2006 the implementation of the program of the OS and installation of workstations based on Linux operating successfully on the basis of dozens of universities in the USA, Germany, Russia, Georgia, Switzerland.
- Integration of education and governmentChina bought the Linux 1.5 million computers Loongson PC under the domestic support, the development of technical capacity of state institutions and providing access to IT in schools and universities of their country.
It is only 5 specific examples of existing projects. Moreover, Linux lets you:
- Organize computer classes for teaching children of all ages out of school or institution basics computer science, programming and use of Internet technologies and services without a large financial costs.
- Translate into a single platform with legacy PC morally in small rural schools and libraries.
- Teach the older generation (your grandparents, parents and elderly relatives) work with a PC, even the most simple configuration, while this without the need of fight "-caught" viruses and malware, which the your elderly relatives "picked up" by inexperience somewhere Network.
- Collect and implement a unified a custom Linux build to the needs of an educational institution, a mug, or a university computer courses, dropping all the excess, or vice versa - using specific software for monitoring, scientific experiments and modeling in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc. (Which is more than in the various Linux distributions plenty).
- To save on software for education, information and creative purposes (No matter what was said, but there are only two ways: either the "Pirates" software, or buy it: and the first and second can result in considerable financial costs in the future. Linux also offers a third way).
And you're ready to switch to Linux in learning or educational activity?