linux and mexico

[Les Schaffer]

Interesting developments down in Mexico in the 'Linux and elementary
schools' department. Seems someone decided to outfit 140,000 Mexican
school labs with Linux machines running GNOME. The latter is the
official OpenSource desktop for GNU systems.

see coverage here:

http://lwn.net/

or a copy of the original notice of intent here:

http://lwn.net/1998/1029/a/scholarnet.html

les 'twirly-head' schaffer