Re: [Fsf-friends] IT@School, Kerala in News - Fsf-friends

17 Mar 2008

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Nagarjuna &lt;nagarjun(a)gnowledge.org&gt; wrote:

...
   The video said nothing about the use of free
software.  Is it because
  IT@School is not using free software exclusively, or it is reporter's
  bias? 
the reporter deliberately avoided "Free Software" :(

...
 From 2007-2008 educational year onwards, all schools
that follows Kerala State syllabus (around 2832 highschools) migrated to Free
Software. They use a debian based distribution called IT@School
GNU/Linux (http://support.space-kerala.org/wiki/index.php/Download_IT%40School_GNU/Lin…)

see these news clips also :
http://www.education.kerala.gov.in/ITexam_help/images_itschool/ie_exam_feb_…
http://www.education.kerala.gov.in/ITexam_help/images_itschool/hin_exam_feb…

~vimal