[svlug] Donating computers to Africa: Comment

[Sanatan Rai]

Hello everyone:
	Just been reading:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2989567.stm

Seems to me that the real problem here is that the computers are running
Windows.

This is a bit surprising because I can tell from personal experience that
Linux/Unix are the platforms of choice in the universities in the so
called `third-world' countries.

So my question is: what are people's observatiosn concerning the use of
Linux/Unix in the school classroom here? I mean as a regular tool, and not
just a curiosity?

--Sanatan

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