Riverdale School District in Portland has already installed the software and is part of the 'Linux in Schools' project. Meanwhile, next month will see the installation of 30 Linux servers in US high schools, beginning with Oregon's Multnomah County.
The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has filed close to 1,000 subpoenas in the US District Court in Washington this month requesting information from educational institutions and ISPs on users of Kazaa, the peer-to-peer file-sharing service.
The Cobb County School District, located in the Atlanta suburbs, is recommending that its school board pursue a deal with Apple to equip all teachers in the county, along with all high school and middle school students, with Apple laptops.
And with the LAMP stack - that's short for Linux, Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP scripting language - looking ready for prime time it shouldn't be long before adoption becomes widespread in the enterprise.
Apple announced in February that it was on the verge of striking a deal with the Cobb County School District that would eventually equip each of the district's teachers and middle- and high-school students with a laptop.
Local communities in Hertfordshire can now enjoy the benefits of a high speed WAN linking schools across the county. Chris Seviour, ICT technical advisor for Hertfordshire County Council, said the deal will improve the quality and delivery of the...