| Title | All Primary Public Schools in Geneva are Running Only Free Software | |
| Date | Tuesday July 22 2014, @11:09PM | |
| Author | zizban | |
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| from the one-small-step-for-Tux dept. | ||
It appears that, like the German city of Munich, the Swiss Canton of Geneva has been very measured in its migration to FOSS.
In 2003, the tax office of the canton passed out CDs which contained the Mozilla online suite, OpenOffice.org, and a tax application, GE Tax 2002.
In 2008, they made the commitment that all their public schools' 9000 computers would have Windows (dual-boot) removed, leaving Ubuntu Linux.
While they have reached a significant milestone, it appears they did not complete the system-wide conversion before the XP end of life and they will still be running that obsolete OS on a number of computers.
All primary and secondary public schools in the Swiss Canton of Geneva are switching to using Ubuntu GNU/Linux for the PCs used by teachers and students. The switch has been completed by all of the 170 primary public schools, and the migration of the canton's 20 secondary schools is planned for the next school year. Ubuntu GNU/Linux offers powerful services to the teachers, is easier to maintain, faster, safer and more stable than the decade-old proprietary operating system it is replacing, the canton's school IT department concludes, based on several four-year long pilots.
Making it easier to service the canton's schools' PC needs was one the main reasons for 'Service ecoles-medias' (SEM), part of Geneva's IT department, to switch the schools to Ubuntu, as the proprietary system is no longer being maintained.
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