I just received excellent news from Mauricio of Open Source Diary that Brazil has made KDE on Linux the official computing platform of the primary education system. The official details and such are available at his blog, but I'll post one quick screen shot here showing the new desktop.
The long and short of this news is that primary education system of Brazil includes some 52 million users spread across the country. That's not an exaggeration folks...52 million.
Here's a brief excerpt:
[At] the end of this year there will be already 29,000 labs deployed, serving approximately 36 million students. This number grows to more than 53,000 by the end of 2009, and at that time 52 million students will have access to them. You can also see in the slide a solution that is being developed for classrooms: a single hardware unit with integrated projector, cpu, bundled content and DVD player. With it, digital content will no longer be restricted to the info lab, and will be usable by teachers in the traditional classrooms as well.I am thinking that this is the largest massive Linux deployment in history. I may be wrong, but I'm just elated to see that 52 million young people will grow up in a free (as in freedom) environment where they will learn and flourish without the trappings of proprietary technology. This is one HUGE victory for Linux. Sphere: Related Content
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