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The Linux Desktop: Rich with educational software

Linux for education is a great win, for all PC users. I have read about schools making the move to open source and... Read more

27 October, 2011

Microsoft's education claims rebuffed

...only run on Windows," said Richard Rothwell, chairman of educational user group Schoolforge UK, "but there are ways for schools to get onto high quality... Read more

17 May, 2005 by Peter Judge

Open source groups ally to target schools

...and open source software into schools. As a result of the affiliation, Schoolforge-UK will head the Education Working Group of the OSC, a European... Read more

5 May, 2005 by Dan Ilet

Row erupts over schools open-source project

...from Red Hat, KDE and the Free Software Foundation — alongside OSS Watch, Schoolforge UK, Canonical, the Open Schools Alliance and others. "But no, impeccable and... Read more

16 June, 2008 by David Meyer

The OSC's open letter to Becta

...just a few of the names involved gives a feel: OSS Watch Schoolforge UK Open Source Consortium member companies Sirius, backed by Red Hat, KDE... Read more

13 June, 2008

MPs: Open source faces exclusion in schools

...Schools Alliance, a group of organisations which includes the Open Source Consortium, SchoolForge, FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) and the UKUUG (UK Unix... Read more

27 November, 2006 by Richard Thurston

FAST should be taught a lesson

...Open Source Consortium; The Birmingham-based Open Advantage; the Cutter Project; and SchoolForge UK to name a few. The education sector is a huge market... Read more

25 May, 2006 by Leader

Schools face software licensing clampdown

...A BECTA spokesman told ZDNet UK: "BECTA has regular meetings with the Schoolforge-UK Open Source Consortium Education Working Group representative to update the open... Read more

25 May, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Consortium launched to support OpenDocument

...founding members of the fellowship include OASIS, the Open Source Consortium and SchoolForge UK. Adam Moore, of Friends of OpenDocument, called on "all responsible citizens... Read more

10 October, 2005 by Colin Barker

The ABC of open source in schools

...for open source, as shown in this sector by projects such as Schoolforge. Head-teachers who want to cut costs while giving their charges valuable... Read more

16 May, 2005 by Leader

Microsoft ready for open source in schools fight

...products from companies such as Microsoft, according to the Times Educational Supplement. SchoolForge, an organisation that is pushing for open source software in schools, said... Read more

9 May, 2005 by Dan Ilet

UK government promotes open source in schools

...the head of computing at Handsworth Grammar School and the chair of Schoolforge UK, said the Becta study will highlight the lower support, hardware and... Read more

27 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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apexwm

JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

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apexwm

BrownieBoy: "Such crashes are normally down to the OS and/or a rogue application, which could be fixed by re-imaging. Everybody knows how Windows...

3 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

17 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

1 day ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

1 day ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC