"The Australian Prime Minister's plan to equip high schools with 'one laptop per child' may go open source. Kevin Rudd's $56 million digital revolution will include 'laptops [that will] run on an open source operating system with a suite of open source applications like those packaged under Edubuntu. This would include Open Office for productivity software, Gimp for picture editing and the Firefox internet browser.' So far this has been considered for New South Wales and I think other states may follow."

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I live in NSW and will post if it ever happens...

I wonder if they will be able to run OS X

lol i live in NSW too, i bet they'll put heaps of "protection" and no admin rights like at school so you won't be able to F*** anything up! That'd be crap I'd probly just wipe the hard drive and install mac

Cool, much better than Windows for education.

If they do protect it everyone will wipe it within two minutes of getting it

kevin rudd is full of {censored}. he wont fufill his promises, he's too busy travelling overseas