[wplug] Sounds like a job for... Linux!

Vance Kochenderfer vkochend at nyx.net
Thu Apr 22 13:58:56 EDT 2004


Anyone heard of this project?  Since they're using older PCs, it's
possible that they're using Linux...

  <http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04113/304551.stm>

  Program to link 3rd-graders to Internet
  Families at 2 city schools to get home computers

  Thursday, April 22, 2004
  By Eleanor Chute, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

[snip]

  All of that is about to change. Today, children in Ernsthausen's class
  will begin getting home computers, courtesy of the city school district.

  Her class and a class at Clayton Elementary School on the North Side are
  the first participants in Pittsburgh Public Schools' "Emerging Links
  Project" designed to bridge the digital divide between affluent and
  nonaffluent families.

[snip]

  These are school district-owned computers which have been replaced with
  newer models. For about $90 each, the district has refurbished them,
  replacing all of the moving parts.

[snip]

Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
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