23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines

Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to
preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines
many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a
successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government
grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.

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