Five thousand French students now have laptops running Ubuntu, thanks to a local government initiative.
The Centre Region’s local authority has distributed the computers to second-year university students in and around the famous Loire Valley. Each laptop dual-boots Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.06, with the intention of giving students a painless introduction to free software.
To ensure the students have every opportunity to sample free software, the Windows installation also features OpenOffice.org, The Gimp, Firefox and Thunderbird.
Francophone readers can get the full story from Linuxfr.org.