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Windows 7 enabled netbooks for schools to include open source software

The 267,000 Windows 7 based netbooks that the NSW Government has started rolling out to high schools will come pre-installed with open source software.

Aussie SkyMapper Telescope to “open new windows of exploration”

  • cio.com.au; By Tim Lohman (Posted by sharky2009 on Jun 15, 2009 11:44 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
What do the universe, open source software, a 12,000-core supercomputer, a cool $2.5 million of high-grade silicon and one of the country’s largest data sets have in common? They all underpin a five-year Australian initiative to map and study the observable universe from the southern hemisphere.