Linux displaces 2,460 Windows desktops in rural Italian schools

Linux displaces 2,460 Windows desktops in rural Italian schools: "Some 16,000 students in the mountainous South Tyrol province of Bolzano in northern Italy will find 2,460 classroom computers upgraded from Windows to Linux when they return to school this month. New multi-language educational applications resulting from this project are to be released to the open source community, the project's co-director told DesktopLinux.com."