Joinup, the EU’s public sector open source news site, reports that the Zolnierzy Sybiru high school in the Polish city of Lubawka has converted 11 of its PCs to run Ubuntu Linux.
The 11 machines are shared by 55 pupils and the conversion took place at the instigation of one of the school’s teachers.
The switch has made the PCs run faster and there have been savings on Windows and other proprietary software licences too, according to FWiOO, the Polish foundation for Free and Open Source Software.
The 11 PCs in question were bought in 2005 with funds from the Ministry of Education and previously ran Windows XP. In September the PCs were converted Ubuntu Linux.
In September a brief report (Polish) summarising the high school’s switch to Ubuntu Linux was published.
The pupils store their data in a free cloud solution offered by Canonical, the firm behind Ubuntu Linux.
“By using Ubuntu, these computers run faster and more reliably”, FWiOO notes.