[LUAU] South Korea launches 10,000-school Linux programme

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

After two years of pilot testing, the South Korean government is rolling 
out a home-grown open source platform called Buyeo, the Korean version 
of Linux, to 10,000 schools in the country:

http://taiwan.cnet.com/news/software/0,2000064574,20099866,00.htm  , or

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39205037,00.htm

If anyone can dig out any info on the Buyeo Linux distro, s/he will no 
doubt be our hero.

Two years ago, the Beijing municipal government decided to "switch" to 
Linux (I believe it was China's own "Red Flag" Linux).  It turned to be 
a total disaster.  Within less than one month, everyone single machine 
that was forced to install Linux switched to Microsoft Windows.  The 
so-called Operation Linux was totally annihilated.

The Tainan County of Taiwan is planning to install 9,000 Linux seats in 
various schools sometime this year.  Their system will be based on the 
Knoppix LiveCD customized for their own environment (again, another 
home-made distro).  For those who can read Chinese (or know someone who 
reads Chinese), take a quick glance of their website:

http://freesf.tnc.edu.tw/

Wayne