Japanese Schools May Switch to Linux (400,000 of them).
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=348867&rel_no=1

Brazil is next
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3445805.stm

12,500 Indian high schools move to Linux
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6309151740.html

Taiwan mandates Linux ready PC’s
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39370618,00.htm

Calif. school district aims 5,000 desktops at Linux
http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS4958455863.html

Venezuelan government, 700 HP PCs with Ubuntu and 150 IBM Laptops with Kubuntu. http://blog.blanco.net.ve/2007/03/ubuntu-takes-advantage.html

NYSE undertakes IBM mainframe migration to Unix and Linux
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1254860,00.html

San Diego Unified School District selects SUSE Linux Enterprise
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=36875

Forty percent of German university students now have access to Linux

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/91765/index.html

Athens Michigan Schools to Linux
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/NEWS01/803050312/1002/NEWS01

Bexley City district all computers to Linux by 2010
http://www.thisweeknews.com/?sec=home&story=sites/thisweeknews/022207/Bexley/News/022207-News-310108.html

Linux up 61 %
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9910263-16.html

1,000 (Maybe 15,000) school computers with Linux in Birmingham Alabama
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=53412;_hbguid=1dee89eb-3081-424d-a80b-49ac8311e7b7&d=top-news

Linux just behind Mac http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

WinXP W2000 Win98 Vista W2003 Linux Mac
72.3% 4.0% 1.0% 7.6% 1.8% 3.8% 4.3%

February 2008

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207400935

It’s not a forecast that will leave Symbian and Windows Mobile supporters quaking in their boots, but ABI Research is predicting that about 20% of middle and high-end mobile handsets will be running some form of the Linux operating system by 2013.
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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20080421.aspx

April 21, 2008: One method of protecting your military networks from hackers is to use an operating system other than the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows (which controls over 85 percent of the market). Linux has been a popular choice for the military. The U.S. Navy uses Linux to run critical systems on its warships. The U.S. Army is using Linux for its networked FCS (Future Combat System) vehicles (which are still in development). The army is also converting many of its Microsoft Windows applications to run under Linux.
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Linux phones get boost from Japanese carrier
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/3g/linux-phones-get-boost-from-japanese-carrier-325253

The increasingly successful mobile Linux operating system has received a massive shot in the arm through the decision by Japan?s largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo, to release Linux development tools to handset makers.

DoCoMo, which is also one of the world?s biggest mobile telcos, has announced an ?operator pack? that helps phone manufacturers build LiMo-compatible phones for its 3G W-CDMA network.

http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2008/04/23/298333

Linux Ubuntu installation on PCs sold by Excimer and NT Computer is to be launched within the nearest month. Consequently, Ubuntu sales in Russia might reach 300 thousand units. Ubuntu 8.04 released on April 24, 2008 is more likely to be preinstalled.

http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn…8/04/24/298514

“The Russian Post accounts migration to the free software for cutting losses. In February Aleksey Kazmin, the new director general of the Russian Post, announced the net losses of the federal state unitary enterprise accounted for 4.6 bn rubles ($195.088 m) for the previous year, which was a 60% increase as compared to a year earlier.

If the experiment launched is a success, more than 42 thousand post offices with more than 125 thousand computers will migrate to the new Linux-based software. Aleksey Kuzmin told CNews the first Linux installations were likely to be held on the work stations of public internet access point.”
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KDE Linux reaches 52 million Brazilian kids

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9016897370.html

“Brazil’s Ministry of Education (”MEC”) is installing Linux in labs used by 52 million schoolchildren, reports KDE developer Mauricio Piacentini. Piacentini’s blog post describes MEC’s “Linux Educacional 2.0″ as “a very clean Debian-based distribution, with KDE 3.5, KDE-Edu, KDE-Games, and some tools developed by the project.” …

Thus, most labs have 15 available workstations. For labs in rural locations with limited electricity, a single server can support up to seven KVMs. There’s also a set-up with a large TV monitor for special needs children. Some 29,000 labs will be completed this year, with 53,000 labs set up by the end of next year.”