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One-to-one desktops In Indiana.


Indiana Indiana, state, United States
Indiana, midwestern state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan (N), Ohio (E), Kentucky, across the Ohio R. (S), and Illinois (W).
 high schools are testing Linux desktop machines as part of a state plan to provide every public high school student with a computer, according to according to
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 Linspire, Inc., which sells the Linux-based operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
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If successful, the plan, Indiana Access Program, will provide each high school student with a desktop computer for academics in each classroom they visit, meaning 300,000 machines could be deployed in coming years.

One school in the town of Lynn is already feeling the effects, with students excited about projects, exploring the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 and even taking notes with the computers.
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Title Annotation:Update: NEWS, STATS AND FAST FACTS; Linspire Inc.
Author:Pascopella, Angela
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U3IN
Date:Oct 1, 2005
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