Thoughts from UK (Score 1)

Well I goto school in the UK. Now from what schools I've seen, 95% of schools in the UK use PC's from the same supplier: RM PLC (www.rmplc.net I think). Now this is obviously going to help hardware compatibility, because most pcs will have the same hardware (roughly). I am not sure about the under-funding some people stated, my school has just received £50,000 and is applying to become a technology college. There is a Dual-ISDN internet connection at school, running from MS-Proxy, this is VERY unreliable. It is always crashing etc. However, although switching to linux would be a great idea for the 80+ computers in the school, I don't really think it's going to happen. I guess I'll concentrate on trying to persuade the computer geek to use linux as the internet proxy instead. Anyways, this is great news! And I hope our school becomes a technology college :)