Linux's status in Education

Here's a small roundup of the Linux and Schools news this week. Wired covered the Mexican School story today, and reveals that the most ambitious US project to introduce Linux into schools is in Oregon's Multnomah County which will install 30 Linux servers in high schools next month. Anyone have any info and numbers on the use of Linux in other schools or universities? Apparently schools can get help at The Linux Schools Project. In France, the sale by Dell of PC's without OS to the CNRS is making its competition think. The CNRS tends to be a trend-setter for all other French research and higher education facilities, which number around 300000 users. To address the needs of Linux users such as these, IBM has set up support services for its Linux using customers, and Dell has signed a partnership agreement with Mandala International (apparently a Free Software specialist VAR).