Macedonia and Ubuntu
In 2007, Macedonia became one of the few countries to roll out, en masse, Ubuntu throughout the educational system. The story, from the Ubuntu website, can be found here and here is a BBC World video detailing the Macedonia Connects wireless story:
A few weeks ago, while my wife was still in Macedonia, I asked her to install Ubuntu on our old laptop which her parents had been using for years, primarily for Skype. The machine had contracted a bug and I am not a fan of bootleg software. With the popularity of Ubuntu it was easy enough to find someone to handle the installation (the neighbor) and within 24hrs she was back up and running. It seems as if everyone in Macedonia keeps a copy of the ISO in their back pocket.
My wife left a few weeks later without explaining to her father how to navigate the new interface and fire up Skype.
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