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Teachers have no time; principals have budgets; kids have no power and get little attention; parents have no way in; vendors are stuck with an inflexible, impoverished bureaucracy that can%u2019t afford to learn to use the tools.

The new Ubuntu Linux is based on a snapshot of the Debian unstable distribution, which they take and then add packages to. They time their desktop releases to coincide with the new releases of the Gnome, updating at six month intervals. What this means is that you get Debian packages that are no more than six months old on a system base that is quite stable -- and with over 13,000 packages to choose from they have pretty much everything you could imagine.