Ubuntu in the news

[john levin]

Two items of interest today:

Switching art students to Gnu/linux
" I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting new 
adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the Macintoshes in our 
digital media lab and installing Ubuntu in its place."
http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/03/09/2238246.shtml?tid=37

New MEPIS Linux test version uses Ubuntu base
"MEPIS founder Warren Woodford has announced a test release of 
SimplyMEPIS 6.0, incorporating software from the Ubuntu Dapper package 
pools. This is the first version of SimplyMEPIS with an Ubuntu base."
http://www.mepis.org/node/9454

John