Dive Brief:

• A Pennsylvania high school has decided against iPads or Chromebooks for its 1:1 program, giving every student a laptop with the open-source operating system Ubuntu 13.10 instead.
• The district's technology director expects that the savings on licensing fees alone will be about $360,000 in using all open-source software.
• The district's elementary and middle schools were already running Linux.

Dive Insight:

In a blog post, the technology director explains his rationale for choosing Linux over operating systems from Google, Apple, or others and wonders why more aren't doing the same: "Yet, I'm not exactly sure why open source software has not become wildly popular in schools. Relentless marketing by commercial vendors is certainly part of the equation."