Chris Walker wrote:

Dennis also mentioned that he had used Acorn machines and so there may be a link to Linux. There is a RISC OS desktop available for most distros of Linux, SuSe and BSD at http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/ which might enable a seemless link between those few Acorn machines that still reside in schools and to any companies that might want to run it.

Acorns? Well there are 200 Computers in my school and there is one Acorn computer left. It sits in the corner of my Linux Lab (8 Linux Boxen - I am trying!!) quietly (actually it's quite noisy) and nobody even knows it's there, apart from the head of Geography who doesn't use it any more. The Acorn runs 24/7 displaying readings from the remains of the weather reading equipment on the roof.

There used to be a lot of Acorns running in the technology department about 4 or 5 years ago - they're all PCs running Windows these days.