It is indeed unfortunate that students in most Toronto high schools are denied the opportunity to learn and use the same system used by the most powerful computers on Earth! Table copied below demonstrates that well over 75% of the world's top computers are running various flavours of linux. Further, it would seem that other parts of the world, such as Europe, are going to surpass North America in technology leadership, perhaps because they seem more OPEN minded? ;-)

Linux	351	70.20 %
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8	1	0.20 %
Redhat Enterprise 3	7	1.40 %
HP Unix (HP-UX)	33	6.60 %
MacOS X	5	1.00 %
Solaris	5	1.00 %
UNICOS	12	2.40 %
Super-UX	4	0.80 %
AIX	44	8.80 %
Tru64 UNIX	4	0.80 %
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9	5	1.00 %
UNICOS/Linux	1	0.20 %
CNK/SLES 9	23	4.60 %
Redhat Linux	1	0.20 %
Windows 2003 Server	1	0.20 %
RedHat Enterprise 4	2	0.40 %
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003	1	0.20 %
Totals	500	100%