I guess they read my blog in Nigeria

Yahoo News is reporting that the Nigerian government has decided to accept and use Mandriva Linux on at least 11,000 of the Classmate PCs they ordered. Previously, the agency handling the transaction had decided to accept and pay for the Mandriva-installed computers, but overwrite the OS with Windows XP upon delivery.

According to the Yahoo post,

Now, however, a government agency funding 11,000 of the PCs has overruled the supplier: Nigeria's Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) wants to keep Mandriva Linux on the Classmate PCs, said an official who identified himself as the program manager for USPF's Classmate PCs project.

More details to come as this unfolds a bit.