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[News] Promoting Open Source in Chad - Live CD's the Pefect Solution?

Promoting freedom of expression with OSS in Chad

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| "We'd like to create a live CD that would allow people to boot Linux
| without having to worry about major installation issues," he says.
| "They could also use these at a cyber café -- many allow you to
| restart a computer."
| 
| While most Chadians don't own a computer, two bits of technology that
| many have access to are cell phones and USB keys, which hold personal
| data they can pull up at Internet cafés. "We're trying to leverage
| this knowledge by seeing what [OSS] information could be put on such
| mobile devices and be used by people with irregular computer access,"
| Gryc says. 
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http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/222229

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