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Brazilian Blends
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| HAVE you noticed how many Linux distributions hail from South America?
| Specifically, from Brazil, a country perhaps more globally famous for samba
| than, well, Samba.
| A quick look at Distrowatch.com's list and a study of mainstream Linux news
| websites is quite revealing.
| The last time I checked, the following Linux distros were being actively
| developed in Brazil:
| Famelix (Debian derivative)
| Epidemic (Debian)
| Dreamlinux
| GoblinX
| Gobolinux
| BigLinux (Ubuntu)
| Kurumin (Knoppix)
| Litrix Linux (Gentoo)
| Resulinux (Debian).
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http://reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.com/2008/06/brazilian-blends.html
Recent:
How the Free Software Movement Is Winning the War in Brazil
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| Brazil made an impression on the free software world during the past five
| years of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration by promoting a
| policy of migration to open source software for the government and
| state-owned industry. Initial press coverage of this policy change away from
| proprietary software was celebrated in many mainstream media outlets.
|
| [...]
|
| There are now only two years left in the administration of President Lula.
| Given the vast institutional shifts to free software that have occurred, it
| is hard to imagine an economical way to rollback these projects - not only
| the changes within state-owned IT firms but the many other projects that
| Brazil has launched with free software: the massive Digital Inclusion
| project, the educational Linux projects as well as the general use of open
| source wikis, project management software, groupware, and so on.
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http://www.brazzil.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10066:free-software-brazil&catid=190:april-2008
Brazilian banks look to Linux for ATMs
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| Brazilian banking giant Banco do Brasil this year is preparing to start a
| massive migration of one of the world’s biggest ATM fleets to the GNU/Linux
| operating system.
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http://www.atmmarketplace.com/article.php?id=9929&prc=12&page=42
The brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to
GNU / Linux
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| The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the
| 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with
| software digital authentication.
|
| The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court),
| officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections
| will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and
| Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing
| defined by proper law.
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/tse_migrates_to_linux
Linux Voting Machines Save US$ 8 Millions in Brazil
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| Brazilian Goverment will save US$ 8 Millions in election between 2008 and
| 2018. The economy is due to the use of Linux in the eletronic voting
| machines, made by Procomp-Diebold,
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http://www.brnews.info/index.php/2008/04/06/linux-voting-machines-save-us-8-milions-in-brazil/
Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
Litrix 8.5 | Brazilian Desktop GNU/Linux Distribution for Home Users
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| In my first ever experience with my most dreaded Gentoo based Linux
| distribution I am much more at ease and confident using Litrix 8.5 and I have
| no doubts to recommend it to everybody and especially to home users who would
| like to have a beautiful eye candy desktop Linux distribution along with the
| power of Gentoo.
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http://saleem-khan.blogspot.com/2008/06/litrix-85-brazilian-desktop-gnulinux.html
Famelix and the dangers of combating Windows
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| As with any GNU/Linux distribution, exact figures for use are hard to come by
| for Famelix. However, other users of the distribution include 62 military
| units, and schools and digital inclusion centers throughout South America. On
| its home site, the distribution has had more than 22 million downloads -- at
| least 14 million of them in the last 12 months, thanks mainly to the first
| releases to support German, English, and Italian in addition to the original
| Spanish and Portugese. By any standard, the distribution seems a success.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/135104
Litrix 8.5 final is Released
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| * DBUS service startup on boot
| * HALD service startup on boot
| * IVMAN service startup on boot
| * CPUFREQUTIL added for power processor frequency manager
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http://www.litrixlinux.org/site3/index.php?view=article&catid=1:latest-news&id=50:litrix-85-final-is-released&tmpl=component&print=1&page=
Litrix: Linux from Brazil to your desktop
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| The live DVD may not be the best choice for a portable system, but it is a
| wonderful way to get a working Gentoo system installed without all the
| initial compiling.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/124817
Brazilian government lists preferred Open Source applications
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| The Brazilian government wants its public administrations to check an Open
| Source reference guide before launching new IT projects.
|
| The "Instruction for Contracting IT Services" was published last week by the
| Secretary of Logistics and IT, part of the Ministry of Planning. The
| instruction is intended prevent equivalent software solutions from being
| developed several times.
|
| "The portal should be consulted by public managers before starting a new
| software development project, to check whether a comparable software solution
| already exists", an introduction on the web site explains. If a solution
| exists, the procurement can then be adapted to improve on that software
| project.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7660/469
Related:
Litrix v7.4 Linux LiveCD
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| Screenshots gallery...
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=701&num=1
Why Brazil Loves Linux
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| Brazil imported the anti-Microsoft stance common in American geeks, but on
| top of the usual arguments Microsoft is foreign. This adds fuel to the flame.
| To the Brazilian Microsoft hater, not only there is an “evil monopoly”, but
| its profits are repatriated and its jobs are elsewhere. Practices like the
| 3-program limitation on Vista Starter further erode good will (Brazilians
| call it the “castrated Windows” among other colorful names). Add a dash of
| anti-American sentiment and you’ve got some serious resistance. This fiery
| mood has a strong influence, from the teenager hanging out in #hackers on
| Brasnet to IT departments to the federal government. Even in a rational
| self-interest analysis, one might rightly point out that if free/open source
| software (FOSS) were to wipe out Windows, negative effects on Brazil’s
| economy are likely minimal. The wealth, jobs, and opportunity created by
| Microsoft aren’t in Brazil (productivity gains might be, but that’s a whole
| different argument). The trade offs of a potential Linux/Google take over are
| different when there’s no national off-the-shelf software industry, plus
| Google’s revenue model works beautifully in a developing country. This mix of
| ideological and rational arguments torpedoes Microsoft’s support.
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http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/why-brazil-loves-linux
Microsoft gouging Brazilians for 20 percent of income
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| Ever wonder why Brazil and other BRIC countries are so hot on open source,
| including Linux? Gustavo Duarte gives several reasons, not the least of which
| is the punitive pricing that Microsoft inflicts on these developing markets.
|
| In the case of Brazil, Microsoft pillages businesses to the tune of 20.1
| percent and consumers at a 7.8 percent clip. Some people pay tithing to their
| church; Brazilians are asked to pay a tithe to Microsoft. Perhaps this is
| indicative of Microsoft's self-important belief?
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9934964-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Brazilian Enterprises Embrace Open Source
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| Linux and related open-source software has gained an increasingly important
| role among large local corporations in Brazil, according to a recent study.
|
| The Instituto Sem Fronteiras, a Brazilan research firm, found that 73 percent
| of companies with more than a thousand employees are open source users.
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http://www.crn.com/software/206904491
NL: Administrative Court publishes automatic document conversion tool
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| The Dutch Council of State is willing to open source its application that can
| centrally convert documents between open formats and proprietary formats,
| said Marcel Pennock, the tool's developer, Wednesday at a conference on Open
| Document Format (ODF) in Utrecht.
|
| [...]
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| The tools converts Microsoft documents to Open Document Format and the other
| way around. Documents can also be saved as Portable Document Format (pdf).
| The council's IT department is also considering a document management system
| that will be using the conversion tool. "We have not decided if that document
| system will be built as Open Source or not. For the past fifteen years we
| have been working with proprietary documents. Changing that is not done
| instantly."
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7638/469
NL: Use of Open Source software requires no European IT tenders
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| European public administrations that want to use software that is offered for
| free, such as Open Source software, do not need to organise a call for
| tender.
|
| [...]
|
| According to Wijnen-Meijer the translation is well-received. "At a recent
| Open Source conference in the US, copies were picked up quickly by companies.
| We also have had requests from cities and ministries in Germany and Greece."
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7549
Interview with NOiV's Maarten Wijnen-Meijer on Study on Gov't Acquisition of OS
Software - Pick Your Brains
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| A Dutch study has recently been translated and published in English, "The
| acquisition of (open-source) software", by Nederland Open in Verbinding
| (NOiV), which finds that in Europe, gratis software does not require
| tendering and so gratis Open Source software can be freely downloaded without
| having to go through the usual purchase process. If service is required, that
| service would, however, require going through the normal purchasing process,
| but as a separate matter.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080420111512402
Dutch "government ISV" adds ODF support
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| Apparently the adoption of ODF by the City of Heerenveen and the City of
| Groningen had some impact on the decision.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/dutch_government_isv_adds_odf
FOSS in Dutch government
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| There will be an office where people can complain if they cannot communicate
| with the government using open standards. So non-compliance of government
| agencies will be measured.
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3142
Dutch government threatens to sideline Microsoft
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| Proposed legislation that would mandate the use of the Open Document Format
| (ODF) across the entire Dutch government has infuriated Microsoft.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft Netherlands has engaged in fierce lobbying in an attempt to derail
| the plan. The company argues that the current definition is too narrow,
| specifically by mandating ODF rather than open standards in general
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/12/10/dutch/index.phpon-linux
Netherlands Picks ODF
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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html
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