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Re: Venezuela to Provide Children with 50,000 Mini Laptops

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____/ Rick on Friday 31 July 2009 00:20 : \____

> This is interesting:
> Venezuela to Provide Children with 50,000 Mini Laptops
> <http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4672>
> 
> "The batch is the first in a total of 350,000 computers that Portugal has
> agreed to send to Venezuela as part of an oil trading agreement between
> the two countries. ...
> 
> The computers will run on the open source operating system Linux, while
> the Education Ministry together with the National Centre for Information
> Technology are working together on designing education programs for the
> computers."
> 
> I wonder if they are going to use a customized distribution, or something
> "off the shelf".

Maybe Caixa Magica, a localised Mandriva derivative. The Magellas use that.

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