Digital Literacy Plan in Brazil Free Software
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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5 months ago we reported on the rejection by the country of Brazil, the computer education project of the MIT OLPC American. Instead, they opted for a proprietary solution based on free software and a local company called Positive.
How are things today? Contact the music teacher Gilberto Borges, we could find out that the plan is underway. In the network in which he works were received desktop PCs that cost $ 100, equipped with the free operating system GNU / Linux, and the idea is that in 2009 every student receives a computer. A curious fact: all this costs even less than books that are received by the Government.
Since MEC (Ministério da Educação) ship machines with the version Muriqui "GNU / Linux, which was specially designed for Brazilian education. Here is one of the qualities of free software: the ability to be supremely adapted, in response to local needs.
Another advantage from this type of software is diversity, for example in Florianópolis was decided to use the Fedora version of GNU / Linux are not tied to a multinational monopoly can choose and can modify their software.
other hand, Gilberto Borges tells us that the various governments do not migrate to Windows Vista, will not buy and this is the cause of happiness for those who bet on the country's technological independence.
Muriqui on the operating system, we can say that is based on Debian but was upgraded with the installer "Anaconda" developed by the company Red Hat and adapted by Progeny. This means that the operating system is easier to install than the original Debian.
Author: Marcos Guglielmetti
Source: http://www.mastermagazine.info/articulo/12841.php
How are things today? Contact the music teacher Gilberto Borges, we could find out that the plan is underway. In the network in which he works were received desktop PCs that cost $ 100, equipped with the free operating system GNU / Linux, and the idea is that in 2009 every student receives a computer. A curious fact: all this costs even less than books that are received by the Government.
Since MEC (Ministério da Educação) ship machines with the version Muriqui "GNU / Linux, which was specially designed for Brazilian education. Here is one of the qualities of free software: the ability to be supremely adapted, in response to local needs.
Another advantage from this type of software is diversity, for example in Florianópolis was decided to use the Fedora version of GNU / Linux are not tied to a multinational monopoly can choose and can modify their software.
other hand, Gilberto Borges tells us that the various governments do not migrate to Windows Vista, will not buy and this is the cause of happiness for those who bet on the country's technological independence.
Muriqui on the operating system, we can say that is based on Debian but was upgraded with the installer "Anaconda" developed by the company Red Hat and adapted by Progeny. This means that the operating system is easier to install than the original Debian.
Author: Marcos Guglielmetti
Source: http://www.mastermagazine.info/articulo/12841.php
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