[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

[Walter Bender]

FYI, I'm approaching Mandriva through the folks at Novatice. I hope to
connect with them in person in early November. But we should be
working in parallel on a Mandriva port of Sugar.

-walter

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> Morgan Collett wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 21:54, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>>>> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC
>>>>>>> design — are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily
>>>>>>> aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries."
>>>>>> No word on software - does anyone know more?
>>>>> I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in portugal:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php
>>>> Not very informative to techies.
>>>>
>>>>> It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there?
>>>> A little more information.
>>>> http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=caixamagica&month=all&year=all
>>>>
>>>> kernel 2.6.22
>>>>
>>>> Originally based on SUSE, now on Mandriva.
>>>>
>>>> Has anybody tried running the Fedora Sugar packages on Mandriva?
>>>>
>>>> Do we need a distro lab where we can run lots of VMs at once?
>>>
>>> More information, although I'm not sure how credible:
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/740ao/venezuela_orders_1_million_intel_classmates_this/
>>>
>>> "The 30 GB hard drive is partitioned in 3 drives. 10GB Windows and
>>> 10GB for Caixa Mágica (Portuguese commercial Linux distro), and 10GB
>>> for the user profiles. All computers will dual boot the two OS by
>>> default."
>>
>> Very interesting.  Someone should contact the people behind Caixa
>> Magica and propose Sugar running on top of their OS.
>>
>> Here is some comtact information:
>>    http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/j-cotct00.php
>>
>> Now, who speaks Portuguese here? ;-)
>
> Eduardo, do you think the Caixa Magica guys would be interested in
> packaging Sugar for CM and/or Mandriva?
>
> David, have you already approached the Mandriva community about this
> as part of your outreach efforts? Do you know of any effort on which
> CM could build their own packaging work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
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