[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

[David Farning]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:34 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?
>

Everyone is interested in packaging Sugar:)

The challenge is engaging people enough that they are willing to share the
effort of spreading Sugar to the world!


> 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?
>

I will follow up with Caixa Magica.  The google translate tools have become
my friends.

thanks
david
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