[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

[Eduardo H. Silva]

2008/10/7 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>:
> 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?

It is hard to say. This would best be answered by them, so I'm CCing
Caixa Magica general e-mail.

Just for background to Caixa Mágica folk: a new version of the Sugar
learning environment (http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page) has been
released ( http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.82 )
and will be in the next versions of some major distros (at least
Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse). The question is, how could the future
users of Caixa Mágica in Magalhães get Sugar with the smallest fuss
possible (for all parties, kids, teachers, schools, but from you as
well)? And some more questions bellow, like, how would packaging Sugar
in Mandriva help you, CM folk, to provide it as an alternative desktop
to the users of Magalhães?


Eduardo

>
> 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
>