[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

[Eduardo H. Silva]

2008/10/7 Paulo Trezentos <Paulo.Trezentos at caixamagica.pt>:
> Hi everyone.
>
> My name is Paulo Trezentos.
> I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica.
>
> Can you please give me more information about yourselves and the idea?

This hasn't been answered properly, I think :) , specifically about the idea .

Eduardo

> BTW, I was chairman of Scott Ananian's talk in FISL.
> Is the same Sugar project where Scott is involved?
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> Eduardo H. Silva escreveu:
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> 2008/10/7 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>:
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> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> wrote:
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> Morgan Collett wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 21:54, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
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> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett:
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> http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php
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> "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."
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>
> No word on software - does anyone know more?
>
>
> I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in
> portugal:
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> http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php
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>
> Not very informative to techies.
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>
>
> It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there?
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>
> A little more information.
> http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=caixamagica&month=all&year=all
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> kernel 2.6.22
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> Originally based on SUSE, now on Mandriva.
>
> Has anybody tried running the Fedora Sugar packages on Mandriva?
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> 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/
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> "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
>
>
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