brazil

Great new for LAN house in Brazil, a new LAN house manager for Linux and windows is coming !!!

Open Enterprise: "For, example, according to this report, there are now 12 million users in Brazil, representing fully 25% of the entire office market there."

CNet: "... some estimates show as many as 18 or 19 out of every 20 machines sold with Linux ultimately are converted to some form of Windows."

""There was a retailer in one of the countries that sold their systems with Linux," said Gartner analyst Luis Anavitarte.

Brian Brazil has announced the release of gNewSense 2.1, an updated version of the Ubuntu-based distribution which contains free software only: Release Announcement Quote: I've just released the live CD for ...

Brian Brazil has announced the release of gNewSense 2.1, an updated version of the Ubuntu-based distribution which contains free software only: "I've just released the live CD for gNewSense 2.1, the second full release of 'DeltaH'.

This bring in a number of updates, fixes and improvements. Changes since....

Today I was in a France-based store called fnac here in Brazil and I noticed some interesting free software packages available on the shelves....

How Software is Built: "There are two main views of open source in Brazil. The first view is that government is moving it forward, by embracing open source and simply dropping commercial software.

This is not entirely accurate, because government does a lot of talking, and after five years or so, they finally start to make some progress–it’s slow moving."

Contrast Macedonia's "Computer for Every Child" project, or Brazil, or Switzerland, with the UK's poor record on IT in education, not helped by the British Government's shortsighted memorandum of understanding with Microsoft for ICT in schools and the outlook isn't good...

Brazil, when it comes to IT development, suffers more than nearly any other country from a gap between aspiration and capability.