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Conectiva Linux 7.0 is Out

Posted by michael on from the penguins-in-the-rain-forest dept.

rsd writes: "Conectiva Linux 7.0 is out. Here is the original announcement. And here is the babelfish translation. They are already shipping Portuguese box and will start the english soon. However the CDs (iso for what matter) are available in english already. Their main ftp server is overcrowded. Hoever, Rik VanRiel provided us with a really fast server. I will not describe every feature on it but the main change is the Synaptic tool, which in my opinion is the best APT frontend ever written."

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  1. Target the Brazilian OS market... smart! by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Considering that Brazil is the largest market in the southern hemisphere (okay, Australia is there too...), making a Portugese port of Linux makes a lot of sense.

    Of course, porting and selling Linux hasn't yet proved to be a sustainable business plan.

    Dancin Santa

  2. Spanish version? by Kiwi · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Can anyone tell me if the 7.0 release has Spanish language support?

    I know that RedHat 7.1 has Spanish support, though RH7.1 assumes you are in Spain when installing in Spanish--a strange assumption to make, considering how big Latin America is. Note: RH7.1 doesn't support Portugese.

    I would assume that Conectiva has Spanish support, but it would be nice to know this for a fact.

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