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US Geeks Recycle GNU/Linux Boxes for Ecuador

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the green-computing dept.

An anonymous submitter writes: "According to this article on Salon, geeks involved with Indymedia are recycling 300 GNU/Linux boxes to send to independent media activists in Ecuador. The machines will be used to create free public computer labs across South America, networked with donated wireless 802.11b cards. Anyone wanna chip in to help cover the shipping costs?"

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  1. Re:Shipping? We Don't Need No Stinking Shipping! by tmark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hardly think the US Military is going to want to get involved in shipping computers to people who fancy themselves revolutionaries and who want to get the computers over there so that they can better coordinate their riots and protests. Medical missionaries these people are not.