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Linux Comes To Afghanistan

Posted by timothy on from the start-the-needle-swinging dept.

gaurab writes "For the first time, 11 people were trained in Linux in Kabul. This training was supported by UNDP as a broader program to build capacity in use of computer technologies. The press release and some info is available at UNDP Afghanistan Website. It was reported on NewsForge today, and was picked up by the Washington Post few days ago. Some discussion also happend on the South Asia Mailing List."

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  1. What? by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about Junis? Didn't he download it for his C64?

    /wonders if the 64 people below my threshold all made the same joke...?

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    1. Re:What? by NiceGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Y'know...I'm a little tired of the Junis-C64 jokes. I'm no Katz defender but the original article stated that Junis was using a Commodore computer. Commodore also made the Amiga and even the A500 was/is capable of getting on the Internet. This was a stupid joke to begin with. BTW autopr0n, I'm not flaming you specifically :)

  2. Apperantly not by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    /wonders if the 64 people below my threshold all made the same joke...?

    Apparently not. I guess someone's pulled some kind of distributed crap-flooding. Interesting, although I don't really think posting a bunch score-0 posts really counts as 'pwn'ing slashdot...

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  3. Technology Doesn't Know Who Owns It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The new US-backed government of Afghanistan has banned the weekly Aftaab for publishing "sacrilegious" articles. All copies of the journal have been confiscated from stands and vendors. Chief editor Sayed Mir Hussein Mahdavi and his Iranian assistant Ali Reza Payam Sistany were arrested in Kabul June on 17 on orders of the government and interrogated by the office of the Attorney General. There were no written arrest warrants issued before the arrest. The two journalists are currently held in the Kabul detention center, waiting for their fate. They are accused of violating the press law of the Islamic state, which prohibits in its Article 31 offences against Islam. The Supreme Court of Afghanistan can straight away open blasphemy trials against alleged offenders proposed by the government and decide their punishment.

    Islam frowns on pictures of living things, so can the penguin.

  4. Re:What's the Over/Under by leviramsey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For the record, PD beat autopr0n, posting a JonKatz/Junis reference within a minute of my challengs.

    Anybody who took the Under wins!

  5. Most. Bannal. Comment. Ever. by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not that they'res anything wrong with that, of course.

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  6. Junis goes Linux by sosume · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh boy I hope this is not a hoax like this article featuring Junis and his Commodore 64 with TCP/IP by our all-beloved JonKats

    (yes I know I misspelled his name. There's nothing I can do about that, can I now)

  7. Re:What's the Over/Under by dew-genen-ny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i told u i was hardcore.... so, someone else noticed autopron was beaten.....

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  8. Re:Great... by Kosi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    GNAA?