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Linux With A National Spanish Newspaper

Posted by timothy on from the mas-por-favor dept.

Aloriel writes "This weekend the Spanish newspaper El Mundo is distributing a CD with the Linux distribution Guadalinex, the official distribution of Andalusia. There are other official distributions likeLinex, MAX, LLIUREX that in a few will replace nearly all Microsfot software and create new projects in order to use only Free Software in schools, hospitals and administration."

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  1. El Mundo distributing more than Guadalinux by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 2, Interesting
    El Mundo is distributing more than just Guadalinux. There are a dozen CDs. Interestingly enough OpenOffice.org (aka OOo) is on two of the CDs.

    I wish some of the "security" campaigns being run by the occasional government or tv station would take notice. For your average home user (the one that prints letters, writes e-mail, surfs the web, listens to music, but doesn't necessarily have to have the latest game) there's no excuse to still be running some slow, defective product from Redmond.

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    1. Re:El Mundo distributing more than Guadalinux by rongten · · Score: 2, Interesting

      This is great.
      These are the seed of the (r)evolution.
      The general public must be made aware of the alternatives, and the preaching af the "geek" are usually disregarded, but if the info comes from a national newspaper..
      Maybe hypocrite, but..

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    2. Re:El Mundo distributing more than Guadalinux by belmolis · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I looked at other articles and was amazed at the amount of coverage both of software in general and free software in particular. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in a newspaper. The technology section even has a menu item for free software.