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Venezula Producing Its Own Linux PCs

Posted by kdawson on from the another-stick-in-the-eye dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "The Venezuelan Government announced the roll-out of four different models of Linux-powered consumer computers, three desktop models and one notebook. Branded 'Bolivarian Computers,' they will be will be produced by a joint venture of the Venezuelan Ministry of Light Industry and Commerce and a Chinese company named Lang Chao. The goal of the project is to jump-start a domestic IT industry and become an IT exporter to the rest of Latin America. At the ceremony introducing the program, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez claimed that the Bolivarian Computers cost 40% less than other commercially available models and come with a 3-year warranty."

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  1. Full featured linux distros by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    All Bolivarian computers come fully equipped with a wide selection of inflammatory anti-Bush screensavers

  2. Re:This isn't the troll you are looking for by pjay_dml · · Score: 4, Funny

    As if Bush would ever support software freedom.

  3. Venezula? by bestiarosa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Venezuela is in South America but where is Venezula?

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    1. Re:Venezula? by StrawberryFrog · · Score: 2, Funny

      but where is Venezula?

      Venus.

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