KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil

An anonymous reader writes "Mauricio Piacentini writes about a deployment of systems running Linux and KDE in Brazil's schools; some 52 million students are to be served by this initiative. 'What is interesting about this project is that it not only provides infrastructure (computers and net connectivity) but also open content to students in public schools. The software installed on these systems is "Linux Educacional 2.0," a very clean Debian-based distribution, with KDE 3.5, KDE-Edu, KDE-Games, and some tools developed by the project.' The distro comes in Portuguese only at this time." quarterbuck notes that Linux is making other inroads in the BRIC economies (Brazil-Russia-India-China): India and China are getting a custom-designed Ubuntu laptop from Dell, and Russia is making their own Ubuntu laptop this year.

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Re:Excellent!

[deragon]

I have a hard time in Montreal (Canada) to find a photo service that provides an easy to use interface to upload picture. Many fall back to a basic service where you have to pick and select each picture one by one. Tedious when you have >60 pictures to upload. Kodak does this to Linux users. Windows and Mac users have a nice application to upload pictures in bulk.

I read that many Financial institutions in the US do not support Linux on there websites.

I believe, but I am not sure, that Hotmail extended features do not work on Linux. I think I read about it, but I am not sure. I invite anybody to confirm or invalidate my statement here.

And if Yahoo gets bought by Microsoft... :/

And here is an example of a site not Linux friendly:

http://www.pcoutlet.com/pcoutlet/servlet/WBServlet?webfunctionid=web.login&action=login&functionid=login

try to browse around...

Re:Excellent!

[Daengbo]

Most sites in Korea are designed specifically for IE on Windows. There's no internet banking without it.

Good example of how not to moderate

[GameboyRMH]

While I agree that pointless, unprovoked KDE/linux bashing is useless and even trollish (although if it was Vista bashing he would have been modded funny or insightful...I have a fiery hatred for Vista too, but it's something to think about), you should have the balls to rate this guy flamebait or troll if you're going to mod him down. Modding someone overrated from 1 is a sneaky and underhanded tactic. It quietly hushes the person with no moderation description available at a glance, and it makes good metamoderation impossible, so you make a clean getaway. IMO, it shouldn't be possible to use overrated/underrated until a post is at 2. I've seen this tactic used as blatant censorship before (against myself in one case, I used to have a sig making fun of the rampant abuse of the "overrated" mod).

Yes I realize this is offtopic. Go ahead and mod me offtopic now if you like.

Re:Excellent!... Aishhh, ship'pai... hgggghh

[Daengbo]

Thanks for the support, but my handle is actually not Korean -- it's Thai. I've lived in Korea for four years now, though, so I have some experience and am not talking out of my ass. I can't even apply for a re-entry visa online, a task that is quite simple for IE users. IE under Wine won't even work.

The Internet connection in Korea rocks, and Ilove it, but the actual Korean web sucks, filled with IE-only sites, sites completely in Flash, and sections of text converted to JPEGs to make the page formatting consistent.

Regarding the moderation -- it's probably one of the Mac guys I pissed off recently. I've been mod-bombed a few times in the last two weeks.

Re:Excellent!... Aishhh, ship'pai... hgggghh

[davidsyes]

I know how you feel. I've been mod-bombed enough times i no longer really get discombobulated. There REALLY ought to be a revision to the mod system. Like, any precipitous change in score or category, or any range of change attempting to evade a close-look due to change in score should automatically trigger an e-mail to random, trusted, balanced moderators to out-mod the on-duty moderator to make sure that there is no chance of banging the hell out of inciteful types such as me. I call a spade a spade, as you can probably discern... hehehehe, especially in the political stuff, where i tend to rankle the ire of enough ppl to get my scoring capability limited. Plus, some stuff I say may be so volatile that it's radioactive, and nobody will touch it for fear of the various monitoring intel agencies associating user sympathy toward me for an expression or baseline of their political posture... fraidy cats, i suppose...

I'm thinking of visiting Korea, and boy would I love to live there for more than a year. It would suck to get there with my Linux laptop and not be able to do much. But, as long as it's reading, I might muddle through... But, as you said, submitting official documents might be problematic for me, too, even if it's 2009 or 2010.