KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 25, 2008 @02:28AM from the early-introduction-to-the-penguin dept.

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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KDE? by xSacha · 2008-04-25 03:33 · Score: 1, Troll

One thing to note is that all these schools that take up linux use KDE as environment of choice. I've heard of a dozen schools and countries that use linux in the classroom now and every single one is KDE. Why not gnome? Why not something else?

I know KDE has Kiosk and some Brazilian educational software, but is that it? I think KDE tries to sell itself as an educational platform as well. But.. why not Gnome? Gnome has huge potential to be in classrooms if they make an educational suite. This would also boost linux adoption. So why not?