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350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil

Posted by timothy on from the rip-helio-gracie dept.

xufem writes "Millions of Brazilian schoolchildren will soon be 'brought up right' running Linux on over 350,000 seats each using PC sharing hardware and software from Userful and KDE. This is world's largest virtual desktop deployment and probably also the world's largest Linux deployment, and seems to have been selected over OLPC by Brazil. Definitely a moment to celebrate — and just in time for Brazilian Carnival which starts tomorrow!"

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  1. Big mistake. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    linux makes a terrible desktop, and now brazilian children will be startin gout their education on a platform that noone with any brains uses for serious work. all this means is that when these kids graduate, they are going to have to take remedial classes to learn windows and os x, real operating systems where real work gets done.

    1. Re:Big mistake. by theskipper · · Score: 2, Funny

      Disagree. I'd rather my kid got a case of gout from Linux than a virus from using Windows.

      Of course neither is as bad as the swelled cranium that results from using a Mac...

  2. No, no, no by hwyhobo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am known by my friends as a UNIX bigot, but I need to inject a little sanity here. Running Linux on the desktop is not a precondition to a good upbringing. We all know it's the editor you use that determines that.

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    1. Re:No, no, no by von_rick · · Score: 2, Funny

      vi & nano - the force runs strong in those two.

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      Face your daemons!

    2. Re:No, no, no by marcosdumay · · Score: 2, Funny

      The government loves standards... They'll probably go with ed.

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    3. Re:No, no, no by fireman+sam · · Score: 2, Funny

      I heard that emacs is actually quite good to use... If you have 6 fingers on each hand (not including thumbs as emacs users have not evolved to opposable thumbs)

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  3. Finally!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The year of the (virtual) Linux desktop is here!*

    *Valid only in Brazil.