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.

Re:Poor Brazilians.

[mweather]

Don't worry it'll soon be over. They're switching away from Windows.

Headline from the future:

[Anita Coney]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates software to Brazilian schools

And somewhere in Redmond

[lixee]

In other news, chairs are expected to rain...

Tech support

[Bombula]

India and China are getting a custom-designed Ubuntu laptop from Dell

At least their technical support calls won't be long distance...