Morgan Collett wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 21:54, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: >>>> >>>>> http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php >>>>> >>>>> "The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC >>>>> design — are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily >>>>> aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries." >>>> No word on software - does anyone know more? >>> I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in >>> portugal: >>> >>> http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php >> Not very informative to techies. >> >>> It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there? >> A little more information. >> http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=caixamagica&month=all&year=all >> >> kernel 2.6.22 >> >> Originally based on SUSE, now on Mandriva. >> >> Has anybody tried running the Fedora Sugar packages on Mandriva? >> >> Do we need a distro lab where we can run lots of VMs at once? > > More information, although I'm not sure how credible: > http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/740ao/venezuela_orders_1_million_intel_classmates_this/ > > "The 30 GB hard drive is partitioned in 3 drives. 10GB Windows and > 10GB for Caixa Mágica (Portuguese commercial Linux distro), and 10GB > for the user profiles. All computers will dual boot the two OS by > default."
Very interesting. Someone should contact the people behind Caixa Magica and propose Sugar running on top of their OS. Here is some comtact information: http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/j-cotct00.php Now, who speaks Portuguese here? ;-) -- \___/ Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ _| X | Sugar Labs Team - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ \|_O_| "It's an education project, not a laptop project!" _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep