[SGVLUG] Yay Debian - 90k machines for brazil news article

[David Lawyer]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:23:01PM -0400, Robert Leyva wrote:
> Yay Debian!
> 
> Seems 90k Debian PCs are going to Brazil.
> 
> Let's see, they already don't use a lot of renewable fuels, now this!
You meant "don't use a lot of nonrenewable fuels".  However they are
rapidly destroying jungle and putting CO2 in the atmosphere in doing
so, partly for the purpose of growing biofuels.  The total impact on
global warming may be negative.

> ...gotta love them even more now.
> 
> A quick web search will find it: 'Ministry of Education from Brazil is
> buying 90,000 Debian GNU Linux computers, with compatible wireless cards,
> wireless routers, laser printers.'

Brazil's interest in Linux is nothing new and a number of other
countries have gotten involved, like Cuba, that was planning on
requiring the Cuban government to switch to Linux.  There are lots of
problems one of which is that Linux isn't too well documented, even in
English.

			David Lawyer