South America News and Features
Kurumin Linux 7.0 released
The latest version of the popular Brazilian distribution arrives some four years after the project's initial release and is intended as a "long-term" desktop solution with extended support. Kurumin Linux 7.0 is based on Debian Etch and offers up-to-date software, correction of problems from the previous release, and a number of new features, such as full NTFS read and write support and newly introduced kernel modules for wireless networking and Bluetooth. More on the story can be found in Portuguese here.
50 000 GNOME Linux desktops in Brazil
Enabled People and their partners announced last week that they made large PC desktops deployments for 'Computers for All,' Brazil's federal government program. More on the story from Enabled People here.
Ecuador's journalists to receive training on free software use
Analyzing the myths and realities of free software -- software that can be obtained, used, and modified freely -- is the goal of a workshop to take place in Quito, Ecuador. More on the story here.
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