[wplug] The penguin takes Brazil??

[Luquilla Hughes]

I saw the same article on same or similar subject matter twice, one was /. 
and the other I think was linuxfocus.

As a side note the guy who used to edit Linuxfocus (linuxfocus.org) is at U 
of Pitt, has anybody meet him? Maybe we could get him to come in and do a 
talk for a GUM ?


>From: Elwin Green <bekitemba at excite.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] The penguin takes Brazil??
>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:36:45 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Greetings all -
>
>Wednesday eve, and I just got around to reading a most interesting article
>in Sunday's P-G. Headlined "In Brazil, CMU grad designs a computer for the
>people," it explains how a team led by Sergio Vale Campos has designed a
>computer which could be produced for $300. They did this at the behest of
>the government, which plans to install the machines in public schools,
>giving Internet access to 7 million children.
>
>This piece of the article jumped out at me:
>"(Vale Campos) counts off the computer's attributes on his fingers: a
>500-megahertz processor, 64 megabytes of main memory and 16 MB more on a
>flash chip that substitutes for a hard drive.
>
>There's a 56kbps modem and the software is Linux-based and, therefore,
>free."
>
>What? An entire nation's children could be introduced to computers without
>ever experiencing Windows? What's next???
>
>Makes me feel good about becoming a penguinhead...
>
>Elwin G.
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