A Look at Linux Educacional 3.0
A week or so ago I stumbled across an article, in Portuguese, from March of this year that talks about a program the Brazilian government's ministry of education is expanding. It's pretty exciting, especially for those interested in Linux and open source in educational settings. A special Linux distro has been developed and is being deployed with hardware into 26,000 schools in Brazil, and more are apparently in the works. Once I found the website for the distro, Linux Educacional 3.0, I wasted no time and downloaded the iso image for the live CD. I set up VirtualBox to receive it and the following are screenshots of what I found.
As you can see, the different options can be found under "Iniciar" ("Start"). It sort of resembles Windows in a way. Speaking of which, notice that Wine comes standard with this distro. You can see it in the options above. Although most of what the students use will be Linux-compatible, it was a wise choice to include Wine in case it's needed. Quite a bit of educational software the world over is still only Windows-compatible, and since Linux is relatively new to most people in Brazil, it's good if older proprietary software "just works."
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