LinuxMall.com: Mexican Linux Program Sees Red

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“In late 1998, a project named Scholar Net was launched with
the ambitious goal of using Linux to provide computers and Internet
service to every elementary and middle school in Mexico over a
five-year period. A total of 140,000 new computer centers was
the anticipated result.”

“That project, somewhat scaled back and renamed Red Escolar
Linux, is still winding toward that goal. Arturo Espinosa-Aldama,
the project’s founder, still runs the program from the National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). A fan of Richard
Stallman’s, Espinosa Aldama is careful to use the name GNU/Linux
when referring to the software around which his project is
based.”

“The Scholar Net principle is simply stated. “Due to matters of
cost, reliability and configurability,” Espinosa-Aldama explained
at the time of Scholar Net’s initial implementation in 1998, “we
plan to use GNU/Linux to replace the proprietary server options,
and now, thanks to GNOME, the proprietary desktop application
options.”

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