[ Thanks to Alexsander da Rosa for this
announcement. ]
As announced by Pimenta da Veiga, Minister of Communications
(Brazil), a Net PC costing R$ 400 (around US$ 200) will be
available to brazilians in 120 days. It targets low-income users,
and a 24-month paying plan will be considered.
The computer will be a Pentium 500 MHz, with keyboard, mouse,
NIC, 56 Kbps modem, 14″ display, 64 Mb RAM and no hard disk (16 Mb
flash RAM instead). The main-board architecture (developed by
UFMG) will be open, allowing any
company to make it. It will run Linux (probably Conectiva) with KDE, KOffice and Konqueror.
The links are below (in portuguese):
http://www.terra.com.br/informatica/2001/01/30/026.htm
http://www.terra.com.br/informatica/2001/01/31/009.htm
(Specification)
http://www.terra.com.br/informatica/2001/01/31/014.htm
(Open Software)
http://www.terra.com.br/informatica/imagem/imagem.htm
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