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LinuxPR: Mandrake Is In Venezuela

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 1, 1999

Mandrake Soft has arrived to South America, sponsoring the
first Caracas Linux Install Fest in Venezuela.

“After had being an sponsor in the first Venezuela’s Linux
Install Fest realized last week in the Sun Microsystems Java Center
in Caracas Venezuela, the french company “Mandrake Soft” has
arrived in Latin America with their Linux distribution
“Linux-Mandrake.”

“Along with Mandrake Soft, the event was sponsored by “Caldera
Systems”, “Prisma Opentech” (Prisma is the Mandrake’s Master
distributor in South America), “Sun Microsystems” and “SuSE GmBh”.
Computer experts attended the event, including scientists from the
IVIC (Venezuela’s Scientific Researh Institute) who speak about how
they use the Mandrake Linux distribution.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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