Kubuntu Takes Over the Canary Islands | Linux Today

Kubuntu Takes Over the Canary Islands

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 1, 2007

“The Canary Islands have two derivatives of Kubuntu, one which
is being installed in all their schools and one used by the largest
university. The Jornadas de Software Libre conference at The
University of La Laguna, took place in Tenerife, Canary Islands,
Spain, from the 18th-21st September 2007. It was organised by the
university’s Software Libre Office (OSL).

“In a trip to on the of the schools, mEDUXa 1.2 was shown to
Jonathan Riddell (Kubuntu’s main developer) and Aaron Seigo
(president of KDE e.V.). For more than an hour, members of the
MEDUSA project from the Educational Department of the Canary Island
Regional Government, along with some of the members of mEDUXa’s 1.2
team and conference organisers, all talked about the
project…”

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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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