OSNews: Conectiva Linux 9 – The Latin American Distribution You Should Know

“Conectiva Linux, developed by Brazilian vendor Conectiva S.A.,
is the most popular distribution in South America, so it’s quite
surprising that there aren’t more reviews of their products online.
This is really quite surprising–while you may not have heard much
about Conectiva Linux itself, you almost certainly know quite a lot
about three of their most important contributions to the open
source community–the Conectiva Crystal icon set, apt-rpm, and
Synaptic.

“Conectiva Linux 9 is the most recent release from Conectiva
S.A., barring some technology previews and the first two betas of
their upcoming version 10. It originally came on four CDs, but in
the middle of last year Conectiva pulled a huge set of updates
together and released Update 1 on another CD, taking the total to
five…”

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