Cuba Releases Official Linux Distro

February 16, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

One of the most interesting things I’ve stumbled across in a while. This is something that I hope see taking off in more countries as it goes a step beyond translation and localization to allow people to truly ‘own’ their local software:

Through a project developed at the University of Information and Technology Sciences of Havana [es] (UCI for its initials in Spanish), the government of Cuba released its own version of the open-source Linux operating system and hopes to move 50% of government computers away from Microsoft Windows to this new system called Nova Baire in the next five years. It was unveiled at the Informática 2009 International Convention and Fair.

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About the author: Jonathan Gosier is a software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he incubates and invests in East African entrepreneurs as the CEO of Appfrica Labs. He's also a TED Fellow.
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