Linux With A National Spanish Newspaper

Aloriel writes "This weekend the Spanish newspaper El Mundo is distributing a CD with the Linux distribution Guadalinex, the official distribution of Andalusia. There are other official distributions likeLinex, MAX, LLIUREX that in a few will replace nearly all Microsfot software and create new projects in order to use only Free Software in schools, hospitals and administration."

Microsfot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that Spanish?

Re:Microsfot?

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Redundant? It's the first post!

Another post about the horribly written-up summary was also marked redundant.

Someone should take the moderators toys away if they're not going to be used properly.

Re:Microsfot?

[advocate_one]

I'll be waiting to see if I get that particular mod in my batches of meta-mods in the next couple of days...

Fantastic

[nepheles]

This is a fantastic idea. Better still if somebody gets it done in a country that doesn't have the broadband penetration that Spain does.

El Mundo distributing more than Guadalinux

[SgtChaireBourne]

El Mundo is distributing more than just Guadalinux. There are a dozen CDs [elmundo.es]. Interestingly enough OpenOffice.org [openoffice.org] (aka OOo) is on two of the CDs.

I wish some of the "security" campaigns being run by the occasional government or tv station would take notice. For your average home user (the one that prints letters, writes e-mail, surfs the web, listens to music, but doesn't necessarily have to have the latest game) there's no excuse to still be running some slow, defective product from Redmond.

Re:El Mundo distributing more than Guadalinux

[rongten]

This is great.
These are the seed of the (r)evolution.
The general public must be made aware of the alternatives, and the preaching af the "geek" are usually disregarded, but if the info comes from a national newspaper..
Maybe hypocrite, but..

Re:El Mundo distributing more than Guadalinux

[belmolis]

I looked at other articles and was amazed at the amount of coverage both of software in general and free software in particular. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in a newspaper. The technology section even has a menu item for free software.

Fire Fox should be the same

[julie-h]

Mozilla should should do the same with FireFox. I mean, what can it cost to print CD's now a days?

Re:Fire Fox should be the same

[nepheles]

The bigger cost is getting the paper to distribute them for you.

in a few... what?

[Hakubi_Washu]

Editors, please...

Spanish conspiracy against spellchecking

[ilyanep]

As soon as this article pops up, two spelling/grammar errors. First there's "microsfot" in the article and then "should should" in one of the comments. On the other hand -- way to go on releasing Linux with a newspaper. That's just cool...

Re:Spanish conspiracy against spellchecking

[h00pla]

Those who cannot do, teach. Those who cannot teach become grammar Nazis.