CANAIMA GNU / LINUX: Just to Do Your Homework?

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The world of dLinux distributions It is very broad, a large number of developers around the world have made significant contributions and each one of them has tried to do their best to offer us excellent environments to surf the internet and use a computer casually to perform millions of operations on supercomputers. This is part of the beauty of Linux. However, it is gratifying to see when governments and institutions support free software and Linux, as is the case in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, whose government has encouraged the creation Canaima GNU / Linux, the distro made in Venezuela.

According to Official website, “Canaima GNU / Linux is a open socio-technological project, built collaboratively, focused on the development of tools and production models based on Information Technology (IT) Free of software and operating systems ... "

This distribution was created through an agreement between Venezuela y PortugaHe and whose main purpose was to satisfy the computational educational needs in Venezuela; it is also the official Operating System of the laptop called "Canaimita" of free distribution in the levels of basic education in Venezuela, and in addition to this it is the official operating system of the public institutions in Venezuela. It was initially launched for desktop computers, although its most recent versions show its adaptation to laptops and mobile devices.

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Canaimita laptop

Despite being conceived as a SO for educational purposes, this is not limited to its use only to "do homework." Canaima GNU / Linux has various functionalities and seeks to attract more users to Free Software.

canaimite2

Learning Linux from elementary school

Now, Canaima is based on Debian Thanks to its many advantages and to comment on the available Canaima GNU / Linux packages we have the following available in version 4.1, some of them exclusive for this distro and developed in Venezuela by Venezuelan programmers.

  • Software updates:
    • LibreOffice 3.4
    • Cunaguaro 8.0 (Full HTML5 Support)
    • Guacharo 8.0
    • Turpial 1.6.6
    • Friend 0.7.2
  • New applications:
    • Ucumari: Control Center based on Ailurus
    • Canaima Installer: New installer written in Python
    • Software Center: Application Installation Center
  • Applications now included by default in the ISO:
    • LibreOffice Suite
    • Pitivi video editor
    • Disk usage analyzer
    • Basic accessibility tools
    • GIMP

Additionally, the following enhancements were made:

  • Rewriting canaima-welcome-gnome in python-webkit to implement animations in javascript.
  • New wallpapers.
  • Reorganization of the panels to adjust the space according to Netbooks and tablets.
  • New visual style for the Plymouth Starter Loader.
  • Restructuring the dependency tree to remove unnecessary packages: gnome-core, dmz-cursor-theme, gnome-themes, gnome-icon-theme, evolution, evolution-common, epiphany-browser, epiphany-browser-data.

Some of the favorable characteristics of this distribution are:

1.- Fully designed in FOSS.

2.- It is enough safe, since Canaima is based on the Debian GNU / Linux version and it goes through rigorous quality tests.

3.- Graphical interface amicable and simple for users without Linux experience.

A certain rejection has been perceived, this may be due to the lack of knowledge of the users or the change that means migrating from one operating system to another, not all users are interested in working in Linux and it is more complicated when they do not have that curiosity to discover the benefits of an OS.

That is why the "Welcome Canaima" application aimed at beginner users in the use of Linux draws my attention. We also have the Control Centerl (Ucumari), this application facilitates the system configurations that are not so accessible to the user, giving them the opportunity to modify them as they want, know the characteristics of their system (capacities, installed devices, etc.), configure the restriction policies; It also provides them with a list of programs of interest to install, with a category called "Made in Venezuela" with applications that the Canaima team has developed. There are also the applications in version 3.1 the Orca and Gamble which are applications that come by default for people with visual disabilities.

For those who are interested in trying Canaima GNU / Linux and visiting the repository, here is the address: Canaima Official Repository


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  1.   rmarquez said

    Canaima's problem was not about adaptability but about focus since the distro was initially developed with the public administration in mind and that was the biggest obstacle it had when CANTV decided from one day to the next practically, to offer it by default on computers and laptops that they sold with the "ABA internet equipped" program, I still remember that back in 2010 - 2011 (which was when CANTV surprisingly offered Canaima Linux to the general public) the Canaima development team was made up of at most 10 people and obviously They were not prepared to massify to the end user, the result? Obviously I reject and in fact I remember that I had to migrate several computers that CANTV sold with Canaima Linux to Ubuntu Linux because installing Google Chrome for example was quite a daring, because as I said at the beginning, the distro was designed to be used in public administration and permits. in terms of installing applications, it was designed in the aforementioned environment.

    With regard to Portugal, it is not about the development of Canaima itself but about the canaimitas and tablets that are offered in universities, that is, the collaboration is at the hardware level, not software.

    Greetings from Caracas - Venezuela

    1.    The Lopez's cat said

      Thanks for that good clarification ...
      Greetings from Bogotá Colombia

  2.   dwarf said

    Yes, well ... if it weren't for the fact that canaima doesn't actually contribute anything real, it could be said that it is an admirable effort.

    Sadly, it is just a political facade to say that a country advances technologically, when today a couple of people could put together a whole distro more complete than Canaima, and even with much more originality (Solus in its beginnings, for example).

    Canaima is just that, political propaganda and a means to exercise political proselytism in schools.

    1.    Robert Barajas said

      Beyond the political propaganda it is a distro with very little support, I have not managed to update the system even once, the sources are always down.

    2.    Oscar said

      I believe that the one who is doing political proselytizing is you, and this is not the first time. I understand that this is a blog about GNU Linux and not about politics, you can expose your ideological position on the sites dedicated to it. Cheers

      1.    Alexander TorMar said

        Friend, it is that no matter how much one does not want this distribution is linked to a government ... Before [I don't know now] it was said about canaima "Made in Socialism"
        You do not have to cover the sun with a finger, even if you want to see it as any GNU / Linux distro, it will be linked to a government and some interests ... I would like to see Windows free from Microsoft [something impossible] I would like to see OS X free from Apple [Something impossible] ... That happens with Canaima ... And it is not something that affects me because I am not from Venezuela, but I do not want to get involved in anything in politics, or government, that's why by just using it or trying it, I feel that I I'm going socialist or that Maduro is spying on me [I know it sounds paranoid and stupid but that's how I feel]

    3.    Jamin samuel said

      Correct .. totally true

    4.    bitl0rd said

      Come on friend, I don't think nano is doing politics. unfortunately it is the reality.

    5.    Hugo said

      Totally according to you, the same happens in the country, Argentina, pure political propaganda and that does not lead to anything good.

      1.    pepper said

        Friends, you don't know what you have.

        In my country they do not give anything for free, I would love if they give children computers with Linux.

        Sobe Canaima is a layer on debian with added programs. so it can't be bad.

    6.    Elliot Carrot said

      The "Nano" who runs this blog always wants to disqualify good projects or ideas and tends to qualify them as extremist, crazy or bad. Richard Stallman had been talking about the danger of proprietary software for many years. What have we been learning recently? Well, nothing more and less than the massive espionage that companies do together with the US The sad thing is that this "Nano" continues to label Richard Stallman as crazy and an extremist, ignoring the great work that this man does for the world .
      The truth is that "Nano" is a guy who does not know how to express his opinion with respect. So it is not surprising that his YouTube channel (mircrokernel but bad memory) is a resounding failure. I hope and this "Nano" who manages this blog, begins to take things seriously because it is something that I did not notice when I saw a video of him, look how it lasted more than an hour.
      I hope and respect my comment and publish it.
      I mean and ask the hackers of this blog or the readers, Do we like GNU-Linux? Well, you have to show it with commitment, because in the end GNU-Linux is all distributions, don't be fanatics with just one, let's support all projects both 100% free or not so free distros, whether from a government or not. Canaima there it is and it's GNU-Linux. Are they or are they not GNU-Linux?
      Likewise, I am not an expert on the subject, but with my means I work to disseminate free or open source software and I am not disqualifying projects with more than wrong reasons. I speak of the great benefits of GNU-Linux. I wish that in my country my government was not a puppet of the United States and that the people make decisions together with us. I would like a GNU-Linux dressed as a charro with his tequila xD ajajajjajaja
      I knew of a Mexican GNU-Linux but I have been looking for them but apparently their pages no longer exist. I was happy to support them but I have been with GNU-Linux for half a year and I could no longer let them know about my admiration and RESPECT.

      I applaud Venezuela, from Mexico 😀

      1.    The Lopez's cat said

        Probably if instead of creating a Debian-based distro and supporting an existing one like Ubuntu, or one hundred percent free, the support would have been massive (And I include myself) Did you know that the FSF and Stallman do not support Canaima and in fact it ask people not to install it? Did you know that what Stallman does is discredit Linux distros all over the world? Did you know that even the distro that you use - fedora - is on the official FSF and Stallman websites marked as unusable?
        So not even the FSF nor Mr. Stallman supports the Canaima distro
        http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.es.html

      2.    The Lopez's cat said

        Another thing, I have never done well with 100% free distros ... And if your desire is to support GNU and Stallman, then the first thing you should do is delete fedora and install one of these distros ... I'll tell you that I have damaged two computers personal for making this move and I think that if there are people who criticize Stallman, then they have reasons to do so
        http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

      3.    Alexander TorMar said

        Friend, so what you have to do if you want to fully support free software is to delete Fedora and install Trisquel so as not to contradict Mr. Stallman and not to use any distro not recognized by the FSF as 100% free ... avoid the use of networks social networks, in addition to never connecting via Wi-Fi over the internet, among other things that require proprietary software (Doesn't that seem a bit extreme?)

      4.    Nano said

        I have not been on the blog staff for a long time, time does not give me for this.

        It turns out that I have said of Stallman that he is an extremist because, in fact, he is ... with whatever intention, but he is an extremist, and extremes are never good.

        Nor do you come to measure that Stallman was right all these years because he had a hit (hit size, it cannot be denied), given hit does not matter coming from someone who discredits other distros for not being what he wants them to be.

        Regarding the Microkernel, in fact since you bring it up in one of your attempts to make it personal and falling into the excess of which you accuse me when expressing myself, it did not fail for me, nor for gonzalo, in fact it grew with each speech and I liked it a lot within the groups that saw us, it ended because like many other things, time does not allow for something that requires so much effort and focus.

        Greetings, I hope you can learn to speak more properly about others.

  3.   Alexander TorMar said

    If it were not linked to a government, I would personally support and promote it ... But under those circumstances, I neither support it, nor promote it ...

    1.    Alexander TorMar said

      I correct: "If it were not tied to a government, I would personally support and promote it ... But under those circumstances, I neither support it, nor promote it ..."

  4.   Jamin samuel said

    Hello greetings ..

    I am from Venezuela, I know the matter very well

    I say it again «Canaima is not oriented to end users, not even university users, really the problem with canaima is that it does not use the official Debian repositories, it is based on yes, but it works with meta packages that are inside from some local repositories here in Venezuela.

    What does that have to do with anything? Well simple, that if you are going to install Google Chrome or other apps that need to download some dependencies, it cannot find them because the distro does not use the Debian repos, then the apps is left without being able to locate said dependency, therefore can install.

    Examples like this there are several.

    I think that if Canaima is going to stay on Debian Stable, they should use the original Debian repos and mirrors and forget about the Venezuelan repositories.

    That just a personal opinion

    😉

    1.    merlinoelodebianite said

      I have never tried canaima, but if it is based on debian and has a terminal, it would not be easy to add the debian repos to canaima or better to remove the Venezuelan repos and put the debian stable repos, something I did a long time ago when it came out LMDE and I changed the repos to testing and it worked for me without any problem, but if canaima is based on debian, it is enough to change the sourcesl.list, right? It should be possible.

      But what would I know if I only use debian.

  5.   koprotk said

    The idea of ​​migrating and supporting a Linux distribution seems excellent to me, on the other hand creating a distribution, there are thousands and very good ones, makes me rethink why not simply use debian. But still Long Live Free Software.

  6.   Chaparral said

    Sometimes I have read comments similar to those made here about free software about Cuba and I cannot understand them.
    If I were from Cuba or Venezuela, I would be proud that a free operating system was established in my country, even if it was not as good as is desirable. But I would fight so that it was good and genuine from my country and that the children in class could study and develop it.
    This is my opinion, of course, and I do not want to get where they do not call me.

    1.    Jose Casanova said

      Excellent opinion!

      I 100% support your comment.

      regards

    2.    bitl0rd said

      if it runs but gives many errors with certain content. also you have to copy the content from / usr / shared because you cannot download that content from its repositories.

      If the record burns, how do you get that little canaimita back
      it's time to clone it because there is no other way

      The root password, grub is just an example, you cannot limit a child or adolescent who already programs at an early age.

      also it is not only children there are canaimas for teachers and adolescents.

  7.   bitl0rd said

    good actually these canaimas you have a terrible support their repositories do not work, if for some factor the grub is damaged or something like that, you have no way to recover the system since the government only has seeds to clone them in case of a bug or update. and on your web page the links are broken

    for saying if you want to install canaima 4.1 in a canaimita you cannot install the educational content because the repositories are not compatible ...
    the educational system is only compatible with that system if you want to install the educational content in another distro you cannot ..

    de libre has nothing they do not provide root keys they do not support other distributions .. the keys are obtained by other means ..

    pd nano is partly right ... only those who live here know the reality

    1.    wryyyyy said

      I have run the educational software on Debian. They are mostly videos and presentations launched through a .sh script, it is not executed because old versions of canaima brought OpenOffice and new versions of canaima brought libreoffice as well as debian and other distributions

    2.    wryyyyy said

      A normal user, but even a primary school child, does not need root keys, if required, you can go to a technician who knows gnu / linux, who can change the root password if he has physical access to the computer and the grub. Something that can be done in canaima, ubuntu, etc.

      1.    bitl0rd said

        if it runs but gives many errors with certain content. also you have to copy the content from / usr / shared because you cannot download that content from its repositories.

        If the record burns, how do you get that little canaimita back
        it's time to clone it because there is no other way

        The root password, grub is just an example, you cannot limit a child or adolescent who already programs at an early age.
        also it is not only children there are canaimas for teachers and adolescents.

  8.   MyMyselfAndI said

    Upon arriving at that of 'República Bolivariana de Chavez… Venezuela' and I stopped reading

    1.    FreeBSDDICK. said

      Your misspellings and common sense leave me stunned

  9.   linuxero said

    Thank you all for your comments!

    Regarding the subject, I remind you that it is a support for Free Software. The universe of distributions is very wide, some have become standards and others go down in history, what remains is Linux and the intention of each team.

    The important thing to note is that countries already realize that they need to train and recruit IT staff from primary school. Many people do not dabble in this area because they never had contact with these issues and it is no secret to anyone that there is a global shortage of IT staff.

    That there are political accents ... "When the hen lays an egg, it cackles." That is not the best distro ... For that we are enthusiasts and experts, who can help.

    Once again I want to thank you for your participation and greetings to the Venezuelans!

  10.   Alex Ricardo said

    Pure smoke: "official operating system of public institutions in Venezuela." They all use pirated Windows from LanderXtremo. Canaima was a good initiative, but sadly used for political proselytism and was never really supported as a step forward to develop technology.

  11.   Jose Casanova said

    Good morning dear fellow technologists,

    First of all, I am grateful for the publication of this article where they praise and refer to the benefits of the Canaima GNU / Linux operating system, which is made in Venezuela.

    Secondly, it is important to highlight and correct that the Canaima GNU / Linux operating system is based on Debian and this distribution is DEVELOPED 100% BY VENEZUELAN TALENT; The cooperation with Portugal refers to the supply of hardware (laptops) called by us «Canamitas», adapted to work perfectly with our Canaima operating system and to be distributed and used by school children.

    Thankful to you and the entire Linux community who visit this important blog.

    Jose Casanova
    San Antonio de los Altos - Venezuela

    1.    Alexander TorMar said

      Friend, the talent is not 100% Venezuelan, it is 100% Debian GNU / Linux ...

    2.    pepper said

      Congratulations, I hope in my country Chile we had such an initiative.

  12.   dummy said

    What a terrible mistake it is to politicize things, more than everything in our IT area to politicize a Free Software distribution, Canaima has its flaws, it is true the Development team is small and the support of the community is not of the best quality really. But it is a work that has taken great effort taking into account that the distribution goes to a public that passes from a common user who does not need to install too many things on his pc other than to work, to students and to the work of the public administration , in which I am located where one of the best programmers uses canaima as an OS and the comfort of work even when I have to sit at his pc is better than that of any of the others where Linux Mint or Debian 8 is used.

    Be careful, I am not underestimating those distributions that are more advanced than Canaima, what I mean is that despite the flaws it is a "stable" distribution for those who know how to handle it, appreciate it and respect it as it should be, of course the level patience needed.

    PS: The Hardware of the machine should not be underestimated either, it is quite acceptable to tell the truth, but good comments that it can run programs that many institutional PCs would not endure despite being a desktop, which even I myself have corroborated, the The idea is to stop politicizing software and support what comes off our lands.

    Greetings.

  13.   Hector Lopez said

    Whatever they say, the SL project has always been about politics, or is it that it was not designed to break with the big monopolies that seek to seize knowledge? Second, the people who pretend to talk about the failure of the Canaima project, I invite you to pass through the schools and see how the vast majority of the boys and girls in Venezuela enjoy their canaimita and learn with it (I make this comment with all property, since my daughter and my son have one and every time someone has shown the idea of ​​migrating it to windows go out to defend their canaimita). It can improve? Of course it can be improved, what I am sure is that making these toxic comments does not help either the Canaima project or the promotion of the use of free technologies, only in Venezuela 4 million Canaimita have been delivered, all with SL, who come some resentful (I am not saying that here we have a resentful one) to say that many of those have been migrated to windows, it is true and he is right, the question would be rather what we are doing to reverse that situation, besides what do we pretend? that does not happen? I think it's trying to cover the sun with a finger and if you don't believe me, someone tell me what the real growth rate of SL use has been in the last 5 years, many of those prophets of disaster tell me how many do you have dual boot installed with windows? how many recommend the use of SL as a first option Many in the community get hives to know that the real impulse of the software was given thanks to the policies of the Bolivarian government and not because of our merits and that is something that cannot be denied, while we We discussed banalities such as that it is better if gnome or kde the executive took the forefront and impulse with what had the massification, unfortunately many publicly defended an idea that internally they believed utopian, they never considered that it could really be a national policy in practice. Personally, I agree with the criticisms and the debate, but with figures, with tangible evidence not commenting on the visors, because to say that it is a bad decision to deliver a computer with a free distribution by default is to put stupidity first if one claims to be from the community, even more so taking into account that most of the criticisms I have read are applied not to the project but to all distributions. It is possible to improve of course that you can improve what you cannot is criticize something as a hobby, especially if, like the vast majority of those destructive critics, they have never contributed or will never contribute something to the development of the community.

  14.   Daniel N said

    Canaima = NarcoDictadura with facades of technological advance.

    Reality = Burda copy of free software, they do not make any real contribution, they only clone the projects, they put new names and new icons on them and they already want to make it look as if they had made a great effort. Be careful and if they have not modified the software to spy on us.

    Anyway, I would not use canaima.

    1.    FreeBSDDICK. said

      Your comment is the one that does not contribute anything. Free software projects can be "cloned" as you say without any problem. ! I think your comment is out of focus in this sense, since canaima has not been destined even from the base of its design to feed people's leisure.
      Perhaps the canaima deficiencies are related to future planning in the areas of penetration within the national public Administration! I insist your comment is out of focus by expressing a merely visceral opinion and without any technical basis.

  15.   Raul P. said

    Hi Linuxero, you are the author of this article, you are spoiling this blog by passing policy comments.

    Anyone who wants to talk about politics that will mature, dolartoday, elnuevoherald etc ...

    This blog is about software and technology.

    1.    linuxero said

      I totally agree with you Raul.

      However, for the ideals of the blog and Free Software itself, we do not seek censorship. Unless there are direct offenses there are no grounds for censorship.

      In the same way, I apologize from those users who are agitated by the issue. We do not want to inconvenience others, nor distort the purpose of these spaces.

      Everyone is mature enough to take responsibility for their comments and smart enough to understand the background of the post and the content of the blog.

      Thank you for your support and for your help to maintain a community whose north is technology and software.

      PS: Thanks for the spaces that you just offered so that users eager for political comments can vent lol

  16.   pepper said

    I would love that my country gives free computers for all children and even more with a debian linux distro, but some find everything wrong.

    canaima cannot be bad since it is based on debian which is a rock.

    1.    jolt2bolt said

      Well, as a Venezuelan, I say that certainly the Canaima project was a good project that was contaminated by political positions and ended up being a crude copy of existing packages and applications to which the logo and names were changed and authorship was given to themselves, when the real work was done by the mother distro. So I do not support it not because I am not happy about the government initiative that was good, but because of the slop it presents to the end user and convinces him in the end that he would rather have a Windows PC than Linux. Once someone tried canaima, I found that they had thought that linux is that ugly and archaic. Because let's face it, Canaima is quite outdated and unsupported software, even a knowledgeable user ends up fed up and installing any other Linux distro, at least that's what I did. By the way a group of programmers did find some scripts or something running in the background to spy on people in their early days. So, I wouldn't be surprised if they were there, after all, they give it to people with zero linux knowledge.

      Now they could have done the same as other countries, make an official distro of the country without denying the use of software already created, instead of usurping its authorship. As a person of principle I find it deplorable and unethical. and that's why I don't support Canaima at all.

      P.S. Regarding that we have to thank the government for the use of free software, I think that we should not thank them for that. There were already enough people who were starting to use linux on their own (myself included, and in fact debian, fedora, ubuntu meetings were already being held before that happened). What the government did to a certain extent was to speed up its use because it made it clear to everyone that there was more OS than Windows. So this should not be exaggerated either, I am convinced that free software would have spread in the same way with or without government help because the benefits it has is evident.

      1.    bitl0rd said

        totally agree..

      2.    Alexander TorMar said

        I share that opinion ...

      3.    Roger Waters said

        On horseback..

    2.    pepper said

      I think it is a noble project, if it is political or not, I do not know, but in almost no country they give computers with Linux and a free connection to all students and that is something that must be valued,

      Many format with windows these computers that had educational purposes and use them to play, that is fooling themselves

  17.   andy ramírez said

    I installed elementary OS to the canaima and it goes great, and to another I put Kubuntu 14.04 without doing much to it and everything runs perfect, just install without configuring and they really work very well, the canaima repositories servers do not work thanks to the fact that the internet from here in venezuela is a *** therefore, they are always down is what happens.

    1.    Alexander TorMar said

      Hahahahahahahahaha… I mean you erased Canaima?

  18.   Alexander TorMar said

    I come back and leave another comment ...
    According to the FSF this GNU / Linux Distribution:
    «In the main menu of Canaima there is an option to« install software that is not free »through which all the drivers [« drivers »] that are not free are installed, even those that are not necessary. The distribution also includes blobs for Linux, the kernel, and invites you to install non-free applications, including Flash Player. »
    So the FSF does not endorse it as 100% and rules out its use to users who support the ideology of Mr. Stallman

    1.    pepper said

      Ubuntu and even Debian are not 100% free either and I don't see anyone criticizing. if that's why there is only Trisquel and I don't know which one else that is 100% free.

  19.   Danilo anderson said

    If we are talking about software here, to say that Canaima is good, because they give computers to children, does not make any sense. If computers were not given away would software be good? Let's just take into account what many here say (including myself since I am from Venezuela) that updates and supports are null, which has made GNU / Linux a leader in security. It has also become a software abhorred by children, unable to improve and condition it to the changing technological world of today.

    Now how are we talking not only about the software but also about how "good the initiative is":

    It's funny to see some comments where they say that children defend the change to Windows. To begin with, once they give you the Canaima in many institutions, they do not ask for it again, therefore there is no control over the software that is used. Second, the same children immediately change it to Windows to be able to play Counter Strike and those types of games, which are ironically prohibited by the protective Venezuelan state. Third, carrying a computer in the backpack is a bit dangerous in the second most violent country in the American continent, therefore it is difficult for the software to be used to control activities in the classroom, since the teachers themselves know the conditions of transport those kinds of tools and they understand why it's not done.

    Canaima is one more cloning with name changes to be awarded authorship A user of this blog may accept it and see no problem with that since it is free software. That is not the problem for me either. The problem is when you see the government that never says, nor will it say that and claims this distortion as a success of the "revolution", when it is something where any country with Internet is doing (which by the way we have the second worst Internet in the world). continent).

    A state cannot take the attribution of promoting free software with public money, which in a country like ours (in crisis) must be directed to more real and tangible needs. As much as we like it as defenders of free software, that money was not contributed to the treasury with the idea of ​​promoting this branch of technology as the main objective. Not much less to sponsor a political party and yet it is done blatantly.

    Finally, I leave a reflection to friends who want this type of measure to be applied in their countries (Canaimitas + Canaimas). The truth is that it is a very good idea if applied well, it is to give the tool to open a world of possibilities through knowledge. An idea that calls to study and have as references to software developers and technology entrepreneurs worldwide.

    However, a sum of these measures are the cause of the shameless conduct developed in my country. When you get used to a society that the state has to give everything, from your food, your house, your salary, your "education", that society does not have any kind of motivation to improve. You simply have to wait for your needs to be solved without any desire to progress, to compete, to know that they can become better (let's leave out the incentive of money). Every day I see that in my country and since I already know it first hand, I can see it from a distance in other countries.

    How is it different for a corporation to abuse its clients or "dependents" than for a state to do so?

    Linuxero you are not spoiling the blog if you allow this type of comment, on the contrary many like me thank you for the opportunity to express and make it clear that this distro is just another component in the political propaganda of a government. Not allowing these calls for attention is to let free software attribute itself as "success" to ideologies that are more than proven, they do not allow human beings to prosper. As they say: Evil wins when good does nothing.