Conectar Igualdad netbooks will have a new Linux distro made in Argentina

According to a note published in the morning page Página12, Silvina Gvirtz, executive director of Conectar Igualdad, affirmed that in 2013 it will be available Huayra GNU / Linux for 2013 in the netbooks de Connect equality and that this operating system will be the one that will boot "by default". The announcement took place at the International Free Software Conference that took place at the National Library.


In case you were wondering, Huayra is based on Debian, just like Ubuntu.

The maintenance of the distribution will be in charge of Cenital (National Center for Research and Development of Free Technologies), whose president is Javier Castrillo, secretary general of Free Software with CFK and twitterer under the nickname @evitalinuxera. The task of this body will be to maintain the updates and documentation of the operating system, manage the application repository and make Huayra respond to the needs of the Educ.ar portal.

“The default option of the operating system is going to change to Huayra. Working with free software operating systems provides greater opportunities for learning. However, in both systems, most of the applications are free software ", indicated Silvina Gvirtz according to Página12, who argued that Hayra's objective is the" creation of a free operating system with national identity, which favors technological autonomy and establishes own security and development standards ”.

Huayra will be installed in next year's notebooks, which will have a faster processor and a Digital Television decoder, to be able to see up to 35 signals available to date.

Meanwhile, you can test this operating system by downloading it for free from

Source: Huayra Linux & Página 12 & Taringa


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