Interesting article that I find in humans where a series of information is collected that tells us in which corners of the world it is used GNU / Linux. I confess that some cases I did not know about.
I am also surprised that Cuba is one of the main countries interested in GNU / Linux distributions. o_O
Let's see just a small but significant sample of the scope Linux has today with some examples of its use:
- Control systems de traffic: More and more cities in the world rely on GNU / Linux to manage their urban traffic control services. New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles are some of them.
- The submarine fleets nuclear power of the US Navy: America's nuclear submarines, some of the most advanced and deadly in the world, use a Red Hat-based distro to control all onboard systems. Can you imagine a BSOD at a depth of 500 meters? I too would have decided on Linux ...
- CERN: The largest and most expensive machine ever built by man, the Large Hadron Collider, uses GNU / Linux, as does all the dependencies of CERN. The results of the experiments are shared with the scientific community using a distributed network that is also based on GNU / Linux. CERN is the birthplace and primary use of Scientific Linux, a Red Hat-based distribution for the men and women of science.
- The Japanese bullet train: The most punctual railway system in the world relies on GNU / Linux to always arrive on time. Between Tokyo and Osaka, the two largest cities in Japan, a train runs every 3 minutes in each direction. Every year, the Shinkansen (Japanese name for the bullet train) carries more than 151 million passengers per year, at a maximum speed of 320 km / h.
- The New York and London Stock Exchanges: The NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) is the most active exchange on the planet, where more than 150 billion dollars in stocks and bonds are bought and sold every day. Its computing infrastructure runs under Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The LSE (London Stock Exchange) followed in the footsteps of the NYSE using Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux after its previous system based on Windows Server 2003 and .Net began to continuously collapse as it could not support the huge number of simultaneous transactions that were carried out on it. . The results of the migration were a stable system and much faster than all its competitors.
- The US Federal Aviation Administration: The FAA, for its acronym in English, is in charge of monitoring not only US air traffic, but also all other aeronautical support and administration activities. In 2006, they performed a full migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Amazon: The world's largest online store not only uses GNU / Linux to manage its operations, but they have developed their own distro, Amazon Linux, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Amazon has also become a world leader in the field of cloud computing, with its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) platform that uses Linux-based Xen virtualization underneath.
- Google: Another network giant that has developed its own distro, Goobuntu, which is more than anything a skin that is applied on the latest LTS version of Ubuntu. Google uses GNU / Linux both on its terminals and on its servers. The latter run a specially modified and optimized version for your search engine and the rest of the services offered by the company.
- Facebook: Facebook entrusts the data of its more than 1.000 billion users to servers running on a modified version of CentOS 5.2. The (not so) strange thing is that all its hardware (Open Compute Platform) certifies it under Red Hat standards.
- Twitter: Twitter is a member of the Linux Foundation, its tens of thousands of servers run Linux and many other free technologies that they appreciate for the ability to modify them at will to better adapt them to their needs.
- Virgin America: North America's most popular low-cost airline uses an adapted version of Red Hat and Fedora for its inflight entertainment systems.
- Toyota: Toyota has been one of the last companies to become Gold Members of the Linux Foundation, showing all its support for the free and open software community. The new Toyota models use GNU / Linux to manage their entertainment and information systems. Administrative systems and corporate networks also rely on GNU / Linux to function.
- Drones: The United States Army has equipped a number of UAVs like the MQ - 1 Predator with GNU / Linux. The reason: The system they originally had (Windows XP) failed due to a virus in an MQ-9 Reaper, which is why the migration of several of these drones began. The Predator is used by the United States Air Force, the Royal Air Force of England and the Military Aeronautics of Italy. Although it is to fly over strategic points, it is possible to incorporate two Hellfire missiles, making this drone a lethal weapon.
- Mobile devices: We may carry it on our phone or tablets. For these there is a clear dominator in this area: Android. Based on the Linux kernel, created by Android Inc. and then bought in 2005 by Google, it has become one of the most important mobile operating systems today. Devices of all ranges such as Samsung Galaxy, Sony Xperia, HTC, Coby Kyros and many more use the operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, resulting in a wide range of devices and gadgets.
- The fbi: The FBI migrated to Linux in 2002 because it is a more secure system with the capacity to handle large amounts of data, it also uses Linux because it is easier to spy on other computers from this operating system and manage networks of confidential information.
- Wikipedia: The Wikimedia Foundation has always had its servers running Gnu / Linux-based operating systems, but in 2008 its servers went from being managed by RedHat and Fedora, to being managed by Ubuntu Server systems.
- 91% of the world's supercomputers: Of the 500 most powerful computers in the world 455 use operating systems of the GNU / Linux family.
- The White HouseAfter an attack attempt in 2012 by computers infected around the world with the Code Red worm, the White House website was moved to a host with better protection against DDoS attacks and they took the opportunity to migrate from their older Solaris OS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Bing (from Microsoft): It's weird, but it's true, the Bing browser has its servers running on Linux. Convince yourself: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bing.com
- Several countries use GNU / Linux in public administration and in the business sector: Worldwide, interest in Linux is greatest in India, Cuba and Russia, the Czech Republic and Indonesia. The first Western country to come out in this poll is Germany in 8th place. In the United States, the highest level of popularity is in the state of California and this is understandable, considering that it is the home of Silicon Valley, where the great Internet emporiums and the software industry in general are located. Let's see in which countries the XNUMX most common distributions are most popular:
Countries with the greatest interest in Ubuntu are:
1. Italia
2. Cuba
3 Indonesia
4 Norway
5 Czech Republic
Countries with the greatest interest in OpenSUSE are:
1 Russia
2 Czech Republic
3. Moldova
4. Germany
5 Indonesia
Countries with the greatest interest in Fedora are:
1. Sri Lanka
2. Bangladesh
3 India
4 Nepal
5. Zimbabwe
Countries with the greatest interest in Debian are:
1. Cuba
2 Czech Republic
3. Germany
4. Belarus
5 Russia
Countries with the greatest interest in Red Hat are:
1. Bangladesh
2 Nepal
3. Sri Lanka
4 India
5. Cuba
Countries with the greatest interest in Mandriva are:
1 Russia
2 Czech Republic
3 Poland
4. France
5 Indonesia
Countries with the greatest interest in Slackware are:
1. Bulgaria
2 Indonesia
3. Brazil
4 Russia
5 Poland
Countries with the greatest interest in Gentoo are:
1 Russia
2 Czech Republic
3. Belarus
4. Moldova
5 Estonia
And Spain never comes out anywhere, olé, long live the bulls xdd
SAludos look at this article they explain how free software is going in Spain 🙂 .. http://is.gd/NyqJa0
pandev we are going to create in Spain the "manolete Gnu / Linux" a distro focused and inspired by the world of bullfighting, to see if Linux sneaks out there lol
HAHhahahahaa, go to know XD, also a Gnu / Belen distro, could serve ahahahaa
I didn't understand the GNU / Belén joke.
Belen I imagine that they will refer to Belén Esteban, considered the princess of the town, and her only merit is to have gotten involved with a bullfighter and become pregnant… ..
@thanatos:
You already reminded me of that Belén, since in Peru she is known more than anything because the story was believed that a host of a show business program named Sofía Franco was messing with her husband and as a result she was very badly faced to the viewers in the face of such a scandal and at least here the fanaticism of the celebrity characters has already dropped a lot for this reason.
PS: If someone else who is Peruvian and is reading this, please do not confuse Belén Esteban with Belén Estévez who are completely two different women.
I do not know how they have made the list of countries but the interest is not very clarifying. In Spain GNU / Linux is used a lot (you just have to look at the traffic we generate).
It is so true and now there are many more things missing that use linux or some linux and certainly Cuba and Venezuela appear as the countries that most promote the use of free software in Latin America. for example Linux on mobile devices http://is.gd/qKJc9q
On point 3, why do you exclude Fermilab? ; _;
Point 13, thismmm and it worked with XP ??? O_O
Diossssssss, and some say that we are safe, because there must be a lot of XP out there still ... we are going to kill ourselves alone, you will see 😀
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Pff the same I say. Drones with xp Who was the genius who came up with that?
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A very important sector is missing and where Linux is a veteran: the film industry.
Already in Titanic (1998) Linux computers were used to render the special effects (not to mention Avatar). Pixar and all the major production companies use Linux servers to process all the productions.
Interestingly, the only Autodesk program that is supported on Linux is Maya, which is for animation.
Mexico does not come out anywhere either: c
long live the tequila wey !! 😛
hahaha, I imagine that in Mexico they use it a lot .. I noticed that a large majority of those who use Linux are Mexican.
Long live the tacos! Up with the loggerheads!
I was also disappointed not to see Mexico on the charts: /
For this reason, I promote the use of GNU / Linux among family and friends.
In my house they use elementaryOs 😀
The best way to "sell" linux is to say that you have almost no risk of malware on your desktop. A friend of a facu installed it to be able to watch quiet porn without the computer getting virus XD
HAHAHAHA ° w °
Well I admit that I also use Linux to watch porn (it is much more secure than in Windows). #GuiltyPleasure
What we have come to gentlemen !! xD
You also have the assurance that your system is not going to freeze at the least opportune moment (if you know what I mean).
ooooooo, me too, hahaha, I convinced and installed Fedora to my father with 60 years behind his back.
I can't stop laughing at point 19 xD
I'm just going to say this:
+++ FOR THE BSD WHO WATCH IT ON TV !!! +++
In the case of bing, it depends on how one looks for it, it goes to linux or windows server
If you search http://www.bing.com, use linux
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bing.com
But if you search for bing.com, you magically go to Windows server
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=bing.com
Does anyone know why?
Because Microsoft uses Akamai precisely to speed up the loading of its Internet pages that are using Windows Server. What's more, the odd server has at least CentOS 6.4 to give its servers a hand.
It is peculiar to me that Russia appears in all or almost all the lists of the top 5. It is understandable since it is a paid with many inhabitants, which I do not see China anywhere. WINDOWS supporting linux, hahaha.normal gates daughter uses it :)
That "countries with greater interest" will be by percentages, I do not think that the number of population has much to do with it. If it were by population, China with a "national" Ubuntu would be high on the charts.
Take a good look at the Netcraft report. Microsoft does not use Linux on Bing. It is used by Akamai, which is a CDN that they have contracted. In fact, Microsoft is not the owner of the servers.
A greeting.
Yes, but they "enjoy" using it, at least by default.
But Microsoft also uses virtual machines (which is not exactly Xen, VMWare or Parallels) within those servers that, many times, when using Netcraft, it appears that it uses Windows Server 2003.
Anyway, if you use Linux, you use it (and also Apple on their servers).
Too bad, the Hispanic community fares very badly in this report.
Congratulations to the Cubans, thanks to them we have representation. I hope that doesn't change ...
Greetings.
I would like to know how Cuba appears higher and in more distros than Germany or the United States, in fact the gringos do not appear in any Top 5.
I think "need" and "intelligence" are the keys.
Greetings.
I don't know what you mean by those adjectives.
Germany is the country where the most important Linux distros, and KDE, have been created. In addition, many government agencies and entire city councils have moved to Linux.
And in the case of the US, if you look at the list they put up, many of them from that country, their most important institutions (defense, intelligence, aerospace) are on Linux.
In general, there are two reasons to use GNULinux.
The first is "need." The fact of being free influences in countries where the purchasing power is not good.
The second is "intelligence." GNU / Linux is a modern, current system that works very well. Therefore, it doesn't make much sense to pay for a proprietary system, having an option like GNU / Linux.
I hope the clarification is sufficient.
Greetings.
Do you consider the percentage of inhabitants with internet access there?
Now I understand why google is silly haha.
Top RED HAT and SUSE distros.
But all those examples are server side.
And what about the desktop in linux, ahh?
LINUX PROBLEM?
Ubuntu is one of the cases, in addition that the 1% of desktop users according to the "surveys" turns out to be a fraud, since the actual users themselves are not counted, but the PCs that come pre-installed with an operating system. Proof of this is in this article >> https://blog.desdelinux.net/debunking-the-1-percent-myth-traducido-al-espanol/
However, Linux has improved a lot on desktops since Ubuntu came to this world.
Just remember that for mathematical reasons, 1% of the year 2004! = 1% of the year 2013, linux increases, the problem is that world computer users also increase.
Yes, but in terms of mobile devices and / or PC's of marked obsolescence, many would already be with a Linux distro like Slackware, Debian with Xfce / Lxde and / or Arch with the previously mentioned GUI's.
Very good for the Cubans !! giving Debian representativeness accordingly!
It's Something!
Venezuela and Argentina do not appear, because we have two shitty governments, from the left wherever you look at them, we are slaves in our own countries, we are subjected. The world is against our policies or rather our «politicians».
You put the left as something negative, but if those governments are as "evil" as you think, then they are not really left.
if you are subjected you would have to come here and test the facades that govern us
Well, I don't know what country you live in but right now I can't find any right-wing authoritarian government in the world, except in the Arab countries.
Spain, Hungary, the United States ... there is no ...
Hala Alberto, make him watch. Since you are so unhappy in Spain and so oppressed by the "looks", it would still be good for you to go with Willy Toledo to Cuba, because there is a f ... mother. Or to Venezuela (yes, take toilet paper).
How blind there is in the world ... or stupid, who knows.
Ehem ehem xDDD. stop drinking at night, in Spain there is no façade government, but people like you would have already thrown them out of the country xD. Says it from someone who leads pp youths in the bages.
The United States are not facades, they are capitalists, the Democrats are not facades.
Hungary no idea.
there you. I suppose that since they will be less than two more years in power, they will not have time to put everything back on from the dictatorship, but if not, you already have it in education, compulsory religious education.
Yes, the rulers are facades, it is still not a fascist state but that does not mean that the majority are, and also of the opus.
I don't know willy toledo but if so much corrosive saliva makes reason and abc drool then something positive will have to be.
Cuba is not a leftist government either.
"Yes, of course, in Cuba they do not have a left government and that is why they are in the ranking ... Breaking news, they inform me that Cuba has a left government, this is unheard of!"
I do not understand you. Any repressive government by definition is not on the left. I know Cubans and they have no freedom. There are things that are very good in Cuba but others are not.
Those who rule are an economic and military caste, as anywhere else.
Obviously it would be necessary to verify to what extent the USA is better or worse than Cuba, but that is another question.
My point is that no dictatorship is really left.
Exactly, like the current government of Argentna, where there is a demagogic dictatorship disguised as the left - when in practice they are just as facos as the military with anyone who does not blindly and absolutely agree with their discourse.
Hello linuxeros:
How strange, Venezuela and Argentina are not on the map ... why is it? Venezuela has a distro that distributes Canaima for PCs and netbooks (based on Debian) and a free software page from where you can download soft.
Argentina has a national plan of 3.500.000 Netbooks and almost 2.800.000 netbooks have already been delivered in schools. Argentina's distro is called Huayra (Based on Debian) which in Quechua language means "wind", in addition to a forum, and at Like Canaima a page on Facebook. You can also see the interest in installing Huayra on private PCs.
I am Argentine, and I tell you that of the two distro you mention, I prefer canaima, it takes more time to develop. Ours huayra has a long way to go and also still has many bugs. 🙂 As for the netbook, it is a political move, the children in the schools of my country, they go around fooling around with the netbook and they don't learn anything, first you have to teach them to use their heads then they will see how to apply the knowledge in the machines. VERY BAD EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN ARGENTINA.
The national plan you are referring to is a shit, in Argentina we are making "donkeys" instead of people, that netbook plan is only to win votes, it is not used to educate.
Well, PEDRO and JUAN, don't kill me che… .the issue is that if there are millions of Netbooks distributed, if the base is Debian, if we add to this that in Argentina since 2000 the Ututo distro has been developing, that the Via Libre Foundation is coming doing school and the Argentine Pirate Party is also involved in promoting GNU / Linux. It is sad to see that Argentina does not appear. I agree with you regarding the use of netbooks, on weekends even the square of my town where there is free wifi is full of netbooks… .. chatting. Are we Argentines lazy for the Linux learning curve….?
OpenDNS uses linux, there are also some linux servers for windows updates.
ucha, and recently it gave the patatus to several because in a rifle gnu / linux was installed
Obviously, Facebook and Twitter use it very, very badly, judging by the number of times they were hacked.
Facebook uses CentOS 5.2 (how outdated their servers are) and Twitter uses Ruby on Rails as the programming language for their system (hence why so bad). More comfortable is identi.ca, which is much neater than Twitter.
Identi.ca is moving to Pump.io, for the 8th of this month the transition ends, we will see what happens, I have an account there and according to the administrators we will all be moved, keeping the groups and who we follow. I clarify that I do not have the most strange idea of what Pump.io is like.
Thank you very much for the tip. I hope this site is better than identi.ca.
hahaha microsoft xDDDD that trolled. Good point on 19 xD
I already knew that Microsoft used Linux (and especially CentOS). Apple uses it too (and to think that they used OpenBSD instead of OSX).
Mexico does not appear either, but anyway.
Is it fashionable for editors to use osx XD?
I do not have money to buy a MacBook or even an iMac, but I would like to see what features your operating system has and I would love to program with XCode, which looks quite friendly and uses C ++ as its programming language.
Anyway, it is seen that the Cupertino system has a good eye candy despite its kernel being just as weak as the NT.
maybe xD
So then don't say that your country doesn't come out HAHAHAHA, because you aren't helping it come out either XD
Post about the benefits of linux from a mac operating system, that seems hypocritical to me
Right now I am testing Mageia 3; it runs very well on my modest PC, which is not of the latest generation. For quite some time I have preferred GNU / LINUX distributions to windows systems. Thanks to all those who make this preference possible.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is getting a lot of OO
it's super stable it's a great distro almost everyone uses it
Do you speak in servers?
On obsolete servers and / or PC's, yes; In current PC's, I doubt it very much, since its applications would scare away any PC user who likes to use the latest if he does not know how to add backports.
When migrating to a new version, dependencies may be corrupted, but it is expected that RHEL / CentOS will correct that tremendous bug they have.
One thing is interest and then reality. The percentage in Cuba is lower than in other countries, although due to political ideology they should be more akin to GNU / Linux
I gave up inux after a year looking for a distro and desktop according to what I needed, I never fulfilled my expectations, especially when it came to users and network printers. The best Debian distro, but like all the others, you always have to install complementary files so that everything works as you want, it is very tedious. I stay in windows 8, everything easy to configure. Hopefully, from now on someone makes a Linux distro with everything a user needs, without going around so much.
It is not understood what you mean by "I never fulfill my expectations, especially with regard to users and network printers", user management? Network printers? SAMBA?
"Hopefully, from now on someone makes a linux distro with everything a user needs, without going around so much." It shows that you have not tried the easier distros like Ubuntu or Linux Mint, in windows you do not install codecs? Flash player? Java ?, You don't understand, seriously.
I use a Dyne live CD: bolic a distro that has no more than 2 gigs and everything works, IceCat as a browser, Gimp, Inkspace, Cinelerra, I have problems with the audio because it uses JACK WHICH IS COMPLICATED AND MEDIUM PROFESSIONAL, it brings PGP, Tor, I'm learning little by little how to use it but it can't be installed, I'm going to opt for Debian or Open Suse. But the software is great and it doesn't give problems and I'm a total neophyte.
Of course, in windows it is not tedious to have to install all those programs that are necessary for everything to work well, if the winzip, the daemon tools, the winamp, download the codecs, install adobe, java, the antivirus, the firewall , antispyware, new card drivers, .NET, and the myriad of malware out there for windows that forces you to reinstall at least once a year.
I stay in linux, all easy to configure with an apt-get. Hopefully, from here on someone make a windows distro with everything a user needs, without going around so much.
For this I recommend Mageia3 (it came out a couple of weeks ago), easy to install, easy to use, they emphasize stability and the end user, just like Mandrake / Mandriva did. Mageia is a fork of Mandrake / Mandriva and is 100% community. There will be other distros for end users, I recommend this one that is excellent.
They forgot to mention Hollywood.
I have another place where they occupy Linux and I saw it personally. I am from Concepción - Chile, and here there is a bus and parcel transport company called "buses Bio-bío", they still use Fedora with gnome 2.30 !!!! When I went to buy a ticket, I noticed that they used Fedora, and the sales and dispatch program was running from the terminal !!! and I couldn't bear to ask why they had that xd operating system ... the saleswoman told me that windows kept crashing all the time, and that they decided on a fedora because of cost and quality. I told her, I imagine that the computer system is working very well, to which she responded, it was a sudden change, they trained all the staff, but it was worth it because we knew another world, totally new, and the company is more that I agree with this program ... .. well, that would be my contribution .. xd
Well, at present several countries already use any Linux distro ... too bad here in Mexico, we are in the scourge ** regarding that issue, wherever you go you will find Windows, at school, on cyber, etc ... and no I know why, but sometimes the monotony is annoying, I for example every time I go to a cyber, I start a Live USB session with wifislax or backtrack ... and I take care of removing the keys from the cyber and incidentally killing the computer, on its mere Achilles heel. But hey, some will realize that Linux is 999 times better than M $ or even OS X, because Linux is the only system where you have at least 99.9% certainty that the system does what you really want it to do.
Long live linux !!!
Quack!
Use Arch or Chakra, which brings you up to date on the latest.
What a pity that it is used in drones
I can't believe Bing runs Linux !! It's the last straw hahaha
Looking at the top 10, the world's largest companies use GNU / Linux. It is sad the delay we have here in Argentina, where you come across a developer and today they tell you that you can't make money with free software, bizarre!
Argentina does not appear, what a pity because there are interesting projects like Tuquito's.
all the machines to make the primitive http://www.loteriasyapuestas.es They also use linux, by the way it would be very good to find out what is the algorithm that the machine uses to make automatic bets, tux can make you a millionaire
What surprises you that Cuba uses Linux? I would be surprised otherwise and see the Cuban people paying the multinational Yankee for using Mocosoft….
How funny. It says "in which corners of the world ..." and refers to the most used operating system in the world.
It's not for nothing, but CERN is FALSE! (Partly)
At CERN the staff mostly use windows (an overwhelming majority). It is true that the servers of different control, access and scientific calculation systems are linux. But windows are used on a daily basis, the most used and essential products are the complete office suite (including project) and sharepoint, if you bother to browse a little you will see that a large number of pages are made by users in sharepoint. I put aside the entire list of design software, CATIA, ANSYS, COMSOL, etc.
I say this knowingly, I work at CERN.
IBM also uses it in laptops and desktops. With widespread discontent among its employees.
The International Space Station (ISS) also uses Linux.
http://www.publico.es/455029/la-nasa-cambia-windows-por-linux-en-la-iss
«Bing (from Microsoft): It's weird, but it's true, the Bing browser has its servers running on Linux. Convince yourself: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bing.com»
Please, Akamai is an external company, which has many clients because it has its servers distributed globally and that facilitates the protection of DDoS, since it uses Round Robin DNS on its servers, making attacks difficult.
Saying that Microsoft uses GNU / Linux is a sign that this is not the case, since you may have a GNU / Linux in front of your Microsoft Servers.
Saying that comment I find it difficult to believe many others for example:
"The FBI: The FBI migrated to Linux in 2002 because it is a more secure system with the capacity to handle large amounts of data, it also uses Linux because it is easier to spy on other computers from this operating system and manage networks of confidential information."
Another thing, using GNU / Linux to spy on other computers, amazing. The person who wrote the news has seen many hacker movies and I love GNU / Linux and UNIX, but it is to piss and not drop.
TO THE AUTHOR: Why should I be surprised that Cuba is in favor of Free Software in general and GNU / Linux in particular?
Because we both live in Cuba and we are almost at the head of the national SWL community, we are aware that the Government does not do everything it can to support the SWL, even though, curiously, it affirms otherwise in many meetings or boards of directors.
It is not correct to say that Bing uses linux based on the page: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bing.com.
There the information comes from the servers of Akamai, which is the largest content distribution network (CDN). Bing uses Akamai, but the actual Bing servers are hidden behind that CDN. From what I've seen on the internet, the frontends are based on ASP.Net, probably on Windows.
But you can say that Akamai uses Linux, and therefore almost 20% of Internet traffic.
In Argentina, the PCs that the government gives to secondary school students bring a Linux distro that unfortunately most do not enter and the teachers have little or no knowledge of this system. If the pcs came only with linux it would save millions and the students would learn more.
http://bulma.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=2652
I just added your article as one more reference to my article in BULMA:
Advances in free software and open standards worldwide
With all the respect in the world ... I think you have forgotten one of the main promoters and users worldwide of linux and free software: the Junta de Extremadura. According to Bill Gates, it is his main enemy worldwide; From its Linex distribution, the Andalusian Guadalinex started among others and the model has been exported to several countries in Latin America. She has been an organizer of the International Free Software Conference on several occasions.
That Cuba surprised by its high use of Gnu / Linux?
Well, it should not be surprising, since if they use proprietary programs or operating systems, how can they be sure that they do not contain a Trojan, backdoor or other type of computer bug to spy, steal information, destroy information, include information, etc and that they are made to antivirus and other security products do not detect them.
That is one of the many reasons why I use Gnu / Linux.
Gnu / Linux is also present in the Carrefour cash registers, I have also seen it in the AirBus A300-200 aircraft of the Avianca company, in the monitors that are found on the back of the passenger seats. I use Mageia3 on my laptop, I also have it installed on 2 more computers in the house, ah !!! also on an Android tablet, waiting for the FirefoxOS version to come out on tablets and / or Plasma Active (KDE) for tablets.
Anyway ... Long live! free software !!!
I've always been curious about Mageia. What does this distro offer?
very interesting the data
I already share it, it is interesting how the Linux community moves
I use puppy 😀
And my Mexican girlfriend too, before she used xp but her pc got AIDS from time to time
Not only are notebooks delivered with linux, you have 2 free scholarship plans Scholarships F and A control (Totally Federal) where you can learn GNU / Linux among other things, out there you also have to find out that there are CFP Professional training center that They try to narrow the educational gap left by your friend Menem, de la Rua and Alfonsin, among others (Totally free and paid by the state), which happens that many trash heads like you do not know the investment in education in the country , all are critical and are not even informed, 200 thousand adults with few resources finished high school with the final plan, 700 thousand PCs equip the computer cabinets of technical schools, a menu of all the cons that you want to show in South America we have the software industry that grew the most in the last 5 years.
I do not sell colored mirrors, but I do not see all gray, I love my country and I think that people with two brain fingers talk nonsense.
Sergio, a simple Operating Systems engineer (LPI3).
Long live Free Software.
Regards. Here in Venezuela it is law that the public administration uses free software. In addition, the government equips children from first to seventh grade with a netbook called here "canaimita", which runs on a Debian-based GNU / Linux distribution called "Canaima GNU / Linux". Now, I don't know why Venezuela is not on those lists.
Mexico does not appear on the list but it doesn't surprise me anyway, I've been using Ubuntu for years and it's great
I think these references are NOT well supported, in Venezuela a large part of the public administration uses GNU / LINUX and more than 2 million computers come with canaima (personalized distro for education) as the default operating system.
Happy Debian user
In Venezuela there is the Canaima distribution based on Debian, excellent by the way, used in laptops that are given to students and excellent as an operating system for the office and home.
Hello Eudes, I am glad that in your country they do not force Windows as in Chile, which from school presents it as "Master and Lord", honestly most people do not have much idea of the options that Linux presents .
Cheers……………
Where are your sources of information ???
I would prefer that Ubuntu or Mint be implemented in Venezuela, because Debian is giving users many problems, both educational and advanced users, most of Debian dependencies are always obsolete so much so that the case is being presented that they are Formatting them and putting Windows 7 in them, if they knew everything new that Ubuntu brings, this change would not have so much impact, I am a programmer and I have been using Canaima 3.0 to 5.0 and I see a lot of decline with saying that version 3.1 is better than 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0, why? good because in versions 4.0 and 4.1 there is a serious bug that when you open many programs the panel menu and the window panels disappear every now and then to have to run "gnome-session" to restart everything! It is a Debian bug as such, now with version 5.0 it is the same Debian with the Cinnamon desktop and it is very heavy! it is not feasible to use such a desk to work it is annoying! unless they change it to Mate and really recommended! using Mint or Ubuntu itself.
I USE LINUX I AM FROM MX
Venezuela has a law so that all government bodies and public entities use only Free Software or OpenSouce on their platforms. Here we use GNU / Linux Forced hahahaha
The law exists, but unfortunately the degree of application is less than 10%