• BRAZIL

Netbooks for Children in Portugal

2008-07-30

The government of Portugal will provide 500,000 Intel Classmate PCs to school children under its "Iniciativa Magalhães" (Magellan Initiative) in the next year.

Intel's Classmate PC, which will soon use their new low-power Atom processor, runs Windows and varients of the GNU/Linux operating system such as Mandriva Linux. Mandriva, formerly Mandrake in France, acquired Brazilian Linux company Conectiva in 2005. Mandriva is also providing a customized version of Linux for the Gdium "netbook" which runs on a USB key.