Cuba Launches Nova Linux

Cuba Launches Nova Linux

The Cuban government this week launched its own Linux distribution, called Nova.

"The Cuban government, under the auspices of the Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas (UCI), created Nova by spinning its own rev on the Gentoo variant of Linux," writes The Register's Timothy Prickett Morgan.

"Linux has become increasingly popular in South America, Africa and Eastern Europe, where companies and citizens aren't able to afford all of the latest Microsoft software," writes DailyTech's Michael Barkoviak. "Furthermore, the open source software can be freely distributed among friends and colleagues in these nations, which helps it spread faster than Microsoft can."

"The Cuban government feels that Windows is not only a symbol of U.S. hegemonic rule, but they think the U.S. government has access to Windows' source code, and could use it against the Caribbean island," writes Gizmodo's Adrian Covert. "And it's difficult for Cubans to obtain and update their Windows software since there's like, you know, that whole trade embargo nonsense makes it really, really difficult to BUY it…"

More here from Global Voices … more here from CNET … more here from TMCnet … more here from Tech Digest … more here from CrunchGear … and more here from The Inquirer.


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10 Responses to “Cuba Launches Nova Linux”

  1. PowerBallArizona Says: February 17th, 2009 at 8:56 am

    hehehe coming years, venezuela edition

  2. arizonacharlieslasvegas Says: February 18th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    give them windows vista, lol

  3. luxorroom Says: February 19th, 2009 at 11:00 am

    lmao, you guys are… no words, chill

  4. riosuitehotelcasino Says: February 20th, 2009 at 6:18 pm

    good idea, must be plenty of users in there

  5. TexasLottoResult Says: February 26th, 2009 at 9:03 am

    Nice, good news for the cubans…

  6. bob Says: March 19th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    check out “linux Nova” at this link:
    http://my.opera.com/ubuntunerd1/blog/how-to-install-linux-nova

  7. anushka Says: June 12th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    ITS GREAT TO SEE THAT LINUX IS BEING USED.

  8. swapanxavier Says: June 15th, 2009 at 12:11 am

    provide sharable linux easier documents/development tools

  9. tom Says: August 7th, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Linux has become increasingly popular in South America, Africa and Eastern Europe… unbelievable! have never used it myself, have read a lot on the topic at different blogs and books (download mainly from http://www.picktorrent.com ) and heard the experience of my friends, but this piece really gives food for thought

  10. Santiago Valdarrama Says: February 15th, 2011 at 5:14 am

    Here are my thoughts about Nova: http://blog.svpino.com/2011/02/nova-el-linux-cubano-de-nuevo-en-el.html

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