Re: Introductions

[Luis Medinas <lmedinas gnome org>]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Nelson Marques <07721 ipam pt> wrote:
> Stormy,
>
>  Got it. Awesome stuff.
>  I'm going to give you a contact of a national hardware manufacturer
> which is supplying Laptops for students through the government (not the
> cursed Magalhães).
>
>  Unfortunatly they use a national distribution called Caixa Mágica
> (Magic Box, http://www.caixamagica.pt) which is focused on KDE. This is
> sad, but it's the reality. Caixa Magica is built based on SuSE/openSuSE
> sources.
This is not true, atm Caixa Magica is based on Mandriva and ships KDE
for those laptops and GNOME for workstations on schools.
Both Desktops are supported. I use myself Caixa Magica on a VM and
it's based on GNOME 2.26 from Mandriva.

Cheers
Luis