PC Conectado, or Computador para Todos, is a tax-free computer initiative launched by the Brazilian government.

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• 128 MB RAM
• 1.5 GHz processor
• 20 GB hard disk
• Linux, usually Insigne Linux

In the initial phases of the project, Microsoft offered the Brazilian government to use its Windows XP Starter Edition, a cut down version of their popular OS for developing countries. The offer was promptly rejected due to severe limitations of the Starter Edition. The project since begin use only free and opensource software for general work like Sodipodi,OpenOffice,Gimp,Audacity. mb, Mb, and MB may stand for: Bachelor of Medicine (academic degree) Honda MB is a Honda 50cc motorcycle from the early 80s. ... Jump to: navigation, search Random access memory (sometimes random-access memory), commonly known by its acronym RAM, is a type of computer storage (in practice only computer chips) whose contents can be accessed in any (i. ... A gigahertz is a billion hertz or a thousand megahertz, a measure of frequency. ... A CPU The exact term processor is a sub-system of a data processing system which processes received information after it has been encoded into data by the input sub-system. ... Jump to: navigation, search GB or gb may stand for: Game Boy GB (supermarket) in Belgium GB Glace, a Swedish ice cream company Gigabit (Gb) Gigabyte (GB) Government and binding theory by Noam Chomsky Great Britain United Kingdom (ISO 3166-1 code) Guobiao, the National Standards of the Peoples... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... Jump to: navigation, search Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) (HKSE: 4338) is the worlds largest software company, with global annual sales in the tens of billions of US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in more than 90 countries. ... Jump to: navigation, search As of 2005, Windows XP is the current client version of the Microsoft Windows operating system. ... Sodipodi is an open source vector graphics editor released under the GNU GPL It is designed specifically around the SVG standard, using the file format (with some extensions to hold metadata) as its native storage format. ... OpenOffice. ... Jump to: navigation, search The GNU Image Manipulation Program or The GIMP is a bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics. ... Jump to: navigation, search Audacity is a free digital audio editor that runs on the Linux/UNIX, Mac OS 9/Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. ...

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The project is expected to include 1 million new Linux desktops in the next 2 years.

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