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Suite Telecentro helps to reduce digital exclusion in Brasil

With 646,000 total downloads at its brazilian [http://codigolivre.org.br/projects/suitetelecentro/ development site] on Codigo Livre, the customized Debian GNU / Linux [http://suitetelecentro.sourceforge.net/ Suite Telecentro] is at the top 5 projects among the 1934 hosted.

The [http://suitetelecentro.sourceforge.net/ Suite Telecentro], for use at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecentre telecentres], allows the utilisation of old low-end computer hardware as terminals for [http://packages.debian.org/etch/ltsp-server LTSP servers].

Through this technology, a telecentre needs only a machine with better processor and memory, where all softwares will be executed. The less capable ones act only as graphical interfaces.

The [http://suitetelecentro.sourceforge.net/ Suite Telecentro] project chose Debian GNU / Linux as its foundation because of the Debian Project [http://www.debian.org/social_contract commitment] to [http://www.debian.org/intro/free Free Libre Software], and the documentation quality that allows easy customization of the [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Debian Installer]. The main advantages of using Debian GNU / Linux for Suite Telecentro are the easy system, packages and services installation, upgrade and configuration, the stability and security.

The stable version contains the [http://packages.debian.org/etch/kde KDE graphical environment] which runs over LTSP. The user could remotely execute the office suite [http://packages.debian.org/etch/openoffice.org OpenOffice.org], the [http://packages.debian.org/etch/firefox Firefox web browser] and the bitmap graphical editor [http://packages.debian.org/etch/gimp Gimp].

The Suite Telecentro also includes the telecentre management software [http://codigolivre.org.br/projects/ocara/ Ocara], developed by the IT department of [http://www.bb.com.br/portalbb/home2,136,136,0,0,2,8.bb Banco do Brasil] (which [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/casos_de_sucesso_com_linux&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en-US&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 already migrated] 50000 desktops, 15000 ATMs, 90000 [http://packages.debian.org/etch/openoffice.org OpenOffice.org] and is a big user of [http://www.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL] with [http://sequoia.continuent.org Sequoia]), and its dependencies ( [http://packages.debian.org/etch/apache2 Apache], [http://packages.debian.org/etch/mysql-server MySQL], [http://packages.debian.org/etch/php5 PHP]).

The latest stable version, 1.1-7, was developed on Debian GNU / Linux 3.1 Sarge. The next version 2.0 is upcoming. At April 2008, the Beta 10-8 version is available for download. The new features over previous stable version are: