20071225 Vitenam Schools to Use OpenOfficeorg Some GNULinux Next Year

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Here is the Classmate running Linux (Puppy) in Vietnam: Hacao Classmate PC avaiable !

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Hot news from Vietnam here...

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/22928

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PC-BSD added to Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror

The Saigon Linux Group (SLG) added PC-BSD to the Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror in it’s continuing effort to promote and support open source technology in Vietnam.  

http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=517

Students using PCLinuxOS in Vietnam

Finally, I decided to test PCLinuxOS with my students. Wow, amazing. Finally a Linux distro that the majority of my students actually liked using. It ran faster than any of the other Linux distros they tried and easily connected to the internet from inside the school (they like to read Yahoo 360 blogs in class). They figured out how to use Konquerer to browse around the different directories in their laptops without me even telling them. As with Macbooks, the Desktop GUI was easy to learn. Thus, I decided to use PCLinuxOS.      

http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=516

Related: Intel's OLPC-killer heads for Vietnamese retailers

The "Hacao Classmate PC" is based on Intel's Classmate PC design, and will come pre-installed with Hacao Linux, a Vietnamese-language Linux distribution based on Puppy Linux.  

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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7384572891.html

Vietnam Plans to Switch to Open-Source

The efforts made by Microsoft to reduce software piracy in Vietnam, where an industry group has estimated more than 90% of all software is counterfeit were useless. The applications got sold as cheap as $2 per CD. The Communist Party has announced that it will replace Microsoft Office with the free software product OpenOffice, to avoid breaching the law or paying a lot of money per licensed program. The council that took the decision met on Thursday, October 10, to decide how they will choose the open source programs.    

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vietnam-Plans-to-Switch-to-Open-Source-68503.shtml

[Vietnam] Council considers IT needed software http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/10/749037/

Opportunities for open source software in Vietnam http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2007/10/749003/

FOSS Bridge pairs companies in EU and Vietnam http://www.linux.com/feature/119284

Vietnam to begin working on free software http://www.thanhniennews.com/education/?catid=4&newsid=32166

Vietnam Switches to OpenOffice.org! http://saigontimes.com.vn/daily/BRIEFs.asp?loai=1&Sobao=3022&Ten=briefly%20today

Vietnam joins hands with EU to develop open software http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/?catid=1&newsid=31323

F/OSS Business Models Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam http://engage.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/foss-business-models-forum-in-hanoi-vietnam/

Vietsoftware join forces with Asianux http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/07/724393/

Hacao Linux 2.16 Professional released http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/17481#comment-5619

Sun shares its technology with Vietnam's open source community http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/05/699418/

State [Vietnam] promotes use of shareware http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02BUS140507

Vietnam gives priority to open source software http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/04/686282/

Open-source software offers affordable option http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02BUS220107