Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S.

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 11, 2009 7:01 PM EDT
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Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island's battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony. The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer conference on "technological sovereignty" and is central to the Cuban government's desire to replace the Microsoft software running most of the island's computers.

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should be interesting to watch gus3 2 1,231 Feb 11, 2009 10:03 PM

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