Linux for Developing Nations

wojciech_at_gmail.com
Date: 07/28/05 

Date: 27 Jul 2005 22:24:46 -0700

Hi everyone,

I run an organization called Five Minutes to Midnight, available at
http://www.fiveminutestomidnight.org/. This is an international project
that works to get young people involved in social issues through the
use of journalism and critical thinking.

We are currently organizing a project where we are partnering with a
newspaper in Africa to promote the use of technology in journalism. We
will be doing this through the use of open source software, and I was
wondering if I could get some advice. The potential users of the
software and computers we import will be ones who have used Windows,
but are not technical people. Can anyone please suggest which Linux
distribution I should use as the OS for these computers?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Wojciech