Rxart is a GNU/Linux distribution developed in Argentina and based on Debian GNU/Linux. It's origins date back to 1999, when the founder and CEO of Pixart, Gabriel Ortiz, decides to develop a friendly and easy-to-use distribution intended mainly for hardware assemblers.[citation needed] Since a deal was made in 2007 between Lenovo and Pixart, Rxart version 3.2 is available pre-installed on desktop PCs in Argentina.[1]
History
editThey begin commercializing in Argentina, basically in the more important wholesale channels: Garbarino, Fravega, Carrefour, Jumbo, Megatone, Sicsa, Pcarts, New Tree, Compumundo, among others. Developed on the base of Debian 3,1 "Sarge", the company added propietary software components, the company that develops it has contacts with Sun, IBM, Intel, AMD, PChips, Smartlink, Biostar among other companies. "Rxart" was the GNU/Linux distribution in Spanish in Latin America more reaching, in 2005, 350,000 units.
In August of 2006 Rxart it was chosen as operating system in Classmate PC of Intel that works in the plan pilot of the government of Venezuela, Developing and adapting different functionalities for this equipment From the month from June of the 2007 AMD initilese the distribution of their equipment UVC from different countries from the world with Rxart preloaded for their demonstrations. Also in the month of Pixart June it signs an agreement with Sun Microsystem to integrate Star Office in native Rxart in his distribution.
In Pixart laboratory, several companies collaborate sending hardware for the development of drivers, among them Lexmark, Epson, Intel, AMD, PCtel, Miro, HP, Dell.
Rxart is named one of the collaborators for project MANCOOSI of the European Union.
External links
edit- Rxart home page
- About Rxart and others participants on MANCOOSI Project
- About Lenovo-Pixart pact (on Vivalinux) (Spanish)
- About Lenovo-Pixart pact (On SIDCC Wiki) (English)
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