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Thank you, Guadalinex
19-May-2009
The Guadalinex GNU/Linux
distribution is one of the most ambitious free software projects in
Spain, promoted by the Government of Andalusia (Junta de Andalucia),
aimed at spreading the FLOSS culture in the educational sector.
This exemplar project deserves my admiration for the
technical quality of the distro, the organization of the project
and the nice community that supports it.
Last year on the 10th of December I could participate in
the virtual meeting of collaborators of Guadalinex with my Master's
Thesis, the Magnus
project in Spanish,
a speech recognition application coded in Java for controlling the mouse
of the computer (especially important for physically impaired people).
The meeting was held through
Gobby (a useful tool I had not
heard of before) and the experience was very gratifying. We could
discuss some of the features the project still lacks, like speaker
adaptation (the Andalusian accent is pretty different from the
Catalan, which was the seminal implemented
language), the flexibility of the application and the performance of
a Java app compared to a natively compiled application.
And today I have received a sweet present from the Guadalinex team: a
Guadalinex penguin mascot toy.
They had no reason to do it, but they chose to do so, and I now
choose to put it flat-out: the Gualinex
project is a great deal more than a mere big free software project.
Thank you, Guadalinex.
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