The Cuban government presented at the Computer Fair, held in Havana this week, a new product based on the Linux operating system as part of the official commitment to free software and its defense of "sovereignty" computer on the island. The new system, called Nova, was created by students and professors at the University of Information Sciences of Havana (UCI) and its mission is to facilitate the process of "migration" of Windows with free software that started the country in 2005.
He told foreign correspondents the project leader, Angel Goñi, the system allows the use of modern applications in a simple interface and working with obsolete machines that still abound in the island, though not the "platform" for Cuba's final "migrate to Linux."
"Cuba, the blockade (U.S.) and the whole economic situation is still running computers elsewhere in the world are rubbish, "said Goni, admitting that the country can not" disappear "those computers that still work and are useful.
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