Linux On Brazilian Voting Machines November 24, 2008
Posted by intelliginix in Hardware, Linux Applications, Linux Distribution, linux.Tags: linux, linux appliance, Open Source, voting
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130 million Brazilian voters were turned into users of one of the largest Linux deployments worldwide: the 400,000 electoral sections in all of the 5,563 Brazilian municipalities were running electronic voting machines, and the Linux kernel was running on all of them. These voting machines have been used in Brazil since 1996, and are rugged, selfsufficient low-spec PCs. Technical details about this Linux deployment and implementation are available elsewhere (and more will come, for sure), but I thought it would be interesting to show some pictures and a movie – shown at the source link below – of Linux booting on these voting machines.
