Rxart

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Rxart is a Linux distribution developed in Argentina, based on Debian GNU/Linux. Rxart is the most popular Spanish language distribution in Latin America, reaching an installed base of 350,000 units in 2005.^[1]

Its origins date back to 1999, when the founder and CEO of Pixart, Gabriel Ortiz, decided to develop a friendly and easy-to-use distribution intended mainly for hardware assemblers.^{[citation needed]} After an agreement in 2007 between Lenovo and Pixart, Rxart version 3.2 was made available pre-installed on desktop PCs in Argentina.^[2]

This distribution is available on: English, Portuguese and Spanish.

1 History
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Pixart begin commercializing in Argentina, in the more important wholesale channels: Garbarino, Fravega, Carrefour, Jumbo, Megatone, Sicsa, Pcarts, New Tree, Compumundo, among others. Basing the distribution on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge), the company added proprietary software components.

Pixart has contacts with Sun Microsystems, IBM, Intel, AMD, PChips, Smartlink and Biostar, among other companies.

In August 2006, Rxart was chosen as the operating system for the Intel Classmate PC in a pilot scheme by the government of Venezuela^[3]. From June 2007, AMD started distributing components to various countries around the world with Rxart preloaded for their demonstrations. Also in June, Pixart signed an agreement with Sun Microsystem to bundle StarOffice with Rxart.

In Pixart laboratories, several companies collaborated by sending hardware for the development of device drivers. Among them were Lexmark, Epson, Intel, AMD, PCtel, Miro, HP and Dell.

Rxart is named after one of the collaborators for the MANCOOSI project in the European Union.^[4]