Caixa Mágica 2010

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Caixa Mágica Software:
The main Portuguese Linux
Distribution Company
Paulo Trezentos: Paulo.Trezentos@caixamagica.pt
http://twitter.com/PauloTrezentos
Partner / Technical Director
John Thomson: John.Thomson@caixamagica.pt
http://twitter.com/johngt85
Researcher
Wednesday, 27th
October, 2010

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A brief summary:
 Caixa Mágica is a software and solutions provider for
GNU/Linux based Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
Systems.
 Linux- Caixa Mágica is the main Linux Distribution available
in Portugal and in 2000 one of the co-founders was awarded
the Prémio Milénio 2000 Expresso award for the project.
 Originally based in the research arm of ISCTE,
ADETTI it soon outgrew the available resources
and has relocated twice to larger offices.
 Caixa Magica's main office is now found in the
building that used to be the main Portuguese
Stock Exchange.

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Our vision:
 We wish to be a leader in the Open Source industry and we
want to realise them through various aspects:
– Software: Linux Caixa Mágica – 'The' Portuguese distribution
– Appliances: CAMES “powered by Ipbrick”
– Consulting: Projects and involvement in F/OSS and areas
relating to technology.
– R & D: Innovation at all levels and through all aspects.
– Business: Helping customers realise the benefits that F/OSS
allow for.
– Professional Services: Integration and assisting clients.
 Unified Team-work:
– A strong team with unique competencies.

Energia Open Source
Main product – Linux Caixa Mágica 15
 New version with new features:
– Parental Control, KDE 4.4.3 , OO.org 3.2, Kernel 2.6.33.5
 Continuation of the partnership with Mandriva as a base.
 Choice of Gnome 2.30.1 /KDE 4.4.3.
 Many packages and applications have
had partial if not full translations to
Portuguese.
 RPM based system that uses a port
of APT, APT-RPM.
 Live CD (Pen)

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Who, where and what?
 The distribution is available at hundreds of Portuguese
Computer stores and specialised resellers.
 It is a SME and has 30 full time staff as well as many more
that work under other companies but work on Caixa Mágica
projects.
 Along with working for the incumbent Telecommunication
operator, Portugal Telecom, CMS works with a variety of
other companies and government bodies.
 The Caixa Magica Operating System is installed on many
Hospital, Municipal Authorities and more than 1,100 schools
as well as over 10 universities.
 The System has also been installed in many enterprise
environments and over 650,000 computers as part of
widescale Portuguese initiatives.

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Who we work for continued
 Caixa Mágica works also with the Portuguese Army for
deploying more than 120 GNU/Linux based security
appliances.
 Since 2006 CMS has been sub-contracted by the Portuguese
Ministry of Justice for maintaining Linux servers in critical
data-centers.

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Magalhães (www.magalhaes.caixamagica.pt)
 Government sponsored hardware/software solution for
primary school students in Portugal.
 450,000+ Magalhães with dual boot:
– Linux CM 12 Mag & Windows XP
 Updates from GCompris (Community help & IFILP)
 Most popular application - SuperTux
– SuperTux
– The game has been modified to allow for uploading of scores
– A dedicated website for new levels and points scored
 Partnerships:
– Angulo Sólido, IFILP,
Assoc. Ensino Livre, ESE Santarém
 Objectives:
– Mesh networking in the classroom
– Sugar and creating other dedicated apps.

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Magalhães
Equipment made
Availabe to
market
2009
Classroom/
Individual
Usage
2010
Internet
Cloud
2013

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Teacher-Student
StudentStudent-Students
Parents-Student

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Connecting with the community
 Sites targeted to particular groups of users
 Forums:
– comunidade.caixamagica.pt
– foruns.escolas.caixamagica.pt
 Error reporting
– dudf.caixamagica.pt
 User package submissions
– contribware.caixamagica.pt
 Team skills:
– Perl, Python, C/C++
– Development in PHP / JS
– Culture of Open Source
 Summer schools and internships

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e-Schools & KTE
 “e-Escolas” & Insys Gameforce
– In partnership with Inforlandia / TMN
– DeFacto Hardware
– Linux CM 14/15 ready for use with 3G
 More than 50,000 units sold
 Back to school 2009
– Stylish hardware with a new processor
– Linux Caixa Mágica 14
– Development into 3G drivers/integration
 Outfitted with technology suitable for schools
– In partnership with HP
– 110,000+ PCs
– Authentication support for 802.1X & EdgeBox

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European based research projects
 Caixa Mágica works in many multi-national European based
research projects. After the conclusion of the EDOS (EU FP6
STREP) based project it is now actively working on another,
MANCOOSI.
 Many other projects in the pipeline and that have been
bidded for.
 Work with a multitude of top-tier Universities and research
institutions.
TotalRecall

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Research & Development
(European Projects – 2.45 M Euros 2008/2014 )
2008 2009 2011 2012 20132010 2014
TotalRecall

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International research
 MANCOOSI project of 7º FP
 Managing software complexity (e.g. Software packages)
 Main points:
– 2008-2011
– 4.4 M Euros (CM: 594 K euros)
– 10 partners from 6 countries
– Portugal: CM & INESC
 Principle objectives for R&D for CM:
– Development of a new generation of meta-installers
 Involvement in two new projects for FP7 -
– ULOOP & Total Recall

Energia Open Source
DUDF error reporting
 On the context of the MANCOOSI
European project we developed
dudf.caixamagica.pt, a reporting
platform about installation
problems that users have with our
package installer, apt-rpm.
 It has been collecting reports and
generating statistics about
problems and corresponding
packages since September 2009.
 It serves both as a source of
information for Caixa Magica QA
and as input for the MANCOOSI
solver competition.

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ULOOP
 WiFi Networks project
user-centric / MESH
 Partners
– AlcatelLucent
– Huawei
– Univ. Lusófona
– Fon
– Caixa Mágica
– ....
 Influences for CM:
– Network Manager
– Contributions towards Kernel Drivers
– New ways to connect to the Internet

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TotalRecall
 Digital Preservation of Enterprise Systems
 Led by SAP
 Partners:
– INESC-Lisboa
– Intel
– Caixa Mágica
 Freeze Enterprise systems for recall at a later time
 Not just storing the data, also storing the Business context
information (eg. web-services)
 How TR influences CMS:
– Open Source Development
– Virtualisation

Energia Open Source
Caixa Mágica Software – 2011 / 2020
 Making our product more competitive
– International and National Research and Development
– Objective results: improve meta-installers
 Understands the importance of collaboration
– Improve the team
– Expand internationally
– Work in partnerships
 Working with clients:
– Improvement of CM versions 16 and beyond→
– Research new ideas
– Help existing clients solve problems

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for over 10 years
Thank you very much.

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