Freedom Toaster

The project was started as one solution to overcome the difficulty of obtaining Linux and other free and open-source software in South Africa, where the restrictive telecommunications environment makes downloading large software files prohibitively expensive.

There are currently Freedom Toasters at the following locations:

A Freedom Toaster kiosk is placed at a school, library, shopping center or another publicly accessible location. Users bring blank optical discs to the kiosk and select the software that they would like. The kiosk will then burn the selected software onto the users' media.

The name derives from this function. "Freedom" refers to the

Purpose

Freedom Toaster kiosks provide a way for computer users in economically disadvantaged regions and areas with limited or no Internet access to get software. By providing this service, the people behind the Freedom Toaster hope to address the issue of the

Availability

The Freedom Toaster is mostly available in South Africa and is currently supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation. The Foundation is attempting to get others to adopt the idea by providing the tools to help create, support and maintain your own Freedom Toaster. It has also provided seed funding to Brett Simpson of Breadbin Interactive to create a sustainable business model with the idea.

The initiative has also been taken up independently by a company in

References

External links

• Freedom Toaster (link broken) Archived – The South African website
• Seneca Freedom Toaster
• Washington-Lee High School Freedom Toaster Archived 2010-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Freedom Toaster Map, archived
• Freedom Toaster in India, archived