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debian call for tender by the french government

cj2003 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:51:19 +0000

The French government has published a call for tender for a 2 million euro contract to support Debian and CentOS systems throughout the French public administration. The news is a month old, but the call for bids is open until 9 January 2012. Read more here

Large Debian installations in India

cj2003 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:33:13 +0000

The client is a large call-out business headquartered in NOIDA with call
centres in 5 other cities in India, including New Delhi. At the time we
started, they had no IT or automation on the call floor at all.
More here

No more desktop Linux systems in the German Foreign Office

cj2003 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:28:19 +0000

In response to a questionPDFGerman language on “the use of open source software in the Foreign Office and other Government departments” submitted in parliament by the SPD (Social Democrats, the main German opposition party), the German government has confirmedPDFGerman language that the German Foreign Office is to switch back to Windows desktop systems. More here

Goodbye, Microsoft!

cj2003 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:07:51 +0000

You can live your life free of Microsoft, and free of their thousand and one petty annoyances. And you can save money in the process. More here

Are you tired of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for your computer’s software? Tired of having to buy upgrades, and new hardware to run the upgrades? Tired of crashes, security flaws, cyber-attacks, and worrying if your computer is safe to use? Had enough of license agreements, lock-downs, and restrictions on what you can do with your computer? Worried about your business being sued for making a careless copy?

Howto switch from Ubuntu to Debian – My Experience – Part I

cj2003 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:44:06 +0000

After long time I’m posting this. In this time, I got a fantastic experience of switching myself from ubuntu to debian. Reasons? may be silly but here they are… More here

1. From 8.10, I had a tough time with all the kernel’s ubuntu shipped and updated into my laptop, I was hit by a kernel acpi bug (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11727) which still exists(in i686, not in x86_64). It pauses boot process when my laptop runs in battery and I need to press until init starts.

Where the Munich Linux (R)evolution is today

cj2003 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:06:50 +0000

“We would do it again,” said the vice director of the Munich project, Florian Schießl. Pictures of penguins, the Linux mascot, adorn the walls of the Munich city IT department. By mid-2012, at the latest, 80 percent of the 14,000 computers in the city administration will be moved to be Linux Oh, and they use Debian

World’s largest Linux desktop deployment?

cj2003 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:39:55 +0000

Working with the Brazilian government and virtual terminal vendor ThinNetworks, the company has won a contract to deploy 356,800 virtualized “Userful Multiplier” desktops to Brazilian schools.
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Userful Multiplier supports any Linux distribution, says the company, but in this case, the schools will use the government-sponsored Linux Educacional 2.0 distribution developed by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC). Last year, MEC started deploying Linux Educacional 2.0 in school labs used by 52 million schoolchildren. The Debian-based distro (see image below) incorporates KDE 3.5, KDE-Edu, KDE-Games, and several MEC-developed tools.

Server Migration From Ubuntu 8.04 To Debian 5.0

cj2003 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:17:12 +0000

Last night, I spent a few hours migrating this production server from Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” to Debian 5.0 “Lenny”. Many have asked me online and in person why I would make the switch, especially being a heavy Ubuntu advocate. More here

So, in a nutshell, I’ve put my faith behind Debian stable for any production servers personally, and Ubuntu for any desktops and laptops that can afford a little wiggle room in relation to stability. This is my opinion with my hardware, and your mileage will probably vary. That’s what makes our community as a whole so great. I want to see Debian succeed on the desktop, laptop and netbook arena, and I want to see Ubuntu succeed in the server / Big Iron arena, and I’ll do what I can to make that happen. But for now, I am where I am.

Debian’s Lenny offers enterprises open-source option

cj2003 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:02:41 +0000

Debian has released the latest version of its operating system and is set to be particularly attractive to budget-conscious enterprises looking to cut costs. More here

“We had one client who moved from a Novell/Microsoft-based environment to a Debian-based one and they saved something like 80 percent of the cost in the first year – they couldn’t have done that moving to Red Hat – not when their licences cost £1000,” Callway said. He added that Sirius was set to announce a major educational project that would show the extent to which open source software was becoming more accepted.