Tag Archives: Debian

ISS migrates to Linux

Posted on 10/05/2013 by Steve Woods

Laptops for crew use on the International Space Station (ISS) are being migrated from Windows to Linux, the Linux Foundation reports. The reason for the migration, given by Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor deeply involved in … Continue reading →

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Debian joins Free & Open Source Software Outreach Programme for Women

Posted on 08/04/2013 by Steve Woods

The GNOME Foundation started the Free & Open Source Software Outreach Programme for Women, otherwise known as OPW, in 2010. Many other FOSS organisations joined the programme in the January-April 2013 round. Bits from Debian, the official blog of the … Continue reading →

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Munich responds to FUD report on LiMux

Posted on 14/02/2013 by Steve Woods

The City of Munich has responded on its IT blog to a report commissioned from HP by Microsoft alleging that migrating to open source had cost the city millions of Euro more than opting for proprietary software. The following paragraphs … Continue reading →

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Debian bug squashing parties arranged for Wheezy

Posted on 10/11/2012 by Steve Woods

Debian is a great Linux distribution. Indeed, besides being a distribution in its own right, it acts as the foundation for the very popular Ubuntu distro and countless others. Here at Bristol Wireless, we’ve been using Debian for as long … Continue reading →

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Sirius open sources Welsh school

Posted on 19/10/2012 by Steve Woods

Open source services provider Sirius Corporation has revealed today it has been working with Powys County Council to introduce a combination of Open Source and proprietary software at the newly refurbished Ysgol Maesydderwen secondary school in Ystradgynlais, near Swansea. The … Continue reading →

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12 years of open source use

Posted on 11/10/2012 by Steve Woods

The Portuguese local authority of Vieira do Minho in the far north of the country would appear to be an exemplar for the use of open source software for small local authorities everywhere, according to a report posted yesterday on … Continue reading →

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Happy 19th birthday Debian

Posted on 13/08/2012 by Steve Woods

On August 16, the Debian community will celebrate that epic Linux distro’s 19th birthday since Ian Murdock’s original founding announcement. As is tradition, the Debian communities all around the world will be celebrating it with Debian Birthday parties. A Debian … Continue reading →

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We survived the leap second change

Posted on 02/07/2012 by Steve Woods

The BBC is reporting that the leap second change and poor weather on both sides of the Atlantic last weekend caused chaos, knocking out the likes of Reddit, Foursquare and Amazon Web Services‘ cloud computing servers. Besides, internet and IT … Continue reading →

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Spain: Extremadura to migrate 40,000 public sector desktops to Debian

Posted on 23/01/2012 by Steve Woods

Spain’s Publico recently reported (Spanish) that the autonomous regional government of Extremadura is planning to move all 40,000 of its desktops to Debian Linux. In taking this step, Extremadura would be the leading Spanish public sector organisation for the use … Continue reading →

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Doudoulinux – the right start for children in IT

Posted on 12/07/2011 by Steve Woods

The other day we heard about Doudoulinux. Leaving aside the rather scatological name of the distro (in English, anyhow. Ed.), it looks rather good at what it’s trying to achieve. Based on Debian – like lots of other fine general-purpose … Continue reading →

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