Tag Archives: open source

Rotterdam mental health provider implements 290 user LTSP suite

Posted on 22/02/2012 by woodsy

EZPress (Dutch) and Joinup report that at the end of last year Rotterdam mental health provider Riagg Rijnmond replaced its ageing proprietary desktop systems with a 290 user LTSP thin client system based on Xubuntu (that’s Ubuntu coupled with the … Continue reading →

Posted in International IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Greece: open source computer lab donated to children’s centre

Posted on 22/02/2012 by woodsy

Greeklug, the Greek free software advocacy group, has donated a free and open source software computer lab to a children’s shelter in the village of Filyro, north of Thessaloniki, Joinup reports. Apart from providing installation and hardware, the group is … Continue reading →

Posted in International IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Walmart Brazil – the best place to buy a Linux box online?

Posted on 20/02/2012 by woodsy

One the frequent criticisms made by lovers of free and open source operating systems is the great difficulty of buying hardware either with Linux pre-installed or that doesn’t involve paying the ‘Microsoft Tax‘ (i.e. a common complaint from those who … Continue reading →

Posted in International IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

WindowMaker desktop manager development resumes

Posted on 17/02/2012 by woodsy

When the chief scribe first starting using Linux regularly some years ago, he ventured slightly further than the usual Gnome and KDE desktops, occasionally getting to grips with the slightly more esoteric WindowMaker window manager. Slashdot now reports that a … Continue reading →

Posted in International IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix announced

Posted on 13/02/2012 by woodsy

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distro, has announced the introduction of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix. Based on Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is now available for corporate and government institutions evaluating Ubuntu as a desktop … Continue reading →

Posted in International IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Dear Cabinet Office, what part of open standards don’t you understand?

Posted on 10/02/2012 by woodsy

The Cabinet Office has announced a consultation on ‘open standards’ for software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT. This is the second such consultation on open standards: in January ComputerWeekly said it had unearthed evidence that Microsoft and … Continue reading →

Posted in National IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Haven’t we heard all this before?

Posted on 10/02/2012 by woodsy

The Register today carries an article entitled “UK.gov: We really are going to start buying open-source from SMEs“. On Tuesday last in London Liam Maxwell, Cabinet Office director of ICT futures, said that open source had grown up and it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in National IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Situation vacant: British Library seeks Wikipedian in residence

Posted on 10/02/2012 by woodsy

The British Library, whose main reading room has in the past played home from home for such diverse characters as Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, … Continue reading →

Posted in National IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Ubuntu Global Jam issues call for events

Posted on 08/02/2012 by woodsy

Yesterday Jono Bacon published a blog post inviting people around the world to organise events for this year’s Ubuntu Global Jam, which is being held from 2nd – 4th March. The Ubuntu Global Jam is a worldwide fun event that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in International Events, International IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

US state of New Hampshire passes open source, open standards and open data bill

Posted on 06/02/2012 by woodsy

At the end of last week, both houses of the New Hampshire legislature passed HB418 (2012). This bill is “relative to the use of open source software and open data formats by state agencies and relative to the adoption of … Continue reading →

Posted in International IT News, Open Source News | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment