High-tech social enterprise reaps free software's benefits
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| "We use lots of different RPM and Debian variants," Ball says. "Our
| servers are based on Fedora Core. It moves fast enough that we could get
| the application stacks that we wanted. It supports SE [Security-Enhanced]
| Linux, which makes a lot of sense to us. For years we've done work on
| setting up secure spaces on servers to avoid cracks" -- with reportingo
| n human rights abuses, security is a major issue -- "and SE Linux makes
| that a lot easier."
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| Ball's job is to make these desktops work together seamlessly, regardless
| of their distribution or operating system. "I'm the CTO, so I promote
| desktop heterogeneity," Ball says. "We have Mac users and Linux users and
| the idea I'm going for is, 'It doesn't matter what desktop you use.'"
| Ball says that the desktop is basically irrelevant in 2006 anyway,
| because when it comes down to it, "Everybody uses Firefox. That's the
| key piece -- if there's one ubiquitous piece of free software out
| there, it's Firefox."
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