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[News] The Italian Parliament is Moving All PCs to GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] The Italian Parliament is Moving All PCs to GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:06:47 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan 
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate 
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the 
| Chamber.   
| 
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and 
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private) 
| computers to the Free System.  
`----

http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/

One country at a time, GNU/Linux is becoming the norm. This Luddites in COLA
will soon have to acquire (or brush up) their UNIX/Linux skills.


Related:

The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu

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| The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to 
| reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report 
| that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The 
| switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the 
| tax-payers according to the government study.
`----

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814


Itway Reinforced Parnership With US Company Red Hat

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| The Itway group specialising in the sector of information technology and 
| quoted at the Milan stock exchange extended the agreement for the 
| distribution in the whole south of Europe of the Red Hat solutions, one of 
| the main distributors in the world of enterprise solutions. According to a 
| statement, the value of the agreement has been estimated by the Itway 
| management around the figure of 6 million euros on a yearly basis.
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200612181747-1198-RT1-CRO-0-NF30&page=0&id=agionline-eng.bnessitaly


Italy adopts OpenDocument as a National Standard

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| Italy has adopted The OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 23600) as a
| national standard. The decision was made by UNI, the Italian
| Organization for Standardization, which is responsible, under
| appointment from the Italian Government and the EU, to develop,
| approve and publish technical standards in all economic sectors
| (industry, trade and services) except for electric and
| electro-technical ones.
`----

http://technocrat.net/d/2007/1/29/13965


2006 Italian Linux Day: A nationwide success

,----[ Quote ]
| The 2006 edition of Italian Linux Day on October 28 was the first
| in the six-year history of the event to be celebrated in more than
| 100 cities in every corner of the country.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/2048226&from=rss


User-friendly Free Software for Senior Citizens

,----[ Quote ]
| The project has deep roots in open source: it was developed in
| accordance with a set of rules and with the support of the open
| source community; Eldy was released freeware in order to
| guarantee the feasibility of the project, but it will have
| an open future and a self-installing Linux distribution.
`----

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200612051807-1226-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia
http://tinyurl.com/yjrjvn


Historic victory of the "Associazione per il Software Libero"! [in Italy]

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| WE WON. Therefore 4.5 million Euros of public money will not be spent
| on proprietary software licenses, since the Ministry failed to
| consider free software options.
`----

http://www.softwarelibero.it/abbiamo_vinto_en


Web site attack hits Italy tourism sites

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| In an Internet attack dubbed "The Italian Job," several thousand
| Italian tourism Web sites have been infected by software that quietly 
| gains control of computers visiting them and seeks out confidential 
| financial data, a computer security firm said on Monday.
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070618/wr_nm/internet_security_italy_dc


Italian Company Debuts Petit ARM9 CPU With Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| Elpa, based in Italy, has debuted the RD129, an ARM9-based module delivered 
| with Linux kernel 2.6.21.5. 
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http://www.arm.com/iqonline/news/marketnews/18065.html

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