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India to Create New Chip: Guess Which OS it's Using?
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| First, because GNU/Linux is well proven, to say the least; it means they can
| take decades of work and use it straightaway.
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| Secondly, it's open, so the Indian government can be sure (a) it doesn't
| contain any backdoors that US secret services might have placed in other
| operating systems and (b) it won't go away.
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| These are pretty compelling reasons for adopting GNU/Linux in these
| circumstances, and I'd be surprised if anything else is ever used.
| Interestingly, China has already taken this route with its own Loongson chip.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&BlogId=14&EntryId=2362
Recent:
Cos switch to open source technologies to cut costs
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| Indian enterprises, private and public, are opening up to saving costs by
| using free for use technologies. Governments, institutions and companies are
| increasingly turning to open source technologies to turn frugal as these
| softwares, hardwares and applications are often free but also to avoid
| falling into the trap of a proprietary IT environment.
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| [...]
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| “We invested only about Rs 8 lakh (Rs 4 lakh for a Dell server). We will
| incur a saving of Rs 50 lakh, because of a migration from a proprietary
| software to an open ERP solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
| on Dell X86 servers,” says Mankotia.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Cos-switch-to-open-source-technologies/articleshow/4642414.cms
Dvorak Likes Linux
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| Every so often I take a stab at Linux, to see exactly what I like and do not
| like about the OS. Many of its problems, for me, stem from its inability to
| run on my overloaded hardware, or the occasional driver that makes the OS
| impossible to use without hand-tweaking something or other. That said, I
| seriously like the Ubuntu 8.10 implementation and will now install it
| permanently on my latest machines. It's a winner.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp
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