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Nonprofit Runs On Open Source
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| It's not easy to run an organization
| with 1,500 PCs on almost no Microsoft
| products, but that's what Mosaic, a
| faith-based nonprofit organization that
| provides services to the developmentally
| disabled, is doing with the help of open
| source and cloud computing.
|
| Mosaic began investigating client
| virtualization and desktop Linux in 2004
| as a possible cost-cutting exercise, and
| slowly began repurposing its old PCs as
| thin clients running remote instances of
| Novell SUSE Linux.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220400020
Build A Linux Distro With SUSE Studio
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| Once, if you wanted to create your own
| Linux distribution, you had to jump
| through more hoops than your average
| Cirque du Soleil performer.
|
| Now it's possible to automate the vast
| majority of the process, thanks to a Web
| service created by Novell and SUSE: SUSE
| Studio. All you need to create your own
| SUSE-based distro is a Web browser that
| runs Flash, a decently fast Internet
| connection, and some working knowledge
| of Linux.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220100955
Recent:
Free software: It's about the money
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| There may be a clue in the panel lineup, however: It includes Sacha Labourey,
| chief technology officer at JBoss, bought by Red Hat for $350 million in
| 2006; and David Axmark, cofounder of MySQL, for which Sun Microsystems paid
| around $1 billion in January. Could the secret be to sell the company, not
| the software?
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http://www.itworld.com/open-source/55316/free-software-its-about-money
Related:
Nonprofit chooses Ubuntu for servers, OpenOffice for desktops
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| Ubuntu may not be the best choice technologically, but Canonical Ltd (which
| provides support for Ubuntu) is responsive and quick to address user issues,
| both through regular channels and personal contacts, Puttick said. In fact,
| Canonical called Oxford Archaeology for user input prior to a major
| conference six months ago, and all of Oxford Archaeology's suggested
| improvements were included in the new 8.04LTS version, he said.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1315258,00.html
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