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[News] White House Dumps Microsoft Windows for GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] White House Dumps Microsoft Windows for GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:38:15 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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White House goes Open Source

,----[ Quote ]
| The www.whitehouse.gov site was previously 
| served by Microsoft IIS 6.0, but the new 
| server software identifies itself as "White 
| House". The new site continues to use 
| Akamai's content delivery network for caching.
`----

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/10/27/white_house_goes_open_source.html

OSI and White House agree on open source benefits, platforms

,----[ Quote ]
| But the open source wins don't stop there. 
| Drupal is running on top of the LAMP stack 
| based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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http://www.opensource.org/node/484


Recent:

White House Director of New Media speaks about Open Source

,----[ Quote ]
| I'm participating at the O'Reilly Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington DC this
| week, and it is amazing to see the people that the O'Reilly conference team
| has brought together, both in terms of speakers and participants. In the
| afternoon, WAMU radio host Kojo Nnamdi interviewed Macon Phillips, the
| White House Director of New Media, revealing that both had a handle on the
| technologies reshaping American politics and concepts of American civic
| actions.
`----

http://opensource.org/node/464


The White House Sends an Invitation: PCAST Meeting Aug. 6 and 7

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| PCAST is a group of scientists and engineers who advise the President and the
| Office of the President, providing policy recommendations. The purpose of the
| meeting is to set priorities for the coming year.
|
| I know many of you are stakeholders, CEOs and executives of companies and
| leaders and contributors to software projects, but you don't have to be: the
| general public can contribute also. I'd so dearly love to go and speak about
| FOSS, but I don't feel it would be wise, due to the death threat situation,
| but you can go and represent yourself. And it will be streamed. There is even
| an opportunity to send written comments at any time. I'll give you the
| details in a moment, but if you've ever complained that the government is
| clueless about tech and FOSS, this is your opportunity to contribute in a
| positive way.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090731112546220


Chinese hack into White House network

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| Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple
| occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior US
| official told the Financial Times.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2931c542-ac35-11dd-bf71-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F2931c542-ac35-11dd-bf71-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=&nclick_check=1


Related:

Expert: White House Negligent on E-Mail

,----[ Quote ]
| The White House e-mail troubles began in 2002 with a decision to upgrade
| electronic message capabilities and move from Lotus Notes to Microsoft
| Exchange.
|
| Prior to launching Microsoft Exchange for e-mail, there should have been
| full-scale testing of an archiving system, e-mail experts said. In addition,
| both the existing archiving system and a new one should have run at the same
| time until the new system was fully proven.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080303/white_house_e_mail.html?.v=1
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