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Swedish Armed Forces Chooses Red Hat and Open Source

02/07/2007  
Relevance: 10.57
The Swedish Armed Forces has made the decision to migrate its servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Following the deal, the Swedish Armed Forces will start replacing Windows NT with Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its core IT infrastructure.
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APT-build optimize your Debian!

11/25/2007  
Relevance: 6.30
Certainly most of the Linux users would like to have their systems fully optimized for their rigs but do not have the stamina or enough knowledge to play with the Gentoo installation paradigm. But here comes the rescue an apt-build goody available under every distro armed with the big gun - APT package manager.
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Misinformed about Malware

12/09/2008  
Relevance: 6.06
I was moaning recently about the appalling sloppiness when it comes to viruses et al.: they are practically all for Windows, and yet nobody mentions this fact. Here are two more egregious examples.[All USB drives for the entire U.S. Armed Services has been banned in trying to stop the agent.btz virus? Wow! - Scott]
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Ubuntu 8.10 Seeking Beta Testers

10/07/2008  
Relevance: 5.63
The upcoming Ubuntu 8.10, alias Intrepid Ibex, is now in beta. Armed with new base elements such as Linux kernel 26.2.7, GNOME 2.24 and X.Org 7.4, Ubuntu 8.10 is due to be released by October. Beta versions of the add-ons Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu-Studio and Mythbuntu are also available for testing.
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WFTL Bytes! for Nov 14, 2008

11/15/2008  
Relevance: 5.54
This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, November 14, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. In today's news, the economy just keeps on getting worse, proprietary software is really bad, making copyright into copywrong, Ubuntu gets ARMed, and the Sun goes down on a lot of jobs.
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Reporter's dream assignment: Free Beer

12/31/2006  
Relevance: 5.41
The open-source movement isn't limited to computers. The"code" for a good brew is making the rounds. Marketplace strong-armed reporter Ethan Lindsey into tracking down the source.[Boy, this really messes with the whole"it's not free as in free beer" thing. - dcparris]
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7 Uses of GParted Live

08/03/2008  
Relevance: 5.29
I've been using GNU Parted to slice and dice my disk in preference to the fdisk for almost as long as I've been using Linux. We all fill up our hard-drives from time to time, but thanks to Gnome GParted, rearranging disk partitions isn't as terrifying as it used to be. In fact, armed with a GParted Live CD, there's a swathe of disk space fiddling jobs I can tackle without gnawing my fingers to the bone.
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Govt minister goes geek for FOSS day

09/17/2007  
Relevance: 4.94
Armed with a One Laptop Per Child computer and kitted out in a Geek Freedom League t-shirt, South African deputy minister of science and technology, Derek Hanekom, opened Saturday's Software Freedom Day event at the departmental offices in Pretoria. On this note, he spoke of the importance of developing free software for the country's development, noting the difference between free as in costs nothing and free as in freedom to share and do with it what one wants without restrictions.
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Veterans Affairs Healthcare System No. 1

12/15/2007  
Relevance: 3.74
ABC news has a video and transcript :"Socialized medicine may sound un-American, but in fact, it's exactly what we provide to our American heroes -- the more than 5 million armed forces veterans and their families. They get health care that the government both pays for and delivers. It's the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, and according to health care experts such as Phil Longman -- it's become one of the best health care systems in the country. So how did the once-maligned VA transform itself?"First and foremost, by pioneering electronic medical records," Longman said."Which is a much bigger deal than it might sound." Experts generally agree that electronic records are absolutely essential to significant health care reform. However, only about 5 percent of the nation's hospitals now have them. That means, for example, that in most private hospitals 20 percent of lab tests are repeated simply because doctors can't find a patient's results. But in the VA system, every patient's records are as close as a computer. It saves millions of dollars. And it's not just good business, it's good medicine..."
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