The name Ruben Unteregger may well become more newsworthy in the next few days. Unteregger has been working at the Swiss ERA IT Solutions company to develop the trojans MegaPanzer and MiniPanzer and has released the code under GPL.
Read more »MegaPanzer: Parts of Possible Govware Trojan Released under GPL
http://www.linux-magazine.com –
- Login to post comments
Defence spends $1.7m on ultimate Linux flight simulator
http://www.itnews.com.au –
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has revealed its latest flight simulator runs on Suse Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers and uses an open source graphics platform.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Windows 7 enabled netbooks for schools to include open source software
http://www.cio.com.au –
The 267,000 Windows 7 based netbooks that the NSW Government has started rolling out to high schools will come pre-installed with open source software.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Why Microsoft is Australia's Default Buy
http://www.itwire.com –
A veteran of Australia's open source industry says that unless government agencies make a fundamental decision to change technologies and then plan their move, the status quo will remain.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Government Embraces Cloud Computing, Launches App Store
http://www.informationweek.com –
To address rising information technology costs, the government is making a major commitment to cloud computing, a move that aspires not only to cost and labor efficiencies, but also to environmental responsibility and openness to innovation.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Moving Up The Rings
http://www.linuxjournal.com –
Many things have rings: mobile phones have incredibly annoying ones, jewelers have incredibly expensive ones, and Hell — at least according to Dante — has incredibly detailed ones. For the past three years, thanks to a government contractor called Coverity, Open Source has rung as well.
Read more »- Login to post comments
UK government ignoring own rules on open source
http://www.channelregister.co.uk –
Open source vendors are calling on the UK government to put its money where its mouth is and police its own rules on public sector open source software procurement - which were revised in February this year.
Read more »- Login to post comments
The Corporate States of Europe
http://www.laquadrature.net –
"Summary: Amendments to the Universal Service directive pushed by American Telco AT&T currently allow operators to implement anti-Net neutrality measures. These provisions: ..."
Read more »
- Login to post comments
What's new with Open Source for America?
http://www.infoworld.com –
Open Source for America (OSFA) was announced as a coalition to encourage U.S. federal government support of, and participation in, open source projects and technologies. If that sounds like a broad-reaching goal, it is. Nearly three months after the group's debut, I was interested to learn what progress OSFA has made toward this goal.
Read more »- Login to post comments
It's Time for Obama to Come Out for FOSS
http://www.consortiuminfo.org –
Some of the best software available is open source, but non-proprietary software has enemies as well as friends. Not surprisingly, then there's been plenty of fog on Capitol Hill about free and open source software (FOSS) for a decade now.
Read more »- Login to post comments
OSI and White House agree on open source benefits, platforms
http://opensource.org –
To me, the bottom line of all of this is that the Obama administration recognizes that information technology in the public sector can be, and should be, a two-way street.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
DoD issues new open-source guidance
http://news.cnet.com –
The U.S. military is no laggard when it comes to open-source software adoption, but apparently thinks it can do better. The U.S. Department of Defense on Tuesday issued new guidelines designed to remove roadblocks to open-source adoption, arguing that open source can help the Defense Department "anticipate new threats and respond to continuously changing requirements."
Read more »- Login to post comments
Netherlands government launches ODF service at Italian Plugfest
http://lists.opendocsociety.org –
The Dutch government program "Netherlands in Open Connection" and OpenDoc Society have announced the public availability of a beta version of Officeshots.org. Officeshots is an online webservice that makes it possible to compare the output quality of various office suites as well as web-based productivity applications.
Read more »German government wants open standards, open source
http://www.osor.eu –
The newly elected German government plans to support open standards and open source software. In its four-year coalition contract, the government led by chancellor Angela Merkel, writes it wants to orient its IT systems on open standards and include open source solutions.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Cuba preparing to quit Windows in favor of GNU/Linux
http://www.ghabuntu.com –
Cuban authorities are seriously preparing to quit the Windows operating system and use the GNU/Linux free software instead.
Read more »- Login to post comments
