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Good Samaritans Choose Linux

Posted by michael on from the must-resist-punning dept.

blowdart writes "According to this article on the BBC news site the charity Samaritans has chosen Linux to provide it with more secure and powerful computer systems. The installation was supplied by Trustix with IBM providing network security. 'One of the great challenges for computing in any charity is to provide more for less,' said Mike Hermon, Information Systems Manager at Samaritans. According to the Trustix press release the installation is limited to security hardware only, "Samaritans is installing a four zone Trustix Firewall on an IBM eServer x305 and a Trustix Proxy Server on an IBM eServer x300 server.'" Oddly enough, today's Word A Day is Good Samaritan.

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  1. Re:Internal networks in charities by gilesjuk · · Score: 1, Troll

    Except the article doesn't mention how Linux has been deployed other than in a server role. Their desktops could still be Windows.

  2. Re:They should be running DOS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    hi very stupid troll...

    #1 DOS is NOT abandonware. it is used heavily every day and many companies still buy it every day for EMBEDDED SYSTEMS. things that windows CAN NOT do the job, although linux can... and linux is replacing dos in embedded systems every day.

    so please yell upstairs and tell you mom that you are stupid and you plan on living in her basement until she dies or you get too fat to fit up the stairwell.

    I am so impressed at how stupid the new AC's are around here... cna we please have an IQ test for them?

  3. Re:One quarter? by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps they mean it accounts for 25 cents of the total OS sales.