"The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and incrementally migrate to Ubuntu."
March 11, 2009:
"At the current stage of the migration, it has adopted Ubuntu on 5,000 workstations. Based on the success of this pilot migration, it plans to move forward and switch a total of 15,000 workstations to Ubuntu by the end of the year. It aims to have the entire organization, and all 90,000 of its workstations, running the Linux distribution by 2015."
"A report published by the European Commission's Open Source Observatory provides some details from a recent presentation given by Gendarmerie Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard, who says that the Gendarmerie has been able to reduced its annual IT budget by 70 percent without having to reduce its capabilities."
Maybe they should talk to the "European Commission's Open Source Observatory", when they want information about deployments. DUH !
hdparm -T ? How is that an indication of your SSD ?
from the manualpage:
"This displays the speed of reading directly from the Linux buffer cache without disk access. This measurement is essentially an indication of the throughput of the processor, cache, and memory of the system under test."
Not just any SSD, some have stutter, some degrade in very bad ways, I would say: "if you choose wisely your SSD will perform better than any platter based drive. But you won't be buying the cheapest SSD" or something of that nature.
Good SSD's are very expensive in comparison to HDD's.
summary: SSD's are faster than HDD's, but SSD's degrade in a bad way due to fragmentation and some have a stutter. But the fastest/best SSD's even when degraded are still faster than the fastest HDD's (they are also very expansive in comparison). If you use SSD's as the/usr or something like that, which doesn't get a lot writes/changes (and use the noatime mount-option) you should have a more responsive system.
It all depends, where you look, how you look at it, etc.
In Europe Firefox 3 has the largest browser-version share. Firefox 3 alone is larger than IE7 and IE8 combined. IE6 (7.1 %) is actually keeping IE from loosing thair top position. But Firefox is at 43.02% and IE at 44.7% and IE is loosing.
But if you look at IE in the Netherlands for example where I life it's at 71 % and hardly declining, geez. scary.
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So what about the French Police ?:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars
"The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and incrementally migrate to Ubuntu."
March 11, 2009:
"At the current stage of the migration, it has adopted Ubuntu on 5,000 workstations. Based on the success of this pilot migration, it plans to move forward and switch a total of 15,000 workstations to Ubuntu by the end of the year. It aims to have the entire organization, and all 90,000 of its workstations, running the Linux distribution by 2015."
"A report published by the European Commission's Open Source Observatory provides some details from a recent presentation given by Gendarmerie Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard, who says that the Gendarmerie has been able to reduced its annual IT budget by 70 percent without having to reduce its capabilities."
Maybe they should talk to the "European Commission's Open Source Observatory", when they want information about deployments. DUH !
Probably one of the best most information-packed articles I've seen in ages.
Which article would that be, or did you mean Anandtech ?:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=1
hdparm -T ? How is that an indication of your SSD ?
from the manualpage:
"This displays the speed of reading directly from the Linux buffer cache without disk access. This measurement is essentially an indication of the throughput of the processor, cache, and memory of the system under test."
"your SSD will perform better than any platter based drive even when totally full"
I suggest you first read up on that:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=8
Not just any SSD, some have stutter, some degrade in very bad ways, I would say: "if you choose wisely your SSD will perform better than any platter based drive. But you won't be buying the cheapest SSD" or something of that nature.
Good SSD's are very expensive in comparison to HDD's.
summary: SSD's are faster than HDD's, but SSD's degrade in a bad way due to fragmentation and some have a stutter. But the fastest/best SSD's even when degraded are still faster than the fastest HDD's (they are also very expansive in comparison). If you use SSD's as the /usr or something like that, which doesn't get a lot writes/changes (and use the noatime mount-option) you should have a more responsive system.
*ding* *ding* *ding* we have a winner ! ;-)
And I'm sure the US-goverment already has access to the source code of any recent version anyway.
Just forgot to mention, there are already OpenHardware sparc-processors out there.
"LEON is an open source 32-bit SPARC-like CPU created by the European Space Agency. It's the standard CPU for the European Space Industry."
But the clock frequency is measured in Mhz, not Ghz at this point.
That was exactly my point, I've used Sun Sparc-based workstations, they have the same RAM and PCI-busses, etc.
Sparc is a pretty open platform (open processor specs if I'm not mistaken and some open source processors available as well), it has PCI-support.
It all depends, where you look, how you look at it, etc.
In Europe Firefox 3 has the largest browser-version share. Firefox 3 alone
is larger than IE7 and IE8 combined. IE6 (7.1 %) is actually keeping IE
from loosing thair top position. But Firefox is at 43.02% and IE at 44.7%
and IE is loosing.
But if you look at IE in the Netherlands for example where I life it's at 71 % and
hardly declining, geez. scary.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-eu-daily-20080701-20090502
It's a small world after all. ;-)
About half is not the same as: as much
(Linux: 1.02%, iPhone: 0.55 %)
I think you misread the title of their website:
"The Universal Operating System" ;-)
I think it might be because Slashdot runs on Debian-servers ? This shows the editors bias towards Debian (based) distro(s). I could be wrong ofcourse.
or:
sudo su -
to get a fresh root enviroment.
What does this bring us ? A list of servers that 'IS Interned Services' hasn't had any security updates or more likely their colo-customers servers ?
But you want to change the functions of the keys each time.
So why not put screens on buttons ?:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
You would atleast need to clear the Google-cookies.
Atleast for that to be useful, do you really think logging out actually erases any cookies ?
I haven't ever seen or tried it, but there is Pulse from Mandrake:
http://www.mandriva.com/enterprise/en/products/pulse
"3. Because of point 2, every app needs to use the same shared library version."
nonsense, you just need to install the right shared library, have a look at the output of the ldd-command.
What architecture are you missing in this case ? The iPhone has the same CPU as the ARM-netbooks.
You don't think Microsoft is actually innovating do you ?
That depends on what segment of the marketplace you are talking about.