The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break.

An important open source event will take place in Paris on September 24th and 25th 2008 : it is called "Paris Capitale du Libre" (PCL) and it is organised by the FNILL (French national federation of the free
software industry): http://www.paris-libre.org/.

[Swedish] government officials project IT savings amounting to 50 percent within the next five years – approximately the cost of 400 fully-equipped police cars

Linux already powers everything from supercomputers to mobile phones. Google runs more than 10,000 Linux servers. Amazon.com switched to Linux and saved a cool $17 million. The French National Assembly has started using Ubuntu on more than 1,000 computers. Since the blockbuster movie "Shrek," the DreamWorks studio has been using Linux to render its 3-D graphics and special effects.

In my last post, I talked about the migration of a rural community in northern Nicaragua to Ubuntu Linux. After a year’s hard work, one of the biggest government offices has begun to migrate their systems from proprietary software to FOSS alternatives.

"It’s not often that we have *urgent* news in the Free Culture world, but today we do. [...] This bill contains wording that, if passed into law, would jeopardize federal aid for universities if they refused to filter their student’s internet access.

Ever since Dell announced that they would be selling computers with Ubuntu pre-installed, I have wanted to buy one. This is not because I was unable to install Ubuntu myself, but because I wanted to reward Dell for choosing Ubuntu. I also wanted to make a statement that there was consumer demand for Linux to be pre-installed on computers.

Last month I was threatened with police intervention after taking pictures of my two-year-old. Why?

Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPSI - News), a leading provider of healthcare information solutions, today announced the migration of the CPSI healthcare information system to the Linux operating system.