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French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
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France’s Gendarmerie Nationale, the country’s national police force, says it has saved millions of dollars by migrating its desktop software infrastructure away from Microsoft Windows and replacing it with the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire [...]
Building belonging is the secret to open source success
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At the Southern California Linux Expo last week, Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon discussed the importance of community building and the role that it plays in accelerating open source software development.
The community-driven development model has proven enormously successful for many large-scale software projects. Communities often emerge organically around technologies that have substantial value, [...]
The New York Times On Ubuntu: Half-Right
When an article about Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical, and Ubuntu begins with the words “They’re either hapless pests or the very people capable of overthrowing Windows. Take your pick,” then I’m fairly sure I’m not about to read a good article about any of the above. But that’s the first line of a piece about them [...]
Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream
THEY’RE either hapless pests or the very people capable of overthrowing Windows. Take your pick.
In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. They came from all over the world, sporting many of the usual signs of software mercenaries: jeans, ponytails, unruly facial hair [...]