Hi :) Interestingly apparently many US government agencies and departments use Gnu&Linux for most of their server-side and infra-structure but had to cave into users demands for MS on their desktops.
An interesting quiet little press release appeared on the DistroWatch website a few days ago. http://distrowatch.com/ Scroll down to the note written 2012-04-13 "A new version of Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), a Linux live CD with strong privacy protection features created by the United States Department of Defence, is out. Version 1.3.3 is a maintenance release, updating Firefox, Flash, Adobe Reader and OpenSSL, and adding Thunderbird and Pidgin to the "deluxe" edition. From the changelog: "Changes in version 1.3.3: updated Firefox to 10.0.3 ESR; updated Flash to 11.2.202.228; updated OpenSSL to 0.9.8u; updated Adobe Reader to 9.5.1; updated Encryption Wizard application to 3.3.2; added Thunderbird 3.1.20 and DAVmail to LPS-Public Deluxe for S/MIME email support with MS Exchange OWA; added Pidgin 2.10.2 (with SameTime support); added VMware View 1.4; added option for OpenDNS DNSCrypt; added Firefox extension HTTPS Everywhere 2.0.1; added Firefox extension NoScript 2.3.7 (disabled by default)." Download (SHA256) the live CD images from the project's download server: LPS-1.3.3_public.iso (176MB), LPS-1.3.3_public_deluxe.iso (377MB)." Shamelessly copy&pasted from the DW site. See the original here http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07201 if it has scrolled off the bottom of the DW front page. Err, i bcc'd one of the main people, probably the top person at DW just to keep him in the loop Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 18/4/12, Ken Springer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ken Springer <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: beware of the m$ subsidiary To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 18 April, 2012, 12:14 On 4/17/12 6:01 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: > Most government agencies [USA] at all > levels are not "allowed" to use any other office package but MSO AND are > forbidden to install software on their computers, including > screen-savers and such. It can be misleading to say something like this (yes, it's true) without also saying *why* these policies are in place. To keep the explanation simple, it's the ability to support the hardware and software out there, and ensure security of the system as a whole, and do so with diminishing resources. Been there, done that. :-) -- Ken Mac OS X 10.6.8 Firefox 11.0 Thunderbird 11.0.1 LibreOffice 3.5.1.2 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
