The police recently followed the fate of the government and a wave of public service to find solutions to Linux. In particular, law enforcement, consistent with its needs and open source software. The work must be based on the budget of a taxpayer and open source is free or low cost. They need maximum security, and the Linux operating software remains the highest score in the official government estimates. They need reliable mission-critical, and Linux is so stable, not just more “high competition for stability – allows competition away!
Some recent examples of the police to find an open source solution:
* The Kent police have reduced the cost of major investigations of criminal operating system by a factor of 90% the use of Novell Open Enterprise Linux Server. Novell Migration to Kent gradually increased its research system Holmes II to work on large projects with a broader scope – something that had never been done before. They were also able to run on their hardware they could find cheaper, thanks to the light requirements of Linux. A new operating system, police, called Genesis, is being tested for scalability on Linux servers.
* The delivery of the first Linux systems for West Yorkshire police could see the police forces in England and Wales unanimously to change Linux desktop in a new pilot project. Water is supplied under a contract awarded by the UK Police IT organization. If successful, will result in more than 60,000 desktop computers distributed. In West Yorkshire alone, the installed base of 3,500, and a spokesman estimated that the savings would be approximately one million pounds per year!
* New South Wales Police Department is conducting a major upgrade of its information infrastructure, made necessary because of the increasing volume of data processed by force, and are switching to Linux to handle the load. Since Linux systems are proving to be as reliable, they are expecting greater network capacity more efficiently storing and transmitting data stored as evidence, including surveillance video and audio material.
* Scottish police forces has also developed a Linux-based system to ensure compliance on the Freedom of Information Act, a law that aims to facilitate open government to allow the public to request access to data government. As open source and free flow of information go hand in hand, the system has reduced easily and saved tons of work. The force does not have to worry about media formats owned by interfering with the ability of public access to information and efficiency of Linux allows a lot of manual tasks by automating could not do before. The system is literally officers on the streets again because he saved everyone so much work.
* The city police in Munich approved 14,000 of the department of computer operating system Microsoft Windows to Linux. The reasons for the decision to make government less dependent on a supplier of information technology, and save money, increase capacity. A technology analyst compared with migration to break the fall of the Berlin Wall, with reference to the requirements of dealing with the oppressive agenda of the owner of a software company.
This government believes that friendship with open source should not be a surprise. Traditionally, the Internet was 80% based on Linux and Unix since its inception. The first Internet services were launched and operated by providers of government, which uses a Unix features built-in multitasking and excellent speed to create a fast and reliable network. Linux, a modern version of Unix that ideal, has already established itself as the main distribution system for the server room, but now the effects are starting to get to the desktop deployments and workstations at the user level, where are finding that Linux systems are working and built features, the other commercial operating systems are only now beginning to discover and accomplish.
In addition, Linux systems come with a warranty that are open source, any business can limit its use in the future. A platform can be ported to Linux in Linux, without the support of the struggle and constant updates cause problems in the future.
Finally, the intrinsic safety of the Unix process model ensures the effectiveness of Linux without worrying about security issues. Because there are actually no virus can infect a Linux system known, and no critical security exploits found in the systems of government security rules, services are also considering Linux as a measure to protect national database under concerns about national security and the terrorist threat in modern times.