[Gllug] Linux Petition

[Christopher Hunter]

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 22:06 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Mon 02 Apr, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> > 
> > The cause may be worthy, but the likelihood of the Government migrating
> > from Windows to Linux is zero, at least in the foreseeable future.
> > 
>    I have been in contact with my own MP, Angie Bray MP, Parliamentary
> Private Secretary to the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Member of
> Parliament for Ealing Central & Acton, about the use of Free Open Source
> Software, and there have been indications that the government has been
> listening.
>    My local London Borough of Ealing has been watching the results as some
> other London Boroughs have moved towards Linux. I was told that they are
> worried about the costs of retraining staff, although that has to happen
> every time a new version of their existing system is released.
>    I saw a report that the US have given up the idea of having only
> perimeter security, and now assume that almost all networks have been
> cracked - so just try to protect the contents. The US Air Force has been
> working with the US government to produce a minimal ultra-secure Linux
> distribution, and I think it is likely that the UK government is watching.
> 

Chris (and all)

Practically speaking, we're not concerned much about people cracking the
access to our systems (closed or open source) - it's really not the
problem.  

The real issue is the "packet flood" problem, causing "Denial of
Service" - they probably won't gain access to anything sensitive, but
neither will we!  These attacks leave our networks so clogged with
malicious (and rejected) packets that they are rendered unusable.

C.

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