Nonprofit Runs On Open Source
It's not easy to run an organization with 1,500 PCs on almost no Microsoft products, but that's what Mosaic, a faith-based nonprofit organization that provides services to the developmentally disabled, is doing with the help of open source and cloud computing.
Mosaic began investigating client virtualization and desktop Linux in 2004 as a possible cost-cutting exercise, and slowly began repurposing its old PCs as thin clients running remote instances of Novell SUSE Linux. The Omaha-based organization switched from SUSE to Ubuntu last year and ramped up its project. Now, almost all of Mosaic's 1,500 PCs in more than a dozen locations run Ubuntu 9.04 delivered over its network with desktop virtualization from NoMachine.
Those PCs also run OpenOffice as a productivity suite, Firefox as the Web browser, open source GIMP for photo editing, Scribus for desktop publishing, GLabels for printing labels, and e-mail from Google.
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