TR: Ministry of Defense to switch to Pardus GNU/Linux
Turkey's Military Recruitment Division, part of the Ministry of Defense, is switching to Pardus GNU/Linux on all of its 4500 desktops and more than five hundred servers. The migration process will begin in October and take about four months.
It is the largest switch to Open
Source software in Turkey to date. The Ministry of Defense has been
preparing the migration to Open Source for more than one year. It
recently decided to use the Pardus GNU/Linux distribution developed by
Turkey's National Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (Uekae).
In
order to ensure a smooth migration, Uekea will work with two IT
services companies. Replacing operating systems and applications
involves offices in more that sixty cities.
Central management
Especially
for this migration project, Uekae developed Ahenk, Harmony in English.
Ahenk allows central configuration, maintenance and application
management of all the Pardus desktops PCs. It also enables IT staff to
centrally manage user accounts, as Ahenk can be configured to use
secure standard IT directory services, LDAP. To manage the boot-process
of the Pardus PCs, the Uekae modified the code employed in the Linux
Terminal Server Project.
The source code of the Ahenk remote
management tool as well as all other Pardus GNU/Linux applications are
open to public with their corresponding licenses.
Pardus GNU/Linux
Each
year, public administrations in Turkey pay millions for software
acquisition. Pardus is the country's answer to softare piracy and
should increase Open Source awareness. Using server statistics, it is
estimated that Turkey already has more than 200.000 daily Pardus users.
Pardus
GNU/Linux is a distribution developed Uekae. The research foundations
codes and maintains two version of the Open Source operating system,
one to be used for servers and for desktop use. Pardus GNU/Linux is
available in eleven languages. According to some reviews, Pardus
delivers one of the more innovative and usable desktop environments due
to its user friendly package management system.
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