News stories about Linux and Open Source in government and legislation about Open Source.

 Aussie Defence Force shifts to Linux, Aug 31, 2009

The Australian Defence Force's latest flight simulator runs on SuSE Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers.

Tomorrow, the Department of Health and Human Services will host its first “code-a-thon” dedicated to the National Health Information Network and its Connect software. About 80 programmers, led by Apache developer (and Collabnet employee) Brian Behlendorf, will spend about four hours trying to stamp out bugs in the open source software gateway, which is based on National Health Information Network (NHIN) conventions.

Linux-based and open-source healthcare software has been around for years. Unless you were in health IT, however, chances are you never even heard of it. It's time to pay attention, because it may soon be tracking your medical records.

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