[dot] German Government Desktop Unveiled

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1088578332/

From: Andreas Mueller <amu at kde.org>
Dept: linux-for-charges-and-other-departments
Date: Wednesday 30/Jun/2004, @08:52

German Government Desktop Unveiled
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   During LinuxTag 2004 [http://www.linuxtag.org/] the German Federal
Office for Information Security [http://www.bsi.bund.de/] (BSI) and the
company credativ [http://www.credativ.de/] unveiled the Linux Government
Desktop [http://www.bsi.bund.de/presse/pressinf/linuxtag220604.htm]. The
Linux Goverment Desktop has been developed within the scope of the
project ERPOSS which evaluates Open Source Software in government
environments.

     Composed entirely of free software the distribution is available as
a Live CD as well as an Install CD. While it's based on Debian Stable
[http://www.debian.org/] (Woody) the CD contains KDE 3.2.2, Mozilla
[http://mozilla.org/] and a special themed version of OpenOffice 1.1.1
[http://kde.openoffice.org/] which integrates seamlessly with KDE.

     One of the highlights brought by the Government Desktop is the fact
that it saves the whole data on encrypted filesystems. Furthermore KMail
[http://kmail.kde.org/] is preconfigured to send and receive encrypted
e-mail (GnuPG and S/MIME) and to make use of all kinds of authority
certificates. The package is completed by integrated spam and virus
protection and a preconfigured personal firewall.