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Freedom IT Limited is an information technology company: started and incorporated in 2007 by Allan & Kelli-Anne Eastmond. Allan is an IT professional whose experience has been in the Information Technology industry for the past 22 years, both in a corporate environment and in a reseller/service provider role. He has been using Linux since 1998.
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One of Freedom IT''s chief goals is to provide businesses and you, the customer, with an open-minded alternative. This alternative is a good quality, cost-effective, viable solution that once implemented proves very satisfying and rewarding and most importantly, beneficial for your business.
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Freedom IT's ethos is built around the notion of the GNU General Public License - That software is better utilised and more knowledge is gained when it is open and shared, both in use and development.
 Hang Yes!! Here at Freedom IT we use Linux and open source products as much as possible.
Our office productivity suite of choice is LibreOffice (the Document Foundation's fork of OpenOffice.org).
I have heard of NZ companies running open-source accounting software very successfully, such as Quasar and LedgerSMB , but we have yet to trial these.
The CRM software we run is SugarCRM , community edition. This is a very powerful web-based customer relationship manager solution. It is free and open source software. We use this as our main calendar for work and potential work!
We have a 'main' CentOS 5.6 x86_64 host server that holds all our files, documents,etc. This server also has a couple of KVM-based virtual machines running. We have a Scalix email server running in a Centos 5.6 x86_64 KVM virtual guest. And a Windows 2003 Standard Server KVM virtual guest that we run MYOB AccountRight Premier on for accounts. The host server is also used to boot customer PC's via the PXE Network and run various tools such as hardware sniffers, disk cloning/management tools (clonezilla, parted magic), flash updating tools, etc. We also use the PXE boot to try out things like xPud.
We also have a Asterisk-based PBX server running Trixbox 2.6.2 on a(nother, real) Centos 5.6 i386 box!  When you ring us you are going through a Trixbox Asterisk PABX. And, incidentally, the on-hold music you hear is available from the most excellent Jamendo website. Jamendo gives artists the opportunity to release their musical creations to the world. And they allow you to download it for free. You'll find some real gems! This is 'grassroots' music at its best.
We have another desktop PC that runs Fedora Core 15 with LTSP. This is used to run VMWare Server to provide access to a Windows XP virtual machine (amongst others - Centos 5, DOS). It can also be used to boot diskless thin clients to enable me to login to the Fedora 13 box. It is also the main desktop I use for setting up websites, and manipulating images with the GIMP.
There is also a HP TC4400 Tablet laptop that runs Ubuntu. It use to dual-boot Windows but it was wasted disk space! I never used Windows. So now I have virtualised the Windows (using Oracle's Virtualbox free product) for the odd occasions I need it!
 As an aside, we run a Fedora-based distro initially installed as MythDora that provides PVR functionailty using MythTV (v0.24.1) in our living room. We now keep upgrading this to the latest and greatest RPMS provided by the RPMFusion repository. We can record programs and then watch them when we like and one of the best parts is: it skips the commercials! We can also view the recorded programs from any computer in the house - Mac OSX has a MythTV Frontend , as does Windows (of sorts) and, of course, Linux!
Oh, and just a reminder, all the Linux-based stuff we use above IS FREE!
- Isn't freedom a wonderful feeling?!
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