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TUSDEC joins Linux community LAHORE, Pakistan: Technology Upgradation and Skill Development Company (TUSDEC) has adopted open source software for its entire networking and communication to ensure the safe sharing and transfer of data. According to a spokesman of the company , TUSDEC is perhaps the first ever public sector institution in the country which has embraced the Linux-based software to avoid the problems like hacking and unauthorized sharing of information. The Linux-based software is relatively safer than commercial or closed software like Windows. Word Processing Software like Open Office users on Linux systems can open and view Microsoft Office documents. If these documents contain viruses, most probably they would not affect the Linux computers. Open source softwares like Linux are more secure by design, more stable, susceptible to fewer malware problems like virus, adware and spyware in addition to being true multiuser operating system. Major projects engaged in the development and promotion of open source software across the world include:- Freedesktop.org, Free Software Foundation, GIMP, GNU, Drupal, Inkscape, Java, Jboss, Joomla, KnowledgeTree, Debian, Linux, Macaulay 2, Miranda IM, Mozilla Foundation, MySQL and Ubuntu.