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Submission + - French government ditching Vista for Linux

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maddogsparky

on Tuesday November 28, 2006 @02:40PM

maddogsparky writes: "Starting in June 2007, the French parlement is switching to open source "http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6138372.html?part =rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news". The article states they will be using Linux, Firefox, Open Office and an unnamed email client on 1,154 workstations instead of switching to Vista."

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