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French Police Ditching Windows for Linux 122

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @09:26PM from the viva-la-revolucion dept.

esocid writes "In another European blow to Microsoft the French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break. The gendarmerie began severing its ties with Microsoft in 2005 when it moved to open source office applications like word processing. It switched to open source Internet browsers in 2006."

Comment Where do you want to go today? (Score 1) 362

by RagingEmu on Wednesday July 20, 2005 @01:00AM (#13110810) Attached to: Will You Stick with Apple, After the Switch?

And what will you jump ship to, oh faithful Mac user? Windows, 'cause they're less evil (and didn't start the whole "trust" thing to begin with)? How about Linux? If Linux, what will you run it on, x86, PPC, or something even more obscure? Non-Mac PPC is a small enough niche as is, but perhaps it will suit you. If x86, then why are you giving up your OS and complaining about the architecture change in the first place?

-Faithful Mac user who sees the good and feels the bad in the switch, but is still sticking around.

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