arstechnica.com — A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015.
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Closed AccountMar 12, 2009
"Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy."Pft, and here I thought Linux is completely unusable by your average computer user...
jantjepietjeMar 12, 2009
Lt. Col. Guimard. "Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority."Dugg for the understatement of " games are not our priority"
secrityMar 12, 2009
yessuz; Employees will use the tools that their employer provides them with; there is no need for employees to be unhappy.
sammi84Mar 13, 2009
"Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority."I really hate when people misspell Microsoft and Windows in derogatory ways. It's immature and dumb, but IMHO "Wintendo" is pretty descriptive and accurate :D
trevwolfMar 13, 2009
Wanking Wombat
Closed AccountMar 13, 2009
Is it a ubuntu adoption, or an ubuntu adoption?"An ubuntu" just doesn't sound right.
int19hMar 14, 2009
One translation of Ubuntu is "humanty towards others", for those who dugg this one down.
int19hMar 14, 2009
"An Ubuntu adoption".