[General] French Police Choose Linux

[Burhan Khalid]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130/tc_afp/franceinternetpolice

"PARIS (AFP) - 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.
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The move completes the gendarmerie's severance from Microsoft which 
began in 2005 when it moved to open sourcing for office applications 
such as word processing. It switched to open source Internet browsers in 
2006.

Linux is an open-source operating system, which used to be the reserve 
of computer geeks but is now an easy-to-use system aimed at average users.

The gendarmerie's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows XP 
operating system. But these will progressively change over to the Linux 
system distributed by Ubuntu, explained Colonel Nicolas Geraud, deputy 
director of the gendarmerie's IT department."
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