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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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There are three reasons behind the move, Geraud said at the Solution Linux 2008 conference here. The first is to diversify suppliers and reduce the force's reliance on one company, the second is to give the gendarmerie mastery of the operating system and the third is cost, he said.
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A year later it abandoned Mircosoft's Internet Explorer for the Mozilla Foundation's browser Firefox and its email client Thunderbird.
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AFP: French police deal blow to Microsoft
Next time I get stop by the Gendarmerie to blow in the baloon, I will look at them with a different eye
Their servers are already running under Debian, their Windows are allready running OpenOffice, Firefox... so the next logical move was Ubuntu
Gendarmerie is avant-gardiste, precursor... I will have never thought about this!