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Israeli Gov't Begins Testing Mandrake Linux

Posted by timothy on from the right-to-left dept.

DJStealth writes "According to this article on Arutz 7/Israel National News, the Israeli Gov't is beginning to move away from Microsoft and is testing localized versions of Mandrake Linux in the Treasury dept. as the contract with MS expires this month. This all despite a recent defense ministry contact with MS."

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  1. Re:I don't support Zionists. by Channard · · Score: 4, Funny
    What is the difference between a Zionist and a White Supremacist? Both believe that God has given them dominion over their land and right to kill anyone who resides on it that they don't like.

    Really? You must have seen the director's cut of The Matrix films. I thought the Zionists were more into have huge great rave scenes and then running about in powerloaders.

  2. In other news... by davidstrauss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Palestinian officials respond by rejecting Mandrake in favor of *BSD.

  3. Re:Is this a growing trend in business? by KoolDude · · Score: 5, Funny


    Ask any economist, this is "the standard business model" today.

    Nope. We're talking about Microsoft here. They *never* stick to the standards. :)

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  4. Re:Good move. by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a wise move for Israel that I hope will be duplicated all over the world,

    Which would really piss off the US intelligence community..... Which in turn is probably one of the Israeli's motives. I bet the CIA gets a small collective panic attack every time they lose track of what the Israelis are upto.

    AAAHHHHHHHHH......There is nothing like a good conspiracy theory to start the day!!!!

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  5. Re:Office 97 functionality by MoonFog · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the hell more can a company add? Talking paperclips?

    SHHH! They might hear you! ;)

  6. When Diplomacy Fails by ReadParse · · Score: 4, Funny

    WASHINGTON, DC - Only minutes after Secretary of State Colin Powell this morning announced that computing talks with Israel had broken down, Communications Minister Reuven Rivlin held a press conference to declare that Israel intended to go ahead with this week's planned Mandrake Linux testing.

    Minister Rivlin downplayed the computing tensions that might result along the Lebanese border. "Israel's computing sovereignty will not be challenged. If we want to move to BeOS, HP-UX, Solaris, PC-DOS... we cannot yield to world opinion when it comes to protecting our right to compute as God promised us we would be able to do."

    Israel's testing of Mandrake Linux comes on the tails of a 7-month period of testing of FreeBSD by most of that countries Arab neighbors. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had instructed Minister Rivlin in recent weeks to begin preparations for Linux testing, despite President Bush's calls for restraint.

    A Microsoft spokesman expressed sadness in a telephone conference call with the press this morning. "This is about more than a contract between the government of Israel and Microsoft," he said with a cracking voice. "It's about the stability of computing standards in the Middle East. I can't stop thinking about those kids." It is unclear at press time what in the world he was talking about.