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French Police Migrating To Linux

Posted by timothy on from the actually-I'd-rather-the-police-use-windows dept.

kernel_dan writes "According to heise online, la Gendarmerie Nationale française (French police) will be changing all their computers to Linux. The numbers: 35,000 computers by the end of this month and 80,000 by the end of the summer will be running Linux."

2 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. RTFA by madaxe42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It'd be great if the moderators bothered to read the article. They are NOT switching to Linux, they are switching to OPENOFFICE.

  2. Another inaccuracy by LeninZhiv · · Score: 4, Informative

    La gendarmerie nationale is not the same thing as la police nationale--the latter of whom I would call "the French police". The gendarmerie would be better described as "the French military police", since they are considered part of the armed forces whereas the police are civilian--although they do also take on roles analagous to those of US State troopers.