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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."

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  1. Re:Still considering? by Scarblac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From the amount of detail, I'm quite sure he's from Paris or at least from France himself. It's a bit cynical, but not necessarily xenophobic...

    (for the record: I'm Dutch)

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