French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu

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French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @11:58PM from the all-those-letters-are-silent dept.

atamyrat reminds us that last November it was announced that the French Parliament had decided to switch to Linux. At that time the distro had not been determined. It will be Ubuntu: "[T]wo companies, Linagora and Unilog, have been selected to provide the members of the Parliament as well as their assistants new computers containing free software. This will amount to 1,154 new computers running Ubuntu prior to the start of the next session which occurs in June 2007."

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Quick French Lesson For Posters by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-12 00:04 · Score: 4, Funny

chair == chaise

throw == jet

monkey == singe

boy == garçon
1. Re:Quick French Lesson For Posters by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-12 00:32 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Le singe est dans l'arbre
  La chaise est dans l'arbre
  Mr. Balmer conduit l'autobus
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by MartinG · 2007-03-12 00:14 · Score: 4, Funny

enterprise-ish

Would you care to define enterprise-ish for us non-bullshit speaking types?

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Re:OT: Have anyone tried Wubi? by Bob54321 · 2007-03-12 00:42 · Score: 3, Funny

I haven't tried Wubi but I'm guessing its similar to the Debain Installer that I tried. I never had any trouble with that. You've got to love the Ubuntu wiki and its use cases!

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Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by meringuoid · 2007-03-12 01:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Would you care to define enterprise-ish for us non-bullshit speaking types?
enterpriseish: expensive, in such a way as to allow the head of IT to justify his large budget and hence status within the organisation; carries connotations of several very nice lunches with vendors and junkets to important conferences on an expense account.

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Re:Glad I don't do my IT work in France by iworm · 2007-03-12 01:08 · Score: 2, Funny

"Glad I don't do my IT work in France"

So are the French.
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-12 01:11 · Score: 1, Funny

By choosing SUSE you're a direct supporter of both Microsoft and software patents. und zie germans... something the french are particularly known for.
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by Da+Fokka · 2007-03-12 01:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Linus... is that you?
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-12 01:26 · Score: 1, Funny

The Live CD - version would be be a boon to French computer security!
No passwords or incriminating data will be stored on stolen from hard drive or secondary storage ever again!
, and never suffer computer data theft or security issues from a computer hard disk again

Live CD- isathe ticket to stopping data theft from computers from secondary storage like hard disks forever!
Because No hard disk or secondary storage need be in the machine, a stolen computer reveals no data to the thieves .
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by LingNoi · 2007-03-12 02:24 · Score: 2, Funny

We must tell the French government! What will they do without being able to find their source code!?
Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-12 04:56 · Score: 1, Funny

And with such god awful performance that the users would never have time to produce any sensitive data in the first place, win win!
Re: separation of powers by neutrino38 · 2007-03-12 08:22 · Score: 2, Funny

I see you've got a French url in your profile so you should know that or don't they teach that stuff in High School over there any more :)
I am computer geek remember?. French or not I am not supposed to know anything before Jan 1, 1970.

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