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French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by Short+Circuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To me, Fedora is the RPM equivalent of Ubuntu.

    I'm not sure either should be used as an enterprise's first Linux desktop rollout; Windows admins aren't accustomed to their relatively furious rate of major releases.

    Debian might have been a better choice, with its slow release cycle and decent security patch rollout rate.

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  2. Re:Perfect matchup by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While it's not my favorite distro, there are plenty of support options available for Ubuntu. Of course I'm pretty sure you knew that and just felt like tossing out a troll. The alternative is you're just daft.

  3. Re:Quick French Lesson For Posters by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It isn't as if the French have ever made a major correct decision... Yeah, their decision to support those damn rebels in the colonies and help them overthrow their rightful British rulers, that was a real bad one! And that stupid statue they gave them, how inappropriate!

    In more recent times, their decsion to stay out of a disasterous war based on dubious evidence is looking better and better as time goes by.
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  4. Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by Knuckles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The thing is that Ubuntu is built around the latest and greatest bleeding edge bits and pieces, it's quite common for stable packages to be replaced with beta versions and for things to break horribly without warning. Maybe Ubuntu could start releasing a toned down distribution for use in environments where stability and predictable behaviour is more important.

    You have no clue how the Ubuntu releases work, do you? What you proposing exists since 06/2006, it is called Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

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  5. Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... by Zonk+(troll) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmm. Perhaps you haven't heard of the LTS release. Dapper is supported on the desktop for 3 years, 5 on the server. Packages are stable, only getting security and bug fixes. Similar to RHEL. I'm sure this is what they're planning on using. If not, they need to fire the implementers.

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  6. Re:Surprising choice by corwin2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd have expected a French governmental institute to have chosen a good French product like Mandriva over an British on like Ubuntu (Conanical Ltd. is registered in the Isle of Man). Those French do so love their protectionism at the expense of flexibility and a fair market, after all.
    It may also mean that your view of the French mindset is not totally accurate ? ;)