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French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu
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."
Socialist theory, check.
Blowhards (ESR, Perens, Chirac) to pontificate and piss on the grave of corporations, check.
Unappealing brown theme, check.
Sodomy, check.
After all, why pay good money for a real distro, with a company behind it to provide support, just because its not a French one?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
...that the French had an aversion to things normal people like! Apparently they like stuff besides snails, frog's legs, and French military defeats!
Grammar Nazi
Parlez vous Frog?
I like Ububtu. The fact that France likes it too disturbes me. It isn't as if the French have ever made a major correct decision...
"You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
Or is it just another reason for people to boil out into the streets and burn something?
What will you tell your children when they ask you why using an operating system that was free and therefore obviously developed by terrorists was more fun than using Windows?
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We'll tell them that we changed the fries on parliament menu to "Ubuntu Fries" as revenge.
Ubuntu is going to turn the French into faggots.
Great, now that I have finally begun embrace Linux in general, Ubuntu specifically, for general, all around use at home, the friggan frog parliment decides *IT* needs to use it. I am now going to have to ditch my efforts to get off of the Microshaft addition, all because of the damn French. Oh wait...maybe they will give up on their adoption of Ubuntu, they give up on everthing else easy enough.
La mort vers la France!!!
"...a civilian some of the time, a soldier part of the time and a patriot all of the time." -Brig. Gen. James Drain
I think they'd prefer to use something that's actually stable.
Mandriva makes Win95 seem rock solid.