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French Police Ditching Windows for Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the viva-la-revolucion dept.

esocid writes "In another European blow to Microsoft the French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break. The gendarmerie began severing its ties with Microsoft in 2005 when it moved to open source office applications like word processing. It switched to open source Internet browsers in 2006."

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  1. penguin patrol by ILuvRamen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol that's all I got. They gotta change the name to the Penguin Patrol! Lol jk, I have something more constructive. I don't recall a story recently about any police databases getting hacked cuz they run insecure or worse, unpatched Microsoft software but wouldn't that suck if it did? I mean most of that stuff in their databases is public info anyway in the US at least but some of it isn't. So hurray for switching to something way more secure seeing as how the should probably have some security, you know.

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  2. Re:Linux does make sense. by sirmonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sissy :-) hehe sorry i'm just a gun owner, so my reaction would have been, ooo is that the new hk? or sig? i must go see..... me *jog's towards officer* "hey is that a...." them *lifting weapon* "" *bang* *bang* *jam* "" me "nope that would be a dressed up M16 and wow they can't aim" *returns to previous activities*

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  3. Re:Better headline by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about "Microsoft surrenders to Inspector Clouseau" then?
    Which one? The original British or the pitiful american imitation?