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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. Re:Better headline by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 0, Redundant

    French police send SWAT team to kick in Linux's doors. They like what they see, and confiscate it for their own use.

    Naaah, the surrender thing is funnier.

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  2. Re:Better headline by sirmonkey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    lol now thats f'en funny right there... i was likeing the US(i live 10 minutes from dc) crack but thats better. only mabye, "microsoft takes over Mr. clouseau's bakery then fires him and ruin's his name" naa that sucks i'll leave the funny business to you crazy slashdot folk :-) oo oo lets see a "in sovit russia" joke!

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