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French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu

Posted by timothy on from the justified-disdain dept.

Ynot_82 writes "The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the move, Lt. Col. Guimard had this comment: '"Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority."'"

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  1. Games are not our priority by macxcool · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... but solitaire and minesweeper are great training for stakeouts ;-)

    1. Re:Games are not our priority by Thelasko · · Score: 5, Funny

      How do they ever expect to catch Riddler?

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    2. Re:Games are not our priority by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Funny

      In fact, solitaire really is great training for using a mouse. Time and again I have seen novice computer users of all ages, who would otherwise struggle with the mouse, become quite proficient after only an hour or so playing solitaire.

      Now if they could just be gotten to stop playing solitaire afterwards, they could move on to other lessons.

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  2. Run away or I shall taunt you a second time by Teresita · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don' frighten us, Microsoft pig-dogs!

    1. Re:Run away or I shall taunt you a second time by MacColossus · · Score: 5, Funny

      They said they were looking for the Vista Grail. I told them we already have one.

  3. Duh by spykemail · · Score: 5, Funny

    Free is cheaper. Who knew?

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  4. French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu? by canuck08 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu."

    Jesus Christ! Windows was killing millions of people in France?!?!

  5. Re: French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubunt by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jesus Christ! Windows was killing millions of people in France?!?!

    Why do you think they call it the 'Blue Screen of Death'?

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  6. Re: French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubunt by nixdroid · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no, millions of _Francs_. About $1.98.

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  7. Re:Allies? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    So can we now call Linux the Allies coming to save France? I didn't want to 'call' the other side of that.....

    No! No, way! You absolutely, positively are NOT going to trick me into saying that Microsoft is the Axis of Evil! Do you have any idea how fast I'd be modded down by the Microsoft fanboys? Forget it! I'm not doing it!

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  8. Re: French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubunt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And why do you think the French sigh of exasperation is "sacre bleu"?