Spanish Extremadura Moving 40,000 Desktops To Linux

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 23, 2012 @08:32PM from the influx-of-the-tux dept.

jrepin writes with this quote from a post at the European Commission's JoinUp site: "The administration of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura is moving to a complete open source desktop, replacing the current proprietary desktop platform, confirms the region's CIO, Teodomiro Cayetano López. The IT department started a project to install the Debian distribution on all 40,000 desktop PCs. 'The project is really advanced and we hope to start the deployment the next spring, finishing it in December.' The project makes it Europe's second largest open source desktop migration, between the French Gendarmerie (90,000 desktops) and the German city of Munich (14,000 desktops)."

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Nobody expects... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-23 20:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Nobody expects the Spanish Extremadura!
So, 2012 is the year of the Linux desktop? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-23 21:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Finally! Just in time for the end of the world, too.
Re:Europe is broke , Linux to the recue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-23 23:33 · Score: 2, Funny

My Linux distro is the customest
Re:Europe is broke , Linux to the recue by dintech · 2012-01-23 23:44 · Score: 4, Funny

No one expected the Spanish Extremadura... to switch to linux desktop.