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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Re:Europe is broke , Linux to the recue by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-23 22:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Bring the Occupy movement into the real world. Say no to Proprietary Corporate Software. Bring the business back to the people. All hail to Linux!
Show the world how we can really change it for the better. Down with the corporate Zealots.
We have the power. We only have to take it. Don't wait for your co-worker. Take a stand.
Occupy the desktop!