french police move to linux

http://www.physorg.com/news120930030.html
"The gendarmerie's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows XP
operating system. But these will progressively change over to the Linux
system distributed by Ubuntu, explained Colonel Nicolas Geraud, deputy
director of the gendarmerie's IT department"


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