French Police Ditch Windows for Ubuntu

French police deal blow to Microsoft

by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET

PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's
Windows XPoperating 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.

"We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."

More:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice

Alias

BFD. So a police department decides to use Linux. I bet that gives you one
big HARD-ON!

Just FYI :-)


"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>
> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>
> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows
> XPoperating 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.
>
> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>
> More:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>
> Alias

Bill Yanaire wrote:
> BFD. So a police department decides to use Linux.

Sign of the times.

> I bet that gives you one
> big HARD-ON!

Erm, no it doesn't. Why should it?

>
> Just FYI :-)

Oh, how cute and clever.

Alias
>
>
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>>
>> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>>
>> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows
>> XPoperating 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.
>>
>> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
>> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
>> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
>> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>>
>> More:
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>>
>> Alias
>
>

Bill Yanaire wrote:
> BFD. So a police department decides to use Linux. I bet that gives you one
> big HARD-ON!
>
> Just FYI :-)

FYI, if the situation were reversed, you would probably be the one with
a hard-on.
>
>
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>>
>> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>>
>> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows
>> XPoperating 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.
>>
>> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
>> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
>> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
>> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>>
>> More:
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>>
>> Alias
>
>


--
norm

And the French too boot! Now there is a trend setting bunch :-)


"Bill Yanaire" <> wrote in message
news:...
> BFD. So a police department decides to use Linux. I bet that gives you
> one big HARD-ON!
>
> Just FYI :-)
>
>
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>>
>> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>>
>> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows
>> XPoperating 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.
>>
>> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
>> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
>> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
>> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>>
>> More:
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>>
>> Alias
>
>

"norm" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>> BFD. So a police department decides to use Linux. I bet that gives you
>> one big HARD-ON!
>>
>> Just FYI :-)
>
> FYI, if the situation were reversed, you would probably be the one with a
> hard-on.
>>
>>

Nope. Not even close. If a big police department decided to go with
Windows, who cares.

Alias just loves to let everyone know when another copy of Linux is used.
It just makes his day

>> "Alias" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>>>
>>> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>>>
>>> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows
>>> XPoperating 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.
>>>
>>> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
>>> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
>>> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
>>> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>>>
>>> More:
>>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> norm

Alias wrote:

> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>
> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>
> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's
> Windows XPoperating 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.
>
> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>
> More:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>
> Alias

hehehe...I guess a lot of people will have to be paying their speeding
tickets in France!
Frank

Frank wrote:
> Alias wrote:
>
>> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>>
>> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>>
>> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's
>> Windows XPoperating 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.
>>
>> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
>> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
>> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
>> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>>
>> More:
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>>
>> Alias
>
> hehehe...I guess a lot of people will have to be paying their speeding
> tickets in France!
> Frank


The French paramilitary police force doesn't involve itself in parking
tickets, not that parking tickets had *anything* to do with the article.
It was only a lame (again) attempt on your part to distract from the
subject.

Alias

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:55:16 +0100, Alias
<> wrote:

> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>
> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>
> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's
>Windows XPoperating 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.
>
> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>
>More:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>
>Alias


I bet Inspector Clouseau made the decision.

Hercule Poirot did it. I know it. He hates the Americans.

I hope it will have a major impact on the crime spree in the country. They
have so many African Arabs that without Ubuntu it is hard to imagine how
they can handle them. That is 's territory. He is
in class struggle.

What shocks me it that the French do have computers!!! They have resisted
the Internet for a very simple reason (paranoid reason actually) that it is
a vehicle of Anglo-Saxon cultural imperialism. Just a couple years ago I saw
a documentary where they showed a French judge sitting in her office and
talking to the media. Her desk is covered with unimaginable piles of paper
folders with no computer in sight.

This decision will definitely elevate the French sagging spirit, although
they do not give a damn about anything. They just love to punch Uncle Sam in
the nose even if the impact is just symbolic. A major Software and Hardware
nation, the French Republic has chosen its own way.

If you can count anything over two dozen computers in the French gendarmerie
I will give you a dollar.

There are no French in the French Legion! Have you seen the movie? What are
we talking about? They are all on extended vacation after working 3 hours a
day. A380 is hanging on by a thread with as many orders as for Ubuntu.

This is just pathetic.

"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> French police deal blow to Microsoft
>
> by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
>
> PARIS (AFP) - 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's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows
> XPoperating 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.
>
> "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
> computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
> Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
> desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
>
> More:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130...internetpolice
>
> Alias