The big reason the French Gendarmerie made the Linux move? It saved them 40 percent in total cost of ownership over Windows. There are many reasons to switch to a Linux desktop from Windows.
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May 24, 2016 · According to the news article linked to in the blog post, it's just part of an incremental migration towards Free Software.
Nov 29, 2006 · The project, backed by parliament members Richard Cazenave and Bernard Carayon of the Union for a Popular Movement party, will see 1,154 French ...
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Mar 12, 2009 · ... Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million ...
Sep 30, 2013 · France's national law enforcement agency, the Gendarmerie, is now running 37,000 desktop PCs with a custom version of the Linux operating system ...
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Jan 30, 2008 · The paramilitary police force is to switch 70,000 desktops over to the Linux OS, two years after switching its browsers to Firefox, and three ...
Nov 27, 2006 · Starting June 2007, PCs in French dĂ©putĂ©s' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software.
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French national law enforcement agency Gendarmerie is now running over 37,000 desktops on Linux. Interestingly, Gendarmerie uses a custom Linux based on Ubuntu, ...
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Mar 11, 2009 · France's Gendarmerie Nationale, the country's national police force, says it has saved millions of dollars by migrating its desktop software ...
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Oct 14, 2014 · French national police announced that they have moved 43,000 desktops to linux (customised Ubuntu called GentBuntu). In 2014, they plan run all ...