{"id":330,"date":"2013-10-17T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2013-10-17T09:08:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:38:26","slug":"french-gendarmerie-switches-to-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"French Gendarmerie Switches to Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read about the French\u00a0Gendarmerie nationale<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>beginning the switch from Microsoft to open source software some time ago. The first step<\/a> was moving from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice<\/a>\u00a0starting back in 2004. They moved 35,000 (yes,\u00a0thousand<\/em>) users over to OpenOffice. They are in the process of upping this number to 72,000.<\/p>\n

They also moved users to the Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a> email client and from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their next step, driven by the end-of-support of Windows XP<\/a>, is to move 72,000 users to a customized version of Ubuntu Linux<\/a>\u00a0called\u00a0GendBuntu –<\/em>\u00a0they are up to 35,000 according to this\u00a0great article<\/a> on ZDNet.<\/p>\n

While I am no fan of Ubuntu – I hate the, ironic it would seem, lock-in to the Unity GUI<\/a> – and use Linux Mint<\/a>\u00a0with the Cinnamon GUI<\/a>\u00a0– I am agnostic between the Red Hat Linux<\/a> (actually CentOS<\/a>) distribution and the Ubuntu distribution. Although, I admit, I do have to remember which distro I’m using from time-to-time.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first governmental organization to move away from Microsoft. The City of Munich move to a custom Linux distro<\/a> – MiLux – starting back in 2004.<\/p>\n

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