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[News] French Politician Receive Their Linux Laptops

  • Subject: [News] French Politician Receive Their Linux Laptops
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:35:06 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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French National Assembly receives first open source laptops

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| The laptops come loaded with a customized version of Ubuntu 7.04 and 
| productivity applications that include Firefox 2.0, OpenOffice.org 2.1, 
| Thunderbird 2.0, Lightning, VLC Media Player and Adobe Reader.  
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/07/french-national-assembly-receives-first-open-source-laptops/

The world's poor will have GNU/Linux laptops as well.

A Look at the One Laptop Per Child Computer

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| This machine runs a version of the Fedora distribution of Linux that few 
| Linux veterans would recognize, devoid of menus and all but a minimal set of 
| of toolbar icons and onscreen buttons.   
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2007/07/post_5.html


Related:

The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu

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| The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to 
| reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report 
| that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The 
| switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the 
| tax-payers according to the government study.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814


Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan 
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate 
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the 
| Chamber.   
| 
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and 
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private) 
| computers to the Free System.  
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/

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