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.
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| 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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