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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 147
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| Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 147 for the week June 15th -
| June 21st, 2009. In this issue we cover Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
| competition, 3 New Members of the Americas Region Membership Board, Bootchart
| testing for UNR, Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic Koala, Ubuntu Global Jam
| 2nd - 4th October 2009, New freenode webchat (and why to use it), Ubuntu
| Stats, In the Press & Blogosphere, Upcoming Meetings & Events, Updates &
| Security, and much, much more!
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue147
Canonical’s Four Most Critical Ubuntu Partners
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| 2. Dell: Sure, niche PC suppliers like System76 and ZaReason deserve major
| applause for shipping quality Ubuntu systems. But Dell’s decision to offer
| Ubuntu on selected desktops and laptops in mid-2007 was a tipping point for
| Canonical’s move into mainstream computing.
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| More recently, Dell has added Ubuntu Netbooks to its product mix.
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| Is Dell a perfect Ubuntu partner? Certainly not. International readers often
| complain to The VAR Guy that Dell Ubuntu systems are not available in their
| countries.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/06/22/canonicals-four-most-critical-ubuntu-partners/
Recent:
Linux s'il vous plaît: French Gendarmie say oui to Ubuntu
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| The Gendarmie Nationale – France’s national police force – has been slowly
| introducing open source software to its 105,000+ policemen since 2005. In
| 2008 the decision was made to use only Ubuntu for all new workstations. A
| year on shows this has been a great success with happy users, a better
| network and cost savings of over seven million euro per year.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/23763/1143/
French Lawmakers Hope to Inspire Linux Revolution
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| If the French National Assembly gets its way, the open-source Linux operating
| system will take over the governments of Europe, seizing on a weak economy to
| displace Windows.
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| About 18 months ago, the Assembly shifted from running Windows on the 1,100
| computers of its members and their assistants to running a version of Linux
| called Ubuntu. (I profiled the rise of Ubuntu in a recent article.) According
| to Rudy Salles, vice president of the assembly, the decision to abandon
| Microsoft’s Windows software was both an economic and political gesture.
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| The French Parliament should save about 500,000 euros over the next five
| years, thanks to the low price of Ubuntu –- free –- and have lower management
| costs. Linux tends to have fewer security issues than Windows, for example.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/french-lawmakers-hope-to-inspire-linux-revolution/
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