French parliament picks Ubuntu for Linux switch
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Starting this summer, 1,154 parliamentary desks will feature Linux-based PCs.
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Plans call for a Linux-based platform that will be usable in multiple environments, including on PCs, servers and PDAs.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50021)  has announced the addition of "Computer  Hardware in France" to their offering.
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Linux users in German-speaking countries and the U.K. will have an opportunity to buy keyboards specially designed for the open source operating system in late September, when Cherry GmbH launches what the company claims is the world's first Linux keyboard.
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The past month has introduced an interesting new distribution that is based on the Gnome and Debian projects. &nbsp;Ubuntu Linux is the end-user-oriented distribution funded by Mark Shuttleworth's company Canonical. &nbsp;
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Microsoft hasn't got a Clouseau The French gendarmerie has blown a big framboise at Microsoft by ditching Windows XP in favour of Ubuntu.â¦
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French voters are electing a new parliament, with President Sarkozy's UMP party expected to make gains.
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Tehran - Iran has become the latest country to edge towards ditching the ubiquitous Microsoft computer operating system in favour of the open-source Linux solution, even if its refusal to abide by copyright laws means that the Islamic republic does not
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Dell has started offering Ubuntu Linux on its high-end XPS M1330 laptop
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Iran has become the latest country to edge towards ditching the ubiquitous Microsoft computer operating system in favor of the open-source Linux solution, even if its refusal to abide
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France's parliament passes a new bill introducing possible DNA tests for foreign migrants joining relatives.
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Dell Inc. will officially launch its first three consumer PCs running the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux OS on Thursday, two desktops and an Inspiron E1505n notebook PC.
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p2pnet.net News:- A European consortium, including Linux-distributor Mandrakesoft, has won an $8.6 million contract to boost Linux&#39; security, says a TechWeb story, going on that the French Ministry of Defense is, &quot;expected to make the operating system
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(InfoWorld) - Munich has begun its migration to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned and nearly three years since the city announced itsÂ move to open source software. "There have been someÂ delays along the wayÂ but we're now moving steadily ahead," Florian Schiessl, manager of the Limux project for the city of Munich, said Thursday by telephone. Since Tuesday, the first 100 of the city's 14,000 PCs have been switched from Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office applications to Linux and OpenOffice. "Today, we're still working in both the Windows and Linux worlds," Schiessl said. "But over the next two years, the Linux world will get bigger, while the Windows world will get smaller." A full migration to Linux is "unrealistic," Schiessl said. Some hardware and software products in the public administration will continue to require Windows and some, particularly in the area of desktop publishing, will continue to require systems from Apple Computer, he said. By the end of this year, the city of Munich plans to have migrated 200 computers to the open source desktop environment. "Most of these computers are used for relatively simple office communications," he said. The configuration is based on Linux Distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, the KDE 3.5 user interface and OpenOffice 2. The Limux team has established guidelines to help overcome format conversion issues between Microsoft and open source products, according to Schiessl. "With OpenOffice, we don't have a problem opening and reading Microsoft formats and, with most simple documents, we don't have any processing problems," he said. "But, in some cases, there can be format loss, and some documents need to be handled in a special way to avoid format conversion problems. Our guidelines address these issues." One of the bigger challenges moving ahead, Schiessl said, will be to migrate some of the public administration's larger departments with more complex processes. "Big departments with specialized processes will be a challenge, but we have a plan to tackle this and expect to achieve our goal of having around 80 percent of all desktop systems running on Linux by the end of 2008." Delays in the Limux project began with the dispute over software patent issues, followed by longer than expected negotiations with companies bidding for the contract to provide system configuration and support services. On top of that was a one-year extension of the pilot phase. "Because of the complexity of this migration project, we decided to have a very thorough pilot phase," Schiessl said. He declined to comment on the decision by the city of Bergen, Norway, to delay its Linux desktop plans by two years, largely for lack of detailed information about the decision. In September, the Norwegian city decided to focus on building an e-government portal first and later migrate its Windows-based systems to a Linux environment. Vienna is another big European city with ambitious plans to roll out Linux in its public administration.
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Internet 'partout, pour tous', apparently French ordinateuristes can now buy Asus' elfin Eee PC with integrated HSDPA 3G, courtesy of local carrier SFR.â¦
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Does Ubuntu point the way to the real future for desktop Linux?
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France is set to elect a new National Assembly, with a big win predicted for President Nicolas Sarkozy's party.