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GendBuntu: How France’s Military-Police switched 100,000+ PCs to Linux (piefed.social)
submitted 19 hours ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Thought I'd share a success story.

France’s National Gendarmerie (military police) rolled out GendBuntu, their own custom Linux OS

  • Around 35,000 desktops/laptops deployed by December 2011, and today 97% of 103,000+ PCs run GendBuntu
  • They started by replacing Office, IE & Outlook in 2005, then moved to Ubuntu in 2008, achieving a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership
  • The switch slashed annual license and maintenance costs by millions of euros (~€2 M per year and ~€50 M total) .

The switch away from big Tech to Open Source alternatives might not be easy, but it's been successfully done before.

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[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Is anyone else unable to click the link?

Edit: oh there is no link. I was expecting a source

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

There aren't really news articles about it that I could find, only info in Wiki.

So I thought I'd share so more people are aware of it

[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

No it's fine the post title just sounded like a news article haha