I bet a lot of Ubuntu's success in non-English countries like France is due to the fact that translations in Ubuntu (or any other leading Linux desktop) are top notch! Not only is practically everything translated including terminal output, but the translated text even still fits in its containers. It is hard to appreciate that as an English speaker, but sometimes I run Ubuntu in French just for the smile.
Anyhow, I think someone (or some people) should send their IT department a thank you letter (or maybe an email). It would be a nice personal touch, and a unique capability with Ubuntu being fairly small. Bye, -Dylan McCall On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if many people caught this on Slashdot, but for those of > you who didn't... > > Basically, the French paramilitary police are replacing Microsoft XP > on 70,000 desktops with Ubuntu. > > Quote from Colonel Nicolas Geraud, deputy director of the > gendarmerie's IT department. > > "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop > computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to > Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every > desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014." > > http://www.physorg.com/news120930030.html > > Chris > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing >
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