French National Assembly receives first open source laptops
As announced last year, open source software loaded laptops are now being delivered to members of the French National Assembly. The French government found that software license costs surpassed training and deployment investments so the decision to move to open source was taken and Linagora, a French company specialized in open source software projects, was hired for the transition.
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.
The project budget of €90,000 includes a central server for application deployment and one year of support.
Via ZDNet.fr (fr) and Glazblog.
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Dirk
Again Ubuntu.
I have the impression that for most distributions two teams were at work. The community that produced the code of the different elements, and the technicians that put all the code together to make it function compiling with the correct versions and so on. I think that at Ubuntu a third team must me active, those who try to make the whole a compelling user experience.
This may invoke some compromises, Gentoo for instance evolves more smoothly, without real versions, than Ubuntu but it is definitely a success.
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