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France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

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France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

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Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 15 hours ago

I wanted to spotlight a quietly massive success story in European digital sovereignty: GendBuntu - France’s custom Ubuntu distribution used by the National Gendarmerie.

The GendBuntu project derives from Microsoft’s decision to end the development of Windows XP Back in 2005, France’s Gendarmerie began switching from Microsoft products to open-source software - starting with OpenOffice. Fast forward to 2024, and GendBuntu(Linux) is now running on 97% of their workstations (over 103,000 computers!).

France has shown what’s possible when a government actually backs open-source, in-house, and EU-grown solutions.
More countries should follow suit.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

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Several tax authorities in Germany used Linux until they were forced to change to Windows in the name of standardisation a few years ago

https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Aus-Niedersachsen-will-knapp-13-000-Rechner-auf-Windows-umstellen-4119380.html

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