GendBuntu: How France’s Military-Police switched 100,000+ PCs to Linux
from Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 18:52
https://piefed.social/post/939441

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.

#gendbuntu #linux #open source #technology

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anachrohack@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 19:03 next collapse

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 on 16 Jun 19:23 collapse

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 on 16 Jun 21:55 collapse

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

masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 16 Jun 19:05 next collapse

It could have been gendar’Mint, gend’ARM64, or gend’Arch,BTW.

But they chose that awkward sounding abomination.

Oh well, it’s the year of the Linux desktop, I’ll forgive them.

For now.

lnxtx@feddit.nl on 16 Jun 19:22 next collapse

Gendoo

cygnus@lemmy.ca on 16 Jun 19:49 collapse

“GendBuntu” is an atrocious name, and it doesn’t sound good in French either (perhaps even worse). I don’t know why they insisted on referencing Ubuntu in the name. GendarmOS would have been fine, or GendarmeSE to be more correct.

merde@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jun 01:07 collapse

gendarme from “gens d’armes” to “gens d’ubuntu” (people of ubuntu) which, pronounced quickly would become “gendbuntu” is ok for an os name for gendarmerie

if only they went with arch to call their os “gensdarc” to play with the name Jeanne-d’Arc 🤭

cygnus@lemmy.ca on 17 Jun 14:13 collapse

True, but then it should have been GendUbuntu… Although people may think that’s a guy named Jean d’Ubuntu.

merde@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jun 19:35 collapse

we’re writing about a society that pronounces “je ne sais pas” as “chais pas”, of course it’s gendbuntu

cygnus@lemmy.ca on 17 Jun 21:44 collapse

Chepas, moi… Pourquoi pas G’b’ntu tant qu’à faire?

einlander@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 19:44 next collapse

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

www.slideshare.net/slideshow/…/43013966

ckmnstr@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 22:10 collapse

This has become one of the major incentives of the scheme for staff; transferring to GendBuntu from a proprietary system means the staff member receives a new computer with a widescreen monitor.

Smart! What I wouldn’t do for new equipment…

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 19:54 next collapse

I use Arch de Triomphe, BTW.

Trebuchet@europe.pub on 16 Jun 21:26 next collapse

Magnificent.

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jun 04:20 next collapse

Nice.

ikidd@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 19:13 collapse

Magnifique.

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Jun 12:40 next collapse

Me a FOSS advocate who hates the French police and army trying to choose what emotions to feel:

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33253a93-ad88-494c-ba70-f58c52bb4dc1.webp">

badbytes@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 19:51 collapse

Frabuntu sounds better IMHO.