It was announced today that the French Parliament is going to change to computers running on Ubuntu, a Linux version.

The French Parliament is likely to become the next huge client for Ubuntu. An official report issued by the government reccommended the use of open source programs to replace proprietary ones such as Microsoft's.

The reason for the change? As we mentioned in previous articles, a greater cut on government spendings.

Two companies, Lingora and Unilog were selected to provide members of the Parliament and their assistants new computers with open source programs. There will likely be 1,154 new computers that will be running on Ubuntu.

Sources: ZDNet.fr and latribune.fr (in French).
 

 
Mark, born in South Africa was also famous for being the second tourist in space paying around US$20 million for the ticket. Mark won his fortune selling Thawte, a company specialized in digital certificates for the web. 

Going back to the topic... Ubuntu came from the Zulu language and it means "humanity for all." The slogan of the operating system Ubuntu is "Linux for human beings" which places emphasis on the accessibility and possibility of Linux used by all.

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