[Wolves] Big users

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 14:29:11 UTC 2012


I believe Met Office technical staff use Linux workstations. I'd guess
Google's UK staff would too.
On Apr 25, 2012 3:24 PM, "Kris Douglas" <krisdouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25 April 2012 15:16, Claire <lug at sitesearcher.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 25/04/12 12:27, Dave Morley wrote:
> >>
> >> On 25/04/12 12:03, John Rose wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know the names of largish organisations in the UK which
> >>> use a Linux distro as their main OS etc on their desktops&
> >>> laptops?
> >>>
> >>> Similarly, can anyone name any orgs in the W-ton area who do the
> >>> same?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Not so many people use Linux on the desktop across the uk, however
> >> loads use it on their servers, The government for one and many others.
> >>
> >> For desktop usage the big ones are likely in Europe, France has Ubuntu
> >> installed on all citreon/puegeot systems there is an entire region of
> >> spain that use their version of Ubuntu across everything (Gaudia Linux
> >> I think), germany has in places etc, etc, etc
> >>
> >
> >
> > The London Stock Exchange uses Linux now I think, not sure about
> desktops.
>
> Maplin use Fedora on (almost) all of their in-store kiosk machines.
>
> --
> Regards, Kris Douglas.
>  www.krisd.eu
>
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