<p>I believe Met Office technical staff use Linux workstations. I'd guess Google's UK staff would too.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 25, 2012 3:24 PM, "Kris Douglas" <<a href="mailto:krisdouglas@gmail.com">krisdouglas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 25 April 2012 15:16, Claire <<a href="mailto:lug@sitesearcher.co.uk">lug@sitesearcher.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 25/04/12 12:27, Dave Morley wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On 25/04/12 12:03, John Rose wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Does anyone know the names of largish organisations in the UK which<br>
>>> use a Linux distro as their main OS etc on their desktops&<br>
>>> laptops?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Similarly, can anyone name any orgs in the W-ton area who do the<br>
>>> same?<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Not so many people use Linux on the desktop across the uk, however<br>
>> loads use it on their servers, The government for one and many others.<br>
>><br>
>> For desktop usage the big ones are likely in Europe, France has Ubuntu<br>
>> installed on all citreon/puegeot systems there is an entire region of<br>
>> spain that use their version of Ubuntu across everything (Gaudia Linux<br>
>> I think), germany has in places etc, etc, etc<br>
>><br>
><br>
><br>
> The London Stock Exchange uses Linux now I think, not sure about desktops.<br>
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Maplin use Fedora on (almost) all of their in-store kiosk machines.<br>
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Regards, Kris Douglas.<br>
<a href="http://www.krisd.eu" target="_blank">www.krisd.eu</a><br>
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