[Wolves] Big users

[stuart.beeson at gmail.com]

And so do argos on there kiosk system. Think it's centOS 

Sorry for the top post. Blackberry for you
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:25:07 
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group<wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Reply-To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Big users

On 25 April 2012 15:24, 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.

And by Kiosk I mean basically a desktop computer (they have a keyboard
and mouse).

-- 
Regards, Kris Douglas.
 www.krisd.eu

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