[Wolves] Big users

[Kris Douglas]

On 26 April 2012 00:42, James Turner <james at turnersoft.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 25/04/12 15:24, Kris Douglas 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.
>
>
> The LSE uses a Linux-based trading plaform provided by Millenium IT
> (http://www.milleniumit.com/).
>
>
>> Maplin use Fedora on (almost) all of their in-store kiosk machines.
>
>
> ...and I've noticed at least one thin client running Red Hat at Ikea.
>
>
> J.

Of course we can't forget almost all in-flight entertainment systems
run Linux. I understand they aren't really desktops but they have
human-computer interaction.

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Regards, Kris Douglas.
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