[Wolves] Big users

[Andy Wootton]

Virgin Atlantic wasn't. We went several hours without entertainment because
all their tech support could suggest was to reboot it (again.) It finally
'took' on the 'lucky third reboot'.
On Apr 26, 2012 10:08 AM, "Adam Sweet" <adam at adamsweet.org> wrote:

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> On 26/04/12 00:42, James Turner 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.
>
> That reminds me... Virgin Atlantic's in-flight entertainment system
> runs on Linux and parcel couriers City Link's parcel management system
> was a (k?)console app running on a KDE desktop but it was quite a few
> years ago now.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam Sweet
>
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