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Munich tried then ditched Linux. I wonder if Turin fares any better.

€6m: the amount the municipality of Turin hopes to save over five years by switching from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux in all of its offices.

The move will mean installing the open source operating system on 8,300 PCs, which will generate an immediate saving of roughly €300 per machine (almost €2.5m altogether, made up from the cost of Windows and Office licences) — a sum that will grow over the years as the need for the renewal of proprietary software licences vanishes, and the employees get used to the new machines.
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‘It was a huge risk’: How the end of XP support helped France’s gendarmes embrace Ubuntu – fast

‘It was a huge risk’: How the end of XP support helped France’s gendarmes embrace Ubuntu – fast

Or rather, to the old ones. Another reason for the switch was that the computers Turin uses are quite old…

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Bride shares final dance with her dying father and it will break your heart

If this doesn’t make you at least slightly tear up, you must have a heart of stone. Knowing what its like to have your own father in hospital, I can feel for Lisa.

This double espresso owl looks completely wired

Where’s the quad espresso?

20 questions every Londoner asks themselves on the morning commute

Heartbreaking tribute left to Robin Williams by close friend as Broadway theatres dim lights in memory of beloved actor

‘Make your life spectacular. I know I did.’ This 1 minute Robin Williams tribute is short but incredibly sweet

‘Please, don’t worry so much, because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting, and if you’re ever distressed cast your eyes to the summer sky, when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness turning night into day, make a wish, think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did.’