The French National Assembly plans to use the Linux operating system on the 1,154 computers installed in its departments.
The decision of the French parliament is dictated by the reluctance to depend on the exclusive software provider. The Linux distributor has not yet been selected, but it has already been decided that the “parliamentary” computers will use the Firefox browser and the Open Office package.
French government agencies are already using Linux and Apache on their servers, however, such a massive "migration" of work computers to a free OS will be the first time, reports
Ars Technica .