City of Vienna Chooses Linux

Bill Kendrick writes "Back in January, ZDNet reported that the city of Vienna, Austria was looking to move at least a portion of its desktops to Linux. Well, it looks like it happened (in German; use the fish). Their official distro is based on Debian with KDE, and is called WEINUX." Update: 07/06 12:49 GMT by T : Several readers wrote to correct the spelling here: the correct name of the distro is "WIENUX."

Comments

Gawd

[Craig Davison]

Buncha Wieners.

Re:Gawd

[larkost]

The first time I was in Vienna (named Wien in German) I arrived just in time for Wienerfest. It took me two days to finally realize it was not about sausage. My German has improved since then.

All right

[aixou]

The Linux katamari picked up another city. A few more and we'll be able to level up!

Re:All right

[Lars T.]

This is actually a great analogy to the growing popularity of Linux, I think.

Unless you are an early Linux adopter, and have just been compared to thumbtacks.

Clarifications

[ardor]

I'm Austrian, and want to clarify some stuff I keep hearing about Austria by tourists:

* no, we are not the country with the kangaroos
* no, we don't have a Nazi government (I keep hearing that from Americans all the time)
* our Wiener Schnitzel is really tasty, yeah
* our kids don't go to school by skiing (well, most of them don't)
* we don't eat much sauerkraut. That's what Germans do.
* never confuse us with Germans. We really don't like that. Its like confusing americans with canadians. They eat us alive if we do this.
* We don't wear Lederhosen all the time.

Re:Clarifications

[gibodean]

I'm Australian, and want to clarify some stuff I keep hearing about Australia by tourists:

* yes, we are the country with the kangaroos
* no, we don't have a convict government
* our meat pies are really tasty, yeah
* our kids don't go to school by sitting in a kangaroo pouch (well, most of them don't)
* we don't have sex with sheep. That's what New Zealanders do.
* never confuse us with New Zealanders. We really don't like that. Its like confusing americans with canadians. They eat us alive if we do this.
* We don't wear akubra hats all the time.
* Yes, at the olympics they once played the Austrian national anthem when we won gold.

Re:Clarifications

[mabinogi]

I'm a New Zealander, and I want to clarify some stuff I keep hearing about New Zealand by Australians.

* Yes we are the country with the sheep
* We use the sheep for meat and wool, and are not entirely sure what Australians think sheep are kept for, or why they would immediately jump to the conclusions they do.
* Every famous Australian is really a New Zealander.
* Every one of them.

Re:The distribution is called "WIENUX"

[Zog The Undeniable]

I don't know. The good people of Austria - one of my favourite places - certainly drink a lot. It's legal to drink at the age of 16 [1], and you should see the amount of lager those oompah bands put away during a concert (basically each musician has a big glass under his chair and swigs half of it after each song; waitresses with big jugs (oo-er) come round and refill them at regular intervals.

[1] in the UK, amusingly, the legal drinking age is *5* if at home with a parent/guardian present. But then we exported all the Puritans to the US ;-)

Dubya, is that you?

[quarkscat]

"Choosy Italians Choose Linux! "

Dubya, is that really you on the other end?

Vienna is in Austria. You know, sorta like
Germany, but with less touristy places...
Okay, okay. Where Arnold the Governator is
from. Venice is in Italy -- the western end
of the Silk Road. Okay, okay. The city that
is sinking into its own sewage system.

Jeez, Dubya, open a geography book once in
a while, okay? Geography -- that's the study
of places and how its history and culture is
different (like Connecticut and Texas). Okay,
okay. Book -- Those kinda square things with
writing on the inside. A whole bunch of them
are used like a wall covering where you live.

(And our lesson is done for the day. Now
go outside and play some golf on the moors.
Dress warmly, Dubya, 'cause it gets cold and
damp in that place your at now (Scotland).)