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City of Vienna Chooses Linux

Posted by timothy on from the penguins-ah-kuhl dept.

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."

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  1. Slight correction by graviton137 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The distro is called "WIENUX". The city of "Vienna" is called "Wien" in German, so it is an intended pun.

    "Wein" would be "wine" in English (we do have very good wine in Wien, though :-) )

  2. when sahll we have a critical mass? by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Redundant
    When will the "critical mass" on cities that have chosen Linux be struck? My city, Toronto which prides itself of being "progressive" does not have as much Linux infrastructure. If more cities catch on with Linux, my own city will see the light.

    On the other hand, M$ must be thinking...

    "This [Linux] phenomenon is not going to go away anytime soon...and our campaign has not worked as well...but life is still worth living because though costs have doubled and profits declined, we still hang on!"

    Question is: Hang on? But for how long?

  3. wIEnux, not wEInux by boldra · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Which would be pronounced "veenux" by a German speaker.

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  4. Re:Ambitious targets by RoLi · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Amazing how quickly Microsoft feels threatened when even a small minority of people just talk about not using Windows.