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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. Re:Why must... by poopdeville · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, all was going well until we tried using mysql to hold a 100 mb database. The kernel panicked and we lost 15 years worth of data. The company just couldn't recover from such a stunning blow. I was fired for suggesting Linux, and my boss said he would make me unemployable with bad references forever. All in all, I don't think Linux belongs in the work place.

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