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Lower Saxony KDE Migration

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the upper-saxony-jealous dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet reports on a recent German Linux migration by the tax authority in Lower Saxony which has made the decision to migrate an impressive 12,000 desktops to SuSE Linux using KDE. The project, which is now in process converting 300 desktops daily, moves systems from Solaris x86 version 8, which the organisation has been running since 2002. The migrations are reported as going well thus far. KDE's Kiosk desktop customisation, source code access and licensing costs were cited as key reasons for the decision. Congratulations to all involved, and best of luck going forward with this effort!"

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  1. Re:I was sure they'd use Gnome... by 0racle · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Na those Germans are smart. They're obviously going to use the best DE for Linux.

    --
    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  2. I think KDE is evil by fmoliveira · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hate KDE because it uses QT. A tool that enforces your resulting work to be free doesnot really feel likes a free tool. I am all for libraries using LGPL, as it was previously named "Library GPL". I lost my respect for Stallman when he started preaching people to use GPL for libraries. If people followed this nuttery it would be increasingly difficult to run any commercial software in linux.