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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 think KDE is evil by fmoliveira · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just wait until this project is forked, or trolltech dies or something. Licensing issues in its internal libraries can kill linux, render it less usable than windows.