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Munich Migrating To Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the penguins-overrun-Bavaria dept.

Rockgod writes with a progress report on the open sourcing of the city of Munich's administration. From the article: "The capital of Bavaria plans to complete its current migration of more than 80 percent of its desktop systems by 2008 and says that the first users of open software in the city's administration are pleased with the initial results. On Tuesday, Munich's mayor Christine Strobel said at the Systems trade fair that 'up to now, we are very happy about the results' of the migration currently underway. 'I am not a computer geek, but I must admit that it was easy to switch to the new software,' she reported. By the end of the year, some 200 workstations... will be running on a special LiMux client. If everything runs according to schedule, most of the approximately 14,000 PCs will be migrated to open source in the next two years."

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  1. You are going to regret it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    now the poor souls miss out on all that upcoming Vista goodness.

  2. Does it have solitare? by daeg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Officer workers don't care what their system has as long as it can run (a) solitare and (b) popcap games.

    Particularly government workers.

  3. But the Office suites are lacking... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll never be able to read MSFT Word documents with embedded VOIP!

    Sincerely,
    Some MSFT spokesperson's reason why ODF is bad. (I can't find the reference)

  4. Munich? Open Source? Free? by Kanaka+Kid · · Score: 5, Funny
    Oktoberfest will never be the same!

    Free Beer!

  5. Re:Too long...!! by vivek7006 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is it taking too long? Isn't this information about 2 or 3 years old? I thought they had completed the migration.

    They decided to go with Gentoo Linux couple of years back. They are still waiting for the damn thing to finish compiling

  6. Open source administration by jmv · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rockgod writes with a progress report on the open sourcing of the city of Munich's administration.

    Cool, I always wanted to change the city of Munich's administration. Does the mayor come with full source code?

    --
    Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec
  7. Re:That's good news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know, but I've heard that building a fence stops these migrations.

  8. Re:München not Munich by Shadyman · · Score: 2, Funny

    München... Hey Hunny, I need a bag of chips, I really got the Münchies.

  9. Re:Too long...!! by nospam007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Why is it taking too long? Isn't this information about 2 or 3 years old? I thought they had completed the migration.
    --
    Everything had to be translated, in Freestate Bavaria, Munich, they speak Bavarian, not German. ;-)
    Also getting a Penguin to wear Lederhosen was no small feat.

  10. Re:Too long...!! by mister_woods · · Score: 1, Funny
    Why is it taking too long? Isn't this information about 2 or 3 years old? I thought they had completed the migration.

    If my local council in the UK moved this quickly I would think it was acting with undue haste or had suffered an outbreak of competence.