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

    Free Beer!

  3. I can't believe... by xor.pt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't believe how wrong they got the client name! ...LiMux?!

    How about Munix? Doesn't it sound a lot better?

  4. ffs by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They have migrated less than 200 work stations. Can we wait till the project actually approaches completion before deciding upon its success

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  5. München not Munich by andersh · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except Germans call their city München and not Munich.

    Oh, and there is no 'k'-sound in the proper german pronounciation.