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The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration

Posted by kdawson on from the eyes-of-the-world-are-upon-you dept.

mikrorechner writes "The H Online has a writeup of the problems encountered by LiMux (Wikipedia entry), one of the most prominent Linux migration projects in the world, trying to introduce free software into the highly heterogenous IT infrastructure of the City of Munich. Quoting: 'Florian Schiessl, deputy head of Munich's LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has, for the first time, explained why migrating the city's computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned.'" Here is Shiessl's blog, in which he details some of the transition problems.

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  1. Re:They should switch to all Macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Then their IT infrastructure will be homogenous.

    Well, at least we're not homophobic.

  2. bit34 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    right now. I tried, as5 of them all, watershed essay, world wiil have

  3. Re:There is no free lunch by commodore64_love · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Open source only seems to work if it's backed by a major contributor, like Firefox and seaMonkey by Google. Otherwise it tends to be buggy and non-user-friendly.

    And I have yet to find an open-source OS that can run everything I want. (Of course the same is true with Mac OS - can't run a lot of Windows software on OSX.) Just yesterday I asked a guy how to copy a .img file to a floppy and this was his response: "sudo dd if=/path_to_image.img of=/dev/fd0" which I tried and of course did not work. So then I searched the web and found a nice easy-to-use WinNT program that worked flawlessly.

    I wish the ReactOS would get off the ground, so we could have a Windows-compatible alternative without having to support Microsoft. Just as we had IBM PC clones, we need to have MS Windows clones.

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  4. Re:They should switch to all Macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, you are already fully gay as indicated by your post. Tell you wife you hope she likes the idea of you smoking pole.

  5. Re:Why so prominent? by binary+paladin · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Brazil is full of brown people, so no one cares. People living outside of Europe, Japan and the US are expected to use FOSS because they are poor, underpaid mongrels who can't afford commercial software, so they're FORCED to look elsewhere.

    (I'm only partially joking.)