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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:We thought about doing this in Canada by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    But we couldn't find a catchy pun or play on words to name the project, so we ditched it altogether.

    Really? What about "Canux"? Isn't that already your nickname?

  2. Re:Move them all into the CLOUD by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Move them all into CLOUD computing
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

    I believe #2 is "pray", unless you're a 'cloud host' and then it's "prey".

  3. Re:There is no free lunch by binarylarry · · Score: 4, Funny

    Poor IT chef.

    But on that note, what an awesome IT department. They had a CHEF on staff? Fuck yeah!

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  4. Re:They should switch to all Macs by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course not. You don't turn gay immediately after buying a mac, it takes time.

    How much time? (Looks around furtively).

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  5. Re:They should switch to all Macs by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Funny

    You see, with Amiga it doesn't matter if you turn gay or not since you won't have a sex life anyway.