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German State Plans To Migrate 13,000 Workstations From Linux to Windows (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
The German state of Lower Saxony is set to follow Munich in migrating thousands of official computers away from Linux to Microsoft's Windows. As initially reported by Heise, the state's tax authority has 13,000 workstations running OpenSuse -- which it adopted in 2006 in a well-received migration from Solaris -- that it now wants to migrate to a "current version" of Windows, presumably Windows 10.
The authority reasons that many of its field workers and telephone support services already use Windows, so standardisation makes sense. An upgrade of some kind would in any case be necessary soon, as the PCs are running OpenSuse versions 12.2 and 13.2, neither of which is supported anymore.
According to the Lower Saxony's draft budget, €5.9m is set aside for the migration in the coming year, with a further €7m annually over the following years; it's not yet clear how many years the migration would take... Munich's shift away from LiMux -- the city's own Ubuntu-based distribution -- is expected to cost more than €50m overall, involving the deployment of around 29,000 Windows-based computers.
The authority reasons that many of its field workers and telephone support services already use Windows, so standardisation makes sense. An upgrade of some kind would in any case be necessary soon, as the PCs are running OpenSuse versions 12.2 and 13.2, neither of which is supported anymore.
According to the Lower Saxony's draft budget, €5.9m is set aside for the migration in the coming year, with a further €7m annually over the following years; it's not yet clear how many years the migration would take... Munich's shift away from LiMux -- the city's own Ubuntu-based distribution -- is expected to cost more than €50m overall, involving the deployment of around 29,000 Windows-based computers.
But not as sheiße as Slashdot's handling of anything outside ISO-8859-1.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Acknowledging that it has almost nothing whatsoever to do with some German region changing from GNU/Linux to MS Windows, I just have to say, I am so sick of the "legal" argument. Maybe you were trying to be funny, but the "law" you were alluding to is creating human misery on par with crop failure, floods, fires, and rocks hurtling in from space and making everything all dead and explodey, so I simply cannot help but respond.
"Respect our laws," they say. REALLY? Would YOU respect a "law" if the people passed one making it illegal for you to breathe? Let us suppose they passed such a law. You did NOTHING whatsoever to harm anyone else and occasion this, your mere PRESENCE brought it about. They decided they didn't like you. If they, as a result, decided that you personally, fizzer06 , were not allowed to breathe anymore, not because you did anything wrong, not because you harmed anyone else, or even that you're an actual threat to someone, but because you are adjudged inherently inferior because of which side of an imaginary line on the ground your mother pushed you, headfirst, out of her vagina on, YOU are not allowed to breathe anymore, would you do it? Would you comply? According to the "LAW," you should just hold your breath, turn blue, and fucking die. Tell me, truly, would you "respect" such a bullshit "law"? Would you just hold your breath because someone doesn't like what you look like, your accent perhaps, or thinks you pray the wrong way, to the wrong version of an imaginary character out of a fucking book, or to the right one but in the wrong language... or perhaps because they want to preserve their "culture," as if it's somehow better, more worthy than the one where you came from, for their FUCKING convenience and peace of mind, would you die?
The "LAW" that says someone isn't good enough to be a German just because he was born in Turkey, or isn't good enough to be a Frenchman because he was born in Chad, or isn't somehow worthy of being an American because his mother's vagina hovered over a piece of ground in Guatemala when he was pushed out of it, is worth about the same as the "LAW" that said that if a person was accused of being a runaway slave, even in a free-state that had outlawed slavery, that any local authority must assist a person claiming ownership over that slave, and help return him or her with that person to a shit-hole state that still allows people to own other people and frankly, fuck 100% of that shit.
Fuck nativism, fuck racism... we are all brothers and sisters, and the "LAW" you're referring to, with which immigrants are either IN, or OUT of compliance, is racist, nativist bullshit. America in particular is the one country on Earth where that shit, (given America's origins, founding, constitution, etc.,) really shouldn't fly, where such laws are particularly disgusting and morally reprehensible. OF ALL countries, if America were truly to subscribe to the idea that any person whose parents were here earlier was allowed to decide who else COULD and COULD NOT be in the country based on arriving later, then that would give to the descendants of the Native Americans who were here before the first European settlers arrived, (immigrants and refugees from "shit-hole countries" where people were being persecuted for their religion or starving due to famine, not to put too fine a goddamned point on it, like England, Ireland, Germany, etc.,) the right to kick literally EVERYONE who wasn't "legal," in compliance with THEIR laws, (if they were prescient enough to think to make such a law before 1492 C.E.,) and THEIR descendants OUT. Somehow, however, when the US Senate and House of so-called "Representatives" (that's a laugh,) decide on how many people to "let in," I very much doubt anyone is invited from one of the reservations to weigh in on how many refugees that America in particular helped create, America would let in.
Of course, many countries actually have such a situation, actually have natives to a region
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
Although I understand your anger, your rant in this off-topic threat is a bit misleading. Germany has actually taken the refugees that it has taken because of the law, more specifically because of Article 16a of the German Constitution, the German Asylum Act, the Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 signed by Germany and many other countries, and Article 78 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union signed by every member state of the European Union. In addition to that, there are of course also basic humanitarian principles, as you lay out so vividly.
Just wanted to point that out, as some of the people who let others drown in the Mediterranean Sea or that refugees should be shot at borders erroneously think they have some kind of "law" on their side. What they propose is illegal on even more levels than the above ones. There are also continuing blatant violations of International Maritime Law such as serious crimes committed by the Libyan Coast Guard who literally kill people with the tacit approval of many European governments.