The city of Munich switches to Open Source Software(pcworld.com)

90 pointsby Morgawrhace 13 años12 comments

The city of Munich switches to Open Source Software

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079800/switch-to-open-source-successfully-completed-city-of-munich-says.html

4 comments

wxmhace 13 años

Great to see this project being completed after almost ten years. Several similar projects in Germany have failed (e.g. the parliament's attempt to converting to Linux) or Wienux in Vienna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienux). IMO, a major reason for the success of LiMux was the gradual change with extensive training and that the included developing custom templates and generators for Open Office etc.

For a timeline on the project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

dave809hace 13 años

Awesome news, I always wonder how the users react to these kind of switches. They switched everyone to open office, firefox and thunderbird while on Windows and then gradually switched to LiMux. It seems like they tried to make the DE very similar to windows NT to ease the transition[0].

[0] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LiMux.jpg

mkesperhace 13 años

That screenshot is from 2004 as you can see in the bottom right corner. KDE3.5 isn't maintained anymore so I guess the infos in the wiki are partially out of date.

neil_shace 13 años

WIll be interesting to see how this fares long-term. The article doesn't mention why a custom distro was needed rather than one of the standards, and the running cost of now patching their own OS every time a linux bug or vulnerability is found.

drill_sargehace 13 años

It's no custom distro. It's Ubuntu 10.10 LTS. Only thing which they added was WollMux: http://www.wollmux.net/wiki/Hauptseite

Also they switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice

skriticos2hace 13 años

Since when was 10.10 an LTS release? 10.04 was an LTS release and 12.04 was an LTS release. All in between were intermediate releases.

10.10 is an 18 month support release, which long passed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Version...

10.04 and 12.04 are the only ones with current support.

drill_sargehace 13 años

sorry, meant 10.04

mkesperhace 13 años

English description of WollMux: http://code.google.com/p/wollmux/ In short: OpenOffice.org plugin with enhanced template, form, and autotext functionality.

mknittighace 13 años

It's ISO certified and AFAIK it's just Ubuntu (previously Debian) with some bells and whistles.

mkesperhace 13 años

10 years is no short timespan to survive in politically influenced arena.

paryhace 13 años

some more detailed info, and lot of comments http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-munich-rejected-stev...

MichaelApprovedhace 13 años

A lot of comments but they done seem to be of high quality.