Munich Begins to Switch Windows Out for Linux
Munich has begun its migration to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned and nearly three years since the city announced its move to open source software.
"There have been some delays along the way but we’re now moving steadily ahead," Florian Schiessl, manager of the Limux project for the city of Munich, said Thursday by telephone.
Since Tuesday, the first 100 of the city’s 14,000 PCs have been switched from Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office applications to Linux and OpenOffice.
"Today, we’re still working in both the Windows and Linux worlds," Schiessl said. "But over the next two years, the Linux world will get bigger, while the Windows world will get smaller."
A full migration to Linux is "unrealistic."
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