Linux

6930 readers

402 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system

Also check out:

Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

335

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

16 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Schleswig-Holstein therefore follows the general strategy to move towards an open source driven administration. In fact, several federn institution already migrated to the openDesk administration bundle (https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/). Great!