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Re: [News] City of Munich Releases Own (Custom-made) Linux Distribution, Moves to Linux Desktops

  • Subject: Re: [News] City of Munich Releases Own (Custom-made) Linux Distribution, Moves to Linux Desktops
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:00:45 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS / Netscape / MCC
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__/ [ Linonut ] on Thursday 21 September 2006 02:41 \__

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
> 
>> Yes! we released 1.0!
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Background:
>> | 
>> | Under the LiMux project, which commenced in 2004, Munich is migrating
>> | 14,000 desktops from Windows to a custom Linux distribution running
>> | mostly open-source software. The project's prototype client operating
>> | system was presented to the public at the end of May.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.marsmenschen.com/blog/2006/09/20/11/
> 
> You got it backwards, Roy!
> 
>    "After almost two years of development and quality assurance, we
>    finally did freeze version 1.0 of our custom XP-based
>    distribution yesterday. The system will be internally deployed to the
>    various departments via FAI and GOSa, hopefully everything will work
>    as expected and it'll be a walk through the park for all
>    sysadmins involved. The distribution is completely css-based (Windows
>    XP SP2) and consists of core components like .Net 3.5,
>    MSOffice.com 10, NTKRNL 5.1.17.1022.
> 
> Background:
> 
>    Under the WiMux project, which commenced in 2004, Munich is migrating
>    14,000 desktops from Linux to a custom Windows distribution running
>    mostly closed-source software. The project's prototype client
>    operating system was presented to the public at the end of May.

Windows distribution, eh? *taps own nose* Doesn't that violate the EULA?

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