LiMux project in municipal administration of Bavarian capital Munich (1.3 million inhabitants as of 2006) is migrating 14,000 PCs and laptops of public employees to non-proprietary software. While this is not an economically large or particularly technically complex undertaking, it is the largest deployment of GNU/Linux and OpenOffice in the public sector so far, and this symbolic value turned it into one of the world’s highest profile migration projects. Munich (German: , pronounced ; Austro-Bavarian: Minga [1]) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... Unix systems filiation. ... OpenOffice. ...
The migration project in Munich is ongoing and not a hard switch to free software on every desktop. The main goal is to achieve more independence from software distributors, concerning client/server and native client software. The decision in 2003 had two components, on the one hand to get free software running on most of the desktops, and on the other hand to buy and develop web-based and platform independent (e.g. Java-based) business applications. Clockwise from top: The logo of the GNU Project (the GNU head), the Linux kernel mascot Tux the Penguin, and the FreeBSD daemon Free software is a term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation[1] to refer to software that can be used, studied, and modified without... Java is an object-oriented applications programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ...
LiMux by itself is a GPL'd Linux distribution.
LiMux is the first certified Linux distribution, certified by the TÜV IT, Technical Service, Germany
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