Munich begins Linux switch-on

Bit langsam, but it's getting there

By Martin Veitch

Fri Sep 22 2006, 17:38

THE STORY of the city of Munich's transition to Linux is longer than a festival of Fassbinder films but, just like a movie by the arthouse-meister, after an interminable prologue we're finally getting to the action.

According to IDG's Jon Blau, the first 100 of 14,000 PCs have lost Windows and gained Debian Linux and OpenOffice 2. The plan is to get four out of every five PCs switched by the end of 2008.

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