Civil servants may choose for Linux or Windows
The municipalities Weep offers her employees the choice between a the present combination with Windows 2000 and Pantry 2000, or a special Linux-variant under the name Wienux.
In total goes the round 4800 civil servants of the service cities supervision. The plan for a voluntary adaptation was announced by Brigitte Lutz of the rack center of the Viennese municipality. She did this during the Open Source Business Conference 2005 (OSCON), an important symposium about the effort of open source software in the concise sector.
Wienux (a reference to the German name of the Austrian capital) bases self on the Debian-distribution with kernelversie 2.6.9-1. The graphic skins around Linux is KDE 3.3 go meanwhile the civil servants with Firefox the internet on, message Heise c' t.
In total possession, more than 16,000 work spots Weep will replace, of which it possible yet once 2700 extra Microsoft Pantry 2000 through the free of charge alternative open pantry, declared Lutz during the OSCON.