Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated

ndogg (158021) writes "The rumors of Munich's city government going back to Microsoft seem to have been greatly exaggerated. There was a review of the city's IT systems that was called for by the mayor, but it wasn't solely just to decide on whether to move back to Microsoft. And while there have been complaints about LiMux, they mostly seem to concern compatibility with OpenOffice.org, which may well be resolved by switching to LibreOffice."

Many other municipalities switched to Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

...don't know why media keep talking only about Munich. It's not the only city that switched to Linux, several others have. The Italian city of Udine, for example:

http://www.lffl.org/2014/07/co... [lffl.org]

Old news

[kevingolding2001]

SN already covered this four days ago.
https://soylentnews.org/articl... [soylentnews.org]
I'm going to bed.

Re:Many other municipalities switched to Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

...and Turin:
http://www.tomshw.it/cont/news... [tomshw.it]

And many other smaller towns.

Re:NT is best

[just_another_sean]

Hmm... That's not what [techtimes.com] I [tomshardware.com] heard [thehackernews.com].

Why wasn't it called Munix?

[Anonymous Coward]

Munix would have been way better.

Re:NT is best

[Zero__Kelvin]

Great. Now how do you get it to update without rebooting, which was the actual point you are attempting to draw attention away from.

Re:NT is best

[ruir]

Arent they? I have seen PLENTY of restaurants with the POS running in Linux, and last time I was at the supermarket and they had a power failure in the line I was waiting, the POS rebooted showing a localized version of CentOS or RedHat... I also have seen some chinese stores with pos running some form of Linux too. On another note I have seen upper market restaurants using ipads to take the orders... Wake up and smell the coffee the days of only Windows POS systems, and dedicated portable devices are over.

Re:NT is best

[Zero__Kelvin]

"My Linux desktop at home shows a message that I should restart the computer every time there's a kernel update"

Yes, but how many times does it suggest that you reboot for application and/or major library installations? With the exception of glibc, never. Even then it is a suggestion, and as you point out you can choose to ignore it.

Now, how many times have you waited a month before applying updates, applied them, been forced to reboot only to find that there are now more updates and you have to reboot again? How many times have you tried to shutdown and the system treated it as a suggestion?

Re:Trying to create fire from smoke

[gweihir]

They have a stupid lawyer as new major that has zero understanding of IT, but is in bed with Microsoft. That is what is going on there. The "stupid" is because he makes claims without a shred of evidence and expects them to be believed. Even people from his own party in the city council are calling him a moron (in more polite, but no less clear terms).