LiMux - The IT-Evolution

free software in Munich

What is LiMux?

• The main target of the LiMux project is to complete the City Council's order to run open source software on the administration's desktops in the future - "LiMux Basisclient"
• First worldwide certificated linuxbased work station - Made for feel good
• Free software for the operating system and office software
  LiMux Basisclient based on Linux and free software:
  Debian GNU/Linux „sarge“ (Distribution), K Desktop Environment - KDE (Graphical user interface), OpenOffice.org (Offices), Firefox (Browser), Thunderbird (E-Mail), Gimp (Image editing)
• Applications will be developed platform independent, preference webbased

Status quo of the LiMux project July 2009:

• 100% work stations using Firefox and Thunderbird
• 12.000 work stations using OpenOffice.org
• 2.000 work stations in four departments migrated to LiMux
• all other units of the City Council start the migration to Linux in 2009

Information about LiMux

• Declaration of Independence: The LiMux Project in Munich
  Case study on the website of the Open Source Observatory and Repository.
  Declaration of Independence: The LiMux Project in Munich
   
• Our WollMux was the first project at OSOR
  Presentation at the official launch of the Open Source Observatory
  and Repository. 
  Textand presentationin english.
   
• Munich's WollMux will be free software
  The software tool to manage the document templates and forms of Munich's administration (WollMux), which has been developed by the IT project LiMux, is released as free software. More...
   
  
• The first year LiMux in Munich 
  Free software for the operating system and office software
  Presentation
  Florian Schießl