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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 March 2010:

  • 100% (= 15.000) work stations using Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org
  • 3.000 work stations in four departments migrated to LiMux
  • all other units of the City Council started 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

    TextPDFand presentationPDFin 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
    PresentationPDF
    Florian Schießl


Munich's migration to GNU/Linux is steadily progressing. The Linux based E-learning programme of the city won the E-Learning award eureleA.
 

at this website

We have published some of our presentations and talks in english, please have a look at Publikationen (publications) and Vortragsarchiv (talk archive).

nonofficial websites

There are some websites about LiMux in english, which are not related to this official site:

LiMux - the IT-Evolution
Short overview at the IDABC site of the Euopean Union.
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