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Munich dumps proprietary for open source (again) – but no Linux desktop

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

  • Munich is not bringing back LiMux, its Linux desktop distro.
  • Instead, the city is replacing proprietary infrastructure software with open-source programs.
  • Munich is also helping to build software for its own needs and for other cities.

PRAGUE — At Open Source Summit Europe, Dr. Laura Dornheim, Munich’s chief digital officer, said in her keynote speech that Munich abandoned its LiMux Linux desktop deployment for Windows over a decade ago because of politics, but now it’s returning to open-source software.

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It’s not returning to the Linux desktop, however — not yet, anyway. Instead, it’s switching its infrastructure programs from proprietary software to open-source software. For example, it’s replacing VMware with Proxmox, moving from Jira and Confluence to OpenProject and XWiki, and adopting PostgreSQL as an alternative to Oracle databases.

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