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The city of Munich has opted to use the Debian version of Linux for a high-profile, 14,000-computer installation, passing over Novell's Suse Linux despite its regional popularity.
I don't suppose Debian being free as in beer had anything to do with that decision either. . .
Actually, not such a good thing, I think Novell could have used the business and would have gone a ways in demonstrating that Open Source and business can go together.
i "personally" dislike Suse and think Debian was an "obvious" choice. Even fedora would have been ok eventhough it is a rpm distro which is based on dead rat. Novell could make more business than they do with the resources and the name they got...
For a structured system that i am assuming this OS is being installed onto I would rather have service support then some free OS that has no structured support system. After all you cannot tell all your employees everytime they have a problem to RTFM or go on the message boards now can you? (Welly ou can but then you will find very few people will come out with a good impression of Linux)
Originally posted by stabile007 For a structured system that i am assuming this OS is being installed onto I would rather have service support then some free OS that has no structured support system. After all you cannot tell all your employees everytime they have a problem to RTFM or go on the message boards now can you? (Welly ou can but then you will find very few people will come out with a good impression of Linux)
Wasn't Unix the only system on networks before Windows pretended to be the sole OS in existence on the planet ?
I think all they need are good sysadmins. If users stick to the apps they use everyday in those official places, nothing
wrong can happen. This is not like private businesses in which you need different customized apps. Perhaps all these users
will need is one app for their particular need in each different office.
One the one hand - bummer. I'm disappointed that they didn't go with Novell. I think they have some very cool sysadminn tools (Zen, for instance) and soem nice features.
OTOH, cool! I'm glad Munchen decided to screw the FUD and IP groups and go with an OSS solution.
Lets not turn this into a flame war about whose distro is better ...
rather
drink a toast to ...
* The 14,000 computers now using Linux and not Windows.
* And the sysadmin jobs it will create for Linux admins.
* And the flow-on effect for other countries thinking of doing the same.
* 14,000 less computers sending viruses around the world.
* The morale boost to the Debian people.
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