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LiMux – The IT evolution is a project by the city of Munich (third-largest city in Germany) to migrate their software systems from closed-source, proprietary Microsoft products to free and open-source software. The project was successfully completed in late 2013, which involved migrating 15,000 personal computers and laptops of public employees to free and open-source software. LiMux is also the name of the Linux distribution (an Ubuntu derivative) used for the project as the operating system including LibreOffice (and WollMux) as the primary productivity software. The project initially had used OpenOffice, but has since switched to LibreOffice. The city reports in addition to gaining freedom in software decisions and increased security, it has also saved €11.7 million (US$16 million). The addition of "IT Evolution" stands in contrast to "revolution" as a sharp transition was not planned but a slow yet continuous one. LiMux is the first Linux desktop distribution certified for industry use (ISO 9241) by the TÜV IT, Technical Service, Germany. It was first based on Debian, and later changed to Ubuntu, the most popular Debian derivative. Version 3 available from December 2010 is based on Ubuntu 8.10, version 4 available from August 2011 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LiMux Desktop Retrospective )〕 although using KDE Desktop 3.5〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=München bringt neues Release 4.0 des LiMux Clients heraus )〕 and version 4.1 available from August 2012 is also based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The future version of LiMux will be based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The portmanteau word LiMux consists of Linux and München together. Similar projects were started with varying success by parts of the Chinese government (Kylin), the French military police (GendBuntu), Amsterdam (Open.Amsterdam), Zaragoza, Spain (AZLinux), Vienna (abandoned Wienux),〔,〕 and Solothurn, Switzerland (abandoned). ==History== In the winter of 2003, Steve Ballmer then-CEO of Microsoft, took a break from a skiing holiday, to talk with the Munich Mayor Christian Ude, to illustrate the alleged disadvantages of the impending migration from Microsoft's products – his remarks, however, were rejected. A study done, found ultimately a tie between the two alternatives. The majority of the Munich City Council then decided to use the LiMux solution. The decision didn't say that henceforth only open-source software should be used, but only that it was preferred. As much more important point of the decision was the provision that future, to be developed or to be tendered publicly specialized procedures, should be web-based. This should prevent a too strong coupling of the operating system, office suite and specialist software. Since August 2006, there is also an animal mascot for LiMux in Munich Hellabrunn, the king penguin GoniMux. On 16 May 2007, the TÜV confirmed by a comprehensive certification process, the usability of the LiMux-based client as a user interface for interactive computer systems according to the ISO standard 9241-110. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LiMux」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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