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[–] Keg1776@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope the Governments of other countries do the same. Trusting Windows with Government related stuff is a mistake, Linux on the other hand can be a very trustworthy alternative if they set it up securely enough(for example, prioritizing security modules like SELinux/AppArmor, Yama and such).

[–] incici@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Turkey has a pretty ambitious plan for Linuxification. Same with the Münich city government in Germany.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Same with the Münich city government in Germany.

However, they failed with their LiMuX project in the past, since the politicians got coffers of money from Microsoft. No shit, it was not a technical failure, but they completely fucked up the IT department in terms of resources and then blamed it on Linux.

And they still do it! See this for LiMuX news: https://www.heise.de/suche/?q=LiMux

Example:

Munich City Councilor Judith Greif complains that the Information Technology Department of the Bavarian capital is not committed to the new course toward free software that was adopted after a change of government. The IT coordinator of the Green Party refers to a demand of the city council, for instance, according to which the department should propose five projects that could be realized as Open Source in the short term. These have already been named – "But nothing has happened since then."

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