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Munich banks on Debian

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The companies Softcon and Gonicus were awarded the contract with the City of Munich, the capital of Bavaria, to create, configure and administer an Open Source base client for the 14,000 workstations in the city government in the IT migration project LiMux. That means that the future base client for the city government is to be based on the Debian Linux distribution. The City of Munich called for tenders all over Europe.

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DaGoodBoy ·
...using and automating the new testing installer, I can certainly understand this decision. Picking the Debian distribution is not like picking SUSE or RedHat. With Debian, you get the build architecture, distribution architecture and a complete, powerful and customizable installer. It's build tools and giant, consistent package repositories that make Debian powerful, regardless of how people complain about the release schedule. If you need to control your package builds, distribution and installer, Debian is just the right tools for the job...

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