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Wienux (WIENUX) was a Linux distribution for the employees of the Vienna city ​​administration. The aim was to migrate proprietary software to open source software. The word Wienux is a combination of Vienna and Linux . Wienux was developed on the basis of the open source distribution Debian , the Unix / Linux desktop KDE and a revised hardware recognition from Knoppix . Started in 2005, the migration project was canceled around 2009, and the associated distribution is also no longer developed.

Goals and implementation

From the end of January 2005, it was possible to use Wienux or Windows 2000 / Office 2000 on around 4,800 of the 18,000 PC workstations in the Vienna city administration. After Munich, Vienna was the second major city in the German-speaking region that enabled its employees to work with open source software.

The project was based on the study “Open Source Software in the Workplace in the City of Vienna”. The study made a further contribution to the feasibility and costs of converting from proprietary software to open source software.

From October 4, 2005, the Wienux distribution was available for download in the form of a 1 gigabyte zip archive or it could be requested on DVD. Wienux has not been available for download since November 2008.

In 2008 only 1000 computers, 200 of them in the actual city administration, were switched to Wienux. Rumors that development would be discontinued were corroborated by the news that workplaces in kindergartens would be equipped with Windows Vista again. Due to compatibility problems with a language support solution that only ran under Windows, 720 computers in the kindergartens were converted to Windows XP in 2008, so that only 280 computers were still working with Wienux as the operating system. Due to a misunderstanding by the IT department, the software commissioned only ran in Microsoft's Internet Explorer .

In June 2009 it was decided again that the City of Vienna should increasingly use open source software again, although it was not explicitly stated whether the development of Wienux would be resumed. At the same time, it was decided in 2009 to procure Windows licenses for 1 million euros by 2012 and to install open source software only at the request of employees. Vera Layr, press spokeswoman for IT Municipal Department 14, justified this by saying that “there is no open source alternative on the market for some work areas”.

In 2012, the system was de facto no longer used, and the Wienux website is now also offline. It was criticized that a lack of resources and strong lobbying by Microsoft contributed significantly to the failure of the project.

installation

The distribution manages without a separate partitioning tool. The first hard disk is completely erased. For parallel installations with other systems, Wienux, like many older Windows versions, should be installed first.

Related projects

In 2003 and 2004, the LiMux project in Munich was started and partially implemented, which aims to convert all approximately 14,000 computers in the Munich city council to open source software by 2008. By May 2013, 14,000 jobs had been migrated to the LiMux client, which corresponds to “well over 80% of the jobs”.

Software used

See also

literature

  • Leonhard Dobusch: Windows versus Linux: Market - Organization - Path , Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-16242-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Open source software at work in the Vienna City Administration. (No longer available online.) City of Vienna, 2004, archived from the original on June 9, 2007 ; Retrieved October 16, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  2. ↑ Wienux, the Linux for Vienna. In: heise online. January 22, 2005, accessed October 16, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b Wienux for free download: Linux distribution of the City of Vienna for everyone. In: Golem.de. October 4, 2005, accessed October 16, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Professional authority desktop WIENUX. www.wien.gv.at, 2008, archived from the original on December 8, 2008 ; Retrieved October 18, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Baader: Interim balance at Wienux. In: Pro-Linux. February 5, 2008, accessed October 16, 2010 .
  6. ↑ What about Wienux? In: derStandard.at. December 18, 2008, accessed October 16, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Setback: Linux in Vienna is struggling with compatibility problems. In: PC-Welt.de. June 6, 2008, accessed October 16, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Kindergarten language software cannot work with Wienux. In: derStandard.at. June 15, 2008, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Vienna wants to strengthen open source in its own authorities. In: ikhaya.ubuntuusers.de/. June 27, 2009, accessed October 18, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Vienna is committed to open source. In: Golem.de. June 26, 2009. Retrieved October 18, 2010 .
  11. ↑ Linux - now something is finally going on! (No longer available online.) Die Grünen Vienna, June 25, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / archiv.wien.gruene.at  
  12. ^ Vienna says goodbye once more to Wienux and Openoffice. Der Standard , December 2, 2009, accessed October 18, 2010 .
  13. ↑ Linux experiment "Wienux": Just one website. Der Standard , February 1, 2012, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  14. ↑ "The air for Linux on the desktop is out". Futurezone , February 27, 2014, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  15. ↑ LiMux - The IT Evolution: Free Software in Munich - Status. What has LiMux already done? In: muenchen.de. Portal München Betriebs-GmbH & Co. KG, November 2008, accessed on November 11, 2009 .
  16. ↑ LiMux → The project at a glance → Figures and facts. Retrieved September 30, 2011 .

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