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Federal Employment Office switches to Linux (Heise Online)

[Posted January 22, 2008 by ris]

Heise Online reports that the German Federal Employment Office (BA) has switched to Linux. "The BA is using the OpenSuse 10.1 Remastered distribution and the latest version of the Firefox web browser. The software was installed on the server as a repository and the clients can access it via PXE Boot. The BA told heise online that the switch, concluded at the end of last year, lasted some nine months including planning and did not involve any external service providers - it carried no additional costs."

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Misleading heading

Posted Jan 23, 2008 17:21 UTC (Wed) by jmayer (subscriber, #595) [Link]

The first line of the article pointed to by the link already shows that 
the heading is misleading:
"Shortly after switching all of its 13,000 public internet information 
workstations from Windows NT to Linux"
They by no means switched completely but that's what the heading conveys 
to a reader who hasn't read the article.