München and Monaco go Lubuntized
Maybe it’s a well known news, but I have to spread it worldwide. As communicated officially, “Munich City Council plan to make Ubuntu discs available as a ‘replacement for Windows XP’ – Microsoft’s 11-year old operating system for which support officially ends in April of next year. The proactive effort is been billed as an attempt to ‘prevent electronic waste’ from discarded computers that, whilst still serviceable with an alternative OS, would fail to meet the requirements of Windows 7 or Windows 8”.
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| München inner city |
These are good news for the open software. And it demonstrates that Lubuntu isn’t at all the “little brother” of Ubuntu. Well, maybe yes talking about setup size or memory requierements, but not less considered. So I want to thank Julien Lavergne, the coordinator of the Lubuntu Team, and their respective collaborators (and users) for a rewarded great job.
LAST HOUR FROM LFFL: “Il Comune di Monaco punta sempre più in Linux, oltre ad utilizzare Linux e software liberi come la suite per l’ufficio LibreOffice ha iniziato a preparasi per il termine del supporto di Windows XP previsto per l’otto aprile 2014 consigliando Lubuntu”.