German universities embrace Linux
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German state signs contract with Novell for the supply of Linux server and desktop products to schools serving 560,000 students.
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Here's what one university library found when they compared the hardware and software costs.
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Gaurav Khanna, an assistant professor of  astrophysics, is using a cluster of eight Sony PlayStation 3 consoles running Linux to run computations that used to require hundreds of supercomputer nodes.
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Open-source geeks are devout in their belief that software should be free to all, and hold as their icon the Linux alternative to the Microsoft commercial empire.
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TechWeb - IBM's Linux Scholar Challenge is one of a few programs to drum up enthusiasm among students worldwide in Linux and open-source software.
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BERLIN, Nov 28 (IPS) - German universities, pre-eminent in the natural  sciences, social sciences and humanities in the early part of the  20th century, no longer rank among the world's most elite.  The nation's seats of higher learning find themselves  buffeted by cost pressures and declining standards - but amid  recent hopes of some revival.
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FRANKFURT, GERMANY -- The German subsidiaries of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Novell Inc. are teaming to offer Linux-based products to the country's huge public sector.
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(InfoWorld) - Munich has begun its migration to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned and nearly three years since the city announced itsÂ move to open source software. "There have been someÂ delays along the wayÂ but we're now moving steadily ahead," Florian Schiessl, manager of the Limux project for the city of Munich, said Thursday by telephone. Since Tuesday, the first 100 of the city's 14,000 PCs have been switched from Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office applications to Linux and OpenOffice. "Today, we're still working in both the Windows and Linux worlds," Schiessl said. "But over the next two years, the Linux world will get bigger, while the Windows world will get smaller." A full migration to Linux is "unrealistic," Schiessl said. Some hardware and software products in the public administration will continue to require Windows and some, particularly in the area of desktop publishing, will continue to require systems from Apple Computer, he said. By the end of this year, the city of Munich plans to have migrated 200 computers to the open source desktop environment. "Most of these computers are used for relatively simple office communications," he said. The configuration is based on Linux Distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, the KDE 3.5 user interface and OpenOffice 2. The Limux team has established guidelines to help overcome format conversion issues between Microsoft and open source products, according to Schiessl. "With OpenOffice, we don't have a problem opening and reading Microsoft formats and, with most simple documents, we don't have any processing problems," he said. "But, in some cases, there can be format loss, and some documents need to be handled in a special way to avoid format conversion problems. Our guidelines address these issues." One of the bigger challenges moving ahead, Schiessl said, will be to migrate some of the public administration's larger departments with more complex processes. "Big departments with specialized processes will be a challenge, but we have a plan to tackle this and expect to achieve our goal of having around 80 percent of all desktop systems running on Linux by the end of 2008." Delays in the Limux project began with the dispute over software patent issues, followed by longer than expected negotiations with companies bidding for the contract to provide system configuration and support services. On top of that was a one-year extension of the pilot phase. "Because of the complexity of this migration project, we decided to have a very thorough pilot phase," Schiessl said. He declined to comment on the decision by the city of Bergen, Norway, to delay its Linux desktop plans by two years, largely for lack of detailed information about the decision. In September, the Norwegian city decided to focus on building an e-government portal first and later migrate its Windows-based systems to a Linux environment. Vienna is another big European city with ambitious plans to roll out Linux in its public administration.
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Plans call for a Linux-based platform that will be usable in multiple environments, including on PCs, servers and PDAs.
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KDE and GNOME, the open-source software projects that together form the face of most Linux installations, have undergone revisions that boost their usability and enterprise readinessâadvances that build the case for Linux as a viable alternative to
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Demand for the Linux OS is gathering steam as it becomes more popular outside its core market of computer enthusiasts, helped in part by interest in open-source software from European governments.
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Cisco's new digital media system -- unveiled this week -- is already winning praise from one early adopter, a university in London that is using it to provide students with access to rich media.
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Germany's third-largest city decided to equip 14,000 computers with Linux and other open-source office apps, despite concerns about patent infringements raised in the debate over new European Union patent laws.
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In the spirit of being at the university, the Microsoft chairman also talked about when open-source licenses make sense. By Aaron Ricadela.
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Novell's OpenSuse Build Service now can be used to test software for Red Hat Linux.
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Grants aim to accelerate European research into business applications of shared computing.
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More than a year after the German  city of Munich declared its landmark intention to abandon  Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux, its  councillors are finally ready to go ahead with the plan.