Hi, (I post it in debian-project because I think that it has a broad impact. Please move it to other list or ignore if not appropriate.)
Just read this morning these news from a Spanish newspaper (spanish only, sorry). Maybe other people know about english versions, or some insider from the LinEx project also in Debian can share more news with us about that. http://www.publico.es/ciencias/414698/extremadura-abandona-linex Confirmed in: http://www.linex.org/joomlaex/ Some highlights (possibly inexact or that will change in the future -- use with care ;) ): - Extremadura's regional government is the owner of the centre Cesje (Centro de Excelencia de Software José de Espronceda), in charge of developing LinEx (a Debian derivative created in 2002 especifically for the use and needs of this government/region). Due to wanting to streamline spending, they are going to transfer the centre to Spain's government. This, in principle, will end the development of LinEx, the contracts of programmers and the comissioning stopped since yesterday. - More than 70,000 computers with LinEx are used in schools/education, and more than 15,000 in health-care (roughly, equivalent of the National Health System). Only about 1% of the rest of the administration (40,000 in total) use LinEx, though. - Apparently, Extremadura's government plans to keep using free software, and they plan to migrate all of the computers with Windows OS to "another free distribution". In other part of the article they say that they're going to migrate from LinEx "to an open distribution, in particular, Debian". They cite in some places of the article Ubuntu as a possibility, as well, so maybe there are no firm decisions yet. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
