Schleswig-Holstein, a region in northern Germany, is planning to transition all government employees' computers, including teachers in schools, to open-source software as part of an initiative to reduce dependency on a single vendor. In the first phase, by the end of 2026, they plan to replace MS Office with LibreOffice, and later replace Windows with Linux. The migration will affect around 25,000 computers in various government institutions and will be conducted considering the issues faced during the transition to Linux in government institutions in the city of Munich.
The migration decision has already been discussed by the Schleswig-Holstein parliament and confirmed in an interview with the region's digital technologies minister. It is noted that the transition to open-source software is already underway — the move to the open platform for video conferencing Jitsi has been successfully implemented, and over the past two years, testing of LibreOffice and browser solutions based on the open package Phoenix (OnlyOffice, nextCloud, Matrix) has been conducted. Testing is also ongoing for solutions based on five different Linux distributions, which will help determine the optimal distribution for migration.
Allikas: opennet.ru
