Comment by rdiddly | Hacker News Reader

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by rdiddly | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

No mention of it in the English Wikipedia Munich article, but there's one about LiMux, their custom distro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

German Wikipedia's München article does mention it:

(Deutsch) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_M%C3%BCnchens

(English) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...

Edit: Sorry, actually my trail was

1) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen

2) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen#Geschichte

3) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_M%C3%BCnchens

There's plenty of reporting to be found if you just search "munich linux".

From the end of [0]:

> At the time Munich began the move to LiMux in 2004, it was one of the largest organizations to reject Windows, and Microsoft took the city's leaving so seriously that its then CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Munich, but the mayor at the time, Christian Ude, stood firm.

> More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich.

[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-in-munich-no-comp...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com