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LWN: Extremadura Government to Move to Linux

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“All the computers of the Junta of Extremadura (goverment state
of Spain) will be running free software within a year. This project
makes the Regional Government the first Public Administration to
adopt standards upheld by international organizations, that favour
“technological innovation and the reduction of user dependency

“The councillor for Infrastructures and Technological
Development, Luis Millán de Vázquez de Miguel, met
the press this Friday to inform about the agreements reached in the
last board meeting of the Government held last June 25. In said
meeting, it was agreed that all the computers of the Junta of
Extremadura would have to be adapted to free software office tools
and gnuLinEx (the local flavour of Debian GNU/Linux) within one
year…”

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