Last update: 21/05/2020
Dealing with change
Public services preparing to increase their use of free and open source software, especially on PC workstations, should take a cue from the municipality of Eyüpsultan in Turkey. In 2015, Eyüpsultan began a two-year switch to open source desktops. It succeeded because the IT administrators made sure the desktops looked very similar. “The reaction we got on the first day was amazing, it makes me smile even now,” says Hüseyin Güç, leader of the GNU/Pardus Linux Team. Eyüpsultan, an Istanbul city district, uses Pardus Linux, a distribution of open source software solutions tailored for use in…
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