WIENUX is a
Debian
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-based
Linux
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distribution developed by the City of
Vienna
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in Austria. Its main purpose is to replace proprietary operating systems and applications on the municipality's thousands of
desktop computer
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s with free and open source alternatives based on
KDE
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,
OpenOffice.org
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and
Firefox
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. WIENUX was released in 2005 under the General Public License and was available for free download from the distribution's web site until 2008 when the download page was taken offline.
In 2009 the migration to Linux as operating system was stopped and most desktop computers were equipped with a
Windows
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operating system again.
See also
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Canaima (operating system)
Canaima GNU/Linux is a Free and open-source software, free and open-source Linux distribution that is based on the architecture of Debian. It was created as a solution to cover the needs of the Venezuelan Government as a response to presidenti ...
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GendBuntu
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Inspur
Inspur Group is an information technology conglomerate in the People's Republic of China focusing on cloud computing, big data, key application hosts, servers, storage, artificial intelligence and ERP. On April 18, 2006, Inspur changed its Engl ...
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LiMux
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Nova (operating system)
Nova is a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution launched in February 2009. It was developed in Havana at the University of Information Science (UCI) by students and professors to provide Free and open-source software, free and open-source sof ...
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Ubuntu Kylin
Ubuntu Kylin () is the official Chinese version of the Ubuntu computer operating system. It is intended for desktop and laptop computers, and has been described as a "loose continuation of the Chinese Kylin OS". In 2013, Canonical Ltd. reached ...
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VIT, C.A.
References
Debian-based distributions
Linux distributions
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