German state decides to move away from Microsoft to Linux and LibreOffice
German state decides to move away from Microsoft to Linux and LibreOffice
Following a recent pilot, the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein has made the decision to move away from Microsoft products, and begin using Linux and LibreOffice on its 30,000 PCs.
Nice
This again?
Currently, there are a few Microsoft products for which the local government cannot find an open-source alternative such as Microsoft Active Directory, as such it is looking to conceive and develop an open source based directory service which will replace this in the future.
No good alternative for Active Directory? Isn’t that what LDAP does and aren’t there a number of FOSS projects for that? What does Active Directory have that they don’t?
Active Directory is a lot more than just an LDAP though. You have GPOs, and Kerberos built-in. It can do Linux and Unix authentication too and some more. Personally it's one of the few Microsoft products I have a lot of respect for.
Apache Directory Studio (UI for LDAP) is pretty good and easy to use.
Smart.