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/&gt;In what may prove to be the biggest migration from Windows to the Linux desktop, the South Korean government is looking into shifting from Windows 7 to a trio of Linux desktops.With , some institutions are finally giving up on Windows entirely. The biggest of these may be the South Korean government. In May 2019, South Korea's Interior Ministry announced plans to look into . It must have liked what it saw. According to the Korean news site&nbsp;, the South Korean Ministry of Strategy and Planning has announced the government is exploring moving most of its approximately .&nbsp; The reason for this is simple. It's to reduce software licensing costs and the government's reliance on Windows. As Choi Jang-hyuk, the head of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, said, "We will resolve our dependency on a single company while reducing the budget by introducing an open-source operating system."How much? South Korean officials said it would cost 780 billion won (about $655 million) to move government PCs from Windows 7 to Windows 10. &nbsp;In its first steps, the Ministry of National Defense and National Police Agency are already using the LTS-based 3.0. While based on , this Linux desktop also borrows heavily from . It uses the Cinnamon 4.2 desktop environment and Mint apps. Harmonica 3.0 also includes Korean-created programs such as the .Meanwhile, the Korean Postal Service division is moving to . This is a Linux-based operating system, but TMaxOS had had a . It's also closely tied to the Tmax cloud. This desktop has its own unique desktop interface and uses its own Chromium-based browser, ToGate.The is also being used by Defense and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security. Unlike the other two, this is primarily a cloud-based desktop with more in common with Chrome OS than traditional Linux desktops.&nbsp;Windows will still have a role to play for now on South Korean government computers. As the , a South Korean business news site, explained:&nbsp;. One is external for internet use, and the other is internal for intranet tasks. Only the external one will use a Linux-based distro.&nbsp;Eventually, by 2026, most civil servants will use a single Windows-powered laptop. On that system, Windows will continue to be used for internal work, while Linux will be used as a virtual desktop via a Linux-powered cloud server. This looks to eventually end up as a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) model.&nbsp;It's early days yet. This move may be meant to win significant discounts from Microsoft for Windows licenses. We may also see both Windows and Linux as running primarily in a DaaS mode by then.&nbsp;Still, a significant number of South Korean desktops will move to Linux in the near-term, while in the long-run many more of them may end up running Linux virtual desktops off Windows systems. Only time, politics, and governmental budgeting will tell.&nbsp;

/&gt;In what may prove to be the biggest migration from Windows to the Linux desktop, the South Korean government is looking into shifting from Windows 7 to a trio of Linux desktops.With , some institutions are finally giving up on Windows entirely. The biggest of these may be the South Korean government. In May 2019, South Korea's Interior Ministry announced plans to look into . It must have liked what it saw. According to the Korean news site&nbsp;, the South Korean Ministry of Strategy and Planning has announced the government is exploring moving most of its approximately .&nbsp; The...

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