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Munich revives open-source push, swaps VMware, Jira, Oracle for alternatives

Munich's chief digital officer Laura Dornheim announced at Open Source Summit Europe that the city is replacing proprietary infrastructure software with open-source alternatives, including moving from VMware to Proxmox, Jira and Confluence to OpenProject and XWiki, and Oracle databases to PostgreSQL. The city is not reviving its old LiMux Linux desktop project, which it abandoned over a decade ago for Windows.

zdnet.com · 2026-10-16

DEsk v0.1.2 beta brings skeuomorphic Wayland desktop to Linux

A developer has released DEsk, a Wayland-based Linux desktop environment formerly known as DeskWM, designed with realistic skeuomorphic visuals reminiscent of iOS 6. The desktop renders windows as paper on a ray-traced walnut desk, with a drawer-style dock, bookshelf app launcher, and a post-box notification system. Version 0.1.2 is a beta release with installers for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora, alongside a new Discord server for bug reports and feature requests.

github.com · 2026-10-15