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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

Redditor builds Proxmox home server entirely from landfill e-waste finds

A Reddit user known as Tsuto says weekly visits to their county landfill's electronics recycling area have yielded enough discarded SSDs, HDDs, GPUs, RAM and even a laptop to assemble a working Proxmox home lab server. The rig combines scavenged parts—mirrored 256GB SSDs, a 1TB SSD, and three 2TB HDDs in RAID1 for ZFS storage—with a Core i7-7700 and 64GB of RAM bought separately on Amazon. Tsuto also salvaged an Asus ROG laptop with a GTX 860M GPU, fixed with a $25 replacement battery, for casual gaming.

tomshardware.com · 2026-09-14