The LiMux project, which oversees Linux migration in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, has reached another milestone. According to a 2009 development review that the deputy project leader Florian Schießl  has posted on his blog, open source OpenDocument Format (ODF) is now the main document exchange standard, with PDF being used for non-editable files. According to Schießl, the city administration's standard desktops now consist of the free OpenOffice.org office suite, Mozilla's Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client and several other open source applications, such as the GIMP image editor.

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