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Why linux?
Why promote free software?
Let users choose according to their interest in evaluating new technologies (e.g. Roomba, NXP i.MX 95, Elbrus, LoongArch).
Establish a principle of seeking to perpetuate solutions
Assert and preserve the choice of depending on or doing without an IT vendor
Freedom from the constraints and costs imposed by restrictive software licenses
Use commodity hardware to reduce hardware maintenance costs
Acquire and strengthen expertise in open-source software to better meet the needs of faculties and users in this field
Across-the-board openness to anyone concerned by or interested in linux at UniGE
Support interested students, for example through tutorials and documentation
Share know-how by creating a participative UniGE community
Take advantage of the CERN experiment (MALT)
Promote interoperability by complying with standards to facilitate communication and data exchange
Promote exchanges of operational skills, both within and outside UNIGE
Promote exchanges in the use of individual personal and organizational applications