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