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EU OS for the public sector

Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a common free Operating System for the EU public sector ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

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[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 29 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

If the people behind euos would actually care, they wouldn't use Fedora as the base as its by Red Hat, an American Company. Instead they should built on top of Suse or other European Linux Distributions.

Oh yeah, good point.

I was about to say just that. Why fedora?ย 

[โ€“] Bz1sen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He elaborates on this topic in this talk. Slides of the presentation can be found here

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Does he though? He states that having a governing body behind a chosen distro would be key. NEITHER FEDORA or OpenSuse have it and have a foundation behind it; YET he chose Fedora just because Fedora can utilise OSTree? Isn't the US backing a way more crucial point than having that tech?

[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As a POC isn't that bad. I don't think any government agency will really use it as is.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is there actually to proof?

[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

a common free Operating System for the EU public sector

From the title

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

OpenSuse exists. Boom, PoC done.

[โ€“] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but OpenMandriva also exists and it's French.ย 

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Forgive me, I wasn't aware that Mandrake/Mandriva still exist.