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[–] 269 points 6 months ago (9 children)

year of the french linux desktop

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  • [–] 82 points 6 months ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 155 points 6 months ago* (10 children)

    I'd be interested to try their distro when it's done...

    I'll just need to remove the french language pack first. Let me look up instructions for that real quick... Oh no...

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    [–] 121 points 6 months ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 104 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    C'est l'année de l'ordinateur Linux!

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    [–] 100 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    Meanwhile in the UK our government is strengthening ties to palintir. We always have to be the losers of Europe

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    [–] 83 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Combining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.

    How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L'nux?

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    [–] 76 points 6 months ago

    They won’t go back. once you start getting used to having logic that responds to your commands it really is hard to give that up to ai slop.

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  • [–] 71 points 6 months ago

    Between this and expedition 33, France is coming up with some Ws these days.

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  • [–] 54 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    This is how you renegotiate with MS.

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    [–] 52 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Let's hope they'll use Gendarmerie's almost 20 years of experience on that.

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    [–] 50 points 6 months ago

    J'utilise le Arch de Triomphe, btw

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  • [+] 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)
  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    With the resources they have -- and the goal of having security and control over their digital supply lines -- I don't see why they wouldn't roll their own distro. Maybe heavily based on an existing distro (looking at you, Debian) but something that's completely under their control, so they can choose for themselves exactly what packages are included, what security settings are used as defaults, when and if to update things, etc.


    Edit: after (gasp) actually reading the article, it seems that each department within the French government will be responsible for their own implementation, which means they might all end up using different distros in different departments.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    That seems odd, that just means higher costs for support. Pick one distro then do custom packages or Ansible for your stuff that you want on top but don’t go a million different ways

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago

    Going a millions different ways is more in the FOSS spirit than starting off by saying 'everyone will use this list of software'. They can't know what will be the best fit for everyone so they're approaching it flexibly.

    They can iterate in the future or come up with standards as they need, but in the beginning it's better to try a lot of different things to see what people discover.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    It's either a political move (nobody wants to be responsible for and/or depend on another ministry), or 4D chess where they would prevent a single vulnerability to expose the entire user base.

    Fun fact, Orange (former France Telecom) has developed its own distro for the best part of the last 25 years. It's.. very peculiar.

    By who are we kidding. The actual work will be offloaded to the shittiest contractor available (Capgemini/Atos/SopraSteria), it will take 5 years of the planned 2 and will cost 3.5 times the initial budget, for something sensibly shittier than an uBlue script.

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    [–] 49 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Zomg, they will not allow you to sudo remove le French language!!!!

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    [–] 41 points 6 months ago

    Vive la France

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 112 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Coming soon: Arch de triomphe.

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  • [+] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    They should reboot mandrake/mandriva. As I recall it was a french project anyway.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    So I can no longer make the joke about removing french language packs using rm -fr /?

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    [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    As a French, I wait before believing it. The DINUM does not really hold authority above the rest of the government and all the other administrations. Our gendarmerie switched to ubuntu more than 10 years ago, but the police planned to change all its computers to accomodate to windows 11, and the DINUM advocated to for dong to stop using american cloud providers, but we have a shit ton of public stuff running on american cloud, including the health data hub.

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