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France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins (linuxiac.com)
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[โ€“] 61 points 6 months ago (2 children)

L'annรฉe du Linux Desktop

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    • [โ€“] 38 points 6 months ago

    Great to see, the more big institutions do this, the easier it becomes for others to follow.

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    [โ€“] 38 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    So far it's just a plan to come up with a plan for this winter. It's not like the French government is ready to switch all the workstations this year.

    But, things have been going on the right direction for a while.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Didnt the police systems run linux already? I vaguely remember of an old linux fork intended for french police

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    • [โ€“] 27 points 6 months ago

    Vive Lโ€™inux!

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    [โ€“] 26 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Britain: Brexit
    France: Vitrexit

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  • [โ€“] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Fenรชtrexit, pehaps?

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    • [โ€“] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Viva la Tux.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Vive*

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    • [โ€“] 14 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    It would be great if it weren't for the anti-privacy decisions the french government has made recently, but at least it shouldn't be as bad as windows.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 months ago

    I do not see what the two things have to do with one another.

    Yes, France and the French are historically not as conscious of privacy as, say, Germany and the Germans.

    Of course having some standardized and (lightly) customized solutions across the government will make it easy to support and interoperate. This will get Microsoft out of the government and make it easier for everyone else to use Linux at home just by removing barriers.

    I don't see why anyone would ever use the government distro at home.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I did not read into the topic, but I think privacy of government machines against that same government is not so important?

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It is open source and likely to be released publicly to at least check for some vulnerabilities, the same government wants user ID for phones and computers, I don't know if I'd be ok with using that distro.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    If it's Linux, presumably, it will be open source. Meaning, presumably, any anti-privacy code will be easily identified.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    well, only if every employee has to compile his own desktop, otherwise I don't see how you could be sure the published code is the one you have on your desktop

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 6 months ago*

    Oh, mate, come on... If it's for employees, privacy is irrelevant. If they do this in any semi-competent way, they will want proper management tools to come with the OS - a way to monitor and protect (from "both ends") included.

    By "both ends" I mean data extraction both by a malicious party outside and inside the government. It's bog standard enterprise approach to have what's called "DLP", or "Data Loss Prevention", policies (and software solutions) in place.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    While that is true if it is for the masses in france who there would go out of their way to find the work around and implement it after switching from windows or Mac?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago

    Well, it's not "for the masses", it's "for the government", right? My assumption is that if there are good solutions or upgrades implemented in the OS, the OSS community will be able to extract the good bits without also pulling the "bad" bits.

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    • [โ€“] 11 points 6 months ago

    A lot of doom and gloom posting on this topic but I feel like it's a step in the right direction even though for now it's just a plan. I wish my country would follow.

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    [โ€“] 5 points 6 months ago

    I wonder how long until they say linux is also a terrorism tool, then. Or if they will actually change their minds on graphene

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    [โ€“] 1 point 6 months ago

    Take notes Carney and Legault.

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