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A guy who works for the EU has proposed (in his spare time it seems - not in an official capacity) that Europe have its own Linux distro for European public sector use.

The plan is to base this distro on Fedora with KDE Plasma. I suppose Plasma is relatively similar to the Windows desktop, so it should be familiar for public sector employees.

Thoughts?

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 48 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Suse exists and is european, why would you need another distro?

[–] SleafordMod@feddit.uk 15 points 6 days ago

Who knows. And maybe this proposed project will go nowhere. But it would be cool if the European public sector does end up using Linux on the desktop.

As always, the year of the Linux desktop is just around the corner...

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is pure marketing propaganda

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 9 points 6 days ago

(By the random guy who started the project, that is.)

[–] TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Based on Fedora, run by Red Hat, an American company.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

IBM color almost match with EU flag color so it might work.

[–] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

Do a browser instead

[–] vane@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Maybe they start supporting open source instead of making new businesses out of it.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why though? Some of the biggest distros aren't even based in the US but rather in Europe.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago

But who builds Debian?

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

Great! Let's just make a new one instead of supporting one that's already well developed and widely adopted, which include countless of options. Surely they got time and effort to develop and market it, right??

[–] chaotic_disorganizer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Since Europe (especially Germany) likes its acronyms, why not call it EPSos (spoken "app-sauce") for European Publich Sector OS?

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Vereinheitlichtes Betriebssystem fΓΌr den Γ–ffentlichen Dienst, also known as VereinhBetrSfdΓ–D. Rolls right off the tongue.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Does Linux have a good alternative to ActiveDirectory? Something where a central server can validate logins, send update commands remotely, integrate it with several other applications so users don't have to create an account for each different system?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Does Linux have a good alternative to ActiveDirectory?

Centralized IAM, managed updates, and all of the other "stuff" that AD does is available for at least some Linux distributions but it's not free to use, at least not commercially. You're going to be paying Red Hat, SUSE, etc for these kinds of features.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

I'd rather have my tax euros pay them than pay microsoft. Granted, that money being used to employ devs to create a FOSS solution would be even better, but commercial Linux would already be a great first step in the right direction.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 days ago

There can't be good alternative to AD because it's horrible, but yes there is rh idm(freeipa) that combines ldap server, dns server, ntp server, pki infrastructure and sssd.