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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

EU OS aims to free the European public sector desktop

www.theregister.com

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EU OS aims to free the European public sector desktop

www.theregister.com

Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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: Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro
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    Basing this on Fedora doesn’t make sense. It tells me the private individual behind this proposal hasn’t done an extensive analysis on this.

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      Under what means? The target is public sector and the OS to replace (Windows 10, Windows 11) would be a relatively compatible release target. Fedora is a competent leading edge (Wayland, Pipewire, BTRFS) distro that runs as a 6 month point release. I wouldn’t see many reasons to not go with Fedora Workstation as a base unless going for an immutable base or a different core distro (OpenSUSE or Debian mainly).

      EDIT: Missed that this is going to be immutabe, so it is likely being based on Fedora Kinoite, meaning there really aren’t many alternatives besides OpenSUSE’s offerings.

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        Fedora Kinoite is the immutable KDE variant. It will definitely be ostree based and likely will be something that leverages rpm-ostree. The other option would be bootable containers.

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      Why wouldn’t they use Fedora? Last time I checked they are paving the way from a security and quality perspective. The Fedora team does excellent work.

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        It’s a US based project.

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          Yes, however it is still a community lead project with a focus on foss.

          It is a good organization for the most part.

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        Because it’s run by Americans.

        We’re way past ‘Not all Americans’ now.

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      If you want “everyone” on board I’d take Mint. It just works and, for what I know, has no specific bad side effects.

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        Honestly they could build there own version of Mint based on Fedora. The Cinnamon desktop is fairly portable.

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        Mint is not even among the top 10 to choose as a base distro for a government agency or any company.

        It’s good for the general public

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      I suggested chromiumOS https://gitlab.com/eu-os/eu-os.gitlab.io/-/issues?show=eyJpaWQiOiIxMyIsImZ1bGxfcGF0aCI6ImV1LW9zL2V1LW9zLmdpdGxhYi5pbyIsImlkIjoxNjQ2ODIxMTB9

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        Chromium OS isn’t really a viable desktop OS.

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          They need a desktop for what? Open files with applications?

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            They probably need a working device

            Chromium is not Chrome

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              Chromium is chrome without Google sync . But in FydeOS it has also been reenabled somehow

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