The European public sector could choose any stable Linux distro, with any DE. Now, somebody proposed a branded “EU OS” so you know what the non-techies in charge are going to go for.
Pardon my cynicism, but to me that branding seems opportunist and suspicious in itself. Let the suits at least ask their sysadmins what would be the better setup.
Their setup should be on some wiki repository if they work the way they’re supposed to.
The article states that ChromiumOS doesn’t qualify – and neither do ChromeOS Flex or FydeOS
I’m sure it does actually
It’s odd that they want to go with the American based Fedora instead of the German based openSUSE. Only thing I can figure is that this is yet another case of European Tech infighting?
The Register should get ahold of Robert Riemann and ask them.
Or just license SUSE Linux and you get all the professional support you need. I don’t understand why they’d want to roll their own thing when a European solution that ticks all the boxes exists.
Licensing SUSE would cost money and this guy wouldn’t end up in charge of it. If I was SUSE I’d run around offering EU Government entities, and I mean all of them right down to a town council, seriously steep discounts on licensing and simultaneously create an entire team tasked with supporting new government users.
Hell if there were any European Venture Capitalists they should be lining up around the block to invest in SUSE doing just that. Investing 10 Billion in SUSE to do that now could return 100 Billion or more in just a decade.
Yep, was thinking the same thing. Was a Fedora user that migrated to Tumbleweed. Very satisfied.
It could be due to them liking Fedora better. We don’t need to kick off more distro wars over something that probably won’t affect most people.
Sure but if the intent is to get away from American software companies, specifically Microsoft for Desktop OS, then why would you run Fedora when SUSE is literally right there?
Maybe they weighted the options and choose Fedora?
Fedora is a community project
Fedora is an American Community Project.
There are contributors from around the world, but only Nazi America gets to choose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because it’s run by Americans.
We’re way past ‘Not all Americans’ now.
If you want “everyone” on board I’d take Mint. It just works and, for what I know, has no specific bad side effects.
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
Honestly they could build there own version of Mint based on Fedora. The Cinnamon desktop is fairly portable.
Chromium OS isn’t really a viable desktop OS.
They need a desktop for what? Open files with applications?
They probably need a working device
Chromium is not Chrome
Chromium is chrome without Google sync . But in FydeOS it has also been reenabled somehow
Can someone tell whoever is leading this project to go with EurOS? Please? Such a missed opportunity.
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I think you are clumping together things that are not really quite in the same category.
