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?

      • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        i read their statement as :

        1. Debian is “as far from corporations as possible” …
        2. Other distros might be also “as far from corporations as possible” … yet we don’t care because what we say is :

        it is as far from corporations as possible and it works

        • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          Possible, I still feel like it was used as a sort of USP for Debian and just wanted to know if theres something about other distros (apart from the obvious ones) that makes them in some way corpo controlled