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Great to see, the more big institutions do this, the easier it becomes for others to follow.
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.
Didnt the police systems run linux already? I vaguely remember of an old linux fork intended for french police
The police is still on windows but the Gendarmerie (which serves as police in rural areas) usés GendBuntu (not a joke they truly have a Ubuntu fork)
Britain: Brexit
France: VitrexitFenêtrexit, pehaps?
Liam Neeson in
The Naked Gun.
Defenestration: the final insult.
La Défenestration française
Vive L’inux!
Viva la Tux.
Vive*
This is going to come as a shock to you, but I don’t speak French.
Unforgivable, I know. :)
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.
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.
I did not read into the topic, but I think privacy of government machines against that same government is not so important?
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.
I would assume that distro is not meant for home use. Anyone who still chooses it could have chosen differently.
There’s a Ubuntu fork for our Gendarmerie, maybe you could also use that at home if you wanted.
If it’s Linux, presumably, it will be open source. Meaning, presumably, any anti-privacy code will be easily identified.
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.
I wonder how long until they say linux is also a terrorism tool, then. Or if they will actually change their minds on graphene
Take notes Carney and Legault.
