looking for examples of countries whose governments, school system,health system, wjatever, use mostly GNU/Linux
I know 100℅ of the world top 500 supercomputers use linux, and around 65℅ of world servers. I want more info like this to help me campaign towards GNU/Linux use. Thanks.
Schleswig-Holstein in Germany seems to be switching to Linux and LibreOffice.
North Korea uses 100% Linux
No wonder my country won't let me travel there.
Finally some good news out of North Korea
Lot of health systems,government office,universities(mostly), defence (mostly) use Linux in my nation (🇮🇳)
I would avoid government distros due to censorship and surveillance
The government distros (BOSS and IT@School) are for government offices and schools, respectively. Also, both are open-source. Mostly they add better support for Indian languages, and some educational software.
Most governments use some sort of enterprise Linux distros, not their own distros. Even when they do, it's their distros. Why would they worry about censorship and surveillance?
In brazil, in the city I live, computers in public schools have been using linux for as long as I remember until 2015 when I finished high school. They used a mix of ubuntu machines and a distro called Linux Educacional which was made in some brazilian university I can't remember. They used KDE Plasma, one of the reasons I still prefer it to this day.
The US’s Department of Defense is one of Red Hat’s biggest customers. Other than that, the US government theoretically uses Linux quite extensively, going as far as making significant contributions such as SELinux. It was mentioned already, but academia uses Linux a lot, too. I saw lots of machines at SLAC running CentOS 7.
We're moving to Linux but still mostly use Windows.
Also, more people use uOS.
Edit: At least the public sector is greatly incentivizing it.
Edit: Somebody below said that 90% of the government used Linux, apparently? I wonder how much of that is servers and what's the relevant percentage for the US. I've only found that the US had 25% in 2001.
I would not trust any government made distro. Especially in China.
A huge amount of security camera NVRs run Linux, so that's something.
Linux from 10 years ago and you can't change it.
To all the commenters here writing that Brazil is testing Linux. There was a recent post on Reddit which got linked on Lemmy. That (unknown ?) poster on Reddit wrote about a test on 800 computers for some part of Brazil, if all goes well, it's for 22k computers. https://lemmy.ml/post/14397254 Now try to guess or imagine how many inhabitants the whole of Brazil has that use computers :)
140 million? Am I close?
Original Reddit post (using an alternative front end) if anyone is interested.
Russian military stated in the news they use AstraOS, some another fork. All other government institutions are too used to MS Word\Excel and the population in these places are usually aged conformists, so it won't change soon. Some schools experimented with Linux but for their budget it makes more sense to keep using outdated Windows PCs. With the whole culture built around formatting and reprinting, signing papers in closed formats that don't render the same even in different versions of Office, the whole generation should die off for some change. One exclusion - cloud editing in cooperation in Google is popular, but that's about it.
If im right brazil is trying out linux. A lot of people already use linux there because its free.
I think India? I don't have a source for this. It's something I think I remember reading on a forum.
Nah, All of India's govt system mostly run pirated Windows. The southern state of Kerala has switched to Linux though. Every 2-3 years or so, the central government announces switching to Linux and then forgets about it.
I believe Germany is working on that. Recently they have started to migrate 30K systems or so from windows to Linux.
That's one region in Germany. The rest is not. Actually, a few in Germany tried moving to Linux in the past and gave up, unfortunately.
More will follow with their EU data privacy laws violated by use of office365
Brazil is trialing Linux right now too.
LiMux, Munich already had perfectly fine systems running Linux but M$ corruption made them switch back