EU OS: A Fedora-based distro 'for the public sector'

I wonder how much work is entailed in transforming Fedora in to a distro that meets some definition of the word "Sovereign" 🤔

Personally I wouldn't want to make a project like this be dependent on the whims of a US defense contractor like RedHat/IBM, especially after what happened with CentOS.

Why Fedora? They're basically Red Hat in a trench coat. I'd go with a EU based distro like Suse.

The idea of a "distro for EU public sector" is neat, but even the PoC has some flaws when considering technical sovereignty.

First of all, using Gitlab & Gitlab CI. Gitlab is an American company with most of its developers based in the US. Sure, you could host it by yourself but why would you do it considering Forgejo is lighter and mostly developed by developers based in the EU area?

The idea of basing it on Fedora is also somewhat confusing. Sure, it's a good distro for derivatives, but it's mostly developed by IBM developers. The tech sovereignty argument doesn't hold well against Murphy's law.

I'd rather they used SUSE

EUbuntu?

But Fedora is based on an IBM product... so that's a swing and a miss. SuSE would be a better direction, IMO

@SpiceDealer Sorry, what ? How can it be made in EU if it's a Fedora fork/derivative ?

Scammers never let a good global crisis get in their way.

1. Rebadge a distro and say it's fromm the EU
2. .....????
3. Profit!

As much as I love what they're doing, tieing an OS to a specific region via name seems like the opposite of Open Source values.. Then again, I suppose it could just be forked into a more generalized version

Is this made by European union I wonder

Fedora Origin: USA

No, thanks. 🙅

Based on a US distro whose versions are supported for 1 year, and "built to the requirements for the EU public sector" (because the EU public sector has one coherent set of requirements and the dev knows them, even if he doesn't list them out).

This is most probably good-intentioned and it is admirable how the dev sprung into action, but it's naive at best.

I read EUDORA for a split second and got all excited that the best email client ever was getting reborn!

But this is cool too… i guess.

"Made with ❤️ in Brussels by Robert Riemann"

Clicked his URL…

"physicist and computer scientist…passionate about open source and free software, cryptography…"

Whew, almost read crypto"currency"…

"…and peer-to-peer technology such as BitTorrent or Blockchain/Bitcoin.

Goddammit.

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In my opinion, If sovereignty is the goal i think GTK based DE will be safer than QT based DE.

I am aware of The Free QT foundation And its relation to KDE but in a long term there is possibility of things might get complicated if there is change in policy . And even the QT trademark is not totally free. I'm not trying to start DE war, i love both KDE and GNOME.

Love this! We definitely should try to spread Linux to become more accessible and popular.

Why not use the existing Distros?

Meanwhile https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/0729%252F2024/html/Linux%2Bstatt%2BWindows just closed with 2474 Supporters

Fedora is too much into RedHat, and that's an American company, it depends on it. You'll have to go at least Arch, or Debian (which are more community-driven), or Ubuntu or Mint (that are European). But I wouldn't use anything Redhat-produced for an EU OS.

And it's based on fedora? Man, that's great

Yeah, no.

rofl, Fedora for EU what a joke...