EU OS aims to free the European public sector desktop
EU OS aims to free the European public sector desktop
: Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro
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?
Suse exists and is european, why would you need another distro?
sigh relevant xkcd
Who knows. And maybe this proposed project will go nowhere. But it would be cool if the European public sector does end up using Linux on the desktop.
As always, the year of the Linux desktop is just around the corner...
This is pure marketing propaganda
(By the random guy who started the project, that is.)
Based on Fedora, run by Red Hat, an American company.
They're owned by IBM.
IBM color almost match with EU flag color so it might work.
Do a browser instead
Why though? Some of the biggest distros aren't even based in the US but rather in Europe.
But who builds Debian?
Maybe they start supporting open source instead of making new businesses out of it.
Great! Let's just make a new one instead of supporting one that's already well developed and widely adopted, which include countless of options. Surely they got time and effort to develop and market it, right??
Since Europe (especially Germany) likes its acronyms, why not call it EPSos (spoken "app-sauce") for European Publich Sector OS?
Vereinheitlichtes Betriebssystem für den Öffentlichen Dienst, also known as VereinhBetrSfdÖD. Rolls right off the tongue.
Does Linux have a good alternative to ActiveDirectory? Something where a central server can validate logins, send update commands remotely, integrate it with several other applications so users don't have to create an account for each different system?
There can't be good alternative to AD because it's horrible, but yes there is rh idm(freeipa) that combines ldap server, dns server, ntp server, pki infrastructure and sssd.