Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among open source software endorsed by French Government

EU and its contries are pro open source and I fucking love it.

To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can't be reprimanded they use them.

This isn't the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. Gimp has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.

😍 they know the good stuff

The full list: https://code.gouv.fr/sill/list

Hold on. That page does not list VLC or KeePass. Is there more info about this other than the list? Or is the info in the title of this post incorrect?

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I see now. The page does not list VLC or KeePass, but those two both do come up if you put them into the search box. The software listed on the page is a very long list, but it is apparently on the 'most popular' stuff - not the entire list. (Although it is strange to see a heap of niche stuff, and stuff I've never heard of on the 'most popular' list while VLC doesn't make the cut.)

I'm not sure this list is a very strong endorsement by the French Government. It seems to just be listing free software options, and then asking other people to sign up to say which ones they use.

An open source package that would replace adobe would be a game changer.

Redis is also on the list, but not Valkey. Gitea is on the list, but not Forgejo. Still nice to see governments endorsing the open-source-ish software they know and FOSS principles, though!

Do they also fund these projects?

That's kind of quote cool for a government to do IMO.

The "english" setting does nothing.

The SILL About page translated explains the list :

https://code.gouv.fr/sill/readme

Why this catalog?

The socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL) is the reference catalog of open-source software recommended by the French government for use throughout the administration.

This catalog helps administrations find their way around the open-source software they are encouraged to use, in line with Article 16 of the French Law for a Digital Republic

Hopefully the French will also endorse Fedora, Red Hat, and Valve's SteamOS. Microsoft is a huge security issue, since it isn't clear whether MS would bend to DOGE's whims. The NLRB and other aspects of the US government had DOGE set up accounts, which were accessed within 15 minutes by Russia.

The first thing any government should do is move away from ms office.

The 2nd thing they should do is fund and contribute to a distro and begin the transition from windows.

Once upon a time, there was Glimpse project—which for me was a nice enhancement to vanilla GIMP. They sadly kicked the bucket but damn not a day goes by where I don't miss them...

Well, that's just about as good news as can be in the current tech climate, in particular considering programs like VLC and KeePass are getting this visibility.

DuckDuckGo as a web browser?

That's cool, I hope ONLYOFFICE gets some love one day too. I vastly prefer the GUI at least in the word processor. Also open source.

note I'm only using it for writing, can't speak to the rest of the suite

based!

Sweet I'm already using PostgreSQL because it's the only thing Blynk supported!

Surprised to see docker there after the rugpull they did some time ago.

I approve of all these except GIMP.

GIMP is just terrible.