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

SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months ago

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

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

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.

Korkki@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

I read the sovereign to mean something like an unified platform for EU institutions, that you can dev and train people on.

dependent on the whims of a US defense contractor like RedHat/IBM

A very good point.

Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml · 2 months ago

Shame that Brexit happened, otherwise they could go with Canonical’s Ubuntu

msage@programming.dev · 2 months ago

I’m not sure if this is satire, because if yes, well played, if not, Fuck That.

Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

I didn’t know red hat was working for the US government. Can you tell me in what way?

lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

At the same time, Red Hat released the first version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. The Army deployed Red Hat’s operating system in its Blue Force Tracker system, which lived in jeeps and tanks on the battlefield. Major General Nicholas Justice, the man responsible for Blue Force Tracker, said later:

“When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source.”1

To this day, the U.S. Army remains one of Red Hat’s largest customers by volume. Red Hat was recently made part of the Army’s Common Operating Environment, which is their enterprise standard.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250226064336/https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-Hats-decade-of-collaboration-with-government-and-the-open-source-community

Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

Thanks I’m gonna have a deeper look into this then😇