: 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?

    • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      i read their statement as :

      1. Debian is “as far from corporations as possible” …
      2. Other distros might be also “as far from corporations as possible” … yet we don’t care because what we say is :

      it is as far from corporations as possible and it works

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        Possible, I still feel like it was used as a sort of USP for Debian and just wanted to know if theres something about other distros (apart from the obvious ones) that makes them in some way corpo controlled