Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Sure, but I mean a distro developed/maintained/curated officially by the EU or one of its member governments.

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        I’m not overly concerned with an organization trying to build surveillance functions into an open source operating system.

    • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      I’m not sure a government can have the agility necessary for keeping a good track of good decisions over a reasonable amount of time.

      I’d bet it would take a planification similar to building a nuclear reactor or an airport: over budget, blown over scheduled time, fulfilling specs on paper but not in spirit, and used only when people have no other option ( goes without saying all governments are a monopoly, you can’t have 2 bodies having powers over a particular geographic place).

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        On the other hand, a government organization might do a better job of keeping track of development goals over time. It might be slower than independent open source projects, but it would probably also be more stable than most Linux distros. Enterprise-level software has different requirements and different development cycles from consumer-level software. Having a competing option for Red Hat could only be a good thing.

        I’d bet it would take a planification similar to building a nuclear reactor or an airport: over budget, blown over scheduled time, fulfilling specs on paper but not in spirit, and used only when people have no other option

        It’s not as if they’d be starting from scratch, it would most likely still be Linux. But they might bring more focus to long-term stability and especially cybersecurity implementations to meet government security requirements.