EU OS aims to free the European public sector desktop
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A guy who works for the EU has proposed 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?
Based on Fedora, run by Red Hat, an American company.
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Why though? Some of the biggest distros aren't even based in the US but rather in Europe.
But who builds Debian?
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This is pure marketing propaganda
(By the random guy who started the project, that is.)
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A guy who works for the EU has proposed 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?
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??
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A guy who works for the EU has proposed 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?
Maybe they start supporting open source instead of making new businesses out of it.
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Based on Fedora, run by Red Hat, an American company.
They're owned by IBM.
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A guy who works for the EU has proposed 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?
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?
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No, you just refuse to answer a simple question
i read their statement as :
- Debian is "as far from corporations as possible" ...
- 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
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i read their statement as :
- Debian is "as far from corporations as possible" ...
- 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
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
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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?
Does Linux have a good alternative to ActiveDirectory?
Centralized IAM, managed updates, and all of the other "stuff" that AD does is available for at least some Linux distributions but it's not free to use, at least not commercially. You're going to be paying Red Hat, SUSE, etc for these kinds of features.
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They're owned by IBM.
IBM color almost match with EU flag color so it might work.
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A guy who works for the EU has proposed 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?
Do a browser instead
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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.
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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.
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Does Linux have a good alternative to ActiveDirectory?
Centralized IAM, managed updates, and all of the other "stuff" that AD does is available for at least some Linux distributions but it's not free to use, at least not commercially. You're going to be paying Red Hat, SUSE, etc for these kinds of features.
I'd rather have my tax euros pay them than pay microsoft. Granted, that money being used to employ devs to create a FOSS solution would be even better, but commercial Linux would already be a great first step in the right direction.
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Actually you need leadership and direction so you won't end up in current debian situation where they can't decide on anything where there is three suites of helper utils that do same thing but can't actually mandate usage of one. Where apt-get is still shipped ten years after apt becoming default and so on. It's a mess.
So what you're saying is that you don't like having a choice.
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So what you're saying is that you don't like having a choice.
No I am saying that there should be sane defaults that are followed.
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