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The European Union is aiming high with EU OS. Will they be able to achieve their goals?

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The European Union has its own Linux Distribution and it's Called EU OS

Can this Linux-powered operating system disrupt Windows' hold in the European Union?
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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Bhante Subharo :xmpp:
Bhante Subharo :xmpp:
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These sorts distros tend to not really make it long term. Survival odds improve a lot if one joins and cooperates with some existing distro. Just look at Distrowatch. There are way too many distros. How is India's national Linux OS of "BOSS" doing in the rankings, for example?
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benrutter
benrutter
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It's probably worth saying to people that this doesn't appear to be associated with the EU in any way. More a suggestion from a single developer for something the EU could do.

That said, I really like it as an idea- paying for Windows is in a lot of cases a big "familiarity tax" that something like this could work around.

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Matija Nalis
Matija Nalis
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Re: "The European Union is aiming high with EU OS." ? Uh... Is it really European Union project? Citation needed. No official EU source that I can find seems to mention it?
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It's FOSS
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@mnalis There were some discrepancies with this article, we have since fixed them. 😅
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Daniel Marks
Daniel Marks
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Perhaps if this was coupled with a strong education initiative about other Linux software alternatives for those not available on Linux, it might make inroads. The standardization, while important, is mostly there for Debian like operating systems. But the applications are very different and inconsistent and have a steep learning curve.
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Dávid
Dávid
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I like the idea of a resource-friendy OS variant that would serve as a common baseline for EU standard compliance.

Just because earlier attempts for something like this didn't succeed, it can find its niche.

If Microsoft can't find its backbone soon, it can lose significant market share in the EU leaving behind customers looking for something new to trust.

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sslaia
sslaia
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Although I am not aware of any EU-sponsored Linux distributions, I believe there should be an initiative at the EU level to establish such standards. This would facilitate the development of essential applications used by governments and businesses, not only within the EU but also globally. By doing so, we could foster innovation and redirect the funds previously allocated to proprietary software like Microsoft's to support core open-source developers.
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SamuelJohnson
SamuelJohnson
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The EU is doing nothing of the sort. But if it chose to it could.
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Laurenz0071
Laurenz0071
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it is somehow interesting that the developer list Astra Linux (Russia), (Neo)kylin (China), and Nova Linux (Cuba) as proof of principals under use cases on his homepage.
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Michael Freebie 💯
Michael Freebie 💯
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I have already said on a German forum that the idea is good in itself, but unfortunately the distribution does not fit in with the EU at all. Even though I use Fedora privately, it would be more appropriate to use Suse Enterprise or, as already mentioned here, Debian.

Let's wait and see if this is just a pipe dream.

#eulinux #fedora #opensource

#opensource #Fedora #eulinux
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Erik Play2Learn
Erik Play2Learn
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I thought it is an effort that is supported by EU politicians and/or staff but not officially recognized as the one true EU solution yet.

I love #Redhat but I wonder as well whether #suse or #kde's own distro wouldn't be the better choice. They might still end up using Fedora for the time being as there are some situations in which higher quality might be more important than local development.

I'll continue to stay on the #debian+#kde path.

#KDE #debian #RedHat #suse
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Juan Carlos Araujo S.
Juan Carlos Araujo S.
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I don't think building a distro is the best way to switch to Linux for the public sector.

The EU should test @SUSE, which is based in Germany or a community-based distro like #AlmaLinux.

Building a New Distro is, IMO, wasting ressources that can be used in training PEOPLE to use Linux and Implementation.

#almalinux @SUSE

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