BlazeCan this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?
Andreas Kinas@Blaze Linux Mint commes from Ireland.
Classy HatterThe name is misleading. It’s just a one-man project to create a new Linux distro which has nothing to do with EU. Out of all the good European options, they chose to go with an American distro as their base. And to manage their project, they use an American Git provider.
0x0Their account on mastodon has… interesting comments.
EU OS (@[email protected])
117 Posts, 14 Following, 2.25K Followers · Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a free Operating System for the EU public sector 🇪🇺 Account operated by @[email protected]
HorseFDWhy would the EU use a Fedora based distro rather than just OpenSUSE?
Yeah, there’s probably multiple distros based in Europe, but openSuse is definitely the biggest one. Just use that and support an established player instead of building something from scratch.
The name sounds awfully close to ios
Besides the name, why does this fit this sub? It’s just a rebranded American product 🤷♂️
While it is an interesting idea, I can not imagine the EU just saying yeah we are going to use this. If they decide to go the Linux route I think they will use something that is carefully thought out by an team and not just one person.
SUSE already has quite a sizeable number of municipal users in Germany. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine the EU contracting with SUSE.
I actually had a look since I did vaguely remember an EU Linux petition and sadly, @EUCommission already killed it
While there is currently no formal project to establish an "EU Linux," there are many ongoing
initiatives that support the adoption of open source solutions within public administrations
across Member States. These efforts contribute to the EU’s broader objectives of transparency,
security, and technological independence in the digital domain.
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Pity that It's FOSS isn't on the fediverse, otherwise I'd tag them here...
jlow (he/him)Mh, good call, never checked this.
It's FOSS@atro_city This is our official handle. 😃
Oh, that's cool. Would be nice to see it on your homepage as it's missing there making it difficult to verify that it's really you.
@atro_city Didn't know this. Plus, our article has been updated, it had some inaccuracies. 😅
I’m just assuming that any open source rebranded as European is a scam. Somebody trying to ride the wave to make money.