#EU_OS: Which #Linux Distribution fits Europe best?
Read my blog post and let me know your thoughts and questions here.
https://blog.riemann.cc/digitalisation/2025/12/21/eu-os-which-linux-distribution-fits-europe-best/
#DigitalSovereignty #Fedora #opensuse #debian #rhel #almalinux #nixos #zorin #EuroStack #DigitalCommons #DPI #DigitalPublicInfrastructure
Kind of shocked that, in the table "Comparison of Linux Distributions" https://blog.riemann.cc/digitalisation/2025/12/21/eu-os-which-linux-distribution-fits-europe-best/#comparison-of-linux-distributions the revenues of Ubuntu, RedHat, and Suse are listed, and that Suse is ~2x Ubuntu and RedHat ~10x ! These two RPM-based OSes have massive backing.
In light of the (to me surprising) dominance of RedHat and Suse Linux, two thoughts:
1. Scientific microscopy vendors have no excuse to continue to provide their microscope controller software for Microsoft Windows. There are at least two well-established enterprise linux distributions. I am looking at you, #Zeiss #CarlZeissAG and your laser-scanning confocal and scanning electron microscopes. A commercial linux OS would be leaps and bounds better than #Microslop.
2. The recent announcement of Suse Linux being on sale is less surprising, considering it's a company, not a charity, and they sell an open source product, Suse Linux, which I am seeing reports has gone all in with locally integrated LLMs ("AI", for the uninformed) that enables companies to not depend on cloud services, or to do so in a way independent of a specific provider. In addition to providing an integrated office environment, not unlike Microsoft's. The allure to companies seems evident.
Robert Riemann 🇪🇺
Albert Cardona