Positive News: France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops. 🥳 🇫🇷
Not only that, but they have also moved 80, 000 National Health Insurance Fund Employees to open source alternatives replacing U.S owned Big Tech platforms like Microsoft Teams & Zoom.
It’s amazing to see the country take action, push for real digital sovereignty, & opt for open source solutions! 👏
"France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops."
actually, no... they've announced that one of the government agencies / group will be moving to Linux.. not the entire government!
Wizard's first rule: people will believe something because they want to believe it's true...
the entire French government moving to Linux sounds very nice but that doesn't mean it's true! I'd recommend waiting until we have an accurate source that actually says this before getting all excited about it
(see my other post in a related convo:
https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle/116376937367335279)
@[email protected] As great as this sounds, I think this transition is just for this specific group "direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM)" and not for the entire government.. Your source says >"la DINUM annonce sa sortie de Windows au profit de postes sous système d'exploitation Linux.". which means "The DINUM announces its exit from Windows towards workstations using Linux" It doesn't say that *all* governmental agencies will do this transition.. (unfortunately, and hopefully this will come later)
Every Minister in the french government has to work on a migration plan. This plans must be ready until the end of 2026. (https://winfuture.de/news,158029.html)
And they work on "La Suite numérique". Open source, in collaboration with the Netherlands and Germany. (https://github.com/suitenumerique)
Frankreich macht Ernst bei der digitalen Souveränität und verabschiedet sich von amerikanischer Software. Ein neuer Fahrplan sieht zudem den schrittweisen Wechsel von Windows zu Linux vor. Andere Länder in Europa gehen einen ähnlichen Weg.
So, to try and stay on topic: @Tutanota claims that the entire French government is "ditching Windows for Linux". This is the part I'm saying is not true.
You mention that
"Every Minister in the french government has to work on a migration plan. This plans must be ready until the end of 2026. (https://winfuture.de/news,158029.html)"
-> this doesn't mean that every ministry is planning to ditch Windows, since there is not even a plan yet. It doesn't even say that the plan is about ditching Windows specifically. Or did I miss something?
"And they work on "La Suite numérique". Open source, in collaboration with the Netherlands and Germany. (https://github.com/suitenumerique)"
Is that about Linux replacing windows? No - it's about an equivalent to Microsoft office. What do you mean by "they work on " this - is this again the entire government? or is it restricted to the DINUM department?
it would be great if the entire gov. was in the process of replacing Win with Lin. as far as I can see this is not the case at least for now, and it may never happen.
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