fedops 💙💛RE: https://mastodon.social/@linuxiac/116376719833185788
@ParadeGrotesque @Gina you hear anything about that? Massively cool if true.
Gina@fedops @ParadeGrotesque I hadn't heard about the French gov mandating Linux workstations for all their Ministries, that's great news!
The Dutch, French and German workspace teams were already working together on a Linux OS within the EDIC's 100 day challenges, but I don't think a choice for a distro has been made yet. 🇪🇺
I'm super impressed with how proactive the French are. Good work @numerique_gouv 👏
Oliver Brendel@Gina @fedops @ParadeGrotesque @numerique_gouv any source on Germany, France and Netherlands working together on a Linux Distro ?
@olibrendel no idea.
I think they should form a foundation of some sort and buy Suse now that it's for sale. Then it would be easy to finance lots of developers from yearly license payments. If you have a million desktops across Europe even a measly 10 Eur/year would easily finance 50 full-time devs. Think about what could be achieved this way...
@fedops @olibrendel @ParadeGrotesque @numerique_gouv 6 billion euro's though 💀
@Gina probably less than 1 year of windows licenses for all of Europe.
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Parade du Grotesque 💀It's open source.
In France, one of the first adopters of Linux is the Gendarmerie Nationale and they maintain their own fork of Ubuntu if I remember correctly.
There is also a couple of French Linux distributions, such as Mageia.