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 👏
El Duvelle@Gina
the French government is not actually moving to Linux.. one of their departments is, but that's it for now. this news has been overinflated because people haven't properly read the original source I think..
Parade du Grotesque 💀No, while it is true that one agency has already announced moving to Linux, the announcement was also that this agency (essentially the IT branch of the French government) was now mandating all other agencies and all ministries to move to Linux, away from windows.
More details in French here:
@ParadeGrotesque yes, I read
that and it doesn't actually say that all other agencies now have to use Linux.. I'll believe it once I see it written without ambiguity!
"La DINUM coordonnera un plan interministériel de réduction des dépendances extra-européennes. Chaque ministère (opérateurs inclus) sera tenu de formaliser son propre plan d'ici l'automne"
In other words, all French government ministries have to share a plan to migrate away from US solutions by autumn. I suspect Microsoft is part of these US solutions.
I think that's clear enough.
@ParadeGrotesque
No, it's definitely not clear enough!
Your French quote actually says "réduction des dépendances" : reduce the dependencies"
and it is not saying that the plan will explain "how to migrate away by autumn" - they have to write the plan by autumn. The plan could well state that they will reduce their dependencies by switching from Teams to a non-US equivalent by the year 2050. And it will just be a plan, probably used to evaluate the cost- benefits of this reduction.
words matter!
We'll see