EU OS is a new—still in the idea stage—Fedora-based Linux project designed to provide the EU public sector with secure, sovereign, and eco-friendly computing.
Pardon my ignorance, but why yet another fork? Aren’t there already hardened distributions suited for government use?
To me the hard part seems to be the services needed for enterprise mgmt; software provisioning, policies, user acces mgmt, auditing/compliance scanning.
Perhaps a good idea to look at parties that can also offer ‘corporate’ support at scale. https://ubuntu.com/gov perhaps?
I think it’s not a distribution really, more of a set of layers on top of a distribution. Like a blueprint for how to setup a distribution for government use in a standardised way. Or sth like that, I didn’t really understand it completely.
Also making our governments dependent on a US organisation seems like a very bad idea, even if it is Ubuntu.
Pardon my ignorance, but why yet another fork? Aren’t there already hardened distributions suited for government use? To me the hard part seems to be the services needed for enterprise mgmt; software provisioning, policies, user acces mgmt, auditing/compliance scanning. Perhaps a good idea to look at parties that can also offer ‘corporate’ support at scale. https://ubuntu.com/gov perhaps?
Not to talk about SUSE and OpenSUSE which is in fact European
I think it’s not a distribution really, more of a set of layers on top of a distribution. Like a blueprint for how to setup a distribution for government use in a standardised way. Or sth like that, I didn’t really understand it completely.
Also making our governments dependent on a US organisation seems like a very bad idea, even if it is Ubuntu.
Canonical Ltd. Is registered in London, England. How is that a US organisation?
Canonical is based in the UK.