EU OS aims to free the European public sector desktop - eviltoast
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    Basing this on Fedora doesn’t make sense. It tells me the private individual behind this proposal hasn’t done an extensive analysis on this.

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      10 days ago

      Under what means? The target is public sector and the OS to replace (Windows 10, Windows 11) would be a relatively compatible release target. Fedora is a competent leading edge (Wayland, Pipewire, BTRFS) distro that runs as a 6 month point release. I wouldn’t see many reasons to not go with Fedora Workstation as a base unless going for an immutable base or a different core distro (OpenSUSE or Debian mainly).

      EDIT: Missed that this is going to be immutabe, so it is likely being based on Fedora Kinoite, meaning there really aren’t many alternatives besides OpenSUSE’s offerings.

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        10 days ago

        Fedora Kinoite is the immutable KDE variant. It will definitely be ostree based and likely will be something that leverages rpm-ostree. The other option would be bootable containers.

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      10 days ago

      Why wouldn’t they use Fedora? Last time I checked they are paving the way from a security and quality perspective. The Fedora team does excellent work.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      If you want “everyone” on board I’d take Mint. It just works and, for what I know, has no specific bad side effects.

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        10 days ago

        Honestly they could build there own version of Mint based on Fedora. The Cinnamon desktop is fairly portable.

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        10 days ago

        Mint is not even among the top 10 to choose as a base distro for a government agency or any company.

        It’s good for the general public