fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoFrench government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty pushwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up11Karrow-down19
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minus-squareVince@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoHmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
minus-squareMalMen@masto.ptlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months ago@Vince @fne8w2ah we dont need more fragmentation
minus-squareVince@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI would think they’d want or even require a lot of customization for government work
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoInteresting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven’t played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.
minus-square0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoCreating distros is easy, funding for the volunteers upstream is what’s lacking. I hope the move also prompts them to start supporting upstream with funds, code, infrastructure, engineers, benefits and so on.
Hmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
@Vince @fne8w2ah we dont need more fragmentation
I would think they’d want or even require a lot of customization for government work
Interesting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven’t played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.
Creating distros is easy, funding for the volunteers upstream is what’s lacking.
I hope the move also prompts them to start supporting upstream with funds, code, infrastructure, engineers, benefits and so on.