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It’s only a proof of concept at the moment and I don’t know if it will see mass adoption but it’s a step in the right direction to ending reliance on US-based Big Tech.
It’s only a proof of concept at the moment and I don’t know if it will see mass adoption but it’s a step in the right direction to ending reliance on US-based Big Tech.
@SpiceDealer Sorry, what ? How can it be made in EU if it’s a Fedora fork/derivative ?
As a Swede we claim all of linux to be finno-swedish :)
@lambipapp Legit 😆
I mean Fedora is open source but if they really wanted a european base, they could have gone with opensuse. AFAIK opensuse is the only fully european linux distro plus they use many of the same tech that redhat/fedora does.
Ultimately I think it doesn’t matter too much since even the linux foundation is based in the US and large parts of what makes the linux desktop are maintained by non-EU companies (on top of all the major projects hosted by Github, Gitlab including most of Flathub). If its all open source, I think the risks are pretty low e.g. huawei was able to use Android despite all the restrictions.
@notanapple The more I read the docs, the more I think it doesn’t matter, they are poking around an EU distro. Nothing more, for now it is a proof of concept, not entitled to produce anything production ready
Of all the distros to base it on, why would they choose fedora?
openSUSE is right there lol
@ScotinDub I would say because it helps corporate adhesion, but no, they have no clue it’s just a POC for now eu-os.gitlab.io/goals
Yeah, not a lot of distros they could’ve based it on, which are less rooted in the EU. 🫠
OpenSUSE is German
@Ephera OpenSUSE is first to come to mind, then probably Mageia + OpenMandriva (Mandrake derivatives).
All these EU opensource initiatives looks really good, but I fear that they may just be trying to pump taxpayer money and produce actually nothing usable.