EU OS
eu-os.gitlab.io
Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

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.

    • notanapple@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • m33@theprancingpony.in
        42·
        1 day ago

        @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

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, not a lot of distros they could’ve based it on, which are less rooted in the EU. 🫠

      • m33@theprancingpony.in
        41·
        1 day ago

        @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.