EU OS (Fedora Deployment/Spin?)

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EU OS is a Proof-of-Concept for the deployment of a Fedora-based Linux operating system with a KDE Plasma desktop environment in a typical public sector organisation. Other organisations with similar requirements or less strict requirements may also learn from this Proof-of-Concept.

Despite the name, EU OS is technically not a new operating system. Distrowatch lists currently over 250 Linux operating systems (‘distributions’) and their various flavours, spins or subvariants are not even counted in.

Why I think this tool should be added

It shouldn’t be yet but let’s use this thread to monitor this project.

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@jonah annoyingly I cannot capitalize all letters of the title like would be appropriate here. Is there a work around?

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It’s just a website.

also that title thing is weird, I tried to fix it with some zwnj’s but that didn’t do anything

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The Gitlab mentions ‘atomic’ distro, so that really means Fedora Kinoite. I think I can see the reasoning there
 I assume they don’t want every public employee having the ability to break their install with sudo commands they find on the internet.

It’s definitely one to watch, but over the long-term:

I previously worked for a European institution, but they were incredibly slow with technology. When I was there in 2023 we were still using MS Office 2016!!! It’s the nature of government bureaucracies that they are years behind on tech, so I’m wondering how long it would take for something like EU OS to become widely used.

It could be years.

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Personally, I think this is putting the cart before the horse. I’m in daily contact with public sector employees, and I can say for sure that the best way to get them on board with a new operating system like that is to first get them used to open source software. Otherwise, it just comes off as a cosmetic makeover, they’ll keep demanding Word, Excel, Google Chrome, and all the other proprietary tools they’re stuck with.

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I really think it shouldn’t regardless of how it goes, For One thing EU OS is supposed to be a linux operating system independent of the US But Fedora and in Extension Red Hat and in Extension IBM which is a US Company. If they went with OpenSUSE, I guess it makes alot of sense, use OpenSUSE as a base and can basically intergrate alot of the EU software like pre-installing vivaldi and mullvad browser and onlyoffice for example (both EU products)

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lol you are not alone 5 other people tried XD

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I think there is a “title prettify” site setting that causes this

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Easiest fix is to just have some lowercase letters in the title. I am not even really sure what to call EU OS, so maybe the title I’ve given this thread is wrong, feel free to correct it.

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I think OpenSuse should rename to Opensus-EU and raise millions lol

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Opensus-EU

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couldn’t help it, had to be brought up xD

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I believe they would be better served by a community-driven, distribution-agnostic project, independent of any specific country or region. It’s also important to ensure no corporation has potential influence over the project’s future.

I suspect that one of the reasons that made Valve select Arch could potentially be related to this.

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I still use it, in private, high-tech company. It does the job, it’s still supported, and people don’t need new features