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 (ā€˜distributionsā€™) and their various flavours, spins or subvariants are not even counted in.

Why I think this tool should be added

It shouldnā€™t be yet but letā€™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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Itā€™s just a website.

also that title thing is weird, I tried to fix it with some zwnjā€™s but that didnā€™t do anything

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The Gitlab mentions ā€˜atomicā€™ distro, so that really means Fedora Kinoite. I think I can see the reasoning thereā€¦ I assume they donā€™t want every public employee having the ability to break their install with sudo commands they find on the internet.

Itā€™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!!! Itā€™s the nature of government bureaucracies that they are years behind on tech, so Iā€™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. Iā€™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, theyā€™ll keep demanding Word, Excel, Google Chrome, and all the other proprietary tools theyā€™re stuck with.

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I really think it shouldnā€™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 ā€œtitle prettifyā€ 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 Iā€™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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couldnā€™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. Itā€™s also important to ensure no corporation has potential influence over the projectā€™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, itā€™s still supported, and people donā€™t need new features