Can someone tell whoever is leading this project to go with EurOS? Please? Such a missed opportunity.
It’s odd that they want to go with the American based Fedora instead of the German based openSUSE. Only thing I can figure is that this is yet another case of European Tech infighting?
The Register should get ahold of Robert Riemann and ask them.
It could be due to them liking Fedora better. We don’t need to kick off more distro wars over something that probably won’t affect most people.
Sure but if the intent is to get away from American software companies, specifically Microsoft for Desktop OS, then why would you run Fedora when SUSE is literally right there?
Maybe they weighted the options and choose Fedora?
Fedora is a community project
Or just license SUSE Linux and you get all the professional support you need. I don’t understand why they’d want to roll their own thing when a European solution that ticks all the boxes exists.
Licensing SUSE would cost money and this guy wouldn’t end up in charge of it. If I was SUSE I’d run around offering EU Government entities, and I mean all of them right down to a town council, seriously steep discounts on licensing and simultaneously create an entire team tasked with supporting new government users.
Hell if there were any European Venture Capitalists they should be lining up around the block to invest in SUSE doing just that. Investing 10 Billion in SUSE to do that now could return 100 Billion or more in just a decade.
Basing this on Fedora doesn’t make sense. It tells me the private individual behind this proposal hasn’t done an extensive analysis on this.
Why wouldn’t they use Fedora? Last time I checked they are paving the way from a security and quality perspective. The Fedora team does excellent work.
Under what means? The target is public sector and the OS to replace (Windows 10, Windows 11) would be a relatively compatible release target. Fedora is a competent leading edge (Wayland, Pipewire, BTRFS) distro that runs as a 6 month point release. I wouldn’t see many reasons to not go with Fedora Workstation as a base unless going for an immutable base or a different core distro (OpenSUSE or Debian mainly).
EDIT: Missed that this is going to be immutabe, so it is likely being based on Fedora Kinoite, meaning there really aren’t many alternatives besides OpenSUSE’s offerings.
If you want “everyone” on board I’d take Mint. It just works and, for what I know, has no specific bad side effects.
The European public sector could choose any stable Linux distro, with any DE. Now, somebody proposed a branded “EU OS” so you know what the non-techies in charge are going to go for.
Pardon my cynicism, but to me that branding seems opportunist and suspicious in itself. Let the suits at least ask their sysadmins what would be the better setup.