I understand this isn't an official EU project, but with the ongoing trade war and Europe's desire to distance itself from US big tech, I'm excited to see what they develop.
Americans might appreciate this too, as the internet today is dominated by a handful of companies, leading to excessive polarization. The first thing that needs competition imo is Youtube, there is nothing like it.
It's not just about avoiding the US out of anger; it's more about preventing US companies from having too much control over their citizens and daily lives. By focusing on open-source solutions, whether American or not, it should serves their purpose. They can move all packages to a EU server, and manage it more directly this way
Thats what I belive but im no expert especially on the law, but I dont see an issue with US opensource unless the EU straight up penalizing any technology thats developed in the US, which Id doubt they would do.
Yea. If they want to support EU based companies and tech, why wouldn't they use SuSE? Or base it on Debian if they don't want to be 'beholden' to any company.
It doesn't matter where software was produced or where it's core contributors reside. As long as it is fully open sourced and distributed under the GPL license (as Fedora) it is by nature an independent technology that empowers the user to claim their own sovereignty.
But being open source and distributed under the GPL is not enough.
RedHat or SuSE have a more indeterminate future due to their shareholders control, frequent changes of owners, distro licensing or source code availability.
Debian, the distro, is almost boring but has the largest platform scope and one of the largest package base. Debian, the organisation, with its community, its policies, its social contract, its independence, has proven its resilience over and over again.
Thus, why start a new Linux distribution if we want sovereignty?
Let's support and build on the Debian project and community, the Civil Infrastructure Platform, the Linux Foundation, the reproducible builds projects. Let's support Proxmox, a EU-born VMware alternative based on Debian ! :-)
Developer resources are scarce, maintainers burnout is real. Let's not waste energy on futile projects. Let's build our sovereignty on solid, existing foundations.
It's Kinoite, not stock Fedora, which is ideal for a mass deployment like this. It also means the actual OS doesn't really matter as it's ultimately just a tool to run Flatpak and OCI containers.
SuSE is the obvious choice, and I'm surprised that some European Linux developers aren't aware of this. They don't mention it at all on the linked "Goals" page.
If I can dream: a custom built distro using pkgsrc+pkgin as package manager. Improving pkgsrc means that other distros and operating systems can take advantage of it too, making for a more diverse ecosystem.
Yes, it's incredibly stupid, there is already EuroLinux (RHEL) and now EU OS (Fedora), Fedora and RHEL are not community distros. Is this some kind of testbed for ChatControl2.0?
From the Site:
Sovereign
OS built to the requirements for the EU public sector
Sleek
OS that is fast and eco-friendly on new and old hardware
Yes...no. Fedora is not sovereign, nor is KDE "sleek". Must be a troll distribution, I trust HannaMontana Linux 10x more.
Americans might appreciate this too, as the internet today is dominated by a handful of companies, leading to excessive polarization. The first thing that needs competition imo is Youtube, there is nothing like it.