Corollary from the article: if every major distro uses Red Hat tech, it’s a sign that there’s a lack of funding from other sources for the core OS development. The goal of an “EU OS” project should be to identify and push forward the yet-unexplored or resource-lacking areas of such development, with EU funds. To be a friendly competitor and collaborator to Red Hat. Not to rebrand whatever distro for local usage.
Exactly. Linux is often held high as an example of how to realize tech sovereignty. Most of it is repackaged work by Red Hat. That’s still a dependency. If the US made a law restricting export of source code, this would have immediate consequences to Linux use in Europe.
Are the numbers real?
annual revenue of backing company:
- ubuntu/debian: ca. 300m$
- suse: ca. 700m$
That’s astonishing
I fully support the choice of fedora with bootc. It’s an amazing technology. But it’s somewhat sad that it’s not a European linux base for European institutions.
Edit: Nunbers for suse are correct: ARR FY 664.9
Ubuntu is also correct
Oh imagine if canonical gave even a fraction of that back to Debian.
Jep, SUSE is quite big. Ubuntu is only more popular among private users
I guess suse has big profitable gov contracts
Fedora Kionite because no one likes gnome 3. Suse ane ubuntu are also good choices. SELinux or Apparmor? That is the question.
Interesting that the straightforward answer of “obviously open suse” isn’t it. I’d need to dig more into the technical restrictions they want to understand this situation better.
Its nice seeing a comparison of linuxes like this. Honestly it just seems to me that opensuse would make the best starting point. Government can fund filling holes and its pretty much the redhat of europe.
To get our answer, has the meme sub done “which Linux distro is your European country” yet?
Germany seems like an Arch user.
I think that is confirmed as Sovereign tech agency (as an initiative of ministry of digital transformation and government modernization) donated to Arch in 2024.
From my knowledge it was the only instance of any such donations by a government to a community project.
FYI, RH Satellite doesn’t support deb, but Foreman does (state from 3 years ago). RH has no interest in fixing this, for some strange reason.
It’s not in Red Hat interest to accommodate other package managers.
Exactly. Despite on the tin saying they support rpm and deb both. Official reaction (to a major gov customer): wontfix.
If you’re big enough, interoperability still costs and provides little benefit. Vendor lock-in is also a thing between distros.
If you want to provision a mix of different VMs in a sizable environment using Satellite and can’t, it’s a strike against a RH ecosystem. Another strike is susceptibility to US sanctions. And a third one: you should see what RH consultants charge, and aggregate cost of RH licenses.
These days any sane mid-sized government should encourage local open source ecosystem and talent. And be it just for the sake of souvereignity.
Fully agreed.
Hmmm I can’t think of any single Linux distro that is racist and colonialist enough… but perhaps the connections to Israel coudl suggest something like Hannah Montana Linux?
But at least we know it can’t be any RedHat derivative since all that is strongly US bound, like in a BDSM kind of situation. Back in the time I even left Fedora because they were incredibly racist and even their community channels would refuse to attend to common questions from Latin American users unless they somehow doxxed themselves into verifying themselves as Not-From-Cuba or smth.
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?origin=Israel shows no results.
Here‘s your list of Israeli FOSS https://github.com/lirantal/awesome-opensource-israel
