fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoFrench government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty pushwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1860arrow-down18cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareVince@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 days agoHmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoInteresting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven’t played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.
minus-square0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoCreating distros is easy, funding for the volunteers upstream is what’s lacking. I hope the move also prompts them to start supporting upstream with funds, code, infrastructure, engineers, benefits and so on.
Hmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
Interesting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven’t played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.
Creating distros is easy, funding for the volunteers upstream is what’s lacking.
I hope the move also prompts them to start supporting upstream with funds, code, infrastructure, engineers, benefits and so on.