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EU OS (eu-os.gitlab.io)

submitted 1 week ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 week ago (9 children)

IMO EU should choose an existing project to sponsor. Not make another bad fork.

[–] aleq@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This OS isn't made by the EU, but it's goal is to become sponsored by them:

Is EU OS a project of the European Union?

Right now, EU OS is not a project of the European Union. Instead, EU OS is a community-led Proof-of-Concept. This means it is lead by a community of volunteers and enthusisasts.

The project goal is to become a project of the European Commission in the future and use https://code.europa.eu/. For this EU OS is in touch with the public administration on member state and EU level. So far, EU OS relies on https://gitlab.com/eu-os.

Personally I don't see why EU wouldn't just go with Suse. It has the corporate support that I guess these government institutions crave, it's a good system as far as I know and it's home-grown. Ubuntu is another option, Canonical is a British company (not EU anymore but it is European).

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ubuntu isn't a good choice, since Canonical is essentially the Microsoft of the Linux world. Suse makes sense, though. NixOS would be good, too, since you could scale your deployments.

[–] Lychee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

NixOS is great, but has a steep learning curve which doesn't make it suitable for such a project imo

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it makes great sense to use Nix (or better Guix). The users are not expected to do any configurations. They basically need a browser and maybe a text editor if it's the public sector.

Also, you can run Nix or Guix on basically any other dist. Which is very helpful for reproducible deployments.

Ubuntu doesn't make any sense. Better use Debian in that case. We don't need to give yet another eccentric South African billionaire more power.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Actually, what we probably want is something like openSUSE MicroOS with containers based on Nix or Guix.

Best would be if openSUSE simply adopted Nix/Guix for container configuration.

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