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Adopting Linux is the best way to help ensure European sovereignty from maga meddling.
PSA: You can support this petition even if you're not an EU resident
I mean I'd be fine with BSD too. the point should be to force public institutions to use FOSS
FreeBSD is fine for servers I guess, but due that most server administrators know Linux better than any BSD, it's probably not going to be used much. BSD's also seem to be severely underfunded and the future of them seem vague.
Sure but nobody is petitioning for BSD desktops in the EU
Sigh. Guess I'll have to do it
If they can keep the MS lobbyists out, it's feasible, just ask Munich.
Except they couldn't keep the Micro$oft ~~criminals~~ lobbyists out
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My main worry with Linux becoming more popular is that it will be attacked with more malware and viruses. I wouldn't mind though if Linux programmers could come up with better protection.
Most of the Windows malware gets deployed by some user downloading and executing random files they downloaded on the web. Since installing applications on Linux is usually done through some centralized package manager or app store (Flathub), it almost entirely eliminates this attack vector. Running random scripts from the internet by downloading them using curl and piping them into sudo bash is a whole nother issue though. Noob-friendly distros like Ubuntu should IMO have some safeguards in place to block these actions.
Since installing applications on Linux is usually done through some centralized package manager or app store (Flathub), it almost entirely eliminates this attack vector.
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Yes, I see that weasel word "almost" in that sentence. I expect it's going to be doing increasingly heavy lifting as Linux becomes a more lucrative target to attack over time.
Your point generally stands, though. Even if they're fallible, at least someone is vetting it at all somewhere in this pipeline.
They have, snaps
Linux is already what a decent chunk of servers run, so I don't really see it increasing malware.
Well, servers don't generally run Thunderbird and Firefox
The insecure parts of Linux is mostly on the DE side opposed to the core OS part that servers use. We absolutely will see more vulnerabilities in the future as Linux grows.
Many developments over the last few years have been for improving those aspects, e.g. Wayland is far more secure than X11 could ever be. There will be more vulnerabilities found, but it won't be as bad as one might fear.
Flatpak too, they could force more filesystem restrictions tho, line Android apps
Linux-based OSes are less uniform than Windows. They could and probably will be targeted, but exploits won't spread because of how many verities they are and how different and incompatible they can be. Some, for example, don't even use the GNU utils and userland.
This petition is for developing something dubbed "EU-Linux", so if implemented as is will be pretty uniform
That is mostly false. Most of the code that faces the network is the same. As is most of the background running code. Linux is still more secure.