France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

But I am le tired

Mandrake reborn? :-D

I haven't found any confirmation anywhere, but I know some of the people at DINUM are active NixOS maintainers, and I've seen some NixOS-based development in that space:

• https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix/
• https://github.com/cloud-gouv/bureautix-example

Just change keyboard layout from Azerty

Luckily it's France, not Quebec. France is much more amenable to providing documentation in other languages.

Reminds me of the old "Genesis does what Nintendon't" ads

Windidn't

Super! (j'utilise Arch, au fait)

C'est l'année de l'ordinateur Linux!

It’s the year of the Linux computer!

Oh man! I thought this was going to be the rare case where you could actually say the thing in French with fewer characters, but French loses by 1. Dommage! And English doesn’t even have a contraction for “the,” of which there are two in this short sentence!

You guys literally wrote the book on Orwellian governments.

Eh, Germany is currently doing the same, so we're both losing

Afaik France still has contracts with Palantir

UK is US-lite.

Hey at least you aren't getting natural gas from those guys. You know those extra super duper bad guys.

Hey. Thats not true. Youre just outside europe.

I mean, technically y'all aren't part of Europe anymore...

Like Tux but with cool sunglasses and cigarettes.

You think there might be a self-sustaining snobbery fission chain reaction?

How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L'nux?

Wasn't this foretold in Infinite Jest?

Le Nux

Why not Des Nux?

La or Le?

Hopefully the time for negotiations is past

Glad I found this comment. It was my first thought when seeing the headline: haven't they already been doing that for decades?

I like that they went with "Gendbuntu" instead of a boring official sounding acronym.

Probably more likely to go for SUSE, since it's European but still Enterprisey.

With the resources they have -- and the goal of having security and control over their digital supply lines -- I don't see why they wouldn't roll their own distro. Maybe heavily based on an existing distro (looking at you, Debian) but something that's completely under their control, so they can choose for themselves exactly what packages are included, what security settings are used as defaults, when and if to update things, etc.

Edit: after (gasp) actually reading the article, it seems that each department within the French government will be responsible for their own implementation, which means they might all end up using different distros in different departments.

Nobody gets fired for buying IBM ... apparently.

Okay... Fire ze missiles!

Listen carefully, i shall say this only once!

Winxit (pronounced win shit)

Coming soon: Arch de triomphe.

Le Arch

https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=mageia
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=openmandriva

AFAICT its creator it's entirely focused on the mobile challenge know, working on /e/OS for his Murena company.

No, you can make it even harder now that they're going linux

I just tried this! OMG whadoidowhadoidowhadoido

lol

So just curious, what does the DINUM do exactly?

And the académie français is pissed about it

Low-key great distro name

More like Nuxli. Sounds like a cereal brand.

Different branches of government. Counter intuitive stuff. Every time the interior ministry says BS like this, the digital branch of the gov starts crying, but obviously they have a lot less weight

Yeah we have a lot of administrations, probably like any other country. And in there we have the Ministre de l'Interieur which lets fascists walk in the streets while disolving some antifascist organization in Lyon. They handles Police Nationale, colonization... and sometimes of the organization of elections. Its minister was the one attacking Graphene OS. This is the DINUM, which alongside the ANSI and the CNIL knows a thing or two about computing but are far less powerful

Now that Linux is cool I'm bored with it. They should swap to either GNU/Hurd or NetBSD. /s

Debian ofc. Needs to be stable.

I don't think all of them should run a single distro. Linux is quite diverse by design. As long as they don't pick Red Hat or anything based in Fedora (which is pretty much Red Hat). I would love SUSE, but oh well

Rebecca Black.