France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
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year of the french linux desktop
But I am le tired
Well have a nap
ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!
Well have a nap
ZEN INSTALL ZE GENTOO!!
Then have a nap again while you compile GTK/qt/and whatever else
Just Sway, don't use QT with Gentoo.
confused german look Hans, zey konfond is again
I said lunch, not launch.
(stolen from meme for other country, please accept)
It's fine, they've sorted out sleep mode on most hardware a while ago
I'd be interested to try their distro when it's done...
I'll just need to remove the french language pack first. Let me look up instructions for that real quick... Oh no...
Mandrake reborn? :-D
That would actually be nice.
Well, that's Mageia: https://www.mageia.org/en/about/
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:
As a french and daily nixos user, this is great.
Nixos or a derivative would make a ton of sense for an administration, just load the same config on all the computers and voila! Each department can have it's own variation of the config.
Neat!
Just change keyboard layout from Azerty
windon't
Reminds me of the old "Genesis does what Nintendon't" ads
Did Nintendo sue them by any chance?
Its Nintendo. They were already suing them before they even knew about the ad. Most lawyers are familiar with the old "cease and desist" letter method, but Nintendo's even got "don't even start" warnings from their legal department.
Windidn't
C'est l'année de l'ordinateur Linux!
Super! (j'utilise Arch, au fait)
J'utilise Arch, du coup!
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!
Meanwhile in the UK our government is strengthening ties to palintir. We always have to be the losers of Europe
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
No doubt, but this is a step in the right direction. If it works it proves the value of further breaking away from the US. While we still buy whatever they're selling, and provide support loading their bombs for their wars.
Giving an erratic actor root access to all yiur systems seems foolish, even for a blood drenched imperial so-and-so.
It is now clear that is what windows is.
UK is US-lite.
Nah. That's Canada. They even have their own MAGAts/deep south in Alberta.
Feck, wish I could argue with you!
maple maga
Which is at least good on pancakes.
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.
The UK is obviously in Europe... They just pushed us out into the sea one night cos we're embarrassing.
I mean, technically y'all aren't part of Europe anymore...
Yeah they are? Just not the eu
Nah, dude, the island floated too far away, now they're a continent
Combining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.
How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L'nux?
Like Tux but with cool sunglasses and cigarettes.
Don't forget the baret and baguette.
You think there might be a self-sustaining snobbery fission chain reaction?
Wasn't this foretold in Infinite Jest?
They won’t go back. once you start getting used to having logic that responds to your commands it really is hard to give that up to ai slop.
Between this and expedition 33, France is coming up with some Ws these days.
L'Nux
Le Nux
Hello, this is Le Nus Torvalds, and I pronounce Le Nux as Le Nux.
Why not Des Nux?
La or Le?
This is how you renegotiate with MS.
Hopefully the time for negotiations is past
Yeah, I think/hope this is their "Find Out" era.
Someone way better at editing gifs than me should edit the 5th element "We're sending somebody in to negotiate!" Scene to have tux superimposed over Bruce Willis
just ask grok, duh
but it is vador taking the shot and saying i am altering the deal pray i dont alter it further, then neo coming up with the mini gun hellicopter out side the window, fuck yeah!
then True lies shooting the terrorist strapped to a tomahawk at the chopper
Let's hope they'll use Gendarmerie's almost 20 years of experience on that.
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.
J'utilise le Arch de Triomphe, btw
Zomg, they will not allow you to sudo remove le French language!!!!
Okay... Fire ze missiles!
But I am le tired
well have a nap... AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES
Listen carefully, i shall say this only once!
It is I, le Tuxue, and I am here to help you install fallen penguin with the big boobies mod. (DE theme?)
Yes of course Herr Gruber 🙃
Monkey's Paw: They pick Red Hat as a distro.
Probably more likely to go for SUSE, since it's European but still Enterprisey.
Sure, we have Suze at home.
Yeah or let's create a Picon distro to avoid name conflicts. And it tastes better.
OpenSuSE is German, so unlikely. They will go for some French distro like Mandriva.
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.
It's either a political move (nobody wants to be responsible for and/or depend on another ministry), or 4D chess where they would prevent a single vulnerability to expose the entire user base.
Fun fact, Orange (former France Telecom) has developed its own distro for the best part of the last 25 years. It's.. very peculiar.
By who are we kidding. The actual work will be offloaded to the shittiest contractor available (Capgemini/Atos/SopraSteria), it will take 5 years of the planned 2 and will cost 3.5 times the initial budget, for something sensibly shittier than an uBlue script.
That seems odd, that just means higher costs for support. Pick one distro then do custom packages or Ansible for your stuff that you want on top but don’t go a million different ways
Going a millions different ways is more in the FOSS spirit than starting off by saying 'everyone will use this list of software'. They can't know what will be the best fit for everyone so they're approaching it flexibly.
They can iterate in the future or come up with standards as they need, but in the beginning it's better to try a lot of different things to see what people discover.
its smart for a start cause everyone cooks and then they can share the best parts
Nobody gets fired for buying IBM ... apparently.
buys the whole of IBM
boss: I... but... yet... finances... ruined...
So when are we getting OS/2 5.0?
You are so mean! I had just stopped crying over not getting the new version of OS/2 the other week!
Vive la France
Wexit.
Winxit (pronounced win shit)
I use Arch btw
Coming soon: Arch de triomphe.
It was originally named Arch de Omphe omphe omphe for the noise of the soldiers marching through it, but they got tired omphe it, I mean of it and renamed it to Triomphe. Not to be confused with victory.
Le tired you say?
Oh well done!
Le Arch
Le BTW
They should reboot mandrake/mandriva. As I recall it was a french project anyway.
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=mageia
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=openmandriva
Nice!
Yes, good chance some of the devs live there. It's the 5th largest French city after all.
Mainly old rich people, in fact.
AFAICT its creator it's entirely focused on the mobile challenge know, working on /e/OS for his Murena company.
So I can no longer make the joke about removing french language packs using
rm -fr /?No, you can make it even harder now that they're going linux
I just tried this! OMG whadoidowhadoidowhadoido
lol
As a French, I wait before believing it. The DINUM does not really hold authority above the rest of the government and all the other administrations. Our gendarmerie switched to ubuntu more than 10 years ago, but the police planned to change all its computers to accomodate to windows 11, and the DINUM advocated to for dong to stop using american cloud providers, but we have a shit ton of public stuff running on american cloud, including the health data hub.
So just curious, what does the DINUM do exactly?
I know eveything in France is not sunshine and rainbows, but come on, cheap high speed internet, fantastic pedestrian infrastructure, great social welfare program, and now linux being adopted by the government?
France seems pretty cool to me
Probably called Xunil
And the académie français is pissed about it
Low-key great distro name
More like Nuxli. Sounds like a cereal brand.
Wexit
I wish Spain did the same, but Microsoft is very present, almost exclusively, in the national and regional administrations. There used to be more Linux, for example in education, but know, Microsoft everywhere. Sigh
🤣🤣 yeah the French that attack GrapheneOS and is in favor of way less private alternatives.
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
This is huge step, hopefully others will follow!
Guys, what distro do you think it should be based?
Now that Linux is cool I'm bored with it. They should swap to either GNU/Hurd or NetBSD.
/sWe are going full circle, MS-DOS and floppy diskettes lets goooooo
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
relevant
Rebecca Black.
NICE
Hon_Hon_OS??? Sign me up.
Ah yes. The same government that has called encryption a terrorist weapon.
A voir si ils ne font pas de la merde. Ils ont l'habitude de recreer la roue et faire moins bien que ce qui existe deja.
Wait and see...
bummer... not. Microslop crusade against FOSS backfires more and more. i think these guys should fight it even harder.
What distro? Mageia?