France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
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So far it's just a plan to come up with a plan for this winter. It's not like the French government is ready to switch all the workstations this year.
But, things have been going on the right direction for a while.
Didnt the police systems run linux already? I vaguely remember of an old linux fork intended for french police
The police is still on windows but the Gendarmerie (which serves as police in rural areas) usés GendBuntu (not a joke they truly have a Ubuntu fork)
Thats the one i was thinking of haha
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Great to see, the more big institutions do this, the easier it becomes for others to follow.
Vive L’inux!
Britain: Brexit
France: Vitrexit
Fenêtrexit, pehaps?
Liam Neeson in
The Naked Gun.
Defenestration: the final insult.
La Défenestration française
Viva la Tux.
Vive*
This is going to come as a shock to you, but I don’t speak French.
Unforgivable, I know. :)
It's never too late to learn! (I don't either actually 😅) Also, did you know that "Melon" is a french loan word
It would be great if it weren't for the anti-privacy decisions the french government has made recently, but at least it shouldn't be as bad as windows.
I do not see what the two things have to do with one another.
Yes, France and the French are historically not as conscious of privacy as, say, Germany and the Germans.
Of course having some standardized and (lightly) customized solutions across the government will make it easy to support and interoperate. This will get Microsoft out of the government and make it easier for everyone else to use Linux at home just by removing barriers.
I don't see why anyone would ever use the government distro at home.
I did not read into the topic, but I think privacy of government machines against that same government is not so important?
It is open source and likely to be released publicly to at least check for some vulnerabilities, the same government wants user ID for phones and computers, I don't know if I'd be ok with using that distro.
I would assume that distro is not meant for home use. Anyone who still chooses it could have chosen differently.
There's a Ubuntu fork for our Gendarmerie, maybe you could also use that at home if you wanted.
If it's Linux, presumably, it will be open source. Meaning, presumably, any anti-privacy code will be easily identified.
well, only if every employee has to compile his own desktop, otherwise I don't see how you could be sure the published code is the one you have on your desktop
Oh, mate, come on... If it's for employees, privacy is irrelevant. If they do this in any semi-competent way, they will want proper management tools to come with the OS - a way to monitor and protect (from "both ends") included.
By "both ends" I mean data extraction both by a malicious party outside and inside the government. It's bog standard enterprise approach to have what's called "DLP", or "Data Loss Prevention", policies (and software solutions) in place.
While that is true if it is for the masses in france who there would go out of their way to find the work around and implement it after switching from windows or Mac?
Well, it's not "for the masses", it's "for the government", right? My assumption is that if there are good solutions or upgrades implemented in the OS, the OSS community will be able to extract the good bits without also pulling the "bad" bits.
A lot of doom and gloom posting on this topic but I feel like it's a step in the right direction even though for now it's just a plan. I wish my country would follow.
I wonder how long until they say linux is also a terrorism tool, then. Or if they will actually change their minds on graphene
Take notes Carney and Legault.