fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoFrench government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty pushwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square61linkfedilinkarrow-up1990arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareVince@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoHmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
minus-squareMalMen@masto.ptlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months ago@Vince @fne8w2ah we dont need more fragmentation
minus-squareVince@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI would think they’d want or even require a lot of customization for government work
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoInteresting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven’t played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.
Hmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
@Vince @fne8w2ah we dont need more fragmentation
I would think they’d want or even require a lot of customization for government work
Interesting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven’t played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.