fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 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-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up1540arrow-down17
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minus-squareVince@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoHmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 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.
minus-squareMalMen@masto.ptlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 months ago@Vince @fne8w2ah we dont need more fragmentation
minus-squareVince@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI would think they’d want or even require a lot of customization for government work
Hmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
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.
@Vince @fne8w2ah we dont need more fragmentation
I would think they’d want or even require a lot of customization for government work