: Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro

A guy who works for the EU has proposed (in his spare time it seems - not in an official capacity) that Europe have its own Linux distro for European public sector use.

The plan is to base this distro on Fedora with KDE Plasma. I suppose Plasma is relatively similar to the Windows desktop, so it should be familiar for public sector employees.

Thoughts?

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Does Linux have a good alternative to ActiveDirectory? Something where a central server can validate logins, send update commands remotely, integrate it with several other applications so users don’t have to create an account for each different system?

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Does Linux have a good alternative to ActiveDirectory?

      Centralized IAM, managed updates, and all of the other “stuff” that AD does is available for at least some Linux distributions but it’s not free to use, at least not commercially. You’re going to be paying Red Hat, SUSE, etc for these kinds of features.

      • ftbd@feddit.orgEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I’d rather have my tax euros pay them than pay microsoft. Granted, that money being used to employ devs to create a FOSS solution would be even better, but commercial Linux would already be a great first step in the right direction.

    • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      7 days ago

      There can’t be good alternative to AD because it’s horrible, but yes there is rh idm(freeipa) that combines ldap server, dns server, ntp server, pki infrastructure and sssd.