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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)
submitted 10 hours ago by [email protected] to c/linux
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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Why creating a new distro instead of using a big one and contribute to it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Governments tend to have security standards that differ from most solutions readily available. Not saying this is the case, but it's a possibility.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

They aren't building something from scratch. They probably are just going to make a base image with everything configured in a standard way.