A German State Is Saying Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux - FOSS Force
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The parliament of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany has oked plans to make state government almost 100% open source by the end of 2026.

Ich bin ein Berliner… der Linux nutzt… Kek…

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
      7·
      3 years ago

      I hope neither of those. They should get one with an actual company behind it. There’s Suse Linux which is based in Germany and would probably make a good fit.

      • erpicht@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        As much as I love Mint on my devices, I agree with this sentiment. Suse would certainly be cool.

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
          2·
          3 years ago

          Yeah I’d love them to use Mint or Debian or Arch or Fedora or whatever, but I also think it’s important for this project to succeed. And you need good support for success.

    • 3arn0wl@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      There’re quite a few unknowns…

      • we don’t know what form-factor these 25,000 computers have (how many are tablets, for example?)
      • we don’t know their specs (RAM, speed, &c.) and
      • we don’t know their architecture…

      There might need to be more than one distribution used.

      It’s a pity that Ubuntu’s Unity8 was abandoned, and that UBPorts’ Lomiri / Debian’s Lomiri are still work in progress…

      I guess they could all use Nextcloud through a browser…

    • 3arn0wl@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Well… it’s going to need to be

      • something that’s easy to adopt / adapt to and
      • something that’s going to be maintained (so it’ll have to be one of the big GNU/Linux players).