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UK government spends millions shifting to the outdated Windows 10 (www.techradar.com)

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Defra's overall investment totaled £312 million during the current spending review cycle and was intended to remove outdated platforms, retiring Windows 7 hardware and supporting essential national services, including flood systems and border operations.

According to Defra’s submission to Parliament, the program eliminated more than 31,000 legacy laptops, addresses a large backlog of vulnerabilities, and even closed one data center, with several more set for decommissioning over the coming years.

Defra did not confirm whether it intends to pay Microsoft for extended support, leaving open the possibility that the department’s refreshed estate may soon fall behind again.

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[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Supposedly the DPRK's Red Star OS is based on (or inspired by) fedora, lol. Which I guess makes sense since fedora is sorta the "cutting edge" of Linux distros.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Ooh, you just pissed off all the Arch users right there.

Yeah, "official state Linux distros" are really fascinating to me.

Especially socialist state ones, but not just those. It's kinda expected to see every dang AES state spinning up their own Fedora or Debian derivative for state use and then also just giving it out to their civilians and anyone else who wants to use it, and I like seeing how explicitly communist they are or aren't (Most aren't, which is probably a good thing in context, but part of me misses the Cold War era aesthetics of the Warsaw Pact and partially wishes the USSR were still around simply because the constant reminders of the past revolution and continued goal of building socialism that permeated the culture would absolutely have ended up in a USSR or Warsaw Pact "state Linux distro" and if that existed today it'd probably be my daily driver distro of choice).

What's weirder is when neoliberal capitalist states yell about software sovereignty and choose to pay state employees to maintain a "state Linux distro" rather than pay for Windows and associated Microsoft support and enterprise services. Which tends to happen more when the US goes more politically off the rails and international trust in US based corpos falls, so... hey, silver lining of US fascism in the digital age, rest of the world starts ditching US products, including software and services, which is neat.

It is interesting that Red Star is based on Fedora, because a lot of "state Linux distros" are based on Debian. Of course the DPRK had to be Different and Quirky.