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Monkey's Paw: They pick Red Hat as a distro.
Probably more likely to go for SUSE, since it's European but still Enterprisey.
OpenSuSE is German, so unlikely. They will go for some French distro like Mandriva.
Sure, we have Suze at home.
Yeah or let's create a Picon distro to avoid name conflicts. And it tastes better.
With the resources they have -- and the goal of having security and control over their digital supply lines -- I don't see why they wouldn't roll their own distro. Maybe heavily based on an existing distro (looking at you, Debian) but something that's completely under their control, so they can choose for themselves exactly what packages are included, what security settings are used as defaults, when and if to update things, etc.
Edit: after (gasp) actually reading the article, it seems that each department within the French government will be responsible for their own implementation, which means they might all end up using different distros in different departments.
It's either a political move (nobody wants to be responsible for and/or depend on another ministry), or 4D chess where they would prevent a single vulnerability to expose the entire user base.
Fun fact, Orange (former France Telecom) has developed its own distro for the best part of the last 25 years. It's.. very peculiar.
That seems odd, that just means higher costs for support. Pick one distro then do custom packages or Ansible for your stuff that you want on top but don’t go a million different ways
Going a millions different ways is more in the FOSS spirit than starting off by saying 'everyone will use this list of software'. They can't know what will be the best fit for everyone so they're approaching it flexibly.
They can iterate in the future or come up with standards as they need, but in the beginning it's better to try a lot of different things to see what people discover.
its smart for a start cause everyone cooks and then they can share the best parts
Nobody gets fired for buying IBM ... apparently.
buys the whole of IBM
boss: I... but... yet... finances... ruined...
So when are we getting OS/2 5.0?
You are so mean! I had just stopped crying over not getting the new version of OS/2 the other week!