Corollary from the article: if every major distro uses Red Hat tech, it's a sign that there's a lack of funding from other sources for the core OS development. The goal of an "EU OS" project should be to identify and push forward the yet-unexplored or resource-lacking areas of such development, with EU funds. To be a friendly competitor and collaborator to Red Hat. Not to rebrand whatever distro for local usage.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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To get our answer, has the meme sub done "which Linux distro is your European country" yet?
The problem is that most of the GNU/Linux ecosystem - the kernel, GNU, systemd, GNOME - are largely developed (thus, dominated) by U.S. companies. Repackaging U.S. software in the EU does not make the software "made in EU".
European operating system projects, like 9front (mostly German), aren't really for the light-hearted.
Sounds like a pretty good argument for ditching both gnome and systemd in one swift go, which can only sound like a win. Perhaps we'll be seeing a supervisord- or openrc-based Linux distro for the EU.
Or we could finally have a good OpenBSD desktop distribution.
Now that would be an interesting outcome.
Are the numbers real?
annual revenue of backing company:
- ubuntu/debian: ca. 300m$
- suse: ca. 700m$
That's astonishing
I fully support the choice of fedora with bootc. It's an amazing technology. But it's somewhat sad that it's not a European linux base for European institutions.
Edit: Nunbers for suse are correct: ARR FY 664.9
Ubuntu is also correct
Oh imagine if canonical gave even a fraction of that back to Debian.
Fedora Kionite because no one likes gnome 3. Suse ane ubuntu are also good choices. SELinux or Apparmor? That is the question.
I prefer Silverblue & its minimalism. That said I just jumped back on Fedora Atomic Cosmic and is far enough along I will use it as the daily going forward & watch it develop. Its nice.
I do like cosmic. XFCE also works on wayland now. Lots of options.
Jep, SUSE is quite big. Ubuntu is only more popular among private users
I guess suse has big profitable gov contracts
Its nice seeing a comparison of linuxes like this. Honestly it just seems to me that opensuse would make the best starting point. Government can fund filling holes and its pretty much the redhat of europe.
Interesting that the straightforward answer of "obviously open suse" isn't it. I'd need to dig more into the technical restrictions they want to understand this situation better.
Well, I prefer Arch, but a major factor in that preference is the fact that some software I rely on for my work is very hard to find on other distributions and that creates unnecessary hassle for me.
Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu are both pretty solid choices for a base OS, but Fedora might be more robust in the long run.
Fedora is not really a community distro, the way Debian is.
Fedora is also one of the most US-cocksucking distros of the bunch, what with being RedHat-derivative.
FYI, RH Satellite doesn't support deb, but Foreman does (state from 3 years ago). RH has no interest in fixing this, for some strange reason.
Hmmm I can't think of any single Linux distro that is racist and colonialist enough... but perhaps the connections to Israel coudl suggest something like Hannah Montana Linux?
But at least we know it can't be any RedHat derivative since all that is strongly US bound, like in a BDSM kind of situation. Back in the time I even left Fedora because they were incredibly racist and even their community channels would refuse to attend to common questions from Latin American users unless they somehow doxxed themselves into verifying themselves as Not-From-Cuba or smth.