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It's only a proof of concept at the moment and I don't know if it will see mass adoption but it's a step in the right direction to ending reliance on US-based Big Tech.

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 20 points 5 days ago (17 children)

Is this made by European union I wonder

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] bokster@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 days ago

Well, first I hear of it.

[–] m33@theprancingpony.in 19 points 5 days ago (10 children)

@SpiceDealer Sorry, what ? How can it be made in EU if it's a Fedora fork/derivative ?

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[–] gomp@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Based on a US distro whose versions are supported for 1 year, and "built to the requirements for the EU public sector" (because the EU public sector has one coherent set of requirements and the dev knows them, even if he doesn't list them out).

This is most probably good-intentioned and it is admirable how the dev sprung into action, but it's naive at best.

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Why not use the existing Distros?

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