Americans might appreciate this too, as the internet today is dominated by a handful of companies, leading to excessive polarization. The first thing that needs competition imo is Youtube, there is nothing like it.
Who ? IBM ? Never heard about it. /s
Thats what I belive but im no expert especially on the law, but I dont see an issue with US opensource unless the EU straight up penalizing any technology thats developed in the US, which Id doubt they would do.
Definitely not the feeling I’m getting from progressive tech circles these weeks.
Debian typically doesn't support new hardware and software while Fedora does. Personally, I found the balance by using both inside Qubes OS.
But being open source and distributed under the GPL is not enough.
RedHat or SuSE have a more indeterminate future due to their shareholders control, frequent changes of owners, distro licensing or source code availability.
Debian, the distro, is almost boring but has the largest platform scope and one of the largest package base. Debian, the organisation, with its community, its policies, its social contract, its independence, has proven its resilience over and over again.
In addition to Debian's LTS and ELTS support, the Civil Infrastructure Platform (https://www.cip-project.org) provides Super-Long-Term Stable (SLTS) kernels for ten years. Want paid support ? Look at companies like Freexian. Want reproducible builds? (https://reproducible-builds.org) Look at https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds (And yes, I'm very aware of NixOS/Guix).
Thus, why start a new Linux distribution if we want sovereignty?
Let's support and build on the Debian project and community, the Civil Infrastructure Platform, the Linux Foundation, the reproducible builds projects. Let's support Proxmox, a EU-born VMware alternative based on Debian ! :-)
Developer resources are scarce, maintainers burnout is real. Let's not waste energy on futile projects. Let's build our sovereignty on solid, existing foundations.
A more serious choice would be Suse.
EVERY other Community distro:
Debian
Gentoo
Guix
Nix
FreeBSD
etc....
the same reason the US had to find out how chinese rare earth magnets made it in to the F35, for example.
From the Site:
Sovereign
OS built to the requirements for the EU public sector
Sleek
OS that is fast and eco-friendly on new and old hardware
Yes...no. Fedora is not sovereign, nor is KDE "sleek". Must be a troll distribution, I trust HannaMontana Linux 10x more.
