Probably called Xunil
Low-key great distro name
And the académie français is pissed about it
Wexit.
Winxit (pronounced win shit)
Ah yes. The same government that has called encryption a terrorist weapon.
Monkey’s Paw: They pick Red Hat as a distro.
Probably more likely to go for SUSE, since it’s European but still Enterprisey.
Suse? Aren’t they Pepsi?
Sure, we have Suze at home.
Yeah or let’s create a Picon distro to avoid name conflicts. And it tastes better.
OpenSuSE is German, so unlikely. They will go for some French distro like Mandriva.
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.
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
its smart for a start cause everyone cooks and then they can share the best parts
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.
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.
By who are we kidding. The actual work will be offloaded to the shittiest contractor available (Capgemini/Atos/SopraSteria), it will take 5 years of the planned 2 and will cost 3.5 times the initial budget, for something sensibly shittier than an uBlue script.
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!
Combining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.
How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L’nux?
Like Tux but with cool sunglasses and cigarettes.
Don’t forget the baret and baguette.
How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L’nux?
Wasn’t this foretold in Infinite Jest?
You think there might be a self-sustaining snobbery fission chain reaction?
Zomg, they will not allow you to sudo remove le French language!!!
Okay… Fire ze missiles!
But I am le tired
well have a nap… AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES
Listen carefully, i shall say this only once!
It is I, le Tuxue, and I am here to help you install fallen penguin with the big boobies mod. (DE theme?)
Yes of course Herr Gruber 🙃
J’utilise le Arch de Triomphe, btw
Let’s hope they’ll use Gendarmerie’s almost 20 years of experience on that.
I like that they went with “Gendbuntu” instead of a boring official sounding acronym.
Glad I found this comment. It was my first thought when seeing the headline: haven’t they already been doing that for decades?
L’Nux
Why not Des Nux?
Le Nux
Hello, this is Le Nus Torvalds, and I pronounce Le Nux as Le Nux.
Wexit
windon’t
Windidn’t
Reminds me of the old “Genesis does what Nintendon’t” ads
Did Nintendo sue them by any chance?
Its Nintendo. They were already suing them before they even knew about the ad. Most lawyers are familiar with the old “cease and desist” letter method, but Nintendo’s even got “don’t even start” warnings from their legal department.
C’est l’année de l’ordinateur Linux!
C’est l’année de l’ordinateur Linux!
It’s the year of the Linux computer!
Oh man! I thought this was going to be the rare case where you could actually say the thing in French with fewer characters, but French loses by 1. Dommage! And English doesn’t even have a contraction for “the,” of which there are two in this short sentence!
Super! (j’utilise Arch, au fait)
J’utilise Arch, du coup!
I’d be interested to try their distro when it’s done…
I’ll just need to remove the french language pack first. Let me look up instructions for that real quick… Oh no…
Just change keyboard layout from Azerty
Mandrake reborn? :-D
Well, that’s Mageia: https://www.mageia.org/en/about/
That would actually be nice.
I haven’t found any confirmation anywhere, but I know some of the people at DINUM are active NixOS maintainers, and I’ve seen some NixOS-based development in that space:
As a french and daily nixos user, this is great.
Nixos or a derivative would make a ton of sense for an administration, just load the same config on all the computers and voila! Each department can have it’s own variation of the config.
Meanwhile in the UK our government is strengthening ties to palintir. We always have to be the losers of Europe
I mean, technically y’all aren’t part of Europe anymore…
Yeah they are? Just not the eu
Nah, dude, the island floated too far away, now they’re a continent
Eh, Germany is currently doing the same, so we’re both losing
Hey. Thats not true. Youre just outside europe.
The UK is obviously in Europe… They just pushed us out into the sea one night cos we’re embarrassing.
Hey at least you aren’t getting natural gas from those guys. You know those extra super duper bad guys.
You guys literally wrote the book on Orwellian governments.
Afaik France still has contracts with Palantir
No doubt, but this is a step in the right direction. If it works it proves the value of further breaking away from the US. While we still buy whatever they’re selling, and provide support loading their bombs for their wars.
UK is US-lite.
Nah. That’s Canada. They even have their own MAGAts/deep south in Alberta.
Feck, wish I could argue with you!
maple maga
Which is at least good on pancakes.
They should reboot mandrake/mandriva. As I recall it was a french project anyway.
Nice!
Yes, good chance some of the devs live there. It’s the 5th largest French city after all.
Mainly old rich people, in fact.
AFAICT its creator it’s entirely focused on the mobile challenge know, working on /e/OS for his Murena company.
