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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)

submitted 1 month ago by erin@social.sidh.bzh to c/linux@programming.dev

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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Linux-based OSes are less uniform than Windows. They could and probably will be targeted, but exploits won't spread because of how many verities they are and how different and incompatible they can be. Some, for example, don't even use the GNU utils and userland.

[–] pound_heap@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

This petition is for developing something dubbed "EU-Linux", so if implemented as is will be pretty uniform

[–] gens@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

That is mostly false. Most of the code that faces the network is the same. As is most of the background running code. Linux is still more secure.