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German federal state migrates 30.000 PCs to LibreOffice (fosstodon.org)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Sort of the plan, but I am not sure what Linux distro they are using.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Some Employee of Schleswig Holstein posted a few days ago that he's finally allowed to use Linux on his work laptop, and that it's OpenSUSE that's approved. But I would hope that they would support the Linux Ecosystem by either paying developers or buying a subscription for the Suse Enterprise Linux

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They plan to pay for some development. Mainly in replacing Microsoft Active Directory, which has to be replaced using a number of different open source projects for different features and apparently those lack some features they really want. There are only a few large users of desktop Linux so those administration tools very much need some work.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    @albert180 @Melchior why specifically OpenSuse?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Suse is a german company and therefore Suse Linux has some improvements for german users. And if you're doing it to get away from american companies to get your own sovereign OS, that totally makes sense. Better localization and from your country. And the support might also be in German

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Governments want a stable distro, which has great general support and the option of hiring developers for additional features. If something breaks government workers can not do their jobs, so it costs money anyway. So having professional people behind it, who can be talked and fix the problem quickly is something a government really wants. In addition to that, they require some niche features, which need to be developed. In other words, they really want a stable distro with a professional team behind it and as it happens Suse is the only such company in Germany. Even better they already have experience in dealing with government agencies and well speak German. The alternatives would be CentOS or Fedora from RedHead or Ubuntu from Canonical. However those are not German or European.

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