Corollary from the article: if every major distro uses Red Hat tech, it's a sign that there's a lack of funding from other sources for the core OS development. The goal of an "EU OS" project should be to identify and push forward the yet-unexplored or resource-lacking areas of such development, with EU funds. To be a friendly competitor and collaborator to Red Hat. Not to rebrand whatever distro for local usage.

Are the numbers real?

annual revenue of backing company:

• ubuntu/debian: ca. 300m$
• suse: ca. 700m$

That's astonishing

I fully support the choice of fedora with bootc. It's an amazing technology. But it's somewhat sad that it's not a European linux base for European institutions.

Edit: Nunbers for suse are correct: ARR FY 664.9

Source

Ubuntu is also correct

Interesting that the straightforward answer of "obviously open suse" isn't it. I'd need to dig more into the technical restrictions they want to understand this situation better.

Its nice seeing a comparison of linuxes like this. Honestly it just seems to me that opensuse would make the best starting point. Government can fund filling holes and its pretty much the redhat of europe.

To get our answer, has the meme sub done "which Linux distro is your European country" yet?

Well, I prefer Arch, but a major factor in that preference is the fact that some software I rely on for my work is very hard to find on other distributions and that creates unnecessary hassle for me.

Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu are both pretty solid choices for a base OS, but Fedora might be more robust in the long run.

FYI, RH Satellite doesn't support deb, but Foreman does (state from 3 years ago). RH has no interest in fixing this, for some strange reason.

The problem is that most of the GNU/Linux ecosystem - the kernel, GNU, systemd, GNOME - are largely developed (thus, dominated) by U.S. companies. Repackaging U.S. software in the EU does not make the software "made in EU".

European operating system projects, like 9front (mostly German), aren't really for the light-hearted.