> Are there already projects aiming towards similar objectives? Or have there > been in the past?
Yes, there are many if you consider euro as a big gov. From my experience, there are several made-in-china (similar to the "Self-sovereign identity") systems for past 20 years, and most of them failed. Wikipedia also have an incomplete page of state-sponsored-Linux-distros. Most of them wasted a large chunk of resources to craft just another set of default packages/wallpapers/theme/infra. I think region-based distro is anti-pattern of free software. If open source is about freedom, region-based distro is simply adding restrictions (Why limit the target users based on geography location?). It feels like NIH [1] but in large scale. A common name plus a distro is probably an inspirational symbol, but I think it might be better to spend more resources on _actual improvements_ of the software, such as funding software projects that are actually needed to get the jobs done, enhancing LibreOffice, translations for rare languages, tools to ease deployments for gov/school, and develop new technology for open source systems. Image KDE get fully funded programmers to improve the software that are required by euroOS, rather than a team of distro release engineers tweaking software packages. What is really needed is a "euroOS project", rather than yet another region-based "euroOS distro". A project will provide sustainable funding/resources for software projects that solve real problems for euro's gov/school/individuals. (If this actually happened, in the future, someone will use software with acknowledgment that it was produced/funded by the eurOS Project). Technical issues are less hard than political/economical ones. Other thoughts: * München switch to linux many years ago, but seems to have many struggling and tried to move back to windows. Not sure the situation now. * IIRC, the ScientificLinux was also funded by several euro-based organizations (mainly CERN I think). * The recent RockyLinux can be used to estimate how much resources are practically needed to duplicate everything, plus some branding. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:State-sponsored_Linux_distributions [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here slbtty On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 5:10 AM Dominik Kummer <m...@domson.at> wrote: > > Hi folks! > > I recently submited an ideas on > https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2021#eurOS%3A_Standard_European_Operating_System > based on personal conclusions studying several citizen > contributions/discussions on futureu.europa.eu. > > Do you see any realistic perspectives on this? > Does it even make sense, or would you consider it to centralized tailored? > Are there already projects aiming towards similar objectives? Or have there > been in the past? > Whats you opinion on SSI in general? > > Thank you so much for any further contra arguments and/or redirections!! > > Kind regards, Yours > > Dominik > > >
