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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoOpen Source@lemmy.mlEU OS
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    3 months ago

    So far, EU OS is a Proof-of-Concept for the deployment of a Fedora-based Linux operating system with a KDE Plasma desktop environment and bootable container technology in a typical public sector organisation. Other organisations with similar requirements or less strict requirements may also learn from this Proof-of-Concept.









  • I mean, any FOSS project from anywhere could be being used by a fascist government or corporation, to be fair. That’s literally one of the very serious and real downsides of FOSS. It’s able to be used for good or ill.

    I mean, it can easily be argued that the US corporate technology class has benefited far more from FOSS than end-users worldwide.

    Amazon’s EC2 especially:

    Initially, EC2 used Xen virtualization exclusively. However, on November 6, 2017, Amazon announced the new C5 family of instances that were based on a custom architecture around the KVM hypervisor, called Nitro.

    Amazon leveraged FOSS to create their own successful closed-source offshoot. AWS pretty much runs the web. Amazon… is not a good company.

    That being said, the US has chosen to be isolationist, whether all of its citizens agree with it or not. Having less of a presence on the international stage, including in the FOSS world, is simply a consequence of isolationism. So boycotting US FOSS is likely to happen in some ways on purpose, and in some ways just from diminished international respect and involvement.


  • I think it’s hilarious that Sony was so scared of Bluray failing and becoming another Betamax that they basically bought out any future from under HD-DVD which probably would have been more successful (like VHS).

    In the end, streaming won the day and Blurays are already a thing of the past.

    To be clear, the first Blurays were coming out in June 2006, Netflix began internet streaming in January 2007, barely six months later.

    Whoopsie doodles Sony you fucking idiots.

    (I mean there’s a lot of reason streaming sucks but fuck Sony for real.)