It’s odd that they want to go with the American based Fedora instead of the German based openSUSE. Only thing I can figure is that this is yet another case of European Tech infighting?
The Register should get ahold of Robert Riemann and ask them.
It could be due to them liking Fedora better. We don’t need to kick off more distro wars over something that probably won’t affect most people.
Sure but if the intent is to get away from American software companies, specifically Microsoft for Desktop OS, then why would you run Fedora when SUSE is literally right there?
Maybe they weighted the options and choose Fedora?
Fedora is a community project
Fedora is an American Community Project.
There are contributors from around the world, but only Nazi America gets to choose.
Basing this on Fedora doesn’t make sense. It tells me the private individual behind this proposal hasn’t done an extensive analysis on this.
Why wouldn’t they use Fedora? Last time I checked they are paving the way from a security and quality perspective. The Fedora team does excellent work.
It’s a US based project.
Yes, however it is still a community lead project with a focus on foss.
It is a good organization for the most part.
Because it’s run by Americans.
We’re way past ‘Not all Americans’ now.
what is an American distro?
I mean does the kernel or DE have a nationality if they’re Free Software? Anyone is supposed to be able to reuse them, no? Exactly like China has already building its own OS based on GNU-Linux
That’s why, as a mere user myself, I consider the GNU-GPL license so essential (so much more than the code being ‘Open Source’) as GPL makes it so that no one can limit what anyone else wants to do with the code. And even if the USA one day stopped being our best friends, they would have no legal claim to prevent us (or China, or anyone else) from building on top of their code or to fork it. Freedom, is great.
While I agree with the general sentiment of your post, I think a good faith argument can be made that basing such a distro on the SUSE ecosystem would make more sense.
Red Hat?
Founded in America, now owned by Big Blue.
Makes everything harder for other distros by adopting an ‘our way or the highway’ approach that is a big part of the reason for the problems with GNOME too.
