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France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

#51

Is this the daily thread on this topic? Astroturfing around this is getting suspicious.

I remember similar articles being posted 20+ years ago on Slashdot. And as we’ve seen, it’s often less of a “use Linux” and more of a “we have an alternate vendor” and there’s often suspicious lock-in (see the case in the EU or some similar country where the vendor was reading emails).

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

#53

It is a step into the right direction. Over time, more and more work is going to be done by AI though. At some point, it will be unthinkably slow and expensive to let humans work on anything. To do *that* locally, you need GPUs and LLMs. How will Europe solve these two?

Do you people have to squeeze a comment about AI into every post?

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Really proud as a French, I think the government has had some success with moving to something matrix based for the public sector too. https://tchap.numerique.gouv.fr I just hope we end up having more wins at the EU-level, instead of massive fails like GAIA-X...

"As a French" ne veut rien dire en anglais. Il faut rajouter man, person ou quelquechose. Frenchman, French person, French citizen.

The demonym for France is "French," so it's not wrong (even if it doesn't sound right.)

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

#56

should be done at EU level and make it mandatory for all members

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You forgot the part where the countries voluntarily join the organisation. By the way, the commission is subject to a vote of confidence by the parliament, which is directly elected. I'm pretty sure you don't get to directly vote for your cabinet members either, wherever you are.

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

#57

Really proud as a French, I think the government has had some success with moving to something matrix based for the public sector too. https://tchap.numerique.gouv.fr I just hope we end up having more wins at the EU-level, instead of massive fails like GAIA-X...

Also GendBuntu, a custom version of Ubuntu used by 100 000 stations (almost all) of the national gendarmerie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

#58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might want to do a bit more reading on why European intellectuals migrated en masse to the US in the 1930s.

Definitely. And then one could start wondering if the direction might reverse.

to europe? hardly. maybe to east asia ...

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Astroturfing around this is getting suspicious. It's perfectly possible for people to be passionate about the subject.

I've never met a real human that was passionate about what OS a government worker in some local French commune uses, but it's the hottest topic on HN behind AI

I do care for them setting an example for my local government.

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

#60
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, give me one example of what AI might be useful for.

As a learning tool to quiz you.

Okay, and what value would that provide?

I'm not interested in games.

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