How about opensuse? Why reinvent the wheel again?
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Why reinvent the wheel again?
๐ Is this your first time Linuxing?
So, this is actually addressed in the video and one of the most common asks in the matrix chat of the project. The short answer is: This is not a project to create a new distro, and in fact, the choice of underlying distro is very much flexible - the main responsible person cites another pilot project where they rolled out an OpenSUSE tumbleweed based distro in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and after the pilot ended, the underlying distro was still considered very much flexible. So, distro choice is, somewhat unintuitively, not that important at this stage.
This is instead a project at building a framework that can then plop on top of an underlying distro (currently, Fedora is the candidate, simply because that's where the most work has been done - but there's volunteer work going on for other distros, too), and also a project, to lobby and convince public service sectors in the EU to use this customized distribution, tailored towards the need of EU public administration.
EDIT: https://eu-os.gitlab.io/ - this should have further links on learning more and where and how volunteers can help
...so an Ansible Playbook deploying essentially OpenDesk (also developed for german administrative purposes)?
I get the idea, but it's like there's hardly any research behind it. You can "tailor" any installation already with a modicum of skill and a solution that's independent of the underlying distribution will inevitably have to make compromises that turn it into just another meta distro.
just another meta distro.
More or less, but I think I might be misunderstanding something here, or maybe we are both talking about different visions? I think that is indeed the goal here: To have something that is 100% tailored to serve as the standardized operating system of the EU public administration, with ~~interchangeable~~ clearly defined standards so that institutions can easily work together. Which distro is underneath it isn't as important as the software framework, standardisation of how and where to store, secure and exchange data, etc., etc.
EDIT: I swear, I have no idea why my brain decided to type out "interchangeable" there, must be because a notification happened on my other screen.