alt Hacker NewsFrance's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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The difference between this and Munich's attempt is that France has been building up gradually. They already run Tchap (Matrix-based) for government messaging, and the gendarmerie switched to Linux years ago with over 70k desktops. Munich tried a big-bang migration without enough internal expertise and caved under political pressure when MS moved their HQ there. Schleswig-Holstein in Germany is taking the same incremental approach now and seeing better results. The pattern is pretty clear: governments that treat it as a multi-year capability build succeed, those that treat it as a licensing swap don't.
I fear this might be just license costs cutting and not something that Linux and FOSS will benefit from.
Glad that France takes the lead, that Germany fumbled. Allez Les Blues!
Even the US government should be considering this.
should be done at EU level and make it mandatory for all members
Is this the daily thread on this topic?
Astroturfing around this is getting suspicious.
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?
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...