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EU OS

for the public sector

Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a free Operating System for the EU public sector 🇪🇺

EU OS
Fedora KDE laptop
Fedora KDE laptop (source)

What is EU OS?

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

Despite the name, EU OS is technically not a new operating system. Distrowatch lists currently over 250 Linux operating systems (‘distributions’) and their various flavours, spins or subvariants are not even counted in. The added value of EU OS is a different one:

  • a common Linux OS as a base for all EU OS users with options to layer on top modifications (national layer, regional or sector-specific layer, organsation-specific layer)
  • a common desktop environment
  • a common method to manage
    • users and their data
    • software
    • devices

Find more information on the page goals.