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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

they so thoroughly took the hardest route and made questionable choices that it was almost sure to fail

Typical government move going full malicious compliance while allowing "a few selected friends" from consulting companies to make a ton of money. They could've just picked Debian and rolled with it. Let's face it, nobody develops desktop applications anymore most of the govt work is already done on custom built web platforms, any OS that can run a browser is good enough to address around 90% of the govt daily work.

Meanwhile China is creating their own distro that will be successful for sure because they've plans to move the public sector and whatever private they influence to the thing.