The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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    Why creating a new distro instead of using a big one and contribute to it?

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      They aren’t building something from scratch. They probably are just going to make a base image with everything configured in a standard way.

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      Governments tend to have security standards that differ from most solutions readily available. Not saying this is the case, but it’s a possibility.