I know eveything in France is not sunshine and rainbows, but come on, cheap high speed internet, fantastic pedestrian infrastructure, great social welfare program, and now linux being adopted by the government?
France seems pretty cool to me
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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I wish Spain did the same, but Microsoft is very present, almost exclusively, in the national and regional administrations. There used to be more Linux, for example in education, but know, Microsoft everywhere. Sigh
This is huge step, hopefully others will follow!
Combining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.
How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L'nux?
Like Tux but with cool sunglasses and cigarettes.
Don't forget the baret and baguette.
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Meanwhile in the UK our government is strengthening ties to palintir. We always have to be the losers of Europe
Hey. Thats not true. Youre just outside europe.
The UK is obviously in Europe... They just pushed us out into the sea one night cos we're embarrassing.
You guys literally wrote the book on Orwellian governments.
Eh, Germany is currently doing the same, so we're both losing
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J'utilise le Arch de Triomphe, btw
They won’t go back. once you start getting used to having logic that responds to your commands it really is hard to give that up to ai slop.
year of the french linux desktop
But I am le tired
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L'Nux
Le Nux
Hello, this is Le Nus Torvalds, and I pronounce Le Nux as Le Nux.
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This is how you renegotiate with MS.
Hopefully the time for negotiations is past
Yeah, I think/hope this is their "Find Out" era.
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I'd be interested to try their distro when it's done...
I'll just need to remove the french language pack first. Let me look up instructions for that real quick... Oh no...
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Between this and expedition 33, France is coming up with some Ws these days.
Vive la France
bummer... not. Microslop crusade against FOSS backfires more and more. i think these guys should fight it even harder.
Let's hope they'll use Gendarmerie's almost 20 years of experience on that.
Glad I found this comment. It was my first thought when seeing the headline: haven't they already been doing that for decades?
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So I can no longer make the joke about removing french language packs using rm -fr /?
No, you can make it even harder now that they're going linux
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As a French, I wait before believing it. The DINUM does not really hold authority above the rest of the government and all the other administrations. Our gendarmerie switched to ubuntu more than 10 years ago, but the police planned to change all its computers to accomodate to windows 11, and the DINUM advocated to for dong to stop using american cloud providers, but we have a shit ton of public stuff running on american cloud, including the health data hub.
So just curious, what does the DINUM do exactly?
Monkey's Paw: They pick Red Hat as a distro.
Probably more likely to go for SUSE, since it's European but still Enterprisey.
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With the resources they have -- and the goal of having security and control over their digital supply lines -- I don't see why they wouldn't roll their own distro. Maybe heavily based on an existing distro (looking at you, Debian) but something that's completely under their control, so they can choose for themselves exactly what packages are included, what security settings are used as defaults, when and if to update things, etc.
Edit: after (gasp) actually reading the article, it seems that each department within the French government will be responsible for their own implementation, which means they might all end up using different distros in different departments.
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