this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
84 points (98.8% liked)

BuyFromEU

4141 readers
48 users here now

Welcome to BuyFromEU - A community dedicated to supporting European-made goods and services!

We also invite you to subscribe to:

Logo generated with mistral le chat Banner by Christian Lue on unsplash.com

founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
Soggy_Commission_934@feddit.org
a887dcd7a@feddit.org
petl@feddit.org
Kualdir@feddit.org
chmod755@feddit.org
84
France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story (piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
1 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I wanted to spotlight a quietly massive success story in European digital sovereignty: GendBuntu - France’s custom Ubuntu distribution used by the National Gendarmerie.

The GendBuntu project derives from Microsoft's decision to end the development of Windows XP Back in 2005, France’s Gendarmerie began switching from Microsoft products to open-source software - starting with OpenOffice. Fast forward to 2024, and GendBuntu(Linux) is now running on 97% of their workstations (over 103,000 computers!).

France has shown what’s possible when a government actually backs open-source, in-house, and EU-grown solutions.
More countries should follow suit.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

top 1 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Linux = ❤️ Genmanderie = 💀