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Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a free Operating System for the EU public sector. EU OS is not a project of the European Union, but it should be! 🇪🇺 https://eu-os.eu. Account operated by https://riemann.cc/about
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The #EuropeanCommission supports multi-country projects with a programme: European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC). On 13/06 already, France mentioned the "Digital Commons" #EDIC currently in the making, which in principle could also support a sovereign operating system such as #EU_OS. 1/2

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Meanwhile in #Berlin: Heise reports about struggles to migrate from #Windows10 to 11. Only 12% of the about 100k computers are migrated so far. 136 out of 271 have been tested for their #Windows11 support. For the others, it remains unclear. 1/3 #EU_OS

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Flashreport: the #DigitalPublicInfrastructure day has started at the UN #opensourceweek2025. Follow the live steam here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v... More at www.un.org/digital-emer... #EU_OS #DPI #opensource

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Flash update: Opening of the United Nations #opensourceweek2025 hackathon ✅ #UN has a #Gitlab server at opensource.unicc.org that could build #EU_OS (or #UN_OS) 😁 ❌ Everyone must use #discord. Why not opensource such as #Matrix? Today, EU OS is not in the scope of the event. #EuroStack #GovStack

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Quote: "In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work. […] The current first phase involves ending the use of Word and Excel software […]." 1/3 #GermanStack #EuroStack

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Project lead Robert will attend the United Nations Open Source Week in the UN headquarters (New York) next week to represent #EU_OS. Follow us on social media to receive updates from the event. The goal is to raise awareness about EU OS amongst government officials and the open source community. 1/2

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The city governments in Denmark’s two largest cities Copenhagen and Aarhus both say they have decided to phase out Microsoft as a provider of various IT systems.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

German Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle. #EU_OS is fully open source and work for a Proof-of-Concept is on the way. www.heise.de/en/news/Digi... #Fedora #endof10 #Microsoft #Windows #DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack #GermanStack

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

European Commission's response to US sanctions: 'The ICC holds perpetrators of the world’s gravest crimes to account and gives victims a voice. It must be free to act without pressure' #ICC

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Day 2 of #hackdays2025: #EU_OS has now a Proof-of-Concept section on the website (work in progress). The team enrolled some #bootc PCs in #Foreman. The results so far were pitched to a selection board. Thanks to the great team! 🙏 Unfortunately, #EU_OS wasn't selected to proceed to the next stage.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Day 1 of #hackdays2025: #EU_OS has started with possibly the biggest team of 14 people from several countries. To build the proof of concept, the team works on several sub tasks: - building the EU OS image - setting up full-disk encryption - setting up FIDO2 hardware key to unlock encryption 1/2

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

How the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Software cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mg...

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

2 days until #EU_OS at Paris #HackDays: A part of the team arrived already in Paris. The planning of the work started in the public Gitlab at gitlab.com/eu-os/eu-os.... Robert brought an old Thinkpad X220 (released 2011) that will serve as a test device until a more modern device has been found!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

3 days until #EU_OS at Paris #HackDays: How many hours do you use your #Windows office PC per day? For 6h in front of the computer, this makes 6h·20d·11=1320h per year: Time that users spent in an ecosystem entirely controlled by few powerful, rich people in other countries. 1/3 #DigitalSovereignty

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

4 days until #EU_OS at Paris #HackDays: project lead Robert and few supporters start already the weekend before to increase the chances to have a working Proof-of-Concept by the end of Tuesday. Learn more at eu-os.eu 1/3

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

5 days until #EU_OS at Paris #HackDays: The architecture for EU OS must allow for a migration phase in which both #Microsoft #Windows and EU OS run in parallel (hybrid setup). 1/3 #endof10 #Linux #sysadmin #DigitalSovereignty #eurostack #Khan

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

6 days until #EU_OS at Paris #HackDays: EU OS is a so-called atomic operating system that offers interruption free software updates thanks to #bootc (bootable container) technology. 1/3 #Linux #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft #Windows #Trump #Khan #Tariffs #sysadmin #endof10

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

7 days until #EU_OS at Paris #HackDays: #EU_OS has a great team setup to test the architecture for a Linux-on-the-desktop setup. Feel free to comment with your experience if you have some! More Info: gitlab.com/eu-os/eu-os.... #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft #Windows #Khan #EuroStack #Linux #Trump

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Who doesn't know the situation: Quickly leaving office to catch a train/flight or join some dinner or sport class, but then the laptop cannot be powered off due to a #Windows update. The software alternative eu-os.eu installs updates invisible in the background.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Data from the domain DNS shows that many European public services rely on proprietary cloud services: jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/e... "Querying mail-servers teaches that in some countries, over 70% of all public services rely on this American provider." #Trump #EuroStack #DigitalSovereignty

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Since #Trump imposed sanctions on Chief Prosecutor #Khan of the Intl. Criminal Court #ICC, Khan faces issues to access his emails. apnews.com/article/icc-... #EU_OS contributes to improve the business continuity of public authorities, intl. organisations and companies likewise: eu-os.eu #eurostack

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

75 years ago today, the #SchumanDeclaration lit the spark of European unity. That vision lives on through #HorizonEU, empowering bold research & innovation across borders 🧪 Happy #EuropeDay! Science unites. Innovation drives. Europe leads. #philsci #SciComm

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment