Some Employee of Schleswig Holstein posted a few days ago that he's finally allowed to use Linux on his work laptop, and that it's OpenSUSE that's approved. But I would hope that they would support the Linux Ecosystem by either paying developers or buying a subscription for the Suse Enterprise Linux

[–] thijsje@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 5 days ago (5 children)

@albert180 @Melchior why specifically OpenSuse?

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Governments want a stable distro, which has great general support and the option of hiring developers for additional features. If something breaks government workers can not do their jobs, so it costs money anyway. So having professional people behind it, who can be talked and fix the problem quickly is something a government really wants. In addition to that, they require some niche features, which need to be developed. In other words, they really want a stable distro with a professional team behind it and as it happens Suse is the only such company in Germany. Even better they already have experience in dealing with government agencies and well speak German. The alternatives would be CentOS or Fedora from RedHead or Ubuntu from Canonical. However those are not German or European.

[–] thijsje@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 5 days ago

@Melchior Ah thats a clear and enlightening reply. Thank you for taking the time.

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