GNUmer

The idea of a “distro for EU public sector” is neat, but even the PoC has some flaws when considering technical sovereignty.

First of all, using Gitlab & Gitlab CI. Gitlab is an American company with most of its developers based in the US. Sure, you could host it by yourself but why would you do it considering Forgejo is lighter and mostly developed by developers based in the EU area?

The idea of basing it on Fedora is also somewhat confusing. Sure, it’s a good distro for derivatives, but it’s mostly developed by IBM developers. The tech sovereignty argument doesn’t hold well against Murphy’s law.

Ahh, baby steps.

Around fours years ago I was still using Arch and I somehow decided to try LFS on my main machine (bare metal unfortunately). Started compiling coreutils but as I forgot to specify the build directory to gmake, my /usr/bin directory was being emptied to make space for the coreutils compilation process. Bricked my whole installation.

Now I’m smarter than four years ago as I mainly use NixOS.

No love for Turris? They’ve basically just added an easier web management UI alongside lUCI and their devices arespecifically designed to run OpenWRT. Also they’ve sent a fair amount of patches to upstream (search the OpenWRT git repos for authors with @nic.cz email addresses)

https://turris.com/

Affirmative, Codeberg is the “official” public Forgejo instance and the organization which contributes the most to Forgejo development.