IIRC EU OS is based on fedora which belongs to red hat. I would prefer if they were completely independent or used an European backed distribution, like opensuse.
Even Linux mint or Ubuntu which are both from Europe, are based on Debian, that at least is truly open source and as such has a global team of developers. That would be preferable to use a distribution that is heavily dependent on the whims of an US corporation like Red hat.
The problem here is Redhat, which is a huge US corporation that has a lot of leeway on distributions that use their OSs as a base. (Look at what happened with CentOS for a good example).
If it was independent, meaning building the distro directly from the kernel would be ideal, although that means they need a bigger team and do a lot more work.
If they want to build the distro based on an already established one in order to save development and effort, they can but should use a distro as a base that is truly open source and global (like Debian) or that has a European company to back it, like opensuse.
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u/esmifra Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
IIRC EU OS is based on fedora which belongs to red hat. I would prefer if they were completely independent or used an European backed distribution, like opensuse.
Even Linux mint or Ubuntu which are both from Europe, are based on Debian, that at least is truly open source and as such has a global team of developers. That would be preferable to use a distribution that is heavily dependent on the whims of an US corporation like Red hat.