EU Posts
There's an article on openSUSE news proposing Aeon and Kalpa for EU OS. On the one hand, I love openSUSE Tumbleweed, which Aeon and Kalpa are basically immutable versions of Tumbleweed. On the other hand, I'm not European and I don't really have any say in the subject, but I do have an opinion. SUSE has been pushing for openSUSE to de-brand from it, which Aeon pretty much already has. I'm hoping this is the point where openSUSE sees it also needs to actually de-brand. Fedora is a widely used distro, even in Europe, so I think it's non-branding with Red Hat may give it an advantage here. It's a smoke screen, because I already believe Red Hat still makes the decisions, but at least there's a smoke screen.
Even though Tumbleweed is a technically more advanced distro than Fedora, with snapper, openQA, zypper, yast, rolling updates, and less bureaucracy, Fedora is still just Fedora, and not Red Hat Fedora or openRH Fedora, while Tumbleweed is still openSUSE Tumbleweed. openSUSE needs to complete the re-branding, regardless of this issue, but I'm hoping this pushes it to actually happening. To me, Tumbleweed is the universal distro. You can do anything from one installer and you can do anything you want with it, whether it's repo packages or flatpaks, server or desktop. It's the perfect distro and the kind of distro that could live forever. The only time I've ever had to reinstall Tumbleweed was because my disk died. I can't say that for any other distro or even operating system.
Once again, this is a European choice and I think they are correct to be looking at it the way they are. They should worry about their security and access to reliable and standardized software. Any country should, much less an entire continent. The US is too backward to even think about having a US OS; we just care about paying lobbyists and some parasitic company's bottom line, because they donated to someone's campaign or are buddies with someone elected to office. I have my OS and that's all I can control. I think the EU would do well to pick Tumbleweed as their OS, whether directly or through Aeon and Kalpa.
