EU OSfor the public sector

What is EU OS?

EU OS is not a project of the European Union, but it should be.

So far, EU OS is a Proof-of-Concept for the deployment of a Fedora-based Linux operating system with a KDE Plasma desktop environment and bootable container technology in a typical public sector organisation. Other organisations with similar requirements or less strict requirements may also learn from this Proof-of-Concept.

Despite the name, EU OS is technically not a new operating system. Distrowatch lists currently over 250 Linux operating systems (‘distributions’) and their various flavours, spins or subvariants are not even counted in. The added value of EU OS is a different one:

• a common Linux OS as a base for all EU OS users with options to layer on top modifications (national layer, regional or sector-specific layer, organisation-specific layer)
• a common desktop environment
• a common method to manage
  • users and their data
  • software
  • devices

Find more information on the page goals.

Partnerships

Hack Days

EU OS is partner for the HackDays – Hackathon Digital Workplace 2025 in Paris organised by the French Goverment service DINUM (Direction interministérielle du Numérique).

End of 10

EU OS is partner for the campaign endof10.org supporting people with Windows on their personal computer to switch to a free Linux operating system. This campaign complements well EU OS that itself addresses corporate computers managed centrally by the corporate IT service.