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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe
(www.europarl.europa.eu)
A community for everything relating to the linux operating system
Also check out !linux_memes@programming.dev
Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP
Why creating a new distro instead of using a big one and contribute to it?
They aren't building something from scratch. They probably are just going to make a base image with everything configured in a standard way.
Governments tend to have security standards that differ from most solutions readily available. Not saying this is the case, but it's a possibility.