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dwazou@jlai.lu to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among open source software endorsed by French Government

www.numerama.com

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Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among open source software endorsed by French Government

www.numerama.com

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Quels sont les logiciels libres que l’État conseille en 2025 ?
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Le socle interministériel de logiciels libres a encore grossi. Désormais, il y a plus de 500 références dans le catalogue des programmes informatiques que l'État conseille à ses administrations. Un travail de longue haleine, commencé au début de la décennie passée. 473 logiciels libres référencés en mai 2024, 529 en

The full list:

https://code.gouv.fr/sill/list

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  • dwazou@jlai.luOP
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    To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can’t be reprimanded if they use them.

    This isn’t the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. GIMP has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.

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      Yeah for that you have to look to Germany, which has largely embraced Matrix, and certain states, such as Schleswig-Holstein, have embraced Linux and LibreOffice:

      https://element.io/matrix-in-germany

      https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/

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        Wasn’t France the one that started switching to Matrix and funded a bunch of improvements?

        https://web.archive.org/web/20180426180007/https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/

        It’s great that Germany is doing the same, I just remember Matrix talking about money from France and helping the French government deploy Matrix for government use back in the day. A lot of the E2E encryption improvements were attributed to their collaboration with France at the time

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          Yes and the French administration has access to a modified version of Matrix called Tchap.

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      It’s a good start nonetheless, and I’m happy to see them take this step in the right direction.

    • phase@lemmy.8th.world
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      No, it’s not. They may not cancel M$ contract but one step at a time, one hand may challenge the other to sign it again. Yes, it’s called administration.

      Nevertheless, for once, let’s recognise something is moving in the good direction. This country is rotted by sarcasm, nihilism, and unrealistic theorical positions. Just try to smile when there’s something good.

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    c’est magnifique

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    https://github.com/hackmdio/CodiMD for me is the genuine oss app with the real talent behind it and hedgedoc a controversial fork iterating on an older version

    I hope NixOS gets added.

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    I wouldn’t use chromium. Never heard of keepass, the people on the security sub recommend bitwarden.

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      “The cloud is just someone else’s computer”, so I guess if you trust bitwarden, that’s cool. I hear that everything is encrypted before it’s sent to their servers, but I prefer having everything done locally via KeePassXC.

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        You can self host the server very easily.

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          Ah, that’s something I didn’t know. I thought it was centralized.

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      Keepass is very good. Bitwarden just has a server side so it’s easier to set up and use for multiple devices.

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        I use keepassxc + syncthing, super easy to setup and decentralized.

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      I’ve been using keepass for years. If someone gets a hold of the vault file, the passphrase could potentially be found.

      Unless you do selfhost correctly, yeah you want to trust somebody else.

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    endorsed

    Funded?

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      I was wondering the same

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    The French Government knows their shit.

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      Actually not really, like any governments but it hapoened to have some good decisions some times.

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    I don’t understand why anyone who is about foss would to install keepass that require mono (on mac)from microsoft. I would love to use keepass but we need keepass v2. I use bitwarden… please educate me

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      Mono is owned by WineHQ

      And there are other tools that use the same database format. I use keepassDX and keepassXC

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