Robert Riemann
Robert Riemann studied physics and informatics. Since 2017, he works for the EU in Brussels on technology policy and digital transformation. Witnessing the discussions on digital sovereignty from inside EU and member state administrations, he decided end of 2024 to develop in his personal capacity a vision of a common Linux-based OS for the public sector and other corporate use cases.
Sessions
The demand for more control over corporate IT assets grow significantly in the last 2 years. The project EU OS proposes a concept based on open source to setup and control a corporate Linux laptop fleet in the public (and private) sector.
In this talk, we present the problem EU OS attempts to solve, the proposed solution based on bootc clients managed by foreman, report on on-going proof of concepts and present our wish list to cover missing features. For this, we leverage foreman for provisioning of EU OS, imagemode patching, artefact store for both the OS and for corporate flatpaks, and enrolment in FreeIPA for user management.