Me a FOSS advocate who hates the French police and army trying to choose what emotions to feel:
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
178 points (99.4% liked)
Technology
71502 readers
4754 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I use Arch de Triomphe, BTW.
Nice.
Magnificent.
It could have been gendar'Mint, gend'ARM64, or gend'Arch,BTW.
But they chose that awkward sounding abomination.
Oh well, it's the year of the Linux desktop, I'll forgive them.
For now.
Gendoo
"GendBuntu" is an atrocious name, and it doesn't sound good in French either (perhaps even worse). I don't know why they insisted on referencing Ubuntu in the name. GendarmOS would have been fine, or GendarmeSE to be more correct.
gendarme from "gens d’armes" to "gens d'ubuntu" (people of ubuntu) which, pronounced quickly would become "gendbuntu" is ok for an os name for gendarmerie
if only they went with arch to call their os "gensdarc" to play with the name Jeanne-d'Arc 🤭
True, but then it should have been GendUbuntu... Although people may think that's a guy named Jean d'Ubuntu.
This has become one of the major incentives of the scheme for staff; transferring to GendBuntu from a proprietary system means the staff member receives a new computer with a widescreen monitor.
Smart! What I wouldn't do for new equipment...
Is anyone else unable to click the link?
Edit: oh there is no link. I was expecting a source
There aren't really news articles about it that I could find, only info in Wiki.
So I thought I'd share so more people are aware of it
No it's fine the post title just sounded like a news article haha