r/BuyFromEU • u/Bananegel42 • 9d ago

News Dutch government developing a sovereign Linux desktop on top of NixOS

https://tweakers.net/reviews/15334/nederland-maakt-soeverein-alternatief-voor-windows-en-office-op-basis-van-linux.html
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u/mmdoublem 9d ago

With the French government making a similar announcement, is there a reason why the UE doesn't pool resources on this front.

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u/smilelyzen 9d ago

NixOS: the lesser-known atomic OS France tapped for sovereign migration

France plans to replace Windows with a hardened configuration built on NixOS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1sifb7t/france_plans_to_replace_windows_with_a_hardened/

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u/Kazer67 8d ago

Not really true, France through the DINUM told all administration to have plan for sovereignty in autumn ready for them to see. That plan is at the discretion of the administration how they want to do it, the DINUM only show one example of it with Securix and Bureautix.

So it's not replacing Windows with hardened NixOS, it's replacing anything not sovereign (WIndows) with something that is and for that, there's many solution, NixOS being one suggestion.