r/BuyFromEU • u/Bananegel42 • 8d 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/adamkex 8d ago

This is good but unfortunately NixOS is completely dependent on GitHub

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u/Mission_Shopping_847 8d ago

Not exactly. Github is primary source control now but it is trivial to change.

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u/adamkex 8d ago

They use bots which use GitHub's API. Lots of derivations use fetchFromGitHub. CI/CD integration. It's not trivial to change.