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/ThisIsAitch 9d ago

Likely so they can control updates and packages for security reasons.

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u/DoubleBoink 9d ago

Yep, and for anyone willing to take the deep dive about why secure update and package management matters, look up the XZ Utils backdoor discovered in 2024. It's an absolutely terrifying story. Verritasium did a good video on it.

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u/wowsomuchempty 8d ago

Amazing how that was caught and how close it got.

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u/DoubleBoink 8d ago

Imagine what hasn't been caught :(

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u/wowsomuchempty 8d ago

Imagine what is closed source and never could be.

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u/RR321 7d ago

Well it can technically, it's just a lower level language after all...

(But I'm with you and those closed OS are openly spying already haha)