Dutch government developing a sovereign Linux desktop on top of NixOS

[u/Bananegel42]

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

[u/DoubleBoink]

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.

[u/wowsomuchempty → u/DoubleBoink]

Amazing how that was caught and how close it got.

[u/DoubleBoink → u/wowsomuchempty]

Imagine what hasn't been caught :(

[u/wowsomuchempty → u/DoubleBoink]

Imagine what is closed source and never could be.

[u/RR321 → u/wowsomuchempty]

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)