France already building NixOS-based government systems
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A commenter discloses that the French government has announced NixOS-based systems months earlier, including Securix (a hardened OS) and Bureautix (an office deployment layer), suggesting the Dutch effort follows an established European pattern.
“France government has announced NixOS based systems some months ago”
hashar, HN commenter · hn ↗Dutch government (Ministry of Interior/DAWO initiative) Project initiatorFrench government (Cloud.gouv) Parallel initiative creatorGerman government Related effort
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Dutch governments builds alternative tech for Microsoft based on NixOS for its own IT needs. This is a good news and moving away from abusive big tech firms like Microsoft. Tax payers money should go into FLOSS only.
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First off - decoupling from Trump-USA is a must. Canadians noticed this; european countries are still slow. The Netherlands is faster; the biggest slow-ass behemoth is Germany - no clue why. Germany is a big reason why the EU fails, but also the expansionistic agenda and what not (why do only poor countries want to join the EU; UK left…
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I'm having trouble from the article understanding what version of linux they are going to? I looked at the article and can't figure it out. I'm not an expert at all.
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🇳🇱 The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC ｢ All of DAWO's code is hosted on a Forgejo instance, with a separate Codeberg instance acting as the entry point for contributors. And, to answer the question asked earlier, NixOS was chosen because it is a Dutch project, with no company owning or controlling…
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> It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.It's a long chain, but ultimately it comes down to incompetence... When I was younger (decades ago), I assumed that the incompetence lies on the side of the executives who were overriding knowledgeable technical folk.I do not believe…
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Based on install vidoes i've seen. And lets face it, after so many years on windows, i dont have a reason to switch.
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Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment. https:// itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-d awo-initiative/
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Do we even need to have a suite of tools for users to create spreadsheets, paste images into them, save them as a PDF, download to their local machine, sync to sharepoint, change permissions to include everyone in the entire universe to be able to see the file, email the link to another human in the company who opens it, uses a PDF editor to copy…
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One more nail in Windows' coffin. More governments need this. Dutch government to replace Microsoft Windows with NixOS-based operating system https:// boingboing.net/2026/09/25/dutc h-government-to-replace-microsoft-windows-with-nixos-based-operating-system.html
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> Microsoft just recently made a new patent where they will monitor you via camera and microphone to block your program/game to show you ads,You got the important details of the Microsoft parent wrong (the patent doesn’t use camera and microphone monitoring), but more importantly the existence of a patent is not the same as intent to deploy a…
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https://www. xda-developers.com/the-netherl ands-joins-europes-gradual-migration-from-windows-to-linux-on-government-pcs/ and https:// itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-d awo-initiative/ At least in part because US sanctions have cut the ICC off from Microsoft Services, the Netherlands are moving to Linux and other Open Source solutions, pretty much…
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I don't like this idea, but I do like to get my facts right. If it is the patent linked elsewhere on this page, then - I can't find the bit where they monitor you via camera and microphone. (I think the "track your eyes to make sure you don't look away during ads" is already patented for mobile, but has never been deployed as far as I know.) -…
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RE: https:// kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1173 31226695571377 More on this: […] If U.S. threats to occupy Greenland had European countries thinking about digital sovereignty, the Trump Administration forced the issue itself by imposing sanctions against the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Microsoft reportedly cut off email and other…
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It looks like they are using Claude to develop it, though..> Things that cost somebody hours, written down so they cost the next person minutes. Each one is here because it actually happened, not because it might.> Same commit, different answer, decided by the runner's store rather than by the…
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This is the only logical response to finding you're dependent on tech companies beholden to a government that doesn't respect international laws. https:// itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-d awo-initiative/
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https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/microsoft-patents-s...Patent: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20260260258The mic/camera aspect doesn’t appear on that patent, it seems to be from an abandoned Sony patent filing from 2006
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The Government of Canada needs to get it's ass in gear and be serious about digital sovereignty. The Netherlands is showing the way.
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> alternative for Microsoft based on NixOSThat sentence seems to lack an important word. Microsoft is a company so I don't assume they built an alternative for it. Microsoft 365 is what used to be called Office 365 and governments love their Office suite so that would make sense and I could see the number accidentally getting dropped but NixOS is…
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https://www. europesays.com/3271995/ The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC # Nederland # netherlands # Nieuws
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France government has announced NixOS based systems some months ago:- https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix a hardened/secured os- https://github.com/cloud-gouv/bureautix-example an example to use securix to build an office deployment (with some packages https://github.com/cloud-gouv/bureautix-example/blob/main/co... )
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The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC https:// itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-d awo-initiative/
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> Sextant: a graphical interface for NixOS management as an alternative to Intune, by Bram Buijs [1]Now that's a fairly interesting project and a way to actually bring technology like NixOS to the administrators in the way they expect. From my experience (sample size one, yes) there are more systems administrators that use web interfaces for…
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I see about a dozen of these stories every year. Often some German municipality or some other bureaucratic enclave. Slashdot, back in its heyday, was filled with these stories.What I'd love to see is a 5 year follow up to one of these stories. What worked, what didn't, how many people are still using the linux OS, etc. Because I feel like windows…
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I’ve been using NixOS exclusively the last few years. Its been a blessing and a curse!My framework laptop, my NAS, my Home-assistant, etcIt’s how I’ve always envisioned “systems management”, but the struggle has been real.Enter LLM’s - the barriers are kind of gone!It’s actually making so much sense I don’t know where to start.Just try it out…
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