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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

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hashar · 1790331551 · focus · HN ↗
France government has announced NixOS based systems some months ago:
- <a href="https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix a hardened/secured os
- <a href="https://github.com/cloud-gouv/bureautix-example" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloud-gouv/bureautix-example an example to use securix to build an office deployment (with some packages <a href="https://github.com/cloud-gouv/bureautix-example/blob/main/common/tools.nix" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloud-gouv/bureautix-example/blob/main/co... )
1. Lucasoato · 1790340685 · focus · HN ↗
  I’m looking with so much admiration what France has been building in this space, especially the latest gendarmerie transition into open source OS from windows.
  The problem though is that there’s always a strong push by French companies and organizations to reject English at any cost, despite the fact that is the most popular language in Europe.
  Yes, I get that this is a way to preserve the French language and they have all the rights to do that (in the end, they’re the ones putting the effort in these initiatives) but imagine how faster these ideas could be shared and diffuse in Europe if French understood this. If all the countries in Europe just keep pushing their nationalist ideology instead of truly believing into a united and solid Europe Union, we won’t go any where.
  1. achenet · 1790341813 · focus · HN ↗
    Frenchman here. French companies and organization, in my experience actually really like the English language (at OVH for example, most official docs are in English), but I do think it makes sense for a government funded by people who speak mostly French (ie the French taxpayers) to do stuff in French, the language most of its citizens will be most familiar with.
    Putting stuff in English will tend to exclude the less educated, or people who struggle to learn foreign languages.
    EDIT: and actually, from looking at the README of <a href="https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix
    > Ce README est en français mais le reste du code, les issuers et les PR sont en anglais.
    The README is in French but the rest of the code, the issues (they wrote issuers, but that is a typo I suspect) and the PRs are in English.
    So. :P
    Lucasoato · 1790342345 · focus · HN ↗
    Italianman here, I totally understand and respect your point. I just wish this was a collectively funded initiative, English-first but open to all translations. I’d be so happy if my country understood this and invested in this as well, so kudos to France for leading the tech here!
    LeBit · 1790344886 · focus · HN ↗
    Je t’assure que ce besoin qu’on certains français de montrer leur capacité de parler l’anglais, de nommer leurs entreprises avec des noms à connotation anglophone, etc. est considéré très gênant ici du Québec.
    ragall · 1790359730 · focus · HN ↗
    Oui, c'est bien connu que vous Québécois préférez la stratégie de l'autruche.
    LeBit · 1790361471 · focus · HN ↗
    Tes interventions montrent que tu es un raciste intolérant. Je n’ai plus de temps à perdre avec toi.
    ragall · 1790361897 · focus · HN ↗
    Quel dommage.

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