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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. F3nd0 · 1790351263 · focus · HN ↗
    ‘United and solid EU’ doesn’t have to involve forcing everyone to use a someone’s native language. Ideally we’d have a common language that’s neutral and used for international communication only. In fact, we already have a working solution; Esperanto has existed for well over 100 years at this point, and continues to be a healthy, living language. People just don’t seem to care that much. It always seems to be either practicality or national heritage, never both at the same time. Yet the common ground has been there all along.
    graemep · 1790878699 · focus · HN ↗
    We could go back to using Latin as a common language. It is already far more widely understood than Esperanto.
    The problem with invented languages is the same as with adding new standards <a href="https://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/927/

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