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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. bloak · 1790342146 · focus · HN ↗
    > The problem though is that there’s always a strong push by French companies and organizations to reject English at any cost
    Interestingly, a French-speaking Canadian who has spent some time in France told me that his right to use the French language is better protected in Canada than it is in France. He thinks that this is a consequence of the reciprocality implied by having more than one official language: French speakers in Canada get the same rights as English speakers, so people are happy to grant rights in return for getting them, whereas in France everyone gets screwed and you end up with a situation in which a French person wanting to do a PhD on French history at a French university has to write their grant application in English.
    flakes · 1790344198 · focus · HN ↗
    Quebec gets weird with their french rules. Parents are not allowed to send their kids to English speaking schools if both of the parents did their own schooling in French.
    LeBit · 1790344644 · focus · HN ↗
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    throw10920 · 1790348062 · focus · HN ↗
    That's extremely weird. I don't know of another place that does that aside from Quebec, and it's extremely illogical on its own merits.
    LeBit · 1790353279 · focus · HN ↗
    "Extremely illogical". Okay buddy.
    What other place do you know of whose context is the same as Quebec?
    jonasdegendt · 1790357896 · focus · HN ↗
    Belgium, somewhat? :)
    LeBit · 1790361431 · focus · HN ↗
    Not really. They are located in Europe. Share a border with France. Still have a lot of laws to protect French.

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