Most Active Projects NixOS 15773 commits; French government Digital Sovereignty and Linux Migration;To support this transition, DINUM's Interministerial Products Operator department is developing Sécurix, a highly secure, reproducible operating system base built on NixOS

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DINUM#Digital_Sovereignty_and_Linux_Migration
To support this transition, DINUM's Interministerial Products Operator (OPI) department is developing Sécurix, a highly secure, reproducible operating system base built on NixOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NixOS
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Single-Virus4935@reddit

Imagine the eu money flowing towards Microsoft and co is spent on opensource development.

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EcceLez@reddit

I've heard a podcast by the dude who's leading the team behind "LaSuite". That's their while point: coding new tools is so cheap now, to the point it's cheaper than using O365.

Another interesting bit, their visio tool has been built by 1 senior developer in 6 months. They said about this: 80k lines of code is nothing now.

And now the french governemt is saving millions thanks to this solo dude

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Infinity-of-Thoughts@reddit

And what happens when that solo dude disappears, and no one has any clue what even 90% of the code base even is?

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Journeyj012@reddit

we might finally get a 99+% compatible drop-in office replacement

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chrisoboe@reddit

compatibility doesn't really matter anymore as soon as a critical mass uses non-ms office anyways.

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D-S-S-R@reddit

Infuriating that it took this long. Should be an obviously good idea to not be dependent on a private company (and then Microsoft of all things)

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What you guys think about these immutable distros? I've been using Silverblue and it is a breeze, but I sometimes miss having a proper package manager, and yeah rpm-ostree exists but dnf is way more convenient. And while NixOS is awesome, and I've even used it on a daily basis for quite some time, I think it is really hard to learn how to use it compared to mutable systems.

Anyway for now I think I'll stick to dual-booting Fedora Workstation and Silverblue, and I'll eventually purge one or the other, once I figure I don't miss one of them.

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