Technology

But I am le tired

Mandrake reborn? :-D

I haven't found any confirmation anywhere, but I know some of the people at DINUM are active NixOS maintainers, and I've seen some NixOS-based development in that space:

• https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix/
• https://github.com/cloud-gouv/bureautix-example

Reminds me of the old "Genesis does what Nintendon't" ads

Windidn't

Super! (j'utilise Arch, au fait)

You guys literally wrote the book on Orwellian governments.

Eh, Germany is currently doing the same, so we're both losing

Afaik France still has contracts with Palantir

Like Tux but with cool sunglasses and cigarettes.

Le Nux

Hopefully the time for negotiations is past

Glad I found this comment. It was my first thought when seeing the headline: haven't they already been doing that for decades?

Okay... Fire ze missiles!

Probably more likely to go for SUSE, since it's European but still Enterprisey.

With the resources they have -- and the goal of having security and control over their digital supply lines -- I don't see why they wouldn't roll their own distro. Maybe heavily based on an existing distro (looking at you, Debian) but something that's completely under their control, so they can choose for themselves exactly what packages are included, what security settings are used as defaults, when and if to update things, etc.

Edit: after (gasp) actually reading the article, it seems that each department within the French government will be responsible for their own implementation, which means they might all end up using different distros in different departments.

Coming soon: Arch de triomphe.

Le Arch