The Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop on NixOS
The Dutch government is building its own open source workplace for civil servants, with a desktop operating system built on the Linux distribution NixOS. Eight municipalities are now testing the project, called DAWO, Dutch tech site Tweakers reported last week.
DAWO stands for Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid, or Digital Autonomous Government Work Environment. Its blueprint covers an operating system, an office suite, collaboration apps, cloud services and management tools. The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations develops it, according to the project’s website. The code for the NixOS client sits in a public government repository.
“The Dutch government is so dependent on non-European technologies that it is vulnerable to, among other things, disruption of critical systems from outside, loss of control over government data, loss of the knowledge to manage systems itself, espionage, and loss of strategic autonomy in IT,” the DAWO website says (translated by TNW).
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