Rant about French government

i forget the name, a big us military copany usess nixos, they make drones , and submarines and wathetver.
At same time distrowatch has 100s os distros. So question which are the good ones ...
 
Crivens said:
They did, I belive. Especially the cloud act is a huge c.f. waiting to happen. Looking at the treatment of judges and prosecutors at the ICC, you simply can not tolerate having mission critical things relying on anything that can be tampered with from the outside. Nein, No, Nyet, Nada.
Age verification has nothing to do with that, it is simply a cherry on top of that.
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The core problem of age verification is that it requires a kind of authority above the operator of a system. It's basically hijacking the permission system like what's done to all smartphones. OS-provider is root, the owner of the hardware is common user.
 
It is probably something mudnane like previous experience with NixOS.
Nix as a package manager is very usable for correctness and reproducible environments.
The level of expertise for Linux against BSD in Europe is huge. Germans deal with Linux far more than they do FreeBSD, I guess it is the same thing in France.

I have already wrote this once but I've been shunned by somebody who I believe had a zero angle view on things - I cannot force FreeBSD in my org who deals with big European government projects, where Linux is used, where Kubernetes is used, where Docker is used and where Nix is used, because, technically, theoretically, FreeBSD is able to do it all, but who's gonna support that? Me? Hell no.

Go to any job site and see how many devops jobs are for Linux/Kubernetes and how many there are for custom clusters using FreeBSD tech. For the latter 99% sure you won't find any at the given time.

Basically the notion that big org made error in picking Linux over BSD is flawed from the get go, as 'outsider' cannot include even 1% of the requirements at hand to form the opinion; somebody takes his own view/bias and applies it to a place where it isn't relevant at all. You can't possibly know what factors France had to take into account.
 
Alain De Vos said:
i forget the name, a big us military copany usess nixos, they make drones , and submarines and wathetver.
At same time distrowatch has 100s os distros. So question which are the good ones ...
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Anduril, probably. They are the innovators in MilTech right now. The goatie guy who invented Oculus is there too.

DistroWatch ranking is solely about website, maybe repo hits i.e. popularity.
NixOS seems to be very trendy among sysadmins. Concept is good. Never tried it. I do not wish to screw around with yaml.
 
Espionage724 said:
openSUSE Tumbleweed :cool: (enterprise rolling-release)
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OpenSUSE burned me several times. Or rather Novell and some other acquisitions.
It had one major advantage - YAST - GUI config everything utility, which is phased out nowadays, so meh.
Apparently they are big now with their microOS for kubernetes. But what I heard (aint much), Enterprise support is pretty expensive, on par with Broadcom vmware price spike.
 
Zare said:
It is probably something mudnane like previous experience with NixOS.
Nix as a package manager is very usable for correctness and reproducible environments.
The level of expertise for Linux against BSD in Europe is huge. Germans deal with Linux far more than they do FreeBSD, I guess it is the same thing in France.

I have already wrote this once but I've been shunned by somebody who I believe had a zero angle view on things - I cannot force FreeBSD in my org who deals with big European government projects, where Linux is used, where Kubernetes is used, where Docker is used and where Nix is used, because, technically, theoretically, FreeBSD is able to do it all, but who's gonna support that? Me? Hell no.

Go to any job site and see how many devops jobs are for Linux/Kubernetes and how many there are for custom clusters using FreeBSD tech. For the latter 99% sure you won't find any at the given time.

Basically the notion that big org made error in picking Linux over BSD is flawed from the get go, as 'outsider' cannot include even 1% of the requirements at hand to form the opinion; somebody takes his own view/bias and applies it to a place where it isn't relevant at all. You can't possibly know what factors France had to take into account.
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Spot on.
I know a few Solaris admins by mere chance but they are phasing it out anyway. One AIX and zero FreeBSD, not counting PFSense and Playstations, lol.

Linux admin is very broad term. Distros can be pretty different with their special quirks, tho.

I do not know how US centrist is FreeBSD. I don't even know if there are repos in Europe [EDIT> apparently pkg.eu.FreeBSD.org and many other mirrors]
Linux is better in that regard. SUSE used to be German. Mandrake/Mandriva French. And Ubuntu from UK. It is all international now i.e. BlackRock.
 
For reference, this project is publicly available on GitHub. The base version is called "Sécurix" (for secure workstation) while the other variant is called "Bureautix". The latter includes email and word processing software (Libre Office). These names, I guess, are nods to the *Astérix et Obélix* comic book series.
 
Now excuse me "truth police"...

Your statement is tantamount to yelling "liar!" in the course of polite conversation. Is that how you conduct yourself?

Don't accuse people of lying unless you're willing to back it up. Your word isn't final and your opinions no more valid than any other.
 
blackhole said:
NixOS is backed by controversial US based military tech company Anduril. That may or may not have anything to do with it...
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Or said in a less "controversial" way: NixOS supports directly DevOps and reproducible builds; for these reasons, it is used by Anduril, that is a US based military tech company; NixOS was selected by French Government probably for the same reasons; Anduril funds and directly supports some development on NixOS, because they are using it in production; if a company like Anduril already uses NixOS in a context where security/safety is important, then this increase the trust in the project, when the French Government had to choose one, so maybe Anduril's adoption can have something to do with this choice.

It is more or less what you said, but without leaving space to eventual conspiracy theories.

EDIT: by the way, vanilla NixOS is not particularly safe. SELinux and AppArmour are activable, but there are no complete set of rules, maintained from the core group. I don't know if Anduril or the French Government project will add security settings to it.
 
And one of the citations from your linked wikipedia article:

NixOS Governance Crisis: Undisclosed Anduril Employment Exposes Open Source Transparency Gaps

The NixOS community faces a governance crisis after discovering a Steering Committee member joined defense contractor Anduril without disclosure, triggering debates about conflict-of-interest policies and ethical boundaries in open-source foundations. This incident reveals systemic flaws in how...
news.lavx.hu news.lavx.hu

I would say that it's you who need to check your facts.
 
blackhole said:
And one of the citations from your linked wikipedia article:

NixOS Governance Crisis: Undisclosed Anduril Employment Exposes Open Source Transparency Gaps

The NixOS community faces a governance crisis after discovering a Steering Committee member joined defense contractor Anduril without disclosure, triggering debates about conflict-of-interest policies and ethical boundaries in open-source foundations. This incident reveals systemic flaws in how...
news.lavx.hu news.lavx.hu

I would say that it's you who need to check your facts.
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I was aware of the whole drama when it happened. Anduril employs one developer and contributes money. So what?

I have nothing against Anduril just because they make some weapons... Si vis pacem, para bellum. I dislike the anti-Chinese stance by its CEO to secure government contracts, though.
 
You've quickly moved from my post being a lie, to: "Anduril employs one developer and contributes money".

So in reality my initial statement stands. NixOS is backed by Anduril.
 
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