On: US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

[orbital-decay]

NixOS (or rather nixpkgs) in its current state heavily depends on GitHub/Microsoft at the very least, and switching to anything else is non-trivial.

[whazor → orbital-decay]

Nixpkgs is quite explicit about how to produce the distribution. You can rebuild the entire distro from source and backup the source code for every package.

As a normal NixOS user, I know how to do this. It would be quite some effort, but not especially difficult. Additionally, for a government they have the servers to set up a build farm.

[whizzter → orbital-decay]

Perhaps why they're forking it?