# Digital sovereignty: the french government accelerates the reduction of its extra-European dependencies (#GAFAMdetox)
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071
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**Created:** [April 16, 2026, 5:58am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071 "2026-04-16T05:58:28Z")
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### Author:  [@drupol](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/drupol)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 5:58am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071/1 "2026-04-16T05:58:28Z")
- [numerique.gouv.fr](https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/)
- [Adieu Windows : Sécurix et Bureautix, le Linux de l'État aux noms d'irréductibles Gaulois — Frandroid](https://www.frandroid.com/os/gnu-linux/3062047_adieu-windows-securix-et-bureautix-le-linux-de-letat-aux-noms-dirreductibles-gaulois)
- [France plans to replace Windows with a hardened configuration built on NixOS. : NixOS](https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1sifbju/france_plans_to_replace_windows_with_a_hardened/)
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### Author:  [@vcunat](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/vcunat)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071/2 "2026-04-16T09:57:34Z")
> [@drupol](#):
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> Another notable point is that the project reportedly uses [Lix](https://lix.systems/), a community-driven fork of the Nix package manager, [by default](https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix/blob/506f60d574554e2339639dc1368fe55e494a1516/modules/package-manager.nix#L18).
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> Congratulations to the Lix team for helping spread the Nix project in this way.
The first line in that file reads
> SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Ryan Lahfa [ryan.lahfa.ext@numerique.gouv.fr](mailto:ryan.lahfa.ext@numerique.gouv.fr)
which matches the name of a prominent Lix contributor. EDIT: actually the top contributor in the securix repo: [Contributors to cloud-gouv/securix · GitHub](https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix/graphs/contributors)
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### Author:  [@RaitoBezarius](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/RaitoBezarius)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 10:37am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071/3 "2026-04-16T10:37:45Z")
Hi there, yes, I’m one of the original authors of these software stacks.
I have to say: it seems strange to post an announcement of something that you are not really involved in, it should probably have been posted in Links section referring directly to a source rather than copy-pasting things esp. without proper understanding. This can be misleading.
Also, I’m really sad because the body seems some slop AI and while it’s very much enthusiast and I appreciate that, I think this is not helping anyone to understand navigating this news.
If you are curious about things we do, I recommend you can contact me directly or the project leads at DINUM.
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### Author:  [@drupol](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/drupol)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071/4 "2026-04-16T12:45:12Z")
> [@RaitoBezarius](#):
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> I have to say: it seems strange to post an announcement of something that you are not really involved in
Not really involved ? I would say that in open source we are all involved, at least a little, and that is part of what makes it beautiful. Look, I am not from France, and I am quite happy about this move !
And actually, I had been expecting someone to post about it, but since no one did, I went ahead and did it myself. I will happily admit that I was genuinely enthusiastic about the news.
> [@RaitoBezarius](#):
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> copy-pasting things esp. without proper understanding.
That said, the point about being careful when summarising a topic one is not directly involved in is fair. The summary was based on the links referenced under the post, not on random copy-pasting, or anything else. Still, I am happy to correct or improve the post if something is inaccurate or misleading.
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### Author:  [@piegames](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/piegames)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071/5 "2026-04-16T13:13:42Z")
I moved this to links, because I agree it is wrong to put it in the announcements section. The links section says “only links and comments”, so I’d recommend removing the summary
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### Author:  [@ksvivek](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ksvivek)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071/6 "2026-04-17T03:14:49Z")
I have been seeing online about France choosing GendBuntu as the OS.
Got confused as in which OS is actually being used, GendBuntu or Securix or Beauratix?🤔🤔
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### Author:  [@hansemschnokeloch](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/hansemschnokeloch)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071/7 "2026-04-17T06:49:10Z")
> [@ksvivek](#):
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> France choosing GendBuntu as the OS
**Gend** Buntu is the OS used by the National **Gend** armerie.