A national, open-source operating system could help reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S. while improving security and saving a surprising amount of money.
Yes. I wasn’t trying to exclude any projects, but I wanted to point out that another nation-state is looking to do the same project and for the same reasons (Netherlands with NixOS), and that there’s already an even older project (OpenBSD) that already meets some of the same goals Canada would be trying to achieve.
It’s just that all of a sudden there are a lot of moving parts in this space and we could finally get the year of the Linux Desktop. I’d like to see BSD right there alongside it.
Wasn’t Arch made by a Canadian?
Yeah, Judd Vinet. He’s no longer involved with the project, though.
Yes. I wasn’t trying to exclude any projects, but I wanted to point out that another nation-state is looking to do the same project and for the same reasons (Netherlands with NixOS), and that there’s already an even older project (OpenBSD) that already meets some of the same goals Canada would be trying to achieve.
Whoops, sorry if I sounded accusatory. It was just a question because I wanted to make conversation about some old info I wasn’t so certain about.
I didn’t take it as accusatory. :-)
It’s just that all of a sudden there are a lot of moving parts in this space and we could finally get the year of the Linux Desktop. I’d like to see BSD right there alongside it.