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The dawo tag on WindowsForum.com follows the Dutch government's DAWO project, short for Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid, a public open-source effort to build a government desktop on NixOS Linux. Coverage notes that small, closed pilots are running at eight Dutch municipalities under the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, with no rollout deadline and a hoped-for 1.0 release around 2027. Rather than a simple Windows replacement, DAWO aims to rebuild the whole workplace stack, including operating system, office and collaboration software, cloud storage, and identity and fleet management, making it relevant to anyone tracking Windows alternatives in the public sector.
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    Dutch Government DAWO Pilots NixOS Desktop in Eight Municipalities

    The Netherlands' Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) is building a government desktop based on NixOS Linux. The project is called DAWO, short for Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid ("Digital Autonomous Government Work Environment"), and small, closed pilots are underway at...