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A Dutch government initiative is reportedly building an alternative to Microsoft's software stack using NixOS, an open-source Linux distribution known for its reproducible system configuration. Details of the project's scope, timeline and funding were not specified in available materials.
A blog post walks through configuring swap on NixOS for desktops and laptops that use suspend-then-hibernate, contrasting swap partitions with swap files. It notes that swap files complicate hibernation because initramfs must locate the swap space before file systems mount, requiring an EFI variable to record the location at hibernation time. The author shares working configurations: a simple swap partition on a desktop, and a LUKS-encrypted btrfs swap file on a laptop using the disko luks-btrfs-subvolumes template.