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They previously used openSUSE and then Fedora. But both have companies behind them, where-as NixOS does not. And with NixOS they are more sovereign.

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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.

Perhaps why they're forking it?

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.

> They previously used openSUSE and then Fedora.

Why did those not work out? Why do they think things will be different with NixOS?

Because it was suse and fedora

Fedora is connected to Red Hat which is a US company, which is exactly the dependence that is undesired

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