On 23 April 2015 at 10:34, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 05:43:27PM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
I am thinking of moving off Debian/Mint-DE, to Nixos linux for this type of flexibility.
Of course you trade it for the annoyance of being not compatible with any standard linux binary. Everything ahs to be wrapped in environment settings to find the ld-linux.so and otehr things, because NOTHING is in the places that they are supposed to be.
So interesting design, but it comes at the expense of total incompatibility with everything that already exists. It can be worked around though.
It seems a little late to retitle this as being about NixOS, although I'm going to address that. But since I'm not retitling, first off: thanks everyone who replied about virtualization, this has been educational. As for NixOS - after Jamon's mention of it a couple months ago, I played with it for a bit and wrote up a rough review at http://www.gilesorr.com/blog/nixos-review.html Some points for those who don't bother to follow the link: - /bin/rm doesn't exist. "rm" does, and it's on the PATH, but imagine how many scripts that breaks. - vi isn't installed by default. this is a 838MB compressed image they provided, and they didn't include the POSIX standard browser? It's available as a package though. - if a package is installed at the system level, the package manager will still happily install the same package for an individual user. Think about this last point: the user will now be using their own version of the package. System-wide security updates are totally out the window. I see the flexibility NixOS offers, but I think the price is too high. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com