Oops, this should go to the list.  Some day I'll learn to press C-R
instead of C-r. =)


Thor Arne Hopland <[email protected]> wrote:

> I made this post on the LAS Reddit page because I thought they needed
> a better introduction.
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/27xoqd/nixos_a_challanger_appears/
>
> I hope I represented NixOS correctly :/

I could nitpick (some details are wrong), but your presentation is fair.
In particular I liked the way you presented the Nix suite as a fully
fledged (continuous) deployment solution rather than a mere package
manager.  I don't want Nix to stand alongside apt, pacman and
Portage. =)


> But anwyays, they've said they've tried to contact you many
> times. They want one of the NixOS developers to come on the show and
> talk about NixOS! This is a great marketing oppertunity, you
> guys. Tons of people watch Linux Action Show and it might lead to us
> getting more pullers, committers and packagers (we need moar).

Well, this is controversial.  Of course I want NixOS to gain popularity,
because that would get us at least new Nixpkgs developers.  On the other
hand the lack of large-scale success has helped us preserve and maintain
the soundness of the system.  As SPJ once said (about Haskell): "Avoid
success at all costs!".

Yet I can't deny that I would like to see an LAS episode featuring
NixOS.  I'm not a core developer, but I contribute stuff from time to
time (patches, snippets and support on Freenode), and I use both NixOS
and the Nix suite to most of their potential.  I can both praise and
complain about them a lot. =)

I'll offer my soul, if nobody else has time, on the following
conditions:

  * +1 from Eelco,

  * more +1s than -1s from the Nixpkgs committers (note: 0 ≯ 0).

Whoami: I'm ertes on Github and mm_freak on Freenode.  Some of you may
know me as @ertesx, too.


Greets,
Ertugrul

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