Mayeu <m...@mayeu.me> writes: > I would love to see that in upstream, independence from systemd will open the > door to have some kind of NixBSD and other fun stuff like that. (No longer > than 3 days ago there was a discussion for GSOC to have a project to make > NixOS + freebsd).
Note that NixOS FreeBSD/NetBSD is just SLNOS with a different kernel, because we are gonna to be free from glibc and GNU tools. > And besides, since I am following NixOS I have always heard that one of the > long-term goal would be to abstract away from systemd. Apparently not. >> * Some of us want to drop GRUB in favor of running on top of minimal >> Xen payload on Coreboot firmware and isolate everything like in >> QubesOS, but we are not united on that point at this point. (Yes, we >> are aware of Heads:ROM, thank you, we are discussing all of this.) > > Again, there are regular discussions in multiple space to have some kind of > Qubes OS + Nix merge (or related) [1][2][3][4]. Note that Qubes uses > SaltStack [5] to have some kind of declarative VM management. Nix would be a > really nice improvement over that. > > [1] Qubes OS ML: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-devel/QDM2YNdWdXI > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-devel/QDM2YNdWdXI> > [2] Harden(ed) NixOS issue reference Qubes multiple time: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7220 > <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7220> > [3] Package MirageOS for NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23955 > <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23955> > [4] Trying to run NixOS in a Qubes VM: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/21402 > <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/21402> > [5] Qubes OS SaltSack doc: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/salt/ > <https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/salt/> > > All of that would be awesome for NixOS :) Yep, but someone needs to do all that work first :) Cheers, Jan _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
