On 23 April 2015 at 10:34, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> 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/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
