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(2014)
by no_protocol 10y ago
(2014)
- LeoPanthera 10y agoThank you - I didn't realize this was so old. So knowing that - what happened to this idea? I've never heard of it, so I'm assuming it didn't catch on.
- wmf 10y agoI don't think much development was done on this specific plan but some of the same ideas (minus the btrfs dependency) can be found in OSTree and Flatpak.
- vomitcuddle 10y agoI feel that Nix solves a lot of the same problems in a better way. The ideas implemented in that project have a lot of potential and I wish that the community focused more on user experience for new users. Since I've started using Nix, I had so many cool ideas about what it could be used for. It's a shame that it has such a steep learning curve.
- johnny22 10y agoI'm interested in nix too, but lots of folks still wanna keep their .deb and ..rpm based systems just the way they are, but enhance them. Lots of folks are against a fundamental rethink. It'll have to be introduced a piece at a time (like with snaps and flatpak). Hopefully we'll end up with something like nix in the end.
- SFJulie 10y agoargumentatum ad antiquitatem. It is news in the light of the new events and the constant criticize that 1) systemd really is not living on the same planet anymore; 2) they really don't care about stability 3) they indeed have a secret agenda that is inherently based on both a misunderstanding and a destestation of the unix ways
- icebraining 10y agoWhat argument? It's a custom in HN to put the year in the title. It doesn't imply the article is no longer valid or useful.