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Also don't forget about Guix ;) https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
by phant0mas 8y ago
Also don't forget about Guix ;) https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
- _verandaguy 8y agoIs Guix related beyond also being an OS?
- bjoli 8y agoWell, it shares the same concepts, although instead of nix it uses guix which many of us like better than nix.
- gmfawcett 8y agoOne caution though -- being a GNU project, Guix takes a much stronger stance on non-free software than Nix does. In Nix, there's a flag you can enable that will let you build non-free software in the Nixpkgs repository. I don't believe the same flag exists in Guix. Note that either system could be used to build your own non-free software, this is more a question of what is available in the shared repositories.
- red-tea 8y agoThere's no such thing as "your own nonfree software". If you wrote it then to you it's always free.
- dtzWill 8y agoAnd in particular guix uses nix internally-- but (AFAIK) at an API level and very little of the nix language. So it's rather related for that reason :).
- davexunit 8y agoGuix uses a fork of the nix-daemon (for now), but otherwise uses nothing from the Nix project.
- gmfawcett 8y agoNote that Guix is to Nix as GuixSD is to NixOS. Guix and Nix are package/configuration managers; GuixSD and NixOS are operating systems based on those package managers.
- kragen 8y agoGuix isn't an OS (and neither is Nix); Guix is just Nix with the Nix language replaced with Scheme.
- jjgomo33 8y agoSad that in that front page, there is no one reference to Nix. They should at least give credit.
- davexunit 8y agoThere used to be something on the front page, but the result was that too many people thought it was just a nix language replacement when it really was its own implementation of the packaging model that nix pioneered. The Guix documentation gives full credit to nix where it is due. The founder of the project spent years contributing to nix.