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Whatevery floats your boat. I use linux, docker and kubernetes all in the cloud. I'm getting more distant from underlying OS everyday. BSD is a fine operatin
by lasermike026 7y ago
Whatevery floats your boat. I use linux, docker and kubernetes all in the cloud. I'm getting more distant from underlying OS everyday.
BSD is a fine operating system. There is nothing wrong with it. Linux is a good operating system and gets the job done. Whatever works.
I think what is more concerning is that we really haven't had a big leap in hardware, OS, and system design for sometime. When are we going to have the guts to make the next step?
- kvz 7y agoI’d argue NixOS is a huge step that a lot of people still have to catch on to (to be fair: that includes more contributors to improve documentation and ergonomics, but it is already valuable and workable as it is)
- lasermike026 7y agoWhat can we do beyond posix?
- ghuntley 7y agoWorking on this! Check out the NixOS for existing sysadmins workshop over at https://github.com/ghuntley/workshops/tree/master/nixos-workshop https://github.com/ghuntley/workshops/tree/master/nixos-work... If you want a TL;DR overview of NixOS then start here https://github.com/ghuntley/workshops/tree/master/nixos-workshop/modules/01-introduction-to-nixos https://github.com/ghuntley/workshops/tree/master/nixos-work...
- GordonS 7y agoSomething I wonder about after reading your overview - software from outwith the package manager. It's quite often that the package manager in the Linux distro I'm using has an old version of Nginx, PHP, or whatever, and so I have to build my own, or at least use an alternative package source. How is this kind of thing handled with NixOS config? (if it is)
- ghuntley 7y agoPinning and override layers https://github.com/digital-asset/daml/blob/master/nix/nixpkgs.nix#L10 https://github.com/digital-asset/daml/blob/master/nix/nixpkg...