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How fast is nix on delivering security patches? I am looking for arguments to use it in an enterprise setting given the declarative nature but unless there is s
by weitzj 4y ago
How fast is nix on delivering security patches? I am looking for arguments to use it in an enterprise setting given the declarative nature but unless there is somebody who will sell you a support contract and Guarantee security updates it seems like a hard sell
- SuperSandro2000 4y agoIt is actually slower than Ubuntu which can be see with the recent git update BUT if you know you need this patch or update it enables you to achieve that with overlays pretty easy and fast and if you know what you are doing you can reduce the rebuild amounts to near zero. You also need to remember that behind NixOS there is not a big corp like canonical but mostly a community with way to much time. If you ever tried to build an Ubuntu package with a custom patch you will know how painful it is and unmaintainable. Not with nix. Easy maintenance included with automatic, atomic rebuilds and applying the patch to the next software version if the source code didn't change.