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I hope it isn’t just a re-invention of NixOS (or worse).
by meatjuice 3y ago
I hope it isn’t just a re-invention of NixOS (or worse).
- ufo 3y agoActually predates NixOS, by a couple of months.
- transfire 3y agoI don’t think NixOS was actually usable back then either. It was still more an idea and few people had heard of it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoNeither is a re-invention of the other; they happen to do things that are partially similar, but also totally different. NixOS uses the /nix/store structure to allow it to pin everything to everything in service of its goal of absolute reproducibility/determinism. GoboLinux restructured the filesystem in order to be "nicer" (very loosely speaking). The result is that (IMO) nix is more technically elegant, and Gobo is a lot friendlier to work with. (I type this from a NixOS machine and with love in my heart for both)
- Qwertious 3y agoNixOS and GoboLinux were both started in 2003; if they haven't compared notes by now then they never will.
- lproven 3y agoLinux is what made Unix into a mainstream consumer OS. It came along 22 years after Unix itself. It's never too late. Remember that Windows itself was a flop until version 3, and that -- Windows 3.0, in 1990 -- was the little snowball rolling down a mountain that brought multitasking multimedia networked GUI computers to the mainstream. And thereby created the mainstream marketplace of x86-32 computers: the substrate that allowed Linux to grow. (DOS made so little use of the 80386 that an 80286 PC was adequate, and after 5 years the 386 made little inroads into the mass market -- they were too expensive, even after the 1989 budget-model 80386, the 386SX. But Windows 3 ran much better on a 386 than a 286, and soon after Windows came along, the 286 was dead.)