NixOS on Prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix

Re:NixOS on Prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix by agumonkey on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:59PM (#17538018)

author got a bit backward, nix came first, I wonder if he would still have desire to try guixsd ..

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Re:NixOS on Prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix by Harkins on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:17PM (#17538312)

(author here)

I knew Nix came before NixOS but was interested in both for the possibility of managing servers. I'd have made significantly less progress starting from Nix.

I can see how Guile would be an improvement over the Nix language, but have tapped out my patience on related topics for a while.

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Re:NixOS on Prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix by agumonkey on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:21AM (#17540101)

Hi,

I hope you took no offense by my comment. I tried nixos and failed to get what I want from it then went back to archlinux. But I understand how it's full of ambiguity (that's why I got back into familiar territory)

Maybe I'll make an article about guixsd and you'll read:p

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Re:NixOS on Prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix by nerdponx on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:58PM (#17538455)

Surprisingly, the included 1.25 GB of RAM was not enough to run some nix commands.

Does Guix run in a "low memory" (scare/sarcasm quotes because 1.25 GB is still a non-trivial amount of memory) environment like this?

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Re:NixOS on Prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix by agumonkey on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:22AM (#17540103)

I'm not sure but I think. Usually vbox vms are 1G by default and I remember trying guixsd without memory errors but I didn't go far.

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