NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution

Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by bjoli on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:50AM (#18363902)

Well, it shares the same concepts, although instead of nix it uses guix which many of us like better than nix.

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by gmfawcett on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:52AM (#18363934)

One 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.

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by dtzWill on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:10PM (#18364126)

And 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 :).

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by davexunit on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:00PM (#18365731)

Guix uses a fork of the nix-daemon (for now), but otherwise uses nothing from the Nix project.

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