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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by zorked on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:40PM (#18364455)
As you can run Nix on top of any Linux system you can use it wherever you want it.

Some time ago I was having a dependency-hell problem with a C++ program that used particular library versions which were available in Fedora (dev machine) but not Ubuntu (target) - plus there were no static versions of the library to compile the program as a static binary.

So I used nix to build the package for me. It also did not have the right version of one library, but I was able to "fork" the library for my build alone in the same configuration file. Then I was able to nix-copy-closure my program to a remote host, and it copied all dependencies over (and nothing more) and I was able to run it under Ubuntu.

Nix is great. I think it is the more proper solution to the problem people have been trying to fix with Docker.

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by corysama on Friday November 02, 2018 @01:06PM (#18364734)
It also runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/64xyd7/nix_package_m...

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by ghuntley on Friday November 02, 2018 @05:00PM (#18366717)
NixOS is coming to WSL. Follow twitter.com/geoffreyhuntley for updates.
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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by y4mi on Friday November 02, 2018 @01:02PM (#18364696)
docker is great though.

it just fixes problems most people dont have.

same with kubernetes i guess. such a great experience if you don't have to host it yourself

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by tinco on Friday November 02, 2018 @01:38PM (#18365023)
I run Docker on my Nixos server. Nixos for easy reproducible operating system configuration, and Docker for application deployment so simple even application developers can do it ;)

I feel Docker is a better solution to application deployment than Nix is, but NixOS is the best OS configuration out there hands down.

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by ris on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:24PM (#18365929)
> I feel Docker is a better solution to application deployment than Nix is.

So use Nix to build your Docker images (or rather OCI images).

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by thallian on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:03PM (#18365232)
That's the same thing I do and it is great.

I don't need much on my host server side but having that stuff be easily configurable in one place and be mostly idempotent made my life easier.

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by svrtknst on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:24PM (#18366405)
> Nixos for easy reproducible operating system configuration

I'm somewhat out of my depth here, but isn't Vagrant suitable for this purpose?

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by tinco on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:51PM (#18366632)
You usually use Vagrant to provision a machine with a suitable image and then use some other tech to setup your environment on that image. Common choices are Chef, Puppet or Salt, last time I checked.

You can use NixOS to replace both the OS image and the configuration tech.

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by ghuntley on Friday November 02, 2018 @05:07PM (#18366764)
Watch https://youtu.be/tl9I-R83lKo for a quick overview. It me in the video btw.
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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by sdwisely on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:14AM (#18369847)
Great run-through, thank you!
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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by webster23 on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:58PM (#18366691)
You don't use Vagrant for your desktop, do you?
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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by zymhan on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:50PM (#18366624)
No no no. Vagrant is for spinning up dev environment VMs with a virtualization tool like VirtualBox.
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