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Re:Consfigurator 1.0: Common Lisp based declarative configur... by mtreis86 on Monday May 02, 2022 @08:25PM (#31242837)
I'd like to see a system like Qubes but defined declaratively rather than in a GUI. The Qubes templates are sorta declarative through a system called Salt but the OS as a whole (as far as I can tell) is not. I tried getting a NixOS VM running in a NixOS host, all declaratively described and pushed to a machine, but I never could get it working with that extra layer. I'll have to try it with Consfigurator.
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Re:Consfigurator 1.0: Common Lisp based declarative configur... by mananaysiempre on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:00PM (#31250634)
“Qubes-like VM-based isolation with declarative configuration” is what Spectrum[1,2] tries to build on top of Nix. It’s in active development, but doesn’t seem to be particularly usable yet.

[1] https://spectrum-os.org/design.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28530861

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Re:Consfigurator 1.0: Common Lisp based declarative configur... by spwhitton on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:44PM (#31251187)
Should be possible to use Consfigurator for that, indeed.
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