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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by pxc on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @02:02AM (#41717625)
> I was trying to bring NixOS to a bare minimum, which is an exercise similar to building containers with the bare minimum required for the software in the container to run. I think this is a worthy endeavour. I think we have all the tools in regular non-docker, non-kubernetes linux to get to a similar outcome, except we won’t need docker or kubernetes or whatever in this new land, thus removing quite a bunch of complexity from the systems we build.

> But doing it on top of NixOS currently feels like a bad path to take.

The author of this blog post might be interested in playing with not-os, another, much smaller OS built with Nix: https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os

Could be a decent source of inspiration!

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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by niz4ts on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @02:29AM (#41717762)
(I'm the post author)

Thanks! I have to admit that I've had the itch to build my own NixOS-inspired system more than once, and I haven't done that because I just don't have time to dedicate to this among all the other projects I'm working on. I wasn't aware of not-os before, but I'll definitely dig into the code!

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