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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by 0x1ceb00da on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @03:13AM (#41718014)
Doesn't it use nixos underneath?
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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by danlitt on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @03:22AM (#41718065)
guix does not use nixos underneath, it's a completely independent implementation (of the same underlying concepts)
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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by tkz1312 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:29AM (#41718417)
guix is built on top of the nix daemon
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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by tmtvl on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @05:39AM (#41718780)
It does have the nix daemon in-tree: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/nix
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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by poincaredisk on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @06:32AM (#41719080)
Not anymore, I think.
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Re:NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't by tkz1312 on Friday October 04, 2024 @05:26PM (#41745739)
It’s a forked and tweaked version of the nix daemon. There have been some efforts to build a pure guile replacement, but afaik it’s not yet the default.
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