John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
What a great meeting last week! A big shout out to Xavier for doing his presentation on NixOS! Hopefully Tim will be able to share the links to the slides and other info.
Yes, thank you. I would like to review the slides.
We talked about:
NixOS
- A tool and environment for building systems in a deterministic manner. Sorta like Ansible, or Puppet, or Chef, or Salt or cfengine (old school!) or Terraform.
I don't know what any of those are. I was comparing it to apt-get, rpm, yumm and, of course guix. I think I heard Xavier say something about teamwork between Nix and guix, which would be good because I don't think we need $2^n$ incompatible package managers. I looked up NixOS, expecting to see a lot of cartoons. Where did those cartoons come from and are they "official"?
And what are the feelings of those who are remote?
I feel lumpy; like a cucumber.
Were you able to follow along and enjoy the talk?
The first half-hour or so was near intolerable, but then the noise stopped and the camera stopped bouncing and all was good. -- Keith