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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by Europa_The_Last_Battle to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15781466

Am I out of touch?

No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But an immutable distro is not necessarily declarative, and the other way around.

Why lump them together?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing this refers to the not entirely separate groups of Nix(OS), Haskell, XMonad fans

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don’t forget us Bluefin/Aurora people either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

all 12 of us, THERE IS A DOZEN OF US! A DOZEN!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

an immutable distro is not necessarily declarative

It is necessarily so. You can't configure an immutable distro by a sequence of mutations.

But yes, the other way around is quite possible.

[–] tatterdemalion 6 points 3 months ago

You can't configure an immutable distro by a sequence of mutations.

Isn't that literally how ostree works?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

NixOS isn't immutable though. It runs on normal writable ext4 by default.