this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2024
57 points (90.1% liked)

Nix / NixOS

1789 readers
3 users here now

Main links

Videos

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
erlingur
ballmerpeaking
WhiteBlackGoose
57
NixOS Fork Announced by Jake Hamilton (bytes.programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by recursive_recursion to c/nix
33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here

Background Context for Anyone Out of the Loop

(newest to oldest news - top to bottom):

As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] onlinepersona 3 points 7 months ago (7 children)

@[email protected] why "aux"? Will that name be put up to a vote?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (6 children)

@onlinepersona @recursive_recursion I don't think we need to spend time bikeshedding the name. As for the reasons I chose it:

- it is short
- similar to nix
- is short for "auxiliary" which can be used to mean "another", "additional", "secondary", "separate"; so it being a separate nix ecosystem lines up

[–] natecox 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The SEO on this name is going to be a major irritation for adoption.

But that aside, doesn’t it strike you as a concerning that this project is born at least in part from the complaints about a “benevolent dictator”, and the very first time—at least that I’ve seen—someone asks you to put something up for community consensus you say no?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

@natecox @jakehamilton *sealion noises*

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)