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Lix - a new fork of Nix (lix.systems)

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https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112392108881500298

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This isn’t just a fork of Nix—this is the work of a team of 10+ people near-constantly since early February. (Technically, us too — but our task is really just enabling others.)

Some serious work has gone into ensuring it improves on upstream without having the regressions that have plagued them last three major versions!

And, since this will matter to some — it’s not a project of the NixOS foundation, but an independent organization that takes its responsibility to its community seriously.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Now that I think of it, a guix fork would be far more useful than a nix one. You could forgo some of the FOSS extremism, and allow your users to install it without an ethernet cable, and maybe even on the infidel Operating Systems (even though guix is in the official repo for Debian + wsl).

And I bet guile could really use the attention. AFAIK it's mainly developed by one dude, and he made some impressive improvements. Just check out the release speeches on youtube, massive jumps between versions.

Best of all, the GNU people could focus on building a better core, and choose to adopt only some changes, while preserving the purity of their system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I believe https://www.pantherx.org/ is both Guix based and, I think, more relaxed on the non-guix issue. Don't know much else tbh, but peeps interested can check it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I would be for that fork. I used Guix a long time ago and got really frustrated with non-free and binaries. Guix is really nice to use though and it’s fast.