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by anglesideangle 18d ago
WSL2 is also a VM. docker relies on the linux kernel apis, so it must be ran inside a linux VM on macos or windows
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by anglesideangle 1mo ago
Here's the team's description https://nixos.org/community/teams/nixpkgs-core/ . They were able to accomplish quite a lot of useful work. The steering committee is a separate organization ( https:&#x2
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by anglesideangle 1mo ago
The post has nothing to do with the election drama you cite: > These issues have persisted despite our repeated attempts to discuss them. This is, of course, a systemic problem rather than one any single SC member could solve; we don’t e
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by anglesideangle 1mo ago
Maintenance and updates will continue as usual. The maintainers formerly on the nixpkgs core team aren't even stopping their individual contributions.
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by anglesideangle 2mo ago
silverblue doesn't accomplish goal 3 either... if you need conflicting dependencies to interact in the same environment (i.e. outside a container)
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Mini Shai-Hulud has crossed from NPM into PyPI(bsky.app)
2 points by anglesideangle 4mo ago|0 comments
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by anglesideangle 7mo ago
> nix and nixos has a lot to learn from bootc nix is a build system, and has nothing to learn from bootc. However, I agree that nixos could adopt some of the developments around bootc, like composefs for verified boot. > usage of stan
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by anglesideangle 7mo ago
I often see bootc and/or buildstream uncritically presented as the future of the linux desktop, and find it somewhat surprising because, in my experience, they are both more complex _and_ less capable than nixos. To elaborate, I will s
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by anglesideangle 1y ago
> I’m increasingly convinced that the mere existence of a package manager (for programs, not source code) is a sign of a failed platform design. Nix is a build system for source code, similar to make. It is such a robust build system tha
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by anglesideangle 1y ago
The problem with a federation system like mastodon/activitypub is that relying on propagation hurts usability and discoverability. [tangled.sh]( https://tangled.sh/ ) is to federated forgejo what bluesky is to mastodon,
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Mac.bash: the joys of the Mac ecosystem from within your Linux shell(github.com)
2 points by anglesideangle 1y ago|1 comments
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by anglesideangle 1y ago
As someone who actively uses a wayland compositor and has done so since switching to linux ~4 years ago, I often feel like I live in a different world from the authors of articles discussing its usability. Just to discuss a few points made
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Cracks in Containerized Development(anglesideangle.dev)
2 points by anglesideangle 1y ago|0 comments