Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros
Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros
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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But an immutable distro is not necessarily declarative, and the other way around.
Why lump them together?
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I'm guessing this refers to the not entirely separate groups of Nix(OS), Haskell, XMonad fans
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Donโt forget us Bluefin/Aurora people either
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all 12 of us, THERE IS A DOZEN OF US! A DOZEN!
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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.
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You can't configure an immutable distro by a sequence of mutations.
Isn't that literally how ostree works?
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NixOS isn't immutable though. It runs on normal writable ext4 by default.
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