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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by Europa_The_Last_Battle@programming.dev to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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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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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 48 points 3 months ago

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

Why lump them together?

[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 14 points 3 months ago

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

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Don’t forget us Bluefin/Aurora people either

[-] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

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

Isn't that literally how ostree works?

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

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

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