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Nix and NixOS Rock! #4290

Closed rushmorem closed 10 years ago

rushmorem commented 10 years ago

Hi guys,

I've just switched from ArchLinux to NixOS on my laptop and am really impressed. It's by far the best Linux distro, I have run so far! You guys are doing awesome stuff! I've been running ArchLinux both as my desktop and server distro for a long time now. I have no complaints and I really loved it but I think NixOS, thanks to the Nix Package Manager, is a cut above the rest. I fell in love with NixOS before I even ran nixos-install.

For my server distro, I have recently been testing CoreOS and really liked it until I discovered NixOS. I think I will be switching all my server nodes from ArchLinux to NixOS very soon as well. I think NixOS can give me a JEOS with rollback support without sacrificing my freedom and flexibility.

I just wanted to take this moment to show my appreciation for the awesome work you are doing...

vcunat commented 10 years ago

wontfix this issue :-D

rushmorem commented 10 years ago

@vcunat no problem. That's cool with me :-D

wmertens commented 10 years ago

My feelings exactly :-)

Also take a look at nixops. It will allow you to manage your servers from your workstation.

You just put the configuration you would have on the server into nixops and tell it where to log in. Then you nixops deploy and nixops builds everything (optionally on the server) and when it succeeded pushes the result and switches.

If your server dies, you simply deploy again on a new one (and restore your data from backup).

Wout. On Sep 27, 2014 11:16 AM, "Rushmore Mushambi" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi guys,

I've just switched from ArchLinux to NixOS on my laptop and am really impressed. It's by far the best Linux distro, I have run so far! You guys are doing awesome stuff! I've been running ArchLinux both as my desktop and server distro for a long time now. I have no complaints and I really loved it but I think NixOS, thanks to the Nix Package Manager, is a cut above the rest. I fell in love with NixOS before I even ran nixos-install.

For my server distro, I have recently been testing CoreOS https://coreos.com/ and really liked it until I discovered NixOS. I think I will be switching all my server nodes from ArchLinux to NixOS very soon as well. I think NixOS can give me a JEOS with rollback support without sacrificing my freedom and flexibility.

I just wanted to take this moment to show my appreciation for the awesome work you are doing...

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4290.

rushmorem commented 10 years ago

@wmertens I didn't know about nixops, thanks! I will check it out. I was thinking ansible would be a perfect match for NixOS.

domenkozar commented 10 years ago

Glad to have you on board!

rushmorem commented 10 years ago

@iElectric thanks a lot.