[Nix-dev] The Church of Suckless NixOS is looking for followers

[Danylo Hlynskyi]

I'm interested for this project to succeed, in case it will be NixOS
extension like nixsap[1], and not a fork like triton[2] or microgram[3].
Currently NixOS is very customizable:

- module system
- disabling modules [4]
- nixpkgs overlays

Because of these ways, it is possible to belong to The Church more
granularly (for example, use it's overlay, but not drop systemd) and
leverage NixOS as OS builder library

[1] https://github.com/zalora/nixsap
[2] https://github.com/triton/triton
[3] https://github.com/zalora/microgram
[4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/22764


2017-03-23 14:05 GMT+02:00 Jan Malakhovski <oxij at oxij.org>:

> > However, all major Linux distributions without exceptions enable
> > "moderate" hardening by default for very good reasons, and all of them
> > can run on eeePC without issues.
> >
> > If your aim is not to run NixOS on arduino, or little embedded MIPS or
> > RISC-V machines, it does not matter at all. If you want to run on this
> ... or Intel Atom ...
> > can of machine, you know what you are doing and you know how to tune
> > your code anyway.
>
> At least for Atoms hardening does produce a qualitative difference. I'm
> not sure why. I assume that things that fit into cache without hardening
> stop fitting into it with hardening.
>
> Cheers,
>   Jan
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