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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros(infosec.pub)

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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
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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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F04118F@feddit.nl
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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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4am@lemm.ee
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Don’t forget us Bluefin/Aurora people either

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orrk@lemmy.world
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all 12 of us, THERE IS A DOZEN OF US! A DOZEN!

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marcos@lemmy.world
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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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tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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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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areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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NixOS isn’t immutable though. It runs on normal writable ext4 by default.

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