NixOS mipsel port (was: Re: [Nix-dev] Stuck on "Install NixOS on Linode" - bootstrap archives download)

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 03:17:25PM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote:
> 2010/7/1 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viriketo at gmail.com>:
> I think the use case would be roughly the same; the mipsel box has
> twice the RAM and internal 2.5" hard drive, and also video, and is a
> little bit bigger ( about the size of a CD drive -
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/Fulong-MiniPC.jpg/250px-Fulong-MiniPC.jpg
> )
It looks very good! twice the RAM + HD looks great.
> 
> It needs stuff to be compiled with a specific set of gcc flags to make
> full use of its instruction set (I can provide these). So far only
> Gentoo has this support; I'd much rather run NixOS than Gentoo, so if
> you did use it I could guarantee at least 2 users and 8 machines
> running it :)
>
> Also usually when a developer accepts a free machine the time frame to
> do something useful with it before we bug them is more in the order of
> months.

This looks very good then! I accept to do that work in the order of few months
for sure. It looks fun enough, and if I can do some users happy (2 users means a
high percent in nixos terms!), even better.

Tell me what I should do then.

Regards,
Lluís.