[Nix-dev] Libre Software Meeting talk about NixOS

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Saturday 10 July 2010 00:35:59 Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The provocative title produced the desired effect.  ;-)  People seemed
> quite impressed by the features.  Some suggested they’d rather wait
> until these features would be merged in an “existing distro”. 

Yeah, as if any existing distro ever managed to introduce any significant 
changes. Intertia of the crowds, long term support promises and such make it 
much easier to start from scratch and let users migrate when their specific use 
case doesn't need the backwards compatibility...

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Evgeny