[Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

[Philip Carlsen]

Hi there.

I can attest that both google chrome (or chromium at least) and the Haskell
toolchain is working fine for me, though handling my haskell development
and dependencies through nix takes a bit getting used to, though I found it
really worthwhile given all the problems with dependencies and versioning
that it solves.

I can also attest that ffmpeg works (at least i've used it for resampling
and interfacing with libvorbis)

I don't know much about running nixos on macs or what many of your other
programs really are though. But if you have a developer background and are
willing to dedicate a week of learning and working and can maybe accept a
few compromises I think you make a decent progress with your list.

What I'm most worried about though is citrix and its critical priority to
you. But that's mostly based on my previous experiences with the linux
citrix client's hideous quality. I had a great deal of trouble just with
Arch linux the last time I used it.

But good luck even so :-) My experience with the nixos community is that
it's helpful and growing steadily.
Den 18/01/2014 10.33 skrev "Colin Adams" <colinpauladams at gmail.com>:

> NixOS attracts me, but I wonder how much work I would have to do to get
> the software installed that I normally use. I am a developer, and I'm
> prepared to invest a certain amount of time (of the order of, say weeks,
> rather than hours or months) to get things working, but I'd like to know if
> it's a realistic prospect.
>
> So I have two machines I'd like to convert:
>
> 1) An Apple MacBook Air (second revision - i.e 2008). Currently running
> Fedora 14 (I can't get 16, 17 or 18 to boot). The software I'd like to run
> on it would be:
>
> GNOME 3
> Darktable
> XBoard + HaChu
> Google Chrome
> A PDF reader (preferably Adobe)
>
> so it's quite a short list, but judging from the home page, there will be
> a lot to do.
>
> 2) My desktop - a Xeon quad-processor machine currently running Fedora 18.
> The software I'd like to run on it:
>
> Citrix Java client (I need this for work, so this is a must).
> Emacs
> GNOME 3
> Darktable
> GIMP
> Google Chrome
> GoPanda2
> XBoard
> a PDF reader
> VLC media player
> ffmpeg
> maybe Eiffel Studio
> maybe Haskell
>
>
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