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

[Jookia]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 02:00:00PM +0000, Jan Malakhovski wrote:
> <IamThePope>
> Brothers and Sisters!
> 
> I think I reached the point of no-return w.r.t. not being able to
> tolerate systemd on my machines any longer after systemd devs dropped
> utmp. I don't want to replace finely matured portable UNIX utils
> produced by The Old Gods for the sake of making a bunch of crazy people
> into The New Gods. And, as it turns out, I'm not alone.
> 
> And so we (I and a couple of anonymous friends) are pleased to announce
> the establishment of The Church of Suckless NixOS ("SLNOS" for short).
> 
> * Our common goal is to have fun (see below) and to get a NixOS system
>   that can run using only suckless tools [1].
> 
> * Some of us want to drop GRUB in favor of running on top of minimal
>   Xen payload on Coreboot firmware and isolate everything like in
>   QubesOS, but we are not united on that point at this point. (Yes, we
>   are aware of Heads:ROM, thank you, we are discussing all of this.)
> 
> * We like LISP, but we don't think package expressions should be written
>   in LISP just for the sake of LISP. Nor do we like the bloated GNU
>   tools. GuixSD is out of question.
> 
> ...

This probably won't be of practical use to me since I have other issues with
NixOS, but I'd like to show my support for this: Having enough interest to get
forked is certainly a good thing. Who knows, maybe NixOS will join the ranks of
other distros with spin-offs.