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

[Tuomas Tynkkynen]

2017-03-18 18:46 GMT+02:00 Jan Malakhovski <oxij at oxij.org>:
> Mayeu <m at mayeu.me> writes:
>
>> I would love to see that in upstream, independence from systemd will open the door to have some kind of NixBSD and other fun stuff like that. (No longer than 3 days ago there was a discussion for GSOC to have a project to make NixOS + freebsd).
>
> Note that NixOS FreeBSD/NetBSD is just SLNOS with a different kernel,
> because we are gonna to be free from glibc and GNU tools.
>

How is moving away from glibc going to help with (say) FreeBSD
support? Based on (admittedly quite short) googling, I couldn't
find any libc that supports both Linux and FreeBSD except...
*drumroll*... glibc that is being used by Debian/kFreeBSD!
And if you're going to be using different libcs on different
kernels, well... nixpkgs already does that today, by supporting
Darwin.