On Tue 29 Sep 2020 at 17:10:13 (-0400), Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 9/29/20 1:04 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > I tried GNU Guix a few years back. I did not find a compelling reason > > other than package roll back to leave Debian for it. Bullseye has the > > nix-bin package available for those wanting to try it without leaving > > Debian, I guess. > > I've been thinking the main reason that I'd adopt Guix is to avoid the > systemd ecosystem. The question for me, is whether Guix is mature & > stable enough for production use - vis-a-vis say Gentoo, or building > Linux-from-Scratch, or one of the BSDs (though SmartOS is starting to > look pretty interesting).
My first reaction when reading the¹ wiki page on GNU Guix was— which wise guy decided to name the OS and its package manager the same? So here we go: a post about the OS, replying to a post about the package manager. Confusion. I haven't watched the OP's video link: but not being a lisp programmer, I decided that an OS so wedded to Guile/Scheme was not for me. Guile seems to have had a chequered history, and Guix is still rather young. So was Debian when I started using it (buzz), but then, so was I. So was linux. But I was prepared for it to evolve, for the benefits of having unix on a PC, at home, at no cost. It was worth it after 25 years of mainframes punctuated by expensive proprietary minicomputers. Personally, I see no reason to leave Debian and apt/dpkg. ¹ Google chose Guix the package manager for the top-right panel on the results page, with its link to Wikipedia. Cheers, David.
