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Here's the team's description https://nixos.org/community/teams/nixpkgs-core/ . They were able to accomplish quite a lot of useful work. The steering committee is a separate organi…

The post has nothing to do with the election drama you cite: > These issues have persisted despite our repeated attempts to discuss them. This is, of course, a systemic problem rat…

Maintenance and updates will continue as usual. The maintainers formerly on the nixpkgs core team aren't even stopping their individual contributions.

silverblue doesn't accomplish goal 3 either... if you need conflicting dependencies to interact in the same environment (i.e. outside a container)

> nix and nixos has a lot to learn from bootc nix is a build system, and has nothing to learn from bootc. However, I agree that nixos could adopt some of the developments around bo…

I often see bootc and/or buildstream uncritically presented as the future of the linux desktop, and find it somewhat surprising because, in my experience, they are both more comple…

> I’m increasingly convinced that the mere existence of a package manager (for programs, not source code) is a sign of a failed platform design. Nix is a build system for source co…

The problem with a federation system like mastodon/activitypub is that relying on propagation hurts usability and discoverability. [tangled.sh]( https://tangled.sh/ ) is to federat…

As someone who actively uses a wayland compositor and has done so since switching to linux ~4 years ago, I often feel like I live in a different world from the authors of articles …