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Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros
(infosec.pub)
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15781466
Am I out of touch?
No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.
But an immutable distro is not necessarily declarative, and the other way around.
Why lump them together?
I'm guessing this refers to the not entirely separate groups of Nix(OS), Haskell, XMonad fans
Don’t forget us Bluefin/Aurora people either
It is necessarily so. You can't configure an immutable distro by a sequence of mutations.
But yes, the other way around is quite possible.
Isn't that literally how ostree works?
NixOS isn't immutable though. It runs on normal writable ext4 by default.