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If you are a maintainer of , or : listen up.

You've got about 2 years or so being a serious contender, until someone like or even with comes in and eats your lunch.

Part and parcel of that is the community, the language, the security of knowing that there is culpability and responsibility.

Linus Torvalds had to walk it off because an entire foundation told him to. If the nix "community" is beyond this, why give contracts?

So... instead of going back to , I'm going over to... . Well tomorrow I'm going over to.

I'm on now and the idea of going from to lix intrigues me. It's just a change of the underlying tooling that interacts with the nix store, but I'm fascinated by the idea that you can compose NixOS using whatever tooling that works with it.

The nix store is then fully decoupled from nix and nixpkgs, making it more a competing standard against .

lix.systems/

lix.systemsLixLix is an independent variant of the Nix package manager, developed by a team of open-source volunteers, and maintained by and for a passionate community of users.

The firefox-bin package in Nixpkgs is about to be marked as unfree because of the Terms of Use update.

The new Terms of Use only apply to Mozilla's official binaries, so the
firefox package (which is built from the official sources by Hydra) is unnafected.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/385857

#nix #lix #nixpkgs #nixos #firefox #mozilla

GitHubfirefox-bin: update license by sersorrel · Pull Request #385857 · NixOS/nixpkgsAv sersorrel

Time for an impromptu status report of ongoing things.

#Lix finally merged custom CLI behind an experimental flag `lix-custom-sub-commands`, which means that now, everyone is empowered to do the things pictured, without having to be forced an *single* implementation (e.g. Flakes).

The feature is very simple and does not have auto-completion or more things that you may see in Git, but I'm already using it with `lix deploy` (colmena) and `lix pin` to simplify the tooling I use :-).