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Lix - a new fork of Nix (lix.systems)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112392108881500298

https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112392108893774195

This isn’t just a fork of Nix—this is the work of a team of 10+ people near-constantly since early February. (Technically, us too — but our task is really just enabling others.)

Some serious work has gone into ensuring it improves on upstream without having the regressions that have plagued them last three major versions!

And, since this will matter to some — it’s not a project of the NixOS foundation, but an independent organization that takes its responsibility to its community seriously.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Does nix package manager have some issues adressed by this implementation or was it born for another reason?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It's basically focused on establishing good community-centered governance, cleaning up the codebase, standardizing workflows (reconciling disparate parts of nix), and (I think?) eventually reimplementing the whole thing in Rust instead of C++.

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