If you are a maintainer of #nix, #nixpkgs or #nixos: listen up.
You've got about 2 years or so being a serious contender, until someone like #lix or even #ostree with #ComposeFS 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 #DeterminateSystems contracts?
Let me take you #linux people on a little journey. Right now, there is a war. A war between those who fear the future of #nix and #NixOS and those who are apparently not getting the point.
To call something #opensource can mean so much nowadays. When it comes to the idea of an enterprise nixpkgs vs the open source or "community" #nixpkgs, I think it's time to make it clear:
#DeterminateSystems wants to have it's own #RHEL. Functions are decoupled from nix for a reason.
I packaged the #DeterminateSystems #nix installer for #openSUSE, as I started using home-manager last year and thus need nix on openSUSE.
Seems to work this far in my test.
If someone wants to give it a try:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:ojkastl_buildservice:Branch_devel_tools/nix-installer
Seems to be a bit of a walk-out going on in the #NixOS community... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/307033
I don't think the guy who opened this PR interpreted the article right. I don't think Dolstra was saying that the Nix community is owned by #DeterminateSystems, but...
Spending a full paragraph bragging about how much you value diversity as a way to defend a position marginalized people tell you is bad is...sad. Then to say "come talk it out in my space with people that agree with me" 🤦🤦🤦
