Nix is a source code package manager and compiles everything from source, except when there's a binary substitute available.
musicmatze
joined 3 years ago
You can do all these things on a framebuffer. Ok, maybe the game thing is a bit of a hassle, but the other stuff is totally doable.
Nothing. Linus doesn’t personally do coding on the kernel, he has a team who do that and he oversees it and makes the hard decisions.
Even that is not really the truth. There are dozens and dozens of teams that actually do the development, then there are people who coordinate and maintain certain parts of the kernel, merge in patches and make decisions. And then there's Linus who does coordinate these people.
There are others who will take his place and the work will continue.
And most likely Greg K-H will take over the position that Linus has right now. He has been one of the most active maintainers and is probably "the number 2" behind Linus.
Next to nobody uses in your bubble maybe. Not on my watch tho.
.nix for software packaging.
Santa is coming for that naughty person!
That they are still centralized in a way. Federation is only the first step, the next step must be real decentralization, so no more server software!
+1 on NixOS. On all devices except Android phones since 2014 for me.