Regarding the software, the entire operating system will be open source, and all LiberuxOS developments will be published. The installed software will also be open source.
This is what makes me distrustful. Will? Just publish what you have. Start open, not “eventually open”. What if they decide “nah, we actually don’t want to opensource it”? Then that money donated towards an opensource phone is down the drain or just into some grifter’s pockets.
Phoronix commentors hate you for that comment.
Or it’s on purpose to force the purchase of new hardware.
It might be best to ask on Mastodon or something to hear from people living in Qatar and other Gulf states. I don’t speak Arabic nor do I know any Arabs from the Gulf. That area has always been opaque to me.
I thought this was going to be a somewhat detailed post with some news from an official source, but it’s just StatsCounter pages showing increased Linux use. It’s great to know that Qatar is using Linux more, more power to them, however I really was hoping it was due to an official change in course of the governments in the Gulf states… Maybe it’s driven by Israel committing genocide on fellow Arabs and Microsoft providing the technical assistance to do so?
Where was this posted?
Maybe when Linus goes, mailing lists will go too? I just hope he sees the light before he leaves us.
On odysee if you don’t want to use YouTube.
That was actually very useful. Thank you! X11 needed the DISPLAY variable and other stuff like xephyr while all this needs is waypipe. Awesome!
There’s a large spectrum between marketing expert and RTFM. Unfortunately, most nerds fall closer to the RTFM end than marketing expert or even normally functioning human. It isn’t much of a surprise, but it is a problem for sure.
And of course there are hordes of lusers out there, but devs don’t even treat each other well. Join a programming forum for any language and ask questions about things you don’t comprehend. The amount of responses that are the equivalent of “just do this”, “that’s easy, just do”, or non-descript links to code or documentation is quite large.
my autistic ass hyperfixated on it to the point of tinkering with it every afternoon for months
Relatable 💯 I had a basic functional system after the third time trying NixOS. But then I started trying to get my old workflow and programs back and anything missing from nixpkgs was such a pain.
But I persevered and now keep trying to get others interested to share the pain, but they (rightfully) aren’t very excited about the prospects. These are people working in tech and who have written code for at least 5 years BTW.
Unfortunately my efforts of communicating problems and solutions to the NixOS community mostly fall upon deaf ears or resistance. Maybe it’s the way I communicate it. Dunno.
I agree with the points you are making. As for loss of interest for making things graphical, in my case it’s just a lack of time. If I had time, SnowflakeOS would have my contributions.
Is there a good way of mixing and mashing JSON attribute sets with conventional nix config files? Perhaps relegating some config to machine-generated JSON, and some hand crafted configs?
For sure. I’m on mobile right now but something like
{...}:
builtins.fromJson(
builtins.readFile ./path/to/configuration.json
)
and importing that in your configuration.nix should do the trick. You have handcrafted stuff in another nix file, but it will be your responsibility to make it work with the imported/managed JSON. Maybe SnowflakeOS even does that. I’m not sure.
I think Snowflake OS is dead. The NixOS community didn’t really get behind it for whatever reason. My guess is that many people don’t understand enough about NixOS to contribute, but those that do are too proud of their ability to understand it that making it easier for others would seemingly devalue it. I have noticed that many nerds attach a sense of self-worth to understanding difficult things and will fight tooth and nail when those things are made more simple as it will diminish their self-worth.
Given all options and packages in nixpkgs are already machine readable and indexed, supplying a GUI based tool to procedurally generate nix codes
Nix can create attribute sets from JSON, so there isn’t a need to generate nix code. Projects like npins do this albeit for another purpose (locking dependencies without flakes).
Anyway, NixOS is lightyears away from a noon friendly OS because it’s also terribly far away from a dev friendly OS.
NixOS could be the future if it had a better community, documentation, and a user interface to manage the system. Right now, it’s still completely unusable for even tech literate folk. In fact it’s unusable for people without time.
If NixOS is to become the future, it has to become more user friendly. Not only as a system but as a community. A community that ridicules people asking questions or responds with “just read the source code” might as well just continue believing in “self-documenting” code.
And let’s not even dive into the close-source source forge dependency they have.
So the problem isn’t Rust but the license. Probably the community should take it upon themselves to write an AGPLv3 rust version of the coreutils.
Oh, I had no idea Mac and Windows have 97% market share of servers too. Must be new stats. Or is that servers don’t need firmware?
Most users just open the app store on their distro and install things there. It’s painless. Your complaint is the equivalent of somebody on android deciding not to use the google store and saying that they have too many places to install applications from.
I actually find it hilarious that you even think windows installers are good. They are friggin mess and leave behind a bunch of crap when uninstalled. There’s a good reason windows needs stuff like reg-cleaners and debloaters and what have you. Let’s not even get into how easy it is to get adware or malware on windows, because searching for “rar installer” gets you a bunch of paid malware sites on the top of the search results.
Wishing to go back to the “simplicity” of a windows installers is madness. Linux isn’t perfect for packaging software, but let’s not pretend windows is better.
Good. These fat corpos shouldn’t freeload.
iptables default DENY and flush the rules. Done by at least two people I know (then me) at the same company. Led to them moving the servers in-house and virtualizing some services to connect to the hypervisor. It does happen though.
If they targeted NixOS, they could at least fix their build system which is a woven mess of undeclared and implicit dependencies. Most likely due to the programming language it’s written in, but it is a mess nonetheless.