Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Apr 2007 15:44 UTC, submitted by John Nilsson
"NixOS is a Linux distribution based on Nix, a purely functional package management system. NixOS is an experiment to see if we can build an operating system in which software packages, configuration files, boot scripts and the like are all managed in a purely functional way, that is, they are all built by deterministic functions and they never change after they have been built."
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I hope we aren't going to get a lot of April fools stories. The problem with April fools stories is that they live just as long in the search engines as any other stories, and continue to cause confusion all year long, for years to come.
It's one thing to have to hassle with them on Apr 1. It's quite another when you are desperately searching for the solution to a problem on New Years Eve, come across a promising article, and then notice the date, hopefully before you have wasted much time on it.
I think this is a real project, though. Albeit a rather odd one.
Edited 2007-04-01 16:48
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2007-03-24
From their web site, I think it's not a real project. Is it a joke?