Re: [PLUG] NixOS

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 1/7/2026 1:02 PM, Michael Lazin via plug wrote:
> This is fascinating to me because it seems to offer a way to make
> applications with dependencies portable without the use of containers.

Arguably it is pretty close to containerization with some caveats:

1. Every package is its own layer.
2. Containers can share layers.
3. The containers rely on application-level isolation and actually have
   visibility across containers.

NixOS predates the general move towards containers.  I suspect it has 
some benefits in terms of shared memory/disk, if you re-use the same 
libs/etc often, but I feel like pure containers are the better approach now.

I'm not as familiar with the things it does OTHER than hashing/etc all 
the install paths.

--
Rich

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