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Linux Distribution "NixOS" drama: Moderation Team resigns in protest over Interference of Leadership; Elected Leader works for US Military Company, fearing alignment with US fascistic development (beehaw.org)

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Short Summary of the Community Drama of the Linux Distribution "NixOS", so that you can get the big picture and form your own opinion with the provided sources.

Clarification of the "Steering Comittee" as Project Leadership

see https://nixos.org/community/teams/steering-committee/

Moderation Team resigns in Protest

Resignation Post, with examples of interference: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828
Conflict due different interests:
- the Moderation Team desires being independent. otherwise, they can't moderate the behavior of people in positions of power.
- the Moderation Team is currently accountable to the Steering Comittee: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828/6

Technical Leadership works for Military Company, causing Fear of Alignment with Facism.

Steering Committee works for Military Company https://discourse.nixos.org/t/sc-member-tomberek-works-for-anduril/68971
People in the community feel uncomfortable with that, since the US and its military are heading towards facsism: https://mstdn.games/@KFears/115275676459535171
The Steering Committee made a public Post about that, explaining the Situation: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/statement-on-a-steering-committee-member-joining-anduril/69007

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[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 33 points 1 day ago (20 children)

I've been saying this for years: Just switch to Guix.

An official GNU project;
Herd instead of systemd;
Uses Linux Libre and only 100% free software;
Big, friendly, helpful community;
Regular meetups, unconferences and other events;
Config is done in an established language (Scheme) instead of an idiosyncratic DSL.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Also, a fraction of packages, users and guides.

I think Guix is great, but as a NixOS enthusiast who genuinely wanted to try it out, I gave up in the face of the lack of docs for people who aren't working in lab or have a PhD in computing of some sort.

Also, how is shepherd better than systems? Genuinely curious.

Lastly, I agree Nix is not a very enjoyable language, but scheme doesn't look like a very beginner friendly option either. Could be wrong, I'm not a programmer.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

As someone who is curious about Nix but has given up after trying to wade through the myriad and conflicting "getting started" resources for it, I cant imagine how bad guix docs must be for a Nix enthusiast to adandon it.

[–] duckofdeath87@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If you are still trying to find the best guide, I recommend this one

https://thiscute.world/en/posts/my-experience-of-nixos/

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

That's one the books I tried to get through. Maybe it was in a more raw state at the time, but it didn't click for me.

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