User: Danbst/Nixos Next
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Various thoughts on what would next version of NixOS look like
NixOS is cool, but will be better. Module system + reproducible Nix derivation is a great combo, which should be improved in various direction.
- Perfect forward compatibility
- Full test coverage
- Security updates
- Trusted update sources
- Nix DSL for every configuration, but vendor specific configuration may be specified too. Extra point for seamless * convertation tool
- Human friendly reports on configuration: security analysis, improvement analysis, refactoring analysis, problem explaining
- Configuration can be edited in place by automated tools
- Editing configuration in GUI and WebUI
- Full-blown domain knowledge encoding
- Reproducible benchmark tooling
- Native support for every platform and architecture, cloud and native, little or supercluster
- Full support for everything, that major distributions do provide
- Fast callback with maintainers
- Can be learned in a day
- Secrets management
- Revision history control out of box
- Can be deployed on existing Linux boxes with or without previous distro removal (replace or symbiosis)
- No more holywars systemd-VS-not-systemd, linux-VS-bsd: everything should be supported via proper abstractions