NixOS in Dom0 ready for testing

General Discussion
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I just found out, via Qubes github issues, that there are people working on that.
There are Qubes packages and basic stuff is working for testing.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/341215
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-xen-project-reviving-the-xen-project-hypervisor-on-nixpkgs/52768

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apparently there was total lack of interest. what a shame, NixOS fits dom0 and service qubes much better than general purpose distros.

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NixOS fits dom0 and service qubes much better than general purpose
distros.

What about GuixOS?

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I think NixOS is better maintained, no?

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I think NixOS is better maintained, no?

Can’t say if better but my impression from outside the GuixOS community
is that Guix is well maintained. Also, its configuration language,
Guile Scheme, is a full-fledged programming language that allows you to
configure all your “stuff” in a GNU ecosystem. This “learn one lang to
rule your system” is more attractive to me, than what NixOS has (a weird
config language that only works in the scope of configuring NixOS).