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simendsjo
@simendsjo@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

Finally read the Nix whitepaper from 2004: "Nix: A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment"

Should have done this when I first started using #Nix in 2016, but I found it useful even for #Guix in 2025!

https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf

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Simon Tournier
@zimoun@social.sciences.re replied  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

@simendsjo PhD thesis of Eelco from 2006 (?) is also a very good read. 🤩

« The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model »

In case, you haven’t already. 😁

https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

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simendsjo
@simendsjo@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

@zimoun 😁 a couple of hundred pages more than I have time to read. I'll append it to my infinite long list of things I'd like to do.

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Pjotr Prins
@pjotrprins@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@simendsjo Eelco was ahead of everyone. Surprising how much he got right.

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