Is there nothing better than Yocto?

Posted Sep 9, 2025 22:41 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Is there nothing better than Yocto? by Arrange1030
Parent article: Introducing Space Grade Linux

NixOS is somewhat in the same niche. It's harder to learn (it involved learning a special purpose functional language), but it's very rewarding. Reproducing builds are very valuable. Even more so in the environment where radiation can cause bit flips.

Is there nothing better than Yocto?

Posted Sep 10, 2025 0:34 UTC (Wed) by Arrange1030 (subscriber, #178702) [Link]

I'm already using Nix, and a minimal system config weighs in at almost 4GB. I guess I can try not-os next.

Is there nothing better than Yocto?

Posted Sep 12, 2025 22:52 UTC (Fri) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]

> Reproducing builds are very valuable. Even more so in the environment where radiation can cause bit flips.

Surely at this point we're talking about systems that will be built on Earth and merely *deployed* to space -- there's no radiation in the build environment.

Reproducible builds are great when delivering packages to distrusting downstream users. It wouldn't hurt but it matters less if the same organization is responsible for both build infra and deployment.