An interview with Joey Hess

Posted Jan 21, 2016 22:36 UTC (Thu) by oever (guest, #987)
In reply to: An interview with Joey Hess by yxejamir
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be able to branch and merge at the distro level

I did not look at it in those terms, but mostly it is true. NixOS allows branching at almost the distribution level. Every distribution can be branched — look at the distribution family tree — but in Nix(OS) you can install packages which differ from the main system, even starting at libc, by just forking the NixPkgs repo. And switching between the branches is easy without rebooting or logging out.