[modular-debian] alternate models for building a distro
- From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modular-debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:10:19 -0500
Some food for thought:
Thanks to Joel Roth for pointing out gobolinux, in response to which I
pointed to guix (someone else first pointed that out).
Joel pointed me at these, re. GUIX
http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guile/guix-ghm-2012.20120721.pdf
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html
The above presentation, in turns references its origins in nixos
(nixos.org), which in turn lead me to these:
http://nixos.org/
http://www.slideshare.net/sandervanderburg/vanderburg11-fosdem
and ultimately to:
http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/is-distributionlevel-package-management-obsolete
(thin, but a nice read)
I've been thinking, more and more that the whole notion of a distro is
obsolete. There's a trend emerging:
- Source code distros (Gentoo)
- Source code distros with lightweight packages (recipes, really)
(gobolinux, GIUX)
- roll your own from upstream (LFS)
- automated roll your own (ALFS)
I keep coming to the conclusion that upstream + continuous integration
(a la Jenkins) kind of gets us away from packages and distros entirely.
Seems like I'm not alone.
And then there are unikernels.....
Cheers,
Miles
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