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I don't have much first-hand experience with nix (just with CI for umockdev). I suppose it would still be useful as a "read-only" monitoring tool, so that you can debug why your machine is acting up (such as, failed services, running out of RAM/disk, biggest memory consumers, reading journal, etc.) You may not necessarily be able to change things due to a read-only OS. But I'd still expect e.g. the systemd D-Bus service to work, so that you can stop and start units and such? But at this point it's just a very high-level gut feeling. So far I've mostly seen nix as a container base, but apparently you can even run a desktop with it. I think someone needs to try and build/run it and see what goes wrong 😁 |
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I haven’t used Cockpit at all, but I’d be interested to see it working on NixOS too. Based on the discussion linked above, it looks like some other NixOS users have made progress. |
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There is now a NixOS module for Cockpit: |
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Nixos is a distribution famed for defining the whole system state with its system derivation / config file.
Things like which systemd services, containers and VMs should be running, which mountpoints and users to have and so on.
If i were to setup cockpit on nixos, would it provide value still?
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