With the enormous budgets we allocate in the name of "national security", this is exactly the kind of work I expect TLAs to do.

Instead we have come to expect them to cowardly sit on exploits, or actively introduce them, rather than working to secure the general public from adversaries.

What a mess.

Wow when you put it like that it really hits hard.

Why?

Relevant username

For servers you might want to try 'guix deploy':

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...

I do the same. Somehow it feels safer than running a sandbox with my own user, despite the only security boundary being Unix permissions.

Claude gets all the packages it needs through Guix.

ICYMI expands to "in case you missed it", ICYMI.

I see... why am I...

ICYMI expands to ... wait, shit

fly.io launched something like that recently:

https://sprites.dev/

NixOS and Guix are fairly established in this regard.

macOS is certified Unix, and necessarily implements the "legacy" cruft.

I had written a similar comment here asking for people's opinion but I would like to add something that I know about which I didn't see in your list

Tinycorelinux

I know that it doesn't follow the best user practices etc. but I did find its tcz package format fascinating because they kind of work similar to mountable drives and I am not exactly sure but I am fairly certain that a modern package management system where two or more packages with conflicts etc. can run on the same system.

I really enjoyed the idea of gobolinux as well. I haven't played with that but it would be good if some more mainstream os could also implement it. Nix and Guix are more mainstream but they also require to learn a new language and I think that we might need something in the middle like gobo but perhaps more mainstream or adding more ideas / additions perhaps? I would love it if someone can tell me about some projects we are missing to talk about and what they add on the table etc.

I haven't tried Gobo though so I am not sure but I really wish more distros could add features like gobo, perhaps even having a gobofied debian/fedora eh?

Tinycore's package format sounds a lot like containers, except I imagine containers can do a whole lot more, what with namespaces and all. Can't say for sure, but it sounds like snap and flatpak are its spiritual successors.

I liked Tinycorelinux once upon a time but isn't it unmaintained now?

at some point we gotta let go of legacy stuff tho, and Apple has shown in the past that they're not afraid of doing that.

Is there any model that is actually free as in freedom (not necessarily gratis)?

Yes, many models recently have been released under Apache 2.0, both Free and gratis.

I don't think any in this particular space (image-to-3d gaussian representation) are, but then this is the first model I’ve seen in that space at all.

They can't be heard over the faint booing from the Solaris crowd.

For that matter, if we're including the proprietary OSs, HP-UX is still kinda a thing and AIX is going strong. Of course, IIRC those are actual certified UNIX™ instead of unix-like... though I'd call that a subset, so still in scope IMO.

TIL AIX is still in development and they had a release this month

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/sanket-rathi1...

> I would suggest the name "Leanix"

Then people would complain that it sounds too much like “Linux”.

Particularly if you have learned to pronounce Linus’s name correctly.

What's pretentious about learnix?

I like the current name and already have the domain :|

I think that it's supposed to be a portmanteau of Unix and Learn.

I don't find it awkward to pronounce in the least, and not in any way pretentious.

I think the name is fine as is.

I mean, it is about learning. It threw me for a loop too but I think it's actually reasonably appropriate.