5 thoughts on “🤓 GUIX IS AWESOME! (But it won't get you a job?)”
I used to work for a tape library company (late 90's, early 00's), so I kind of knew what the big corporations were using given what was in our tech support lab. We competed with the likes of Storage Tek and Exabyte. Anyway, we didn't start supporting linux until just before I left which was around 2005, and those were fringe customers. The reasons we didn't support it before then is simply because none of our customers used it for an OS underneath their backup solutions even though RHEL had been around for about a decade. They also didn't support FreeBSD. The interesting thing is I recently found out that the company has now rolled out their own backup software solution for their hardware (they previously supported third party software) and it is FreeBSD based. Granted, the whole backup market lags behind because it sits on a lot of legacy hardware, but still it was surprising how late of an adoption linux was. Probably won't see anything like NIxOS or Guix support in that market at the enterprise level for at least a decade, if ever.
informative.
I don't think Arch isn't worth learning because it really isn't that hard. It's like maybe a weekend to figure out tops (assuming you already understand other Linux concepts). Guix is a different story though, more of a hobby to make things work because it won't "just werk" like arch.
I used to work for a tape library company (late 90's, early 00's), so I kind of knew what the big corporations were using given what was in our tech support lab. We competed with the likes of Storage Tek and Exabyte. Anyway, we didn't start supporting linux until just before I left which was around 2005, and those were fringe customers. The reasons we didn't support it before then is simply because none of our customers used it for an OS underneath their backup solutions even though RHEL had been around for about a decade. They also didn't support FreeBSD. The interesting thing is I recently found out that the company has now rolled out their own backup software solution for their hardware (they previously supported third party software) and it is FreeBSD based. Granted, the whole backup market lags behind because it sits on a lot of legacy hardware, but still it was surprising how late of an adoption linux was. Probably won't see anything like NIxOS or Guix support in that market at the enterprise level for at least a decade, if ever.
informative.
I don't think Arch isn't worth learning because it really isn't that hard. It's like maybe a weekend to figure out tops (assuming you already understand other Linux concepts). Guix is a different story though, more of a hobby to make things work because it won't "just werk" like arch.
+1 BSD, used by Sony, Netflix, routers, etc…..
That vest is dapper my friend.