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		danlitt on Oct 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't guix does not use nixos underneath, it's a completely independent implementation (of the same underlying concepts)

tkz1312 on Oct 2, 2024 [–]

guix is built on top of the nix daemon

tmtvl on Oct 2, 2024 | | [–]

It does have the nix daemon in-tree: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/nix

poincaredisk on Oct 2, 2024 | | [–]

Not anymore, I think.

tkz1312 on Oct 4, 2024 | | [–]

It’s a forked and tweaked version of the nix daemon. There have been some efforts to build a pure guile replacement, but afaik it’s not yet the default.

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