[mbrock]

It is another Linux distribution, but it's a radically different one: NixOS.

I'm betting that within a few years, Nix will be huge. You can tell when people start to glimpse how it works. It's like, ohhhh, wooow, this really deprecates basically all other ways of structuring distribution management.

Have a look at the PhD thesis of Eelco Dolstra who invented the system. It's both extremely practical and theoretically beautiful. And it happens to be based on a simple lazy functional language.

I installed it on my laptop and servers a couple of years ago and I wouldn't voluntarily switch to any other distro again. It has benefits and advantages that just cascade out from its design, it's almost ridiculous.

I'm really grateful for Nix and NixOS and I've started to contribute to the ecosystem. It basically made me feel happy and optimistic about GNU/Linux again!

Oops, I think I'm a bit tipsy...