[ninefathom]

This makes me nostalgic for Trusted Solaris. Nearly identical motivations, but also allowed for runtime context switching (even within running X11 sessions) without a reboot.

It combined Zones, ZFS filesystems, Crossbow network virtualization, a modified X11 server, and an auth framework to glue it all together.

I don't know how widely Trusted Solaris was ever adopted, but I know that I haven't seen it in use in many years. Maybe this particular NixOS strategy will gain more traction.

[nineteen999]

> Maybe this particular NixOS strategy will gain more traction.

Is anybody even vaguely relevant (ie. "non startup") using it in production? Right now it seems to be a plaything for developers.

[e3bc54b2]

Pretty sure Target use{sd} it, because they're the ones who sponsored original flakes implementation.

[Ixiaus]

We use it in production at Arista-NDR (for both CI and our Linux rootfs that we deploy on prem and in AWS).

Definitely more than just a developer play thing.

[eddsh1994]

I used it at Cardano for CI and dev machines

[CuriousCosmic]

IOG?

[eddsh1994]

Yeah