[HN Gopher] Mobile NixOS for Phones and Tablets
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       Mobile NixOS for Phones and Tablets
        
       Author : SkyMarshal
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-06-24 21:44 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mobile.nixos.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mobile.nixos.org)
        
       | erikw wrote:
       | NixOS is the perfect OS for embedded Linux use, and I'm surprised
       | that it hasn't seen any commercial uptake. I hope that some
       | company adopts it for an IoT product or something so that it gets
       | some love. I've been messing around on a Raspberry Pi and
       | Beaglebone today with Debian, and I'm constantly frustrated
       | having to use an imperative OS. I'm not using NixOS because even
       | though it officially supports Raspberry Pi 3, I have not found it
       | to be stable on that platform.
       | 
       | I'm excited about Mobile NixOS though. I've found the NixOS
       | community to be motivated and friendly, but there is only so much
       | progress that a small group of volunteers can make.
        
         | seddona wrote:
         | At CircuitHub we use NixOS on embedded devices, x86 though. I
         | know of a few other commercial embedded users. Works great.
        
           | erikw wrote:
           | I'd be interested to hear more about how you're using NixOS
           | if it isn't something you've already written about. My guess
           | is that you're mostly leveraging the declarative
           | configuration and immutability for internal infrastructure
           | use. What I'd love to see would be consumer devices using
           | NixOS, allowing updates (especially security patches) to be
           | deployed to endpoints without too much fear that it will
           | brick something. I think that would allow companies to more
           | inexpensively maintain their IoT devices throughout their
           | lifetime. I imagine a device where it could automatically
           | revert to the last working generation if a new config fails
           | for some reason.
        
       | beprogrammed wrote:
       | Oh hell yeah, as soon as it works on the pixel 3 I'm jumping
       | ship.
        
       | neilv wrote:
       | Thus far, https://postmarketos.org/ has seemed the most likely
       | "real Linux" distro for smartphones and tablets.
       | 
       | If this Mobile NixOS can get _solid_ support on as many or more
       | devices (including using mainline Linux, with no closed drivers,
       | but possibly closed blobs for now), that will be another option.
       | 
       | BTW, one thing I _don 't_ want to see happen to any of these
       | distros is for PinePhone to be the only actually solid device.
       | Tempting as that device may be. If the distro doesn't run well on
       | many devices, that's not a good sign for long-term viability, and
       | it's also potentially awkward.
        
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