What do BSDers think of some of the latest trends in Linux/FOSS community

nortonham

By that I mean things like immutable OS's like Fedora Silverblue, Nix/Guix, flatpak/snap/apppimage instead of traditional pkg management......

Do you think these things are interesting/useful? Do you think any of those features are worth pursuing in the BSD world?

Jay

nortonham if you look at Hello system(FreeBSD) which has Appimages as packages. not sure what to make of other trends in Linux as they are mostly commercial focused developments.

nia

We pursued it in 2004 in pkgsrc. But it didn't catch on. "The trends of the time" https://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2004/pC04-PV2.pdf

pkgviews was removed since nobody was interested in it, but I think you can get pretty much the same benefits by careful bootstrapping to different prefixes in pkgsrc.

nortonham

Jay

The developer behind hello system is the same that started AppImage's so it makes sense they're compatible.

Jay not sure what to make of other trends in Linux as they are mostly commercial focused developments.

They might be commercially focused but they seem to growing in popularity. I wondered if something like immutable OS's were of any interest to bsd community. I don't have a strong opinion about them myself.