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NixOS Fork Announced by Jake Hamilton (bytes.programming.dev)
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I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here

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As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

@jakehamilton@hachyderm.io why "aux"? Will that name be put up to a vote?

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[–] jakehamilton@hachyderm.io 10 points 4 months ago (6 children)

@onlinepersona @recursive_recursion I don't think we need to spend time bikeshedding the name. As for the reasons I chose it:

- it is short
- similar to nix
- is short for "auxiliary" which can be used to mean "another", "additional", "secondary", "separate"; so it being a separate nix ecosystem lines up

[–] nairou@mastodon.gamedev.place 4 points 4 months ago

@jakehamilton @onlinepersona @recursive_recursion By contrast, I'm a big fan of the name, it seems very fitting.

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