Sailfish Community News, 14th December, Nix

Fine. I agree. Adopting the mobile NixOS, the apps on OpenRepo should be recompiled with a new SDK otherwise they would not run on the mobile version of NixOS.

  • Q1 - Or are suggesting that Nix packages will replace the current apps deployment system?

  • Q2 - In that case the SailJail will need to be ported to the new paradigm. Because the Nix extra packages are separated by SFOS but they can access to all the resources exposed by the Linux kernel and all resources on the network interfaces included 127.0.0.1 therefore all network IPCs. Isn’t right?

  • Q3 - Anyway, what about the same question “Why not?” but with s/NixOS/CentOS 8/, instead?

CentOS 8 has the binary run-time compatibility with SFOS and can be upgrade to 9 in a second stage in 2024. The CentOS community will be at FOSDEM in Brussels, in May 2024.

CentOs 8 upstream EOF is cheduled for the May 31st, 2024. In fact.