Nix from the dark ages (without Root)
Short comments from the trenches of High Performance Clusters on working with Nix on kernel locked-in systems without proot support.
Mostly an exploratory exposition, with some suggestions on moving forward. Meant to call attention to this user-base! See this for some context: https://rgoswami.me/posts/local-nix-no-root/
Discussion Post: https://rgoswami.me/posts/nixcon-in-2020-meta
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/rgoswami/nix-from-the-dark-ages-without-root
Rohit Goswami
Doctoral researcher at the University of Iceland working on problems at the intersection of quantum chemistry and machine learning. Nix fanatic, FOSS developer. Co-lead of the nix-first d-SEAMS software suite.