Disclaimer: I have no affiliation to the project or to the people working on it.
Some links in case anyone’s interested to check it out for themselves:
In case anyone's wondering where my interest is coming from...
Long story short: after trying out NixOS within a VM and being positively surprised by how smooth-sailing it has been (so far), I got pretty much carried away by my (over)confidence to explore even deeper waters. After crawling out of the umpteenth rabbit hole, I concede to have been most intrigued by rde.
Basically, if my understanding is correct, rde is an attempt to bridge the gap between Guix System and NixOS. For example: Guix Home, which is basically Guix’ home-manager, originated from rde.
Furthermore, I find it particularly noteworthy how it’s stateless by default. Which, IIUC, is absolutely not trivially done on Guix System. Simply, because Guix System doesn’t have something akin to the impermanence module found on NixOS.
I’m sure there’s a lot more I could delve into, but I’ll keep it at that for the sake of brevity.
Also if you look at the history, guix home was first developed in RDE, and then upstreamed to Guix. So the two projects are very close.
Perhaps I’m being too romantic, but just like how rde users were the first to catch a glimpse of
guix home, so too it feels that today’s rde users are catching a glimpse of features that will eventually land on Guix proper.Yes definitely! One of the goals is to implement some kind of network propagation to the services (features in this case) to have much better composability :)
Excellent insight, thank you (once again)!
While not much, this is the kind of endorsement I wanted out of this. Even though I was being deliberately horrid at communicating that 😜.