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Episode: finix - an experimental os, featuring finit as pid 1, to explore the NixOS design space (nixcon2025)
Description: NixOS is a remarkably flexible and powerful operating system, but its stability and scale can make it a challenging environment for exploring unconventional ideas. finix is an experimental Nix-based OS I built to break free from some of the constraints of upstream NixOS — a fully functional, Nix-built system that embraces rapid and bold experimentation over stability.
This talk will walk through how I built finix, how I reuse much of NixOS’s scaffolding, and why I chose to try a different init system, finit. But more than the implementation details, I want to share how having a small, purpose-built codebase has...