Talk Supplements for NixCon 2020

A meta-post on my lightning talk at NixCon 2020

Background

Much the same as the rationale behind my meta-post on my talk at PyCon India 2020, that is:

• I would like to preserve questions
• I would like to collect the video, slides and other miscellaneous stuff in one location ¹
• It would be nice to have my own thoughts here afterwards

Details

Title

Nix from the dark ages (without Root)

Proposal

See the cfp response here

Abstract

Short comments from the trenches of High Performance Clusters on working with Nix on kernel locked-in systems without proot support.

Linked Posts

Local Nix without Root

Motivation and installation

• Provisioning Dotfiles on an HPC: Looks into how standard approaches fail (proot)
• HPC Dotfiles and LMod: All the ugly manual install steps

Other Content

Anything on this site tagged with Nix. Also an introduction to nix given by me (and Amrita Goswami) at CarpentryCon2020 is here:

• CarpentryCon2020 Materials
• A tutorial introduction to Nix and Python

Slides

• Best viewed here using a browser (in a new tab)
• A pdf copy of the slides are embedded below
• The orgmode source is here on the site’s GH repo