Bringing NixOS to my school

Bringing NixOS to my school - Marc Schmitt
2020-10-16 cfp.nixcon.org/nixcon2020/tal...
EPITA, a French school of engineers in computer science, is bringing NixOS to its students. Here is a presentation of the challenges of maintaining an infrastructure of more than 800 machines used by students.
The presentation will start with a current state of our learning infrastructure running on Arch Linux, the challenges we face with it, the up- and downsides of migrating to NixOS and what has already been done.

[@griefhound]

Cool talk 🤓 Go Nix!

[@bzmrgonz]

Can anyone confirm that the reason students are allowed to configure at will their environment is because of nixos’ awesome feature of rolling back to previos state?? I never thought about it, but user permissibility is a huge plus of the nixos!!!

[@bzmrgonz]

I think it’s part of the unbreakable claim!! This is a huge plus in academia!! Admins are fighting a losing battle right now all over the world!! Second best to this is to lock down environment!!