On: NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

[prmoustache]

I haven't tried it personnally but Guix is similar with config in guile scheme. Have a look at the documentation [1][2].

Caveat: it is a gnu project so no proprietary stuff like firmwares and drivers included out of the box (but there is a community guix nonfree project available [3]). I believe that isn't a problem for virtual machine servers anyway.

[1] guix cookbook: https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/index.html#Top

[3] guix manual: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/index.html#Top

[3] https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree

[umanwizard → prmoustache]

The widely used nonfree guided channel is https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix, not the one you linked.

[prmoustache → umanwizard]

Thanks for the clarification. Can't seem to be able to edit my comment.