For anyone else trying to download the NixOS ISO from the website, they don't offer torrent downloads and the connection keeps dropping (for me, at least), I eventually got an intact copy.<p>magnet:?xt=urn:btih:071B7CBA20B94E5FDC4DAD397DE98D3A05276536<p>SHA-256 can be verified from <a href="https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html" rel="nofollow">https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html</a>
Apparently there is company switching from using Gentoo to NixOS. Gentoo seems a bit of a weird fit for production, unless you can compile packages on another server and deploy them (last time I used it was 10 years ago so I don't know if that's a thing).
If someone wants to try NixOS on their VPS there is nixos in place [0], which basically "converts" a Linux to NixOS.<p>"nixos-in-place is known to work on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Arch, and Slackware, including x86 and x86_64 variants, with and without LVM, including systems on Digital Ocean droplets"<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place</a>
One of our senior engineers spoke at Nix OS Conf 2015, which we also sponsored. He touches on what we do, and a few things he's doing with it, then gives a tech talk.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/7QGYOq8U9E0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/7QGYOq8U9E0</a><p>Nic can be very helpful at lots of things. If you're interested in Nix or us, email me (in profile).