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Mikhail Gusarov
Personal blog · dottedmag.net/blog · on HN as dottedmagsystemsprogramming
Mikhail Gusarov's personal blog at dottedmag.net covers systems and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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3HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
What Hacker News says?
> Using VS Code Remote SSH on NixOS systems This is the main of issue with Nix and other niche distributions: they are new operating systems, with their set of file layouts, package managers, and even syscall variations. Linux ecosystem is awfully fragmented. If you ever want to use any software outside of your not-very-well-walled-garden provided by distribution authors, you have to hope your operating system (that…
Comment linking /blog/linux-is-not-os/
on “My First Impressions of Nix”Submitted Why libvirt supports only 14 PCIe hotplugged devices on x86-64 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe general gist of "yes, but" comments in this thread and in the post itself is that not every application works. This is true and real, and we as a community should stop saying "yeah, it's a weird distro". We should look at it and say "Alpine (and Gentoo, and Nix, and Arch, ...) is a separate OS". Closely related to the OSes of other Linux distributions, but still separate, because of a different ABI and API. I ha…
Comment linking /blog/linux-is-not-os/
on “In Praise of Alpine and APK”Submitted Software design is now cheap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systems Are Sticky (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion