NixOS 17.03 Switches To X.Org Server 1.19, KDE Plasma 5

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NixOS 17.03 Switches To X.Org Server 1.19, KDE Plasma 5

For those interested in the NixOS Linux distribution built off the Nix package manager, the 17.03 release is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NixOS-17.03-Released

[CrystalGamma]

Their 'sliding window principle' is pretty interesting. Before, it was not really clear how cross-building was supposed to work …

[polarathene]

I'd be interested in seeing how NixOS compares to others like ClearLinux and Arch or what I use Manjaro(some nice defaults like BFQ). Another distro that could be interesting to see compared is KaOS which is purely focused on KDE, they're a little too strict on that goal for my interests but how it performs against the usual popular KDE distro's would be interesting.

[nomadewolf]

NixOS looks like a promising base for other distros to improve on. If they actually manage to achieve what they set out to.