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I'm not sold on the name, but I'm definitely interested in the fork. I think there is an irreconcilable schism in the NixOS community that cannot be fixed unless the Benevolent Dictator steps down as leader, and it sure seems like he's not gonna do that, as he's built his entire company on top of NixOS.
It happened: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552 Lemmy post
We'll see exactly what this means. But I would love if it means that the project manages to continue without the huge amount of confusion and disruption that would come from forks fighting for becoming the canonical source.
Unlikely. I expect it will mean that the infighting that led to this point will continue as the core compass of the project has been exorcised.
As an outsider it appears that nix is killing itself over nothing.