From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Thompson Subject: Re: A secure multimedia workstation Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:55:24 -0500 Message-ID: <87siefgeb7.fsf@fsf.org> References: <87y4o9xqts.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKsYR-00009I-NR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:55:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKsYQ-0006ew-Ap for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:55:27 -0500 Received: from mail.fsf.org ([208.118.235.13]:38991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKsYQ-0006es-88 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:55:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Dirk Scheuring , guix-devel@gnu.org Dirk Scheuring writes: > https://www.domenkozar.com/2014/03/11/why-puppet-chef-ansible-arent-good-enough-and-we-can-do-better/ I really like this article. It does a good job of classifying the various configuration management tools in mainstream use (imperative, stateful declarative) and showing how the stateless declarative configuration offered by Nix and Guix is both simpler and technically superior. -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate