# sixos: a nix os without systemd

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**Created:** [January 1, 2025, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/sixos-a-nix-os-without-systemd/58141 "2025-01-01T11:30:45Z")
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### Author: ![hugosenari](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/hugosenari/32/5630_2.png) [@hugosenari](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/hugosenari)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/sixos-a-nix-os-without-systemd/58141/9 "2025-01-03T05:57:21Z")

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> [@allrealmsoflife](#):
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> author is here as amjoseph

By this talk, I think @amjoseph is nowhere. I hope he found a new home already.

Notes I have for him:

- What you think about nickel?
  - created to be Nix with type and maybe someday replace nix

- Modules has “override options”, but packages aren’t modules
  - check [Aux Foundation](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/aux-foundational-packages/46707/1) and [drv-parts](https://github.com/DavHau/drv-parts/tree/categories?tab=readme-ov-file#drv-parts) (that now was merged with dream2nix) to packages as modules
  - But I think infusion would be easier to integrate with nixpkgs.

- There were other attempts to use S6 before, for embedded (???) and [docker](https://github.com/cloudwatt/nix-container-images/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file#declarative-container-images-with-nix), have you tested it?
- S6-init can be replaced by S6-svc as PID 1 after boot, at least s6-rc used to states something like that, it works?
- S6-rc is ready? Last time I checked (2 years ago), S6-svc was ready but s6-rc wasn’t, may break your expectation with stable interface.
- Have you played with Skabus (skarnet dbus)?
- Great work, I always hoped to something like that. 👏

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