Visiting Nix package manager and Rocket

Nix, NixOS, Rust

An enthusiast gives it a spin+ 

I used to visit NixOS once a year; I did it every year from 2010-12 then stopped.  Things have progressed immensely but I don't have a home application for what NixOS does.  If you don't have need of a reliably reproducible system its like trying to drive a zamboni wrapped in plastic wrap.  And why it's not.  There's a live cd give it a whirl.

 How refreshing to discover Xe and her website.  Here's how she uses Nix (package manager) and NixOS:

 I have the configuration for my shell, emacs, my window manager and just about every program I use on a regular basis defined in their own NixOS modules so I can pick and choose things for new machines.

  Xe 

As an example of devotion to NixOS see the highly entertaining: ianthehenry.com

I am going to try to replicate Xe's example on the Windfall System.  

 

healthcare.gov on Ubuntu / VirtualBox

What:  healthcare.gov website

On: Ubuntu / VirtualBox

Why: Why not?

 The Doing:  A few easy steps 

Get the source

https://github.com/Conservatory/healthcare.gov-2013-10-01
Follow the build instructions in the README.md file.

Setup the environment

VirtualBox

VirtualBox 4.1.23
VirtualBox 4.2.18

VirtualBox 4.3.0
Don't forget to install the guest additions.

Ubuntu

* Ubuntu 10.10 (EOL)
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
 ? Ubuntu 13.10

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
This version was just right.  All the Gems and Ruby on Rails installed without a peep.  This was left out of the readme instructions

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev

Now wait a little while after

jekyll serve

Then in the web browser go to this URL:
http://localhost:4000

I wasn't getting the web site but then I noticed that I had typed 4400 instead of 4000.

Enjoy!






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* Ubuntu 10.10 (EOL)

 gem install bundler

 will keep complaining about zlib being incompatible or whatnot.  Just move on to a more recent or at least an LTS version of Ubuntu.  No need to suffer inst. hell.

 ? Ubuntu 13.10 Didn't try this yet.

bitnami LAMP install unattended install

I love bitnami because it makes installing Joomla, Alfresco, and Redmine a snap.
I turned to the QuickStart Guide (nice, I wish more software came with one) but it misspelled the password command (where do I file a bug?)

You can see the correct options by using bitnami-lampstack-1.2-0-linux-installer.bin --help
This worked:


sudo /home/mohish/bitnami-lampstack-1.2-0-linux-installer.bin --mode unattended --base_password MY_password