nonguix VS Cobbler

Their software freedom policy seems to be similar to Debian. All free by default, allow separate nonfree addon. In the case of Guix you can find that here: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix .

The GUIX community has a non-free package repo, you just add it as a GUIX channel and problem solved:

https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

Yes, being a GNU project Guix has a strict free software only policy. The biggest channel (repo) with proprietary stuff for Guix is called nonguix. It has the vanilla kernel, Nvidia drivers and a number of other proprietary packages including Steam, Chrome and the like. I don't know what the state of ZFS on Guix is though as I don't care for it myself, but I can see why its inclusion would be questioned with regards to licensing.

Since Guix is a GNU project, it doesn't support proprietary software (Steam, Discord, Zoom...). Third-party repos are available for it.

There's a git lab repo for non-free/libre software that you can add as a channel when installing. I used the following guide that shows you how to do this.

I'm trying to enable substitues for nonguix. I added the code snippet from the nonguix website to my system.scm file per the instructions. When I try to reconfigure I get the following error:

I'm looking for Windows Deployment Services equivalent for my Linux network. At the momment i'm using Cobbler (https://cobbler.github.io/) but i'm are looking for a software where i could place .iso images and PXE boot for any machine.

Check out this project: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler

Take a look at Cobbler. I've used it for quite a few years & love it. It supports both preseed & kickstart.

I haven't setup a PXE server in a long time. There are management tools like MaaS, Collins, Cobbler, etc that deal with the provisioning of systems.

For users and enthusiasts of the Cobbler System http://cobbler.github.io/

if you built a Linux Cobbler server you can do this all

In regard on how to distribute things: If you just want an installation server then I would recommend Cobbler. This server is what is used by Uyuni under the hood for auto-installations. But this would be only reasonable if you really want to try to distribute in a broader way. I am aware that both projects are used from a couple of multiple thousands of machines. So you should be able to bend that system to your desire.

In regard to the installation I would recommend you to have a look at github.com/cobbler/cobbler/ because it would also enable bare-metal provisioning in many scenarios.

What about: Cobbler xCAT