templates
Flake templates (by NixOS)
system-manager
Manage system config using nix on any distro (by numtide)
templates | system-manager | |
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10 | 7 | |
365 | 538 | |
3.6% | 11.3% | |
6.0 | 8.8 | |
26 days ago | 1 day ago | |
Nix | Rust | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
templates
Posts with mentions or reviews of templates.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.
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What does the function `nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem` do?
Unless you want to handwire something together or use another higher level function from some 3rd party library, your want to use this function. It is basically the entrypoint to a flake based nixos system configuration. See https://github.com/NixOS/templates/blob/master/simple-container/flake.nix for an example.
- Would it make sense to start a repo which contains some "standard" flake.nix files for various types of projects?
- Have you convinced anyone to use Nix or NixOS? Friends? Coworkers?
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Why can't things "just work" on NixOS?
There are some templates on the official repository. https://github.com/NixOS/templates You can find others on github.
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Big list of Flakes tutorials
Don’t forget about the official templates. Built right into the CLI https://github.com/NixOS/templates
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Nix flake --impure segfaults
I am new to nix, and even newer when it comes to using flakes. I was trying out the following simple flake (based on this template), which just terminates with a segmentation fault whenever I use --impure flag (e.g. nix develop --impure)
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Help me understand how to install something that isn't in the official nixpkgs
You would probably want to use flakes. There is NixOS/templates repo with flake templates. Take a look at go-hello one.
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I created a super simple flake.nix template so you can finally use python painlessly in your nix projects. Just copy a few lines over into your flake.nix and you can use all of PyPi :)
You should consider adding this as a template to https://github.com/nixos/templates.
- Have you heard of NixOS/template?
system-manager
Posts with mentions or reviews of system-manager.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.
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What is there to NixOS that is not just `nix` the package/config/whatever manager?
I meant that both /etc and systemd management are possible via nix on non-nixos, using a flake that has system-manager (see https://github.com/numtide/system-manager) as an input
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Does anyone use system-manager or some alternative?
When I changed self.lib to sysmgr.lib (my intention being to try to use https://github.com/numtide/system-manager/blob/master/nix/lib.nix which actually has makeSystemConfig defined), I ended up with this error:
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How to install Nix packages and use their provided systemd services on another distro?
I haven't used it but system-manager might help https://github.com/numtide/system-manager
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What is the difference between NixOS and any other distro running the nix package manager?
actually there is system-manager for managing a lot of system-level config including systemd stuff
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Have you convinced anyone to use Nix or NixOS? Friends? Coworkers?
None at all, I recommend Nix package manager and home-manager. As time progresses and system-manager grows in popularity I could start recommending that too.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing templates and system-manager you can also consider the following projects:
nix-templates - Nix Flake templates for various languages
supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)
nix-flake-templates
nix-software-center - A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages
pypi-deps-db - Dependency DB for python packages on pypi
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
mach-nix-template - Simple and straight-forward way to create python environments using PyPi in nix
nixos
nix-template - Make creating nix expressions easy
system-config
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
dex - OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors
templates vs nix-templates
system-manager vs supervisor
templates vs nix-flake-templates
system-manager vs nix-software-center
templates vs pypi-deps-db
system-manager vs Home Manager using Nix
templates vs mach-nix-template
system-manager vs nixos
templates vs nix-template
system-manager vs system-config
templates vs nixpkgs
system-manager vs dex