SCALE-MAMBA vs nix-user-chroot

SCALE-MAMBA

Repository for the SCALE-MAMBA MPC system (by KULeuven-COSIC)

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nix-user-chroot

Install & Run nix without root permissions [maintainer=@Mic92] (by nix-community)

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SCALE-MAMBA		nix-user-chroot
	Project
1	Mentions	5
238	Stars	263
0.8%	Growth	4.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
8 months ago	Latest Commit	11 months ago
Verilog	Language	Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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SCALE-MAMBA

Posts with mentions or reviews of SCALE-MAMBA. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-08.

Rebuild single nixpkg for nix-shell?
2 projects | /r/Nix | 8 Nov 2022

I'm trying to run SCALE-MAMBA, which uses a shell.nix script to help fetch its many obscure build dependencies.

nix-user-chroot

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-user-chroot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-04.

is it possible to install the nix package manager with no root privleges?
2 projects | /r/Nix | 4 Feb 2023
Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2023

> There are workarounds but none of them official.
But does it need to be official? Wouldn't that at the same time bloat nix even more? Isn't it enough if core people of the community for example build https://github.com/nix-community/nix-user-chroot ?
> In reality the only easy way to get it done is to use additional non-foss software
That is not true at all. You can use a nix docker image, a 5 line nix file and 2 commands to do a very basic CI pipeline almost anywhere.
Rebuild single nixpkg for nix-shell?
2 projects | /r/Nix | 8 Nov 2022

I'm using nix-user-chroot.
Hacking Anything with GNU Guix
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2022

Not sure about guix, but for nixos we have https://github.com/nix-community/nix-user-chroot
Install Sway without sudo privilege
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 26 Jun 2021

You could try nix-user-chroot to install Nix and get Sway (and other stuff) that way - no need to compile it yourself.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SCALE-MAMBA and nix-user-chroot you can also consider the following projects:

json-c - https://github.com/json-c/json-c is the official code repository for json-c. See the wiki for release tarballs for download. API docs at http://json-c.github.io/json-c/

nix-portable - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured

nix.dev - Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.

nix-installers - Nix installers for legacy distributions (rpm & deb & pacman) [maintainer=@adisbladis]

awesome-nix-hpc - high performance computing related nix resources

xmake-repo - 📦 An official xmake package repository

guix-notes - This repo has moved to https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes Notes on Guix

nix-starter-configs - Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!

nonguix

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]