SkiffOS
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SkiffOS | nixpkgs | |
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42 | 973 | |
664 | 15,656 | |
1.5% | 5.3% | |
9.4 | 10.0 | |
4 days ago | about 7 hours ago | |
Shell | Nix | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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.
SkiffOS
- Linux-factory: A framework used to create custom Linux Debian operating systems
- SkiffOS: easily run any distro on Raspberry Pi: supports Gentoo, Fedora, Alpine, Ubuntu, Debian
- SkiffOS: Reliably run any Linux distribution on any hardware with a cross-compiled host OS for containerized environments.
- WSL now has built in systemd support
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Questions about the XU4Q as a backup server
SkiffOS supports the XU4Q and will continue to probably forever. https://github.com/SkiffOS/skiffos
- SkiffOS Linux now supports BeagleV/VisionFive and Allwinner D1 risc-v SBCs
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Odroid M1 with SkiffOS (Buildroot) cross-compiled OS w/ Gentoo, Alpine, Debian, and more
SkiffOS adds a configuration layering system to the Buildroot cross-compiler, which makes it easy to re-target applications to new hardware. Layers are merged together as specified in the SKIFF_CONFIG comma-separated environment variable.
- SkiffOS / Buildroot now support the Lichee RV Dock and Nezha Risc-V Boards
- How is Aarm64 support? I was considering building my own setup based on gentoo in a vm on my m1 MacBook air.
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RISC-V Archlinux D1 LicheeRV image builder
Add to the list Buildroot and https://github.com/skiffos/skiffos/ !
nixpkgs
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
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Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
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3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
For a single file script, nix can make the package management quite easy: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
For example,
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- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
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NixOS Is Not Reproducible
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
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The xz attack shell script
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
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Debian Git Monorepo
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone's love it.
I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages.
Nixpkgs doesn't include the packaged software source code, so it's a lot more practical than what Debian is doing.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
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GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo
True, but irrelevant -- _some packages_, _somewhere_, do depend on xz, which, if built, requires pulling the source from GitHub (see the default.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/tools...)
It's not the vulnerability that's a problem right now (NixOS was protected by a couple of factors) but rather GitHub's hamfisted response.
That is the problem.
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Combining Nix with Terraform for better DevOps
We’ve noticed that some users have been asking about how to use older versions of Terraform in their Nix setups [1, 2]. This is an example of the diverse needs of people and the importance of maintaining backward compatibility. We hope that nixpkgs-terraform will be a useful tool for these users.
What are some alternatives?
FunKey-OS - Buildroot-based embedded Linux OS for the FunKey S retro-gaming console
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
licheepi-nano-buildroot - Config files for full Lichee Pi Nano Linux image build
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
pineroot - Buildroot environment for Pinephone with QT.
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
linuxdeploy-cli - Linux Deploy CLI
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
openwrt-tailscale-enabler - Brings Tailscale to low powered OpenWRT devices
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
pve-edge-kernel - Newer Linux kernels for Proxmox VE 7
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.