nix-config
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5 | 8 | |
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4.5 | 10.0 | |
over 2 years ago | about 5 years ago | |
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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.
nix-config
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20 Years of Nix
> I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywhere due to SquashFS errors.
Heh, that reminds me of installing NixOS back around 2014. I didn't have any way to physically boot off the install CD; so I ran it in qemu, using my real /dev/sda as the "virtual" hard drive (which I'd already partitioned). Thankfully there was no interference with the host system (Trisquel).
I'm still using (and evolved version of) the same NixOS config to this day; it still contains the following comment ( https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/nixos/machin... ):
trace "FIXME: Which modules are artefacts of using QEMU to install?"
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The Curse of NixOS
Where nixpkgs2105 is a pinned revision of the Nixpkgs repo, defined in another overlay. My current Nix config has pinned Nixpkgs versions going back to 2016. For example, here's a bunch of such overrides:
https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/overrides/fi...
At the moment I'm using niv to manage the pinned Nixpkgs versions (the 'repoXXXX' entries):
https://github.com/Warbo/nix-helpers/blob/master/nix/sources...
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
`nix-env` is an imperative command, whilst writing a .nix file is declarative. In particular, the latter can be managed using git.
For example, here's a system-wide config dating back to Feb 2015: https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config
(That's actually a NixOS config; my macOS config is in a private repo, but it imports that repo to define its "one big system package")
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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
> I'd like to see other configs from nix users too if you're still here!
Here's mine https://github.com/warbo/nix-config
I've used Nix/NixOS for about 8 years, but not delved into flakes yet.
.nixpkgs
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
Regarding GUI applications: you're probably talking about the Nixpkgs repository, rather than the Nix tool itself.
I use the following Nix function to install GUI applications https://github.com/cmacrae/.nixpkgs/blob/d4b51eb414b0edaffae...
It doesn't work for everything, but I use it at the moment for Amethyst, DBeaver, DockerDesktop, Emacs, Firefox, iTerm2, Postman, Slack and VNCViewer.
What are some alternatives?
homebrew-cask-versions - 🔢 Alternate versions of Casks
pkgsrc - NetBSD/pkgsrc fork for our binary package repositories
opensource.how - Open-source etiquette
nvd
arkade - Open Source Marketplace For Developer Tools
homebrew-graph - Creates a dependency graph of Homebrew formulae.
homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
nix-helpers - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-helpers.git
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)