em-dosbox VS nixpkgs

Compare em-dosbox vs nixpkgs and see what are their differences.

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em-dosbox nixpkgs
113 972
1,194 15,581
- 4.9%
0.0 10.0
over 1 year ago 6 days ago
C++ Nix
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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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.

em-dosbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of em-dosbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-12.

nixpkgs

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixpkgs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.
  • Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
    I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
  • 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
    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,

    ```

  • NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
  • NixOS Is Not Reproducible
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2024
    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...
  • The xz attack shell script
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024
    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...
  • Debian Git Monorepo
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024
    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

  • From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024
    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...

  • GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024
    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.

  • Combining Nix with Terraform for better DevOps
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Mar 2024
    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.
  • Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2024
    I think whateveracct was referring to is this link:

    https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...

    What that file is doing, is building a package, and it essentially is a combination of what Makefile and what RPM spec file does.

    I don't know if you're familiar with those tools, but if you aren't it takes some time to know them enough to understand what is happening. So why would be different here?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing em-dosbox and nixpkgs you can also consider the following projects:

86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

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

pcem - PCem

git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files

dosbox-staging - DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications

scummvm - ScummVM main repository

spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

winevdm - 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.