The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
root
Posts with mentions or reviews of root.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-15.
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SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing
NixOS hardening with (slightly wonky) tests[1], in case anyone's interested.
[1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root/-/merge_requests/395/diffs
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Dotfiles Management
Any home-manager users on NixOS here? Are there any killer features in home-manager for you? I tried home-manager for a bit, but just went back to plain NixOS after I couldn't find anything it did better than what I was already using ([1], [2]).
[1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/tilde
[2] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root
configs
Posts with mentions or reviews of configs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
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Dotfiles Management
I found that most tooling was overkill and now just use a single <100 Bash script [0].
[0] https://github.com/TheKnarf/configs/blob/master/setup
What are some alternatives?
When comparing root and configs you can also consider the following projects:
homer - The home directory management tool.
homies - My configuration files (.screenrc, .vimrc, .weechat, .bashrc, .gitconfig, etc)
dotfiles - dotfiles + debian setup
dot-git - Managing your dotfiles the Git Way™
npt - Nix Package Tool. A (humble) successor to linux's apt, which makes life easier when using nix as a package manager.
filetailor - Copy and modify plain text files between devices without templates
tilde
dot - A CLI tool for managing your dotfiles.