flake-utils-plus VS not-os

Compare flake-utils-plus vs not-os and see what are their differences.

flake-utils-plus

Use Nix flakes without any fluff. (by gytis-ivaskevicius)

not-os

An operating system generator, based on NixOS, that, given a config, outputs a small (47 MB), read-only squashfs for a runit-based operating system, with support for iPXE and signed boot. (by cleverca22)
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flake-utils-plus not-os
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5.7 6.1
5 months ago 15 days ago
Nix Nix
MIT License MIT License
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flake-utils-plus

Posts with mentions or reviews of flake-utils-plus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-26.

not-os

Posts with mentions or reviews of not-os. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-28.
  • Gobolinux
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2021
    oh oops, I think I was intending to type "crowd source" but I really met "crowd fund".

    I do want to finish my FreeBSD cross PR, but is is hard. We already have NetBSD working, including building the kernel, so I think it is better to start there.

    I opened https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os/issues/16 because I think that would be the absolute easiest first step, with the fewest moving parts. But I don't know how kernels, even Linux, are packaged into bootable thingies at all.

  • What does the minimal version of NixOS consist of?
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 31 Oct 2021
    I also found this: https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os
  • NixOS 21.05 Released
    39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2021
    It's like an OS that has builtin salt/ansible/chef/puppet.

    Because Nix language describe the OS instead of what to change/configure it's superior to these tools, and solves the problem that supposedly same machines are drifting apart.

    For example if in the CM you tell it to install a package, then change your mind and remove the entry that does it. The package will remain installed.

    With NixOS if you remove the package from configuration, it's gone.

    I personally really like Nix's building capability. For example I can use it to generate a minimal docker container. It requires some knowledge, but I can also modify compilation options in dependencies (like remove unneeded functionality).

    It looks like there's also an option to similarly build lightweight OS images[1]. I haven't tried it yet but looks cool.

    [1] https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os

    39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2021
    Yes, it's extremely powerful once you truly understand Nix.

    There are efforts to improve documentation, but it still is lacking (I think the biggest problem is that Nix is so big, not just the OS but it can be utilized as a build system).

    Just with NixOS is not exactly clear how can you for example build your custom image.

    I think https://nix.dev/ is approaching the documentation from the right direction.

    There are also many pieces that people built that you need to find.

    For example some things that I found accidentally:

    * https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle

    * https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os

    Unfortunately those side projects often have even worse documentation.

  • Is it possible to deploy configuration as code?
    2 projects | /r/DDWRT | 30 May 2021
    You might want to check out https://github.com/telent/nixwrt and https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os as solutions with similar goals. The former is a promising but yet-unfinished way of using Nix to manage a router, while the latter is a similar way of using Nix to generate an immutable OS image.
  • Is it possible to replace systemd with runit?
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 29 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

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poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]

NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container

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deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.

nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework

NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]

rfcs - The Nix community RFCs

digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.