nonguix
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A GNU Guix installer image with the full Linux kernel! (by SystemCrafters)
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| nonguix | guix-installer | |
|---|---|---|
| 79 | 6 | |
| - | 201 | |
| - | 3.0% | |
| - | 4.6 | |
| - | 24 days ago | |
| Scheme | ||
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
nonguix
Posts with mentions or reviews of nonguix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.
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Nix – A One Pager
Their software freedom policy seems to be similar to Debian. All free by default, allow separate nonfree addon. In the case of Guix you can find that here: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix .
- Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
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Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager
The GUIX community has a non-free package repo, you just add it as a GUIX channel and problem solved:
https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
- The many issues plaguing Nix
- Nonguix
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My Void experience, so you don't have to
Yes, being a GNU project Guix has a strict free software only policy. The biggest channel (repo) with proprietary stuff for Guix is called nonguix. It has the vanilla kernel, Nvidia drivers and a number of other proprietary packages including Steam, Chrome and the like. I don't know what the state of ZFS on Guix is though as I don't care for it myself, but I can see why its inclusion would be questioned with regards to licensing.
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Differences between nixos and guix?
Since Guix is a GNU project, it doesn't support proprietary software (Steam, Discord, Zoom...). Third-party repos are available for it.
- Cannot install firefox in guix
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I'm not fond of nix syntax, how difficult will it be to switch to guix
There's a git lab repo for non-free/libre software that you can add as a channel when installing. I used the following guide that shows you how to do this.
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Invalid Field Specifier
I'm trying to enable substitues for nonguix. I added the code snippet from the nonguix website to my system.scm file per the instructions. When I try to reconfigure I get the following error:
guix-installer
Posts with mentions or reviews of guix-installer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-08.
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The guide to software development with Guix
I've been using Guix for a bit over 2 months at this point and honestly the whole 'non-free' software thing has not been an issue in the slightest. Use the System Crafters installation iso [1] to get around driver issues on install, and then the only time I've ever had the system complain to me was it warning me one of my hardware components wouldn't work (which it did, since the System Crafters ISO uses the standard Linux kernel). Afterwards, just add nonguix (and I even added Nix as well, so I get the best of both worlds!) If a package isn't in Guix and I don't want to make a package definition, I simply pull it using Nix home-manager. May not be the best or 'proper' setup, but I find it works well enough. [2]
[1]: https://github.com/SystemCrafters/guix-installer/releases
[2]: https://g.stationery.lol/ryan77627/guix-dotfiles
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tried to install but wont work with ethernet
You can try with: https://github.com/SystemCrafters/guix-installer/releases/tag/v202201150226
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Git-like system management
As for hardware compability, worry not! There's Nonguix! A bunch of nonfree packages including firmware and drivers for Guix! There's also an ISO image of it and even a nice Nonguix installation guide video by David/System Crafters.
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Nix: An idea whose time has come
There's also a community image (iso) of it made by System Crafters here.
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Installation errors on Thinkpad T14s
If you need a nonguix installation image, check out the prebuilt one by System Crafters
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2nd attempt to install and use GNU Guix with Gnome, total failure
I used the installation wizard from this image: https://github.com/SystemCrafters/guix-installer/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nonguix and guix-installer you can also consider the following projects:
guix-nonfree - Unofficial collection of packages that are not going to be accepted in to guix
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
com.valvesoftware.Steam
nickel - Better configuration for less
guix-nonfree
nickel-nix - An experimental Nix toolkit to use nickel as a language for writing nix packages, shells and more. [Moved to: https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist]
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
flake - My computing life in Nix.
Cobbler - Cobbler is a versatile Linux deployment server