guix-installer
nickel
guix-installer | nickel | |
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6 | 46 | |
203 | 2,153 | |
2.5% | 2.8% | |
4.6 | 9.5 | |
about 1 month ago | 4 days ago | |
Scheme | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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guix-installer
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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/
nickel
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Nix – A One Pager
So, its key features are:
1. domain-specific: designed for conveniently creating and composing derivations. This reason alone already justifies a new language, or an embedded domain-specific language (such as the Guile/Scheme for guix), or a mix of both (Starlark, the build language of Bazel embedded in a restricted Python-variant).
2. purely functional: this ties well into the philosophical backing of Nix the package manager, which aims to be purely functional, also known as hermeticity in other build systems (Bazel).
3. lazily evaluated: similar to other build systems (including Bazel), so that you can build only what you need on demand.
4. dynamically typed: this one is controversial. Being dynamically typed—in other words, not developing a type system—gets Nix out of the door first. But users often complain about the lack of proper types and modularity. There are experiments to address this, such as Nickel (https://github.com/tweag/nickel).
It is understandable that a one-pager may not have space for the whys.
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10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
Nickel:Nickel is a straightforward configuration language aimed at automatically generating static configuration files. Essentially, it's akin to JSON with the addition of functions and types.
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Show HN: Togomak – declarative pipeline orchestrator based on HCL and Terraform
Also look at nickel which is an evolution of nix. It's my favorite in this space.
nickel-lang.org
https://github.com/tweag/nickel
- Show HN: Flake schemas – teaching Nix about your flake outputs
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What config format do you prefer?
Or this https://github.com/tweag/nickel
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Nickel 1.0
Nickel is a programming language. While HCL is just a configuration format, so not really comparable.
Here's a comparison with similar tools: https://github.com/tweag/nickel#comparison
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Announcing Nickel 1.0, a configuration language written in (and usable from) Rust
As for 'providence', I suppose you meant provenance :) it's been delayed because this was less critical for 1.0 to decide on or to implement (as it: it doesn't break backward compatibility in any way to add this feature in the short term), but this is very much on the roadmap: Issue #235. That's a must-have in a language with merging like Nickel.
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Rewrite it in Rust: Kubernetes
Have you considered using a different language for templating? this could be a BIG selling point. Some good ones are cue-lang (though I haven't seen support for rust), kcl or nickel-lang.
- Nickel v1.0.0
- Design rationale for the Nickel configuration language
What are some alternatives?
nonguix
rnix-lsp - WIP Language Server for Nix! [maintainer=@aaronjanse]
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
nixos - My NixOS Configurations
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
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]
nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script
AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
nix-home - Nix + HM = <3
nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius]