impermanence
Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz] (by nix-community)
pykgr
Reproducible builds with python3 (by DylanEHolland)
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| impermanence | pykgr | |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | 1 | |
| 893 | 0 | |
| 11.9% | - | |
| 5.9 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 2 years ago | |
| Nix | Python | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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.
impermanence
Posts with mentions or reviews of impermanence.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.
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Ask HN: How to Manage Phones and PCs for Elderly Parents?
You might want to set up NixOS with impermanence, with something like https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence. Install an easy to use desktop environment like ElementaryOS, and configure NixOS with or without Flatpak, if you want to give the user the ability to install new software or not. Then set up automatic updates, automatic garbage collection and you have a truly stable system.
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Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
I would not call these projects unbelievable, but they are neat.
- Opt-in state: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence and https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/
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Every NixOS rebuild creates a new Tailscale machine
That way will work - I use the impermanence module which works similarly but allows to hide mounts.
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Silverblue users: why?
This is indeed a blind spot. Thanks for pointing that out! Silverblue -to my knowledge- doesn't do a lot to address this. Though, 3rd-party tools like Home Manager and the suite of applications developed by the folks over at uBlue might be able to limit this to a minimum. Though I'm not sure if it surpasses NixOS in this regard; for the uninitiated. Though, to my knowledge, this requires special attention and depends on the specifics of the NixOS system in question.
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NixOS for the Impatient
[3]: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
- How to add impermanence afterwards?
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File system choice for Impermanence setup
I have recently stumbled upon Impermanence - modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage, and the concept seems quite nice.
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Erase your darlings: Can this be applied to /home?
I haven't used it yet but nix-community/impermanence has a home-manager module that might be useful.
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Interested in NixOS, have some questions
Some files in /etc (like saved networks) will still not be managed by NixOS, if you want to have full control over them use Impermanence
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Upgrading to NixOS 22.11 Issue
{ imports = [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix") "${builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware.git"; }}/system76" "${builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence.git"; }}/nixos.nix" ];
pykgr
Posts with mentions or reviews of pykgr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-24.
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The Curse of NixOS
Not being able to use it in a home directory without root was a major turn off for me. I actually started writing a python module to install packages in a way similar to nix (albeit I never got to reproducibility) but ran into problems building glibc and installing it to the home dir. I’d like to continue it one day.
https://github.com/DylanEHolland/pykgr
What are some alternatives?
When comparing impermanence and pykgr you can also consider the following projects:
home-manager - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee] [Moved to: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager]
aconfmgr - A configuration manager for Arch Linux
nix-config - Nix configurations
star-history - The missing star history graph of GitHub repos - https://star-history.com
nixpkgs - My Nix system configs!
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
nix-config - :space_invader: NixOS configuration
nix-embedded - Nix embedded image generator.
raspi-overlayroot - Protect your SD card against wear and tear
nonguix
dotfiles - My personal dotfiles
nixos-beginners-handbook - The missing handbook for NixOS beginners