nixos
My system configuration (by jankaifer)
nixos-fhs-compat
LSB&FHS compatibility for NixOS. Intended for containers and VMs. (by balsoft)
| nixos | nixos-fhs-compat | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | |
| 7 | 51 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.7 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Nix | Nix | |
| MIT 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.
nixos
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos.
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and similar projects.
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My internal screen freezes on Linux since kernel 6.0.0
I'm running NixOS with the following configuration: https://github.com/JanKaifer/nixos/tree/main/machines/pearframe
nixos-fhs-compat
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-fhs-compat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-18.
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Why can't things "just work" on NixOS?
You can, in theory, use https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-fhs-compat for this.
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Arch + NixOS at once?
There's also nix-alien to run random binaries and nixos-fhs-compat to FHS your OS (might need some tweaking).
- The Curse of NixOS
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Containers with easy graphics acceleration?
Thanks, it was fun working with containers in NixOS! I tweaked the config a little bit so that the DISPLAY variable is automatically set and I also added nixos-fhs-compat's modules so that the guest OS uses FHS. Overall, a very slick setup if you want to run GPU-accelerated software quickly or what to do software development in a more traditional environment.
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Way to install apps in their own FHS environment.
There's buildFHSUserEnv as the proper way to run those apps, and there's also a massive hack that I don't really recommend using on your host: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-fhs-compat . If you want to use it, do it with something similar to this: https://github.com/balsoft/kalinix/blob/master/scripts/run-container and then run your vscode/android studio/etc inside that container. The final option is to just run another distro with docker or lxc, set up X11/Wayland passthru to it and run stubborn applications that way.
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Do we need an alternative to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard?
The root filesystem only contains two FHS-y symbolic links by default: /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env (and some /etc stuff that is hardcoded in some applications and wasn't considered to be worth patching). All the other files are kept in non-FHS-compliant locations (/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/*/default and /run/current-system/sw or /nix/var/nix/profiles/system). This means, for example, that binaries from other Linux distros won't run unless they have been statically compiled with musl (because there's no dynamic linker at /lib/ld-linux.so.2). There's this hack courtesy of Matthew Bauer that links stuff to FHS locations: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-fhs-compat , but it's not supported upstream and it doesn't change how all the internal Nix stuff works, it's only a wrapper to allow running FHS and LSP-reliant binaries.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nixos and nixos-fhs-compat you can also consider the following projects:
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
nix-alien - Run unpatched binaries on Nix/NixOS
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell
kalinix - A pentesting/CTF toolbox with the help of Nix
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
nixos
nix-environments - Repository to maintain out-of-tree shell.nix files (maintainer=@mic92)
docker-files
envfs - Fuse filesystem that returns symlinks to executables based on the PATH of the requesting process.