nixfiles
My NixOS configuration and assorted other crap. (by barrucadu)
os
My OS & dotfiles configuration for Linux and MacOS devices (Nix) (by skogsbrus)
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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.
nixfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
- My First Impressions of Nix
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How can I calculate the "age of money" with (h)ledger?
If you're familiar with Python, I have a script which does that (along with a few other metrics): https://github.com/barrucadu/nixfiles/blob/1c99414156a7081ade210a9f43a3941b44a4ef0b/hosts/nyarlathotep/jobs/hledger-export-to-promscale.py
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Issues getting docker containers with databases set up
I run a lot of services through docker containers, here's how I structure things: https://github.com/barrucadu/nixfiles/blob/master/services/concourse.nix
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Who's here runs NixOS with opt in state?
I do. I have a fairly small chunk of configuration to stick all persistent state I care about in a different ZFS dataset (mounted to /persist) and do the rollback.
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Do you all just git init inside your /etc/nixos directory?
It's what I do.
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Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems (erasing root on every boot)
You can see the relevant bit of my config on github.
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How do you manage your private keys?
My solution - which is not great, mind you - is to have my NixOS config defined across two git repos: one is public, the other is private and has all the secrets.
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Erasing root on every boot
All my nixos config is on github.
os
Posts with mentions or reviews of os.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nixfiles and os you can also consider the following projects:
sops-nix - Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
nixos-configurations
NixOS-Guide - NixOS Guide. Learn all about the immutable Nix Operating System and the declarative Nix Expression Language.
nixos-config - My Personal Nix/NixOS Configuration.
agenix - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
fleek - [deprecated] Own your $HOME
.dots - just my .dotfiles
musnix - Real-time audio in NixOS
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
dotfiles - My NixOS dotfiles
impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
dotfiles - Miscellaneous config files (legacy)