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20 Years of Nix
As far as I know, it’s still about [0]. I’ve had a better experience with deploy-rs though [1] - or even just using nixos-rebuild to target the remote machine.
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Will we move away from DSLs?
For example Nix can already replace ansible, packer, cloudformation[1], dockerfiles.
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NixOS History and Our Experience - Nix, Null, Nada, Nothing
Nix can also ship the nixpkgs as an oci image (e.g. docker image), vm image, iso, or if you're able to: as a nixos configuration. Tools like nixops can allow you to deploy many machines and have their behavior exactly specified, and the configuration can be version controlled. NixOS configuration can be thought of as congruent configuration management, where many other tools give you many less guarantees about configuration drift and reproducibility.
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The best solution for deploying flakes
There are 4 tools I'm taking into consideration right now, but every suggestion is welcome: 1. deploy-rs - I don't know anything about it, heard about it like a day or two ago 2. NixOps - the official one, I don't know what to think, but I have concerns about Flakes compatibility 3. morph - I understand this as "NixOps, but better", no more toughs. 4. colmena - seems to be pretty straightforward with quite nice docs
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Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentalized Linux
I'm still relatively new to NixOS, having switched all my personal systems over to it this spring/summer. I don't have a detailed answer to your question, but I believe NixOPs is the canonical way to do what you're describing in production/at scale:
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NixOS 21.05 Released!
Well, everyone of course! But especially devops, developers, power-users, and ricer folks. Due to the declarative and purity aspect of nixpkgs, all builds and configurations can be version controlled, cached and shared. NixOS can easily be extended to produce docker images, vm images, or even distributed deployments. You can also write reproducible multi-node integration tests. Tinkerers! Love playing around with the latest desktop manager or modifying builds? Nixpkgs allows you to modify any package you wish to, locally! Nixpkgs is actually a source distribution but its guarantees around purity and reproducibility are so strong that you can get a binary cache "for free".
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Backblaze Is Now a Terraform Provider
You could use NixOps[0] for Nix but I'm not sure you can directly compare Terraform and Guix/Nix? My set up involves Terraform for infrastructure and Nix for provisioning, and it's working for me so far.
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Benefits/disadvantages of Guix System in general and over NixOS?
I'll have to read more about NixOps though, I had kind of forgotten that it existed!
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NixOS Linux
Kind of off topic, but I would love to have NixOps (https://github.com/NixOS/nixops) as an abstraction layer for every type of cloud service, and not just virtual machines (e.g. queues, object storages, etc).
There is Terraform and Ansible, of course, but Nix seems like it could combine the strengths of both of them.
darling
- Zed is now open source
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MacOS like WINE
There is actually a Wine-like transplier called Darling. The problem is that development is very slow because there is not as much need for MacOS programs on Linux, and there is a huge shortage of volunteers and manpower. And it has been rendered almost obsolete because Apple moved to ARM. Additionally 90% of Apple's API is closed source despite Apple claiming to champion open source.
There's https://www.darlinghq.org/ , but it's much less mature and less capable than Wine, today. There are a variety of reasons for that. One of them is that Wine started much earlier, in 1993, vs in 2012. One of them is that there's a much larger library of existing Win32 software, which tends to mean that there's more interest in providing a compatible runtime for that software. And one is simply that there are commercial vendors like Valve working on Wine in order to ensure that Microsoft can't lock them into a platform like Apple's App Store and demand a significant percentage of all sales as Apple does for iOS.
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RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
Unfortunately not. Darling [0] is still at the point that it can only run command line applications. Only the most basic GUI applications are supported. That's still a massive accomplishment that I don't want to diminish, but it's nowhere near the point that WINE was at even quite a long time ago.
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Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux
xcodebuild CLI to compile iOS apps without a Mac. Seems possible in theory, although there's an ongoing issue some are seeing apparently: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/488
- Whisky: Wine Supercharged with the Power of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit
- The first conformant M1 GPU driver
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[Review] Introducing cargo-xwin: A Solution for Cross-Compiling Rust on macOS to MSVC
There is a "Wine but for MacOS" https://www.darlinghq.org/, though we've never actually used it since it unfortunately doesn't support aarch64.
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Validating binaries on different platforms from the source environment
Is only working for Windows and Linux at the moment (although Darling could be promising of OSX)
What are some alternatives?
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
text-generation-webui - A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, llama.cpp (GGUF), Llama models.
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
morph - NixOS deployment tool
Lenovo-Thinkpad-T450-T450s-Hackintosh-Guide-Opencore - This repo contains the installation guide and EFI files required to get a perfectly functional Catalina and Big Sur hackintosh on your Brodwell (5th gen) T450 or T450s. Everything is stable and functional as described in the Readme.
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
cctools-port - Apple cctools port for Linux and *BSD
earlyoom - earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux