nixos-anywhere
repology-updater
nixos-anywhere | repology-updater | |
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6 | 40 | |
1,083 | 478 | |
11.4% | 2.3% | |
8.8 | 8.9 | |
6 days ago | 5 days ago | |
Shell | Python | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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nixos-anywhere
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NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
I have step-by-step video guides (with accompanying git repos) for booting NixOS from zero on both Hetzner VPS instances[1] and bare metal Robot instances[2] with nixos-anywhere[3]. I used to use nixos-infect but now I'm 100% sold on nixos-anywhere.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlX8g0NXW1M&t=952s
[3]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere
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An Overview of Nix in Practice
I think things are pretty good with nixos-anywhere[1] now. I made a video last month walking through the process of provisioning a VPS on Hetzner Cloud[2] if you want to see what the process looks like in real-time.
[1]:https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4
- NixOS-anywhere: install NixOS everywhere via SSH
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NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
> I can speak new instances of my environment into existence
You're not kidding. I used nixos-anywhere [1] for the first time the other day. You can point it to any linux host and it will partition, format, and supplant the target's existing OS with your nixOS config, all with a single command. Incredible.
[1] https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere
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Is it possible to morph Debian into NixOS?
There's a few scripts to replace the current os with NixOS: eg https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere
repology-updater
- Repology, the Packaging Hub
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What is the Fedora experience like?
For comparing package versions across distros, I like https://repology.org/. Fedora's official online package search is https://packages.fedoraproject.org/.
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NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
fwiw nixpkgs has significantly more packages than arch (including the aur), and those packages are also significantly more up to date. No other repo comes close to nixpkgs in this regard. This has been the case for quite some years now.
https://repology.org/
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Package repo question, availability of packages
I think available package number is a bit of an exaggeration. looking at the statistics, the most packages are on nixOS. but there are other topics such as number of maintainers, update and stability. so middle ground is debian testing and arch. i suggest repology.org to look stats
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Couple of noob questions
I believe it likely was a comparision in number of packages, currently nixpkgs outnumber AUR (although it also contains packages that are part of other languages): https://repology.org/
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Linux Software Map
I guess the modern equivalent of that would be https://repology.org/
Although the focus is on the version aspect, so descriptions are a bit hidden and I'm not sure they're searchable.
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ubuntu-debullshit! Script to get vanilla gnome, remove snaps, flathub and more on Ubuntu
I know that "number of packages" isn't a perfect metric, but going by that Nixpkgs is the largest (see https://repology.org/).
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Is it possible to install older versions of XFCE (such as 4.14)
to find a distro still supporting that version you can use https://repology.org/ or https://pkgs.org
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I hope nobody has done that
FreeBSD also has its own ports system which has 29678 (source: repology.org) packaged project.
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Remembrance, a reminder app for Linux
According to repology nix is third place in term of the number of maintainers.
What are some alternatives?
nixos-infect - [GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)
NiceOS - Every Linux distro replacement
nixos-playwright - DEPRECATED. Tell your puppeteer or playwright to use nixpkgs's google-chrome-dev's google-chrome-unstable binary. Previously: Patch playwright-downloaded browsers in ~/.cache/ms-playwright to run on NixOS
pipupgrade - 🗽 Like yarn outdated/upgrade, but for pip. Upgrade all your pip packages and automate your Python Dependency Management.
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
meta-package-manager - 🎁 wraps all package managers with a unifying CLI
bento - A KISS deployment tool to keep your NixOS fleet (servers & workstations) up to date.
AppOutlet - A Universal linux app store
gokrazy - turn your Go program(s) into an appliance running on the Raspberry Pi 3, Pi 4, Pi Zero 2 W, or amd64 PCs!
bootstrap-from-tcc - Starting with a single ~400 KB TinyCC binary, compile a Clang 17 toolchain and Nix package manager
thanker - Don't be a wanker, be a thanker! Automatically give thanks to Pypi packages you use in your project.