nixos-search
Search NixOS packages and options (by NixOS)
nixfiles
My NixOS configuration and assorted other crap. (by barrucadu)
| nixos-search | nixfiles | |
|---|---|---|
| 39 | 8 | |
| 376 | 154 | |
| 7.4% | - | |
| 7.2 | 9.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Elm | Nix | |
| MIT License | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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-search
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-search.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Why is the documentation... nowhere to be found?!
For me, https://search.nixos.org/ is a better aid than the wiki. Often the right keyword in the NixOS packages or modules search will lead me right to the obvious and simple answer that I couldn't find elsewhere.
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Nix packages security, safety, and privacy
Does https://search.nixos.org/ pull from nixpkgs, the Nix User Repository, or both?
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What is the difference between:
Just go to search.nixos.org, open the option you would like to see more of, and click on the link behind "Declared in".
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Where to find SAR in the package manager?
I've done a nix-env query, and checked in https://search.nixos.org but can't seem to find any SAR package, nor any google search that gave any hints to see if it might be part of another system utility package...
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My First Impressions of Nix
If you want to install a package, search for it at https://search.nixos.org
The gnome system monitor is gnome.gnome-system-monitor for example https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=gnome.g...
- How can I see what options are available for a certain import?
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
search.nixos.org also includes flakes that people PR into the index via GitHub at https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search/issues
ps: $ nix search exists via experimental flags https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3...
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Thinking about to switch from Fedora Sliverblue to NixOS with following use case…
Idk about ec_sys, I couldn't find it on search.nixos.org, but since it's a kernel module it might just come with the kernel idk.
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How do you quickly browse the source of a flake input
I rarely think to look at flakes by their source, actually. I have a Nixpkgs clone that I jump into for anything super ad-hoc but most of the time I'm just doing REPL, :lf ./. and mashing tab-completion. That's usually to make sure the thing I'm after exists in one of the large package sets like node, vimPlugins, or similar, and that I got the name right - which could probably be answered just as easily with https://search.nixos.org/ .
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How big is the nix store?
search.nixos.org
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nixos-search and nixfiles you can also consider the following projects:
NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]
sops-nix - Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
diffuse - A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage.
NixOS-Guide - NixOS Guide. Learn all about the immutable Nix Operating System and the declarative Nix Expression Language.
elm-lang.org - Server and client code for the Elm website.
agenix - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
nixos-config - My NixOS configuration
.dots - just my .dotfiles
dotnix - nix stuff
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
manix - A fast CLI documentation searcher for Nix.
impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]