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nixpkgs | template-nixos | |
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973 | 4 | |
15,656 | 34 | |
5.3% | - | |
10.0 | 3.4 | |
about 15 hours ago | about 1 year ago | |
Nix | Nix | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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.
nixpkgs
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
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Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
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3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
For a single file script, nix can make the package management quite easy: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
For example,
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- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
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NixOS Is Not Reproducible
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
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The xz attack shell script
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
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Debian Git Monorepo
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone's love it.
I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages.
Nixpkgs doesn't include the packaged software source code, so it's a lot more practical than what Debian is doing.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
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GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo
True, but irrelevant -- _some packages_, _somewhere_, do depend on xz, which, if built, requires pulling the source from GitHub (see the default.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/tools...)
It's not the vulnerability that's a problem right now (NixOS was protected by a couple of factors) but rather GitHub's hamfisted response.
That is the problem.
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Combining Nix with Terraform for better DevOps
We’ve noticed that some users have been asking about how to use older versions of Terraform in their Nix setups [1, 2]. This is an example of the diverse needs of people and the importance of maintaining backward compatibility. We hope that nixpkgs-terraform will be a useful tool for these users.
template-nixos
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How to code, build, and deploy from an iPad using Gitlab and Gitpod
Geoff here from Gitpod. Compsci is an area where Gitpod really shines because it enables you to share whatever you are hacking on without subjecting who you are sharing it with, with the burden of installing dependencies.
Thus, yes, indeed Haskell and SBCL or anything works exceptionally well. Here’s NixOS running on Gitpod btw https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-nixos
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Building Container Images with Nix
If you want to take nixos for a spin in your browser head to https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-nixos and mash the button.
Also https://nix.dev is one of the better learning resources. Over at https://GitHub.com/ghuntley/ghuntley you'll find a workshop I created on Nix.
- Ok, Codespaces is actually amazing
- GitHub.Dev is now available on any GitHub repo
What are some alternatives?
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
gitpod - The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
openvscode-server - Run upstream VS Code on a remote machine with access through a modern web browser from any device, anywhere.
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
template-docker-compose - A Docker Compose template, configured for Gitpod (www.gitpod.io) to give you pre-built, ephemeral development environments in the cloud.
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
bazel-nix-example
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
nixpkgs-wayland - Automated, pre-built packages for Wayland (sway/wlroots) tools for NixOS. [maintainers=@colemickens, @Artturin]