pets
nix-book
pets | nix-book | |
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4 | 5 | |
458 | 209 | |
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5.5 | 0.6 | |
12 months ago | about 1 year ago | |
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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pets
nix-book
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A configuration management system for pets, not cattle
This seems more approachable than NixOS/Guix, which I see as state or the art for declarative hosts.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-... aims to flatten the learning curve for NixOS.
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Our Roadmap for Nix
We're onto the pedagogy thing. Check out the Nix book efforts: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-....
Regarding the language and "configurations" specifically, you might like what we do with Nickel: https://github.com/tweag/nickel. Research project showing a potential future for Nix.
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Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
Wouldn't say there's a steep learning curve for the language itself, it's pretty easy to get a grasp around it imo. Here's a helpful page I used to quickly get familiar with the language: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
What's rather messy about Nix is nixpkgs with its helper functions all over the place alongside pretty shallow / non-existent documentation (which is unrelated to the language). Thankfully they've started to work on that recently: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/documentation-team-flattening-...
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Gui installer (Calamares) seems to be available in the unstable iso
yess https://github.com/NixOS/nix-book
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How should nix be used?!
there are efforts to better document the whole ecosystem (https://github.com/NixOS/nix-book)
What are some alternatives?
drago - ☁️ Securely connect anything with WireGuard® and manage all your networks from a single place.
nickel-nix - An experimental Nix toolkit to use nickel as a language for writing nix packages, shells and more. [Moved to: https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist]