repology-updater
nixos-generators
repology-updater | nixos-generators | |
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40 | 20 | |
477 | 1,520 | |
2.1% | 5.3% | |
8.9 | 8.3 | |
9 days ago | 3 days ago | |
Python | Nix | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
nixos-generators
- NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS
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NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
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NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
Those Linode instructions are about installing an OS from an installation ISO from Linode's rescue mode. -- I'd consider that more a 'plus' to Linode that you get to be able to install whatever unsupported Linux on Linode's VMs. But, of course it's not as smooth as the officially supported images.
Sibling comment mentions that NixOS provides ways to build VM images (e.g. https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators has a generator specifically for Linode).
Another option is to use nixos-infect, which will replace a Linux distribution with a NixOS distribution. https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect
> At that point, I feel like all of the repeatability gains are gone. If I want to spin up a fresh server, I have to read a guide and set stuff up by hand?
Just as with ansible, "git pull to deploy". You'd keep a copy of your NixOS configuration.nix somewhere else, and would be able to apply it later.
> it really does let me just get a new VPS and deploy to it very fast
Using a tool you're familiar with to get the job done is going to be faster than learning to use a tool you're unfamiliar with.
I believe much of the use of NixOS is for hobby stuff, and for personal machines. (c.f. "In what environments do you use Nix", Development (1242) vs Home Server (845) vs Production (386) https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983).
- Questions about Nix
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Couple of noob questions
If you need to generate lxc container in NixOS then perhaps this repo might be useful: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators this article uses it https://www.thedroneely.com/posts/running-nixos-linux-containers/
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disko-images - Create qcow2 images from NixOS + disko configuration
You might wanna check out nix-community/nixos-generators, it’s maintained by the same dude as Disko
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How to do machine specific config on EC2 using an official nixos ami?
You can look at nixos-generators for support code that well let you take existing configs and build a variety of bootable images from them.
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Flake to make NixOS iso
You should take a look at NixOS Generators, it's a flake with configs to build common formats like ISO, LXC, Docker, etc. I use that to generate an ISO with my config, specifically the packages.iso section.
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Need help with NixOs VM Generation
I am trying to make use of https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators to generate qcow2 images from a NixOs configuration. Since it will be used with Scaleway, they require an efi bootable image.
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[NixOS] How to Migrate From one Server to another? KVM to VMware
I haven't migrated machines from one vm provider to vmware, but I have provided a number of pregenerated nixos images (along the line of https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators) to clients to install onto vmware (and other - hyperv, xen, qemu, physical) hosts.
What are some alternatives?
NiceOS - Every Linux distro replacement
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
pipupgrade - 🗽 Like yarn outdated/upgrade, but for pip. Upgrade all your pip packages and automate your Python Dependency Management.
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
meta-package-manager - 🎁 wraps all package managers with a unifying CLI
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
AppOutlet - A Universal linux app store
nix-gaming - Gaming on Nix
thanker - Don't be a wanker, be a thanker! Automatically give thanks to Pypi packages you use in your project.
nixops - NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud.
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.