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LaTeX-Workshop
Boost LaTeX typesetting efficiency with preview, compile, autocomplete, colorize, and more.
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not-os
An operating system generator, based on NixOS, that, given a config, outputs a small (47 MB), read-only squashfs for a runit-based operating system, with support for iPXE and signed boot.
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NixOS-docker
Discontinued DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container (by NixOS)
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better NUR alternative or higher similarity.
NUR discussion
NUR reviews and mentions
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-20.
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Couple of noob questions
So first, I'm a bit confused about AUR. I'm not aware of what you're describing. I heard about AUR-like repo for Nix (called NUR https://github.com/nix-community/NUR).
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Adding extensions to firefox using home manager
You need to use nur
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How to install NordVPN onto NixOS
Hi, I'm the author of the PR :) I uploaded it to NUR precisely so that it would be available sooner. However, as I wrote in the thread yesterday, as of this PR one of the components the package was relying on was deprecated. I'm still trying to make it work again using the new buildFHSEnv. However, if you're running 22.11 or haven't updated your local version of nixpkgs beyond that PR, it should still work.
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New BFF
Apart from nixpkgs having many packages, there is also NUR which has even more stuff.
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Using a flake from a GitHub repo
You might also want to publish your sarc utility on NUR, https://nur.nix-community.org/
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NixOS causes an error while booting
nur = import (builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/nix-community/NUR/archive/master.tar.gz") {
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Is there NO alternative to the aur?
Nix also has the NUR. I have never needed to use it, while when I used arch I had many AUR packages.
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Anyone figure out how to apply nvidia-patch in nixos?
Follow the NUR installation instructions and it should be in pkgs.nur.repos.arc.packages.nvidia-patch.
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Best practices for organizing code repository for multiple machines? What about deployment?
As for the community repo, there's nur but only 120 people use it.. I think the reason nixpkgs is so big is that the community is pretty accepting of accepting loads of different packages.
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Can one self host a nix package repo?
Some common options for the first: - your own git repo - your own flake (a specially constructed and easy to consume git repo) - something like NUR
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Stats
Basic NUR repo stats
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10.0
4 days ago
nix-community/NUR is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of NUR is Python.
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