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InfluxDB
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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
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oils
Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
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guix
Read-only mirror of GNU Guix — pull requests are ignored, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Submitting-Patches instead (by guix-mirror)
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nix-installer
Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.
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nix discussion
nix reviews and mentions
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Hacking Haskell with Nix: Two Tricks
If you are using Nix, you may have heard of Nix-Shell Shebang:
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Hacking with mdBook
mdBook is a Rust-based tool to create Web-based books from vanilla Markdown files. Although it is quite minimalistic, you will bump into it quite often in the wild. Most notably, the Rust Book uses it. I see it quite often in the Nix ecosystem, too.
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Haskell Project Template with Nix Flakes
Haskell has been my go-to language for over 7 years. First, I started with Stack, then switched to plain Cabal and finally settled on Nix to provision a development environment for Haskell projects.
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SDK-Driven Development: A Litmus Test for Good Software Design
Also for systems administration and DevOps, I first used Ansible to streamline the management of our servers. Writing playbooks is OK, but going beyond that to convert them to roles is a good practice from collaboration perspective. This SDK approach worked quite well for me and my team. Now, I am developing NixOS modules for various services we deploy. In both cases, the goal is to compose well-defined and documented modules (SDK) into a complete system in a few lines of code (application).
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Why and How to Patch a Python Package in Nix
I bumped into an annoying issue today while upgrading my Python dependencies in a codebase. And I thought it would be a good idea to share the solution with you. Thanks to Nix for making this kind of fix so straightforward.
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Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
This is interesting to me given https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10823
We have a decent amount of code in bash that I'd like to get working on Windows too, once Nix on Windows is ready. I'm happy to rewrite it to a better language, but if I can get a non-CygWin/MSYS2 bash-compatible shell, that's a very nice thing to try out.
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Nix Flake Templates
I am actively using Nix from my workstation setup to development environments, from Docker image builds to CI/CD pipelines, and even on production servers. One of the themes that comes up often is provisioning a codebase, a development environment and packaging configuration for a new project.
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful
NixOS may end up being "the last OS I ever use" (especially now that gaming is viable on it):
https://nixos.org/
Check it out. The whitepaper's a fairly digestible read, too, and may get you excited about the whole concept (which is VERY different from how things are normally done, but ends up giving you guarantees)
- Red y SSH en Stage1 (boot - initrd) de NixOS - Parte 1
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NixOS/nix is an open source project licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of nix is C++.