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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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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better nix alternative or higher similarity.
nix discussion
nix reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-22.
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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.
- Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code
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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++.
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