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Top 23 Nixo Open-Source Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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nix-starter-configs
Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!
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Steam-Deck-Guide
Steam Deck Guide. Learn all about the Tools, Accessories, Games, Emulators, and Gaming Tips that will make your Steam Deck an awesome Gaming Handheld or a Portable Computer Workstation.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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nixery
Container registry which transparently builds images using the Nix package manager. Canonical repository is https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/tools/nixery
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nixos-and-flakes-book
:hammer_and_wrench: :heart: Want to know NixOS & Flakes in detail? Looking for a beginner-friendly tutorial? Then you've come to the right place! 想要学习使用 NixOS 与 Flakes 吗？在寻找一份新手友好的教程？那你可来对地方了！
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nixos-config
Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨ (by dustinlyons)
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Project mention: Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-25https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
Project mention: Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-18It's probably overkill for what you are trying to do. But I have been using home-manager [0] as a way to quickly restore my working environment.
[0] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/
Project mention: Awesome-Nix – A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-06
Nix (https://nix.dev/) can provide all of this, although in a smarter way than just through dumping everything in the VCS. Some projects use it already to provide a reproducible development environment and if done right a clean build is just a `nix-build` away.
Is this an example of what you mean (home-manager is defined as part of the flake): https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/blob/main/minimal/flake.nix
Project mention: My incredibly thoughtful girlfriend went through the trouble of searching for your subreddit, seeking advice, and then bought me a steam deck. Thank you all, it was the perfect birthday gift, and I was flabbergasted. | /r/SteamDeck | 2023-05-11Congrats u/qualx and belated Happy Birthday! I've had my Steam Deck for a year now and super happy with it ! Also, I recommend checking out this guide it's super helpful. :) https://github.com/mikeroyal/Steam-Deck-Guide
Project mention: NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26
I'll be honest, the first few times I tried using Nix I just couldn't get into. It was too complex for the benefits I was getting. But that was using Nix on another OS.
I recently switched to NixOS because I wanted what they were selling and the experience this time around was way better. Having no other option but to figure it out made me learn the essentials real quick (like an exchange program to a foreign country that speaks another language).
If you think about it, when you used Ubuntu or Fedora or RHEL for the first time, and probably for a very long time, you could get by without learning the deep intricacies of what is going on behind the scenes. The same is true with NixOS. The things you need to learn are different, but once you get a basic setup with home-manager setup you're off to the races. (Btw, I used this "book" to get started and it was great: https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/)
The best part about using NixOS so far is that things just work. Setting up my graphics card was as simple setting enabled = true. Same for configuring specific audio frameworks. And I had tried many times to get Davinci Resolve working on other distros and always encountered issues leading me to need to dual-boot Windows so I could do video editing. Now I just enabled Davinci Resolve and it works! No more Windows.
If you're brand new to linux on the desktop, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you've been doing that for years, maybe try NixOS in 2024.
Project mention: Michigan GOP infighting leads to actual fight between Karamo, DePerno ba... | /r/TRUTHsocialWatch | 2023-07-10I was hoping it was going to morph into “By the power invested in me, by the POWER OF GREYSKULL!!! AND SO I CRY SOMETIMES…”
I have not used it but this might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
You could also install the nix package manager on Ubuntu.
# .../nixvim.nix { config, pkgs, lib, ... }: let myConfig = builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/myusername/nvim"; ref = "master"; }; nixvim = import (builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/nix-community/nixvim"; ref = "nixos-23.05"; }); sqliteLibPath = lib.makeLibraryPath [ pkgs.sqlite ]; in { imports = [ nixvim.homeManagerModules.nixvim ]; home.activation.copyLuaConfig = lib.hm.dag.entryAfter [ "writeBoundary" ] '' if [ ! -d ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim ]; then mkdir -p ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim fi shopt -s extglob cp -r ${myConfig}/!(init.lua) ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim ''; programs.nixvim = { extraPackages = [ pkgs.sqlite ]; enable = true; extraConfigLua = '' vim.g.sqlite_clib_path = "${sqliteLibPath}" .. "/libsqlite3.so" '' + builtins.readFile "${myConfig}/init.lua"; }; }
This looks nice!
As someone interested in developing a client for it, I'm interested in couple of things: what are the features supported by it currently, the tweak-able configuration that can be passed to it and the various code action available. I like the way nil language server has documented it (https://github.com/oxalica/nil/tree/main/docs). Is there something equivalent available for this ?
I have step-by-step video guides (with accompanying git repos) for booting NixOS from zero on both Hetzner VPS instances[1] and bare metal Robot instances[2] with nixos-anywhere[3]. I used to use nixos-infect but now I'm 100% sold on nixos-anywhere.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlX8g0NXW1M&t=952s
[3]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere
- Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix and https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
Project mention: Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-15I’ve been using Nix directly on MacOS with minimal issues for a few years now. Works great.
I hate using docker on Mac and have since replaced it with flakes and devenv.
My configuration with a step by step guide (600+ stars): https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
- rpi nas
I also wipe my entire rootfs every boot with a zfs snapshot rollback[2] using the impermanence module[3] to keep specific stateful data one one of two datasets with regular snapshots: one is backed up with zfs send, the other is just for cache between reboots.
It took a little puzzling to get started, because I didn’t know about the impermanence module, so I built my own hacky solution. But I really love this setup. And the way I don’t have cruft to clean.
Also my backups are so much smaller now :’-)
[1]: https://colmena.cli.rs/
Nowadays, I tend to try things out with comma, then add them to my configuration for later use. Some tools are not even installed in my systems because I use them so infrequently - opening a terminal and running , freecad is basically as easy as actually having it installed.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
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Nixos related posts
- Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
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- Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
- Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
- Workman Layout for Vim
- NixOS Is Not Reproducible
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Nixo projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | nixpkgs | 15,656 |
| 2 | Home Manager using Nix | 5,863 |
| 3 | awesome-nix | 2,475 |
| 4 | nix.dev | 2,041 |
| 5 | nix-starter-configs | 1,864 |
| 6 | Steam-Deck-Guide | 1,848 |
| 7 | nixops | 1,713 |
| 8 | nixery | 1,685 |
| 9 | nixos-generators | 1,508 |
| 10 | nixos-and-flakes-book | 1,455 |
| 11 | dotfiles | 1,411 |
| 12 | NixOS-WSL | 1,418 |
| 13 | agenix | 1,226 |
| 14 | sops-nix | 1,204 |
| 15 | deploy-rs | 1,143 |
| 16 | nixvim | 1,142 |
| 17 | nil | 1,105 |
| 18 | nixos-anywhere | 1,017 |
| 19 | microvm.nix | 998 |
| 20 | digga | 978 |
| 21 | nixos-config | 976 |
| 22 | colmena | 967 |
| 23 | comma | 955 |
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