Hacker News with Generative AI: NixOS

You do not need NixOS on the desktop (aruarian.dance)
Imagine someone came up to you and told you that there exists a perfect Linux distribution. One so perfect that, as long as you take the time to learn its arcane syntax and strange conventions, you can obtain powers that a sysadmin can only dream of. A way to describe a machine through code once, and have it never break again.

Linux, Operating Systems, NixOS

62 points by transpute 6 days ago | 97 comments

RNG and Cosine in Nix (unnamed.website)
NixOS is an immutable, atomic Linux distribution with a declarative and reproducible configuration and packaging system using the purely functional, lazily evaluated, dynamically typed Nix programming language.

NixOS, Programming Languages, Linux Distributions

42 points by todsacerdoti 41 days ago | 0 comments

Nvidia GPU on bare metal NixOS Kubernetes cluster explained (fangpenlin.com)
Since the last time I published the second MAZE (Massive Argumented Zonal Environments) article, I realized that the framework is getting more mature, but I need a solution to run it on a large scale.

Nvidia GPUs, Kubernetes, NixOS, Cloud Computing

41 points by fangpenlin 82 days ago | 15 comments

NixOS and Portable Executables (jackkelly.name)
I’ve been very impressed by the Cosmopolitan Libc project and the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε file format that makes it all possible.

NixOS, Operating Systems, Portable Executables, Software

53 points by jandeboevrie 101 days ago | 21 comments

Is NixOS truly reproducible? (luj.fr)
Build reproducibility is often considered as a de facto feature provided by functional package managers like Nix. Although the functional package manager model has important assets in the quest for build reproducibility (like reproducibility of build environments for example1), it is clear among practitioners that Nix does not guarantee that all its builds achieve bitwise reproducibility. In fact, it is not complicated to write a Nix package that builds an artifact non-deterministically:

NixOS, Reproducibility, Build Systems, Functional Programming, Software Development

248 points by pabs3 103 days ago | 122 comments

Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video] (media.ccc.de)
This talk announces the first public release of sixos, a two year project to create a nixpkgs-based operating system using skarnet's s6 supervisor instead of systemd.

Linux, Operating Systems, NixOS, Systemd

180 points by transpute 112 days ago | 357 comments

Make your QEMU faster (2022) (schreibt.jetzt)
NixOS uses virtual machines based on QEMU extensively for running its test suite. In order to avoid generating a disk image for every test, the test driver usually boots using a Plan 9 File Protocol (9p) share (server implemented by QEMU) for the Nix store, which contains all the programs and config necessary for the test.

Virtualization, QEMU, Performance, Testing, NixOS

150 points by tripdout 157 days ago | 22 comments

Run a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS (mtlynch.io)
I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a simple web app that makes it easy for me to share files with friends and teammates.

Go, Web Development, NixOS

7 points by todsacerdoti 172 days ago | 2 comments

NixOS is not reproducible (linderud.dev)
Okay, sorry for the clickbait.

Operating Systems, Reproducibility, NixOS

112 points by udev4096 209 days ago | 162 comments

NixOS Server Up in Minutes (gvolpe.com)
The folks at Garnix have done it again! You can now deploy a NixOS server in minutes, just by defining your system on a flake.nix and git push‘ing your changes (Garnix needs to be enabled for the repo).

NixOS, Server Deployment, Automation, DevOps

32 points by todsacerdoti 249 days ago | 9 comments

Interactive NixOS Tests (paperless.blog)

Operating Systems, Testing, NixOS

78 points by l0b0 261 days ago | 6 comments

Creating an Immutable System with NixOS, systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate (x86.lol)

NixOS, System Administration, Linux, Immutable Systems, Systemd

9 points by ssernikk 267 days ago | 0 comments

Hands-On NixOS Servers (garnix.io)

Operating Systems, Linux, NixOS

28 points by todsacerdoti 274 days ago | 0 comments

NixOS, Raspberry Pi and Me (fzakaria.com)