So i just released nix-system-graphics!

Ever felt tired by utilizing a plethora of NixGL hacks for simply running a graphical applications on another Linux distribution than NixOS? Well system-graphics emulates the same graphical stack as what #NixOS uses, meaning Nix and system package interoperation without any hacks.

Its quite magical, go try it out!

https://github.com/soupglasses/nix-system-graphics

#nix

GitHub - soupglasses/nix-system-graphics: Run graphics accelerated programs built with Nix on any Linux distribution.

Run graphics accelerated programs built with Nix on any Linux distribution. - soupglasses/nix-system-graphics

^GitHub

Just released nix-weather, a #rust cli-tool to check how many of your NixOS system’s build dependencies are in a binary cache.

$ nix-weather -n myhost -c /etc/config/

Found Nix Requisites in 8 seconds
Checked 2789 packages in 1 seconds
Found 2676/2789 (95.95%) in cache

This is useful to e.g. “check the weather” before going for an update. If the dependencies you want still haven’t been cached, it can be useful to know you can postpone an update to a later day when the weather is better on the cache.

Feel free to try it out from the GitHub mirror (it’s likely faster than my forgejo instance, and I’d appreciate saving the bandwidth).

https://github.com/cafkafk/nix-weather/releases/tag/v0.0.2

#nix #nixos

Release v0.0.2 · cafkafk/nix-weather

Changelog Copied from source https://git.fem.gg/cafkafk/nix-weather/releases/tag/v0.0.2 Features Add count Add basic timers to show how long operations took --timestamp flag --config flag Flake + ...

^GitHub

Hey, I'm facilitating one of this years Summer of Nix groups, it's a paid opportunity to work on #nix and #nixos together with contributors. We don't have a strict skill level requirement, but you should have some prior programming experience. The application deadline is 10.05.2024 and for more information please visit: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/summer-of-nix-2024-call-for-participants/43249?u=janik

Feel free to ask questions here.

Summer of Nix 2024: Call for participants

Apply for Summer of Nix 2024 to join one of four teams in making selected free and open source software (FOSS) projects work reliably on a whim using Nix and NixOS. Requirements Meet the general eligibility requirements.

^{NixOS Discourse}

The Nix project has had quite a bit of bad publicity in the last month for having Anduril sponsor NixCon NA.

I am very happy to see that —after admittedly way too much effort— we now finally have a sponsorship policy to prevent this from happening in the future. A big Thank You to all who contributed and pushed for this!

If you turned your back on Nix due to this, please consider accepting the apology from the Foundation Board.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsorship-policy/43110

#nix #nixos

NixOS Foundation Event Sponsorship Policy

Dear community, First, we want to acknowledge the feedback from the community. We recognize that many of you invested countless hours in the project and deeply care about its state and direction.

^{NixOS Discourse}

the iceberg of #nix

available as svg at https://jade.fyi/nix-iceberg.svg (usable in firefox, best viewed in inkscape)

Finally took some time to bust out the @PINE64 #pinebookpro and have some fun! I'd planned on flashing #nixos onto it, but everything I'd book from the image on my NVMe, I'd go through the whole rebuild and switch but it continued failing to boot into the new build... 🤔

Next best option, fresh install an #archlinux based system with great development record for the PBP, #manjaro , and manage everything with #nix. Turns out option #2 is still pretty awesome! 😎🤘 #linux