I have to say traditional LTS distros. After doing big manual server upgrades for some decade, no more LTS expiration dread!

Next to go will be my arch desktop as I find #nixos fits my desktop and server needs way better.

A disclaimer would be that NixOS is non standard. Documentation is lacking and knowledge of the Nix language is required for advanced configuration.

Domen, creator of devenv, recently added telemetry to his devenv thing, as part of adding AI to the product, and when nixpkgs contributors removed the telemetry, he reverted the change, with a self merge, without a fucking review even.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/381981

This is a clear conflict of interest. We need to stop this from happening in the NixOS organization, corpos need to have some respect for users.

Discussion thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-commercial-actors-ship-telemetry-in-nixpkgs/60279/8

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

Revert "devenv: disable telemetry by default" by domenkozar · Pull Request #381981 · NixOS/nixpkgs

This reverts commit 1aca3c4. Since I'm the maintainer and author of this package, I was never asked if I agree with this change and I don't. It's going to make it really hard to improve...

^GitHub

Distros de Linux desconocidas, muy pequeñas y que casi nadie usa, pero que merecen mucho la pena:
#Nitrux #Pop!_OS #NixOS #AlmaLinux #carbonOS #SDesk

¿qué opinan?

https://computerhoy.20minutos.es/pc/distros-linux-desconocidas-muy-pequenas-casi-nadie-usa-merecen-mucho-pena-1413438

Distros de Linux desconocidas, muy pequeñas y que casi nadie usa, que merecen mucho la pena

Cada una de estas distros Linux pueden satisfacer necesidades específicas, ya sea en un entorno de desarrollo, seguridad o una solución ligera para un PC antiguo.

^{Juan Manuel Delgado (Computer Hoy)}

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

Arch vs. NixOS users! 🐧 👊

#linux #arch #nixos

Just use the previous #NixOS generation?

#Linux

I have been working on something, which is not totally ready.

Most of the deployment tools in the #NixOS ecosystem are tailored to... NixOS. NixOS can run in a bunch of places, but not easily on 256MB RAM devices and 32MB disk.

For that, you have plenty of options, one of them is #Liminix (https://www.liminix.org/).

Liminix is currently tailored to OpenWRT-class APs/routers and I worked on bringing support for the Zyxel NWA50AX (https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/zyxel/nwa50ax). 1/???

"Big project problems" are certainly problems to have, word to #NixOS - because it is easy to FLAKE on community GOALS when CONTENTION is more important than CONSENSUS.

I'm DYING to know the outcome... *cough*...

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}

fractional scaling propagation to virtual machines.

And, a marriage of #QubesOS and #NixOS. Obviously, with fractional scaling support.

Ooops,... it's two, or just one big topic? 🤔

ignoring state files, it's usually a mess for WM without DE.

Many Linux/WM developers don't follow convention over configuration...

I recently tried #hyprland, which is currently the only WM/DE in stable #NixOS with wayland fractional scaling support.

And, I spent so much time to get just some bar/panel working, that was ugly and very limited in functionality compared to #GNOME shell (I used before.- very nice) or KDE, or XFCE.

I ended up switching to #KDE and NixOS unstable.

i appreciate that the #NixOS foundation has shipped a strictly improved sponsorship policy, apologized, and indeed *has* given the community a veto on sponsors in spite of its wording. congratulations to everyone who has put an unbelievable amount of work into making this happen!

there's a lot of work still to do on getting fascists out of the community and everyone is quite exhausted from the fight to get this passed. however. the fascists *will* get kicked out.

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

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 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}

Content warning: NixOS story time, community safety :boost_requested: Click to open/close

Two years ago, there was a previous attempt by a couple of folks (I was one of them) to address lingering community safety issues in the #NixOS community. This came in the form of RFC 98: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/98

The idea was that the NixOS community hadn't grown that big yet, so there was still a fair amount of room for setting up healthy governance structures.

RFC 98 proposed a participatory moderation model, with a rotating cast of moderators, and a moderation process that was based in consensus seeking and helping people understand the implications of what they say and do, preferring to resolve conflicts through mediation rather than punishment.

A number of privileged white dudes caused a huge fuss over this proposal. Why? Because it didn't specify *exactly* which things were and were not allowed (as this was meant to be a consensus-seeking thing); and they were convinced that it would be used to silence and/or censor people, even though the proposal explicitly stated otherwise.

(Cynically, I would say that they were afraid that there would be consequences for them overstepping their behaviour; something they could previously do with relative impunity, and free of the "risk of getting criticized".)

A competing proposal was put forth by someone else as a result, RFC 114, which introduced a 'traditional' code of conduct with specific disallowed things and no real provisions for problematic behaviour outside of those.

Crucially, whereas RFC 98 sought to *change* the shape of the community, to improve community safety... RFC 114 was meant to enshrine the *current* state of the community, not being particularly offensive to anyone currently involved in the project, and not excluding any of the existing behaviours.

RFC 98 was concern-trolled to death. The authors (very much marginalized folks) burned out. It was never passed, and neither was RFC 114. No formal support from project governance ever materialized.

And now an immigrant murder machine manufacturer has sponsored NixCon (sponsorship since thrown out, after public criticism), and this is being enthusiastically defended by people on the NixOS forums, who seem entirely comfortable in their defense.

Does this mean that the NixOS community is full of fascists? No. And there is a pretty large contingent of marginalized folks within the community!

But the reality is that community safety issues are not a new problem in NixOS, that the Anduril sponsorship was really not a free-standing incident, and that on a governance level, almost nothing is being done about it.

[RFC 0098] Community Team by IreneKnapp · Pull Request #98 · NixOS/rfcs

This is a proposal for the direction of the NixOS community, by myself and ashkitten. We've been working on this for a while and are very pleased to be publicly presenting it. We welcome public dis...

^GitHub

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