aux.computer
aux.computer
An alternative to the Nix ecosystem.
  • qaz@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I was just thinking about switching to Nix, but I have no idea what to choose now.

    • Shareni@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      Just use Nix and see where the drama goes in a year. I’m guessing your configs will be fully compatible or only require minimal changes, if the forks survive that long in the first place.

      I’d suggest learning nix, flakes, and home-manager before going anywhere close to NixOS. This should help you out

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Ok, but why? Forking generally means you are unhappy with something but no one is saying what.

    • brenticus@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      There’s been some controversy around the governance structure and culture with NixOS that has a number of people unhappy. I’m honestly not sure of the details but it’s ptesumably less about the software than the people.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Hopefully it is delay due to setting up self-hosted options. I would support it if I didn’t have to use Microsoft GitHub—Nixpkgs is the reason my account hasn’t been deactivated.

        • toastal@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          These aren’t well established where you can see the post was created in ’18. If they were established, you would seem them in the raw CONTRIBUTING.md. You can see folks having issues with using Discourse as a mailing list since it doesn’t quite work as expected & still requires review by someone with merge access to the primary repository. There is a SourceHut one that actually has some activity & I believe was once listed under the one of the contributing guides, but I can’t remember where it was listed. I doubt many maintainers are properly checking their email too despite listing them on the maintainer.nix file. I would hedge to say that unless the community migrates away, you would see folks complaining the tread above about disliking that there is no pull requests with instead push to the default branch so we would asume all contributions in practices will be expected to be done thru MS GitHub. As it stands going thru the mailing list puts a lot of friction on everyone & wastes time of other maintainers that are expected to then raise a PR on your behalf for review. Say that PR does get merge on your behalf, now you want to follow it since it’s your patch… well too bad since MS GitHub has no way of subscribing to PR threads like it does some aspects of by adding .atom to the end of a URL. As such, if you really want the in-practice option to not be under Microsoft’s domain, you’ll need to remove Microsoft from being the primary forge, relegating it to a mirror or dropping it outright.

    • starman@programming.devEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Aux is more similar to Nix, than Guix is.

      Guix uses the same concepts, but still is very different.

      • Shareni@programming.dev
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        6 months ago

        What a horrible name. I literally had to search for “aux nix” to find a Reddit post mentioning the URL. Every other search term combination was giving me results for ps aux.

        • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Same. Short it nice, but it has to be unique and memorable too. Aux is an already existing word.

          Things that don’t exist yet

          • Lunix - sounds like linux and nix just with i and u swapped
          • Originix - very close to https://orignix.com/ but not the same
          • Nunix - New Nix
          • Froxin - Jumble of fork + nix
          • Apenix - Apex of nix
          • Nirofs - Nix Is a Read Only FileSystem

          Suprisingly already exist

          • Nuxor - Lindt Nuxor is a chocolate
          • Aunix - auxiliary nix - https://www.aunixinternational.com/ already exists though
          • XiniX - a mirror of nix (xinix.nl exists though)
          • Lixin - shit this also exists as a brand
          • Fornix - fork + nix - is part of our brain
          • nixzen - spanish company
          • zenix - Zenith of nix - another spanish company?
          • Apaux - Apex of auxiliary nix - surprisingly is a band
          • Araknix - some toy
          • naaix - sounds like nice - is a damn boat company

          Probably some LLM could come up with something too given a good prompt.

          Anti Commercial-AI license