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NixOS/nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager

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Stack

C++ Meson

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #declarative-language #functional-programming #nix #package-manager

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-03-12
History: 12 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 3,039 open

17,966

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Forks: 2,063
Commits: 24,761 commits
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jetify-com/devbox

Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

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Stack

Go Cobra Django Gradio gRPC Go Bun Bundler Cargo

GitHub topics

#build-system #build-tool #buildpack #containers #dev-environment #devbox

Updated: 2026-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-08-04
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 412 open

12,443

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Forks: 365
Commits: 1,879 commits
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nix-community/home-manager

Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@khaneliman, @rycee]

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Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#dotfiles #nix #nix-dotfiles #nixos #nixpkgs

Updated: 2026-10-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-14
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 979 open

10,489

stars

Forks: 2,508
Commits: 7,575 commits
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cachix/devenv

Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

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Stack

Rust Astro Axum Django pytest Bundler Cargo .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#developer-tools #devenv #nix

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-10-22
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 376 open

7,798

stars

Forks: 586
Commits: 7,460 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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nix-darwin/nix-darwin

Manage your macOS using Nix

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#darwin #dotfiles #launchd #nix

Updated: 2026-10-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-15
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 485 open

6,046

stars

Forks: 671
Commits: 2,427 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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flox/flox

The Deterministic Foundation for your SDLC

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Stack

Rust Actix Web Cargo Go modules Meson

GitHub topics

#developer-tools #development-environment #nix #package-manager #production #rust

Updated: 2026-11-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-09-27
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 463 open

4,190

stars

Forks: 138
Commits: 6,492 commits
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Misterio77/nix-starter-configs

Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#dotfiles #flakes #home-manager #nix #nixos #starter

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-12-16
History: 1 history point
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 16 open

3,852

stars

Forks: 172
Commits: 109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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DeterminateSystems/nix-installer

Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#docker #fedora #installer #linux #macos #nix

Updated: 2026-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-02
History: 1 history point
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 447 open

3,713

stars

Forks: 102
Commits: 847 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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nix-community/nixos-anywhere

Install NixOS everywhere via SSH [maintainers=@Mic92 @Lassulus @phaer @Enzime @a-kenji]

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#build-with-buildbot #deployment #nix #nixos

Updated: 2026-10-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-11-09
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 108 open

3,549

stars

Forks: 213
Commits: 1,048 commits
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nix-community/nh

Yet another Nix CLI helper. [Maintainers=@NotAShelf, @faukah]

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#home-manager #nix #nix-darwin #nix-flake #nix-helper #nixos

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-08
History: 1 history point
License: EUPL-1.2
Issues: 82 open

3,351

stars

Forks: 132
Commits: 1,392 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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NixOS/nixos-hardware

A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.

Stack

Nix PEP 517

Updated: 2026-10-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-08
History: 1 history point
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 335 open

3,351

stars

Forks: 996
Commits: 2,906 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ryan4yin/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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Stack

TypeScript React Vite Vue pnpm

GitHub topics

#book #dotfiles #flakes #linux #nix #nix-flake

Updated: 2026-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-23
History: 1 history point
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 4 open

3,329

stars

Forks: 158
Commits: 674 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/NixOS-WSL

NixOS on WSL [maintainer=@nzbr]

Stack

Nix Cargo

GitHub topics

#nix #nixos #nixos-wsl #wsl #wsl-distro #wsl-environment

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-28
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 49 open

3,148

stars

Forks: 166
Commits: 819 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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microvm-nix/microvm.nix

NixOS MicroVMs

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#cloud-hypervisor #crosvm #firecracker #flake #flakes #kvmtool

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-06-23
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

3,054

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 1,238 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/nixvim

Configure Neovim with Nix! [maintainers=@GaetanLepage, @traxys, @mattsturgeon, @khaneliman]

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#neovim #nix #nixos #nixos-module #vim

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-30
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 166 open

2,979

stars

Forks: 407
Commits: 4,779 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/nix-direnv

A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]

Stack

Shell PEP 517

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #managed-by-renovate

Updated: 2026-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-27
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

2,812

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 1,323 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/stylix

Theming framework for NixOS, Home Manager, nix-darwin, and Nix-on-Droid [maintainers=@0xda157, @danth, @trueNAHO]

Stack

Nix npm

GitHub topics

#home-manager #nix #nix-darwin #nix-on-droid #nixos #ricing

Updated: 2026-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-20
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 306 open

2,459

stars

Forks: 375
Commits: 1,488 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/colmena

A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool [maintainer=@stepbrobd, @NickCao, @zhaofengli]

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#deployment #nix #nixos

Updated: 2026-10-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-16
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 145 open

2,426

stars

Forks: 119
Commits: 772 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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serokell/deploy-rs

A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#deployment #flakes #nix #nix-flake #nixos #tool

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-28
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 135 open

2,408

stars

Forks: 169
Commits: 418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/nixos-generators

Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

Archived

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#image-builder #iso #nix #nix-community-buildbot #nixos #nixos-generators

Updated: 2026-01-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-28
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 95 open

2,387

stars

Forks: 156
Commits: 487 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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NixOS/nixops

NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud.

Stack

Python pytest Tornado pip Poetry

GitHub topics

#aws #cloud #devops #digialocean #gce #hetzner

Updated: 2025-12-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-28
History: 1 history point
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 327 open

2,212

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 3,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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zhaofengli/attic

Multi-tenant Nix Binary Cache

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#binary-cache #nix #nixos

Updated: 2026-10-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-01
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 180 open

2,139

stars

Forks: 191
Commits: 473 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

tazjin/nixery

Container registry which transparently builds images using the Nix package manager. Canonical repository is https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/tools/nixery

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#broccoli #container-images #container-registry #docker #kubernetes #nix

Updated: 2026-10-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-23
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 35 open

2,024

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/NUR

Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Pandapip1]

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#nix-packages #nixpkgs #nur #overlays

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-28
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

1,983

stars

Forks: 563
Commits: 53,584 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

elitak/nixos-infect

[GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2026-03-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-14
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 75 open

1,943

stars

Forks: 307
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nix-community/impermanence

Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]

Stack

Nix

GitHub topics

#home-manager #nix #nixos #tmpfs

Updated: 2026-10-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-04
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 108 open

1,930

stars

Forks: 142
Commits: 205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

oxalica/nil

NIx Language server, an incremental analysis assistant for writing in Nix.

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#lsp-server #nix #nixos #nixpkgs

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

1,925

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 561 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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GitHub

nmattia/niv

Easy dependency management for Nix projects

Stack

Haskell

GitHub topics

#nix #package-manager #versioning

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 87 open

1,869

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 504 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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GitHub

nix-community/comma

Comma runs software without installing it. [maintainers=@Artturin,@burke,@DavHau]

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#nix #nixos

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-28
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,804

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 232 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

numtide/system-manager

Manage system config using nix on any distro

Stack

Nix Cargo PEP 517

GitHub topics

#nix #nix-modules

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-01
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 64 open

1,787

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 1,083 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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