Post A2b4CyOy7aJ8S8RdiK by davidak@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #A2ahdi46fbuYevSziq by davidak@chaos.social
       2020-12-26T10:56:22Z
       
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       #nixpkgs is now the package repository with the most packages. It has the most up-to-date packages for a long time.https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/totalYou can use those packages using the #Nix package manager on any #Linux distro, #macOS or #NixOS.https://nixos.org/We achieve this with only 15% of the maintainers #AUR has (2. most packages). Imagine what we could achieve with that much package maintainers!I maintain 22 packages myself including a custom kernel. It is quiet easy with Nix!
       
 (DIR) Post #A2aheNqPKvuQEbNeCW by GNUxeava@fedi.absturztau.be
       2020-12-26T11:05:41.460918Z
       
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       @davidak sweet
       
 (DIR) Post #A2b4CyB8wzFTlFybAG by cbaines@octodon.social
       2020-12-26T15:03:35Z
       
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       @davidak this is comparing against distributions though, it's easy to package lots of things if you aren't rigorous at building everything from source.
       
 (DIR) Post #A2b4CyOy7aJ8S8RdiK by davidak@chaos.social
       2020-12-26T15:11:21Z
       
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       @cbaines i guess you refer to AUR. we do build everything from sourceAUR seem like a low effort way of packaging while in Nix, it's done properly
       
 (DIR) Post #A2b4CycRJV5D7ukOi8 by Ninjatrappeur@social.alternativebit.fr
       2020-12-26T15:18:22.814910Z
       
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       @davidak @cbaines nixpkgs has a fair share of packaged bindist.
       
 (DIR) Post #A2b5Ke1xqOm5XmuGci by cbaines@octodon.social
       2020-12-26T15:29:06Z
       
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       @davidak I don't know anything about AUR, but its my impression that sometimes nixpkgs derivations aren't particularly rigorous...One example that comes to mind is Grafana. I'd really like to package it, but its pretty complicated given all the JavaScript+CSS stuff as well as the Go code.I new it was packaged for Nixpkgs, but I realise that its just copying many non-source things from the tarball build by the upstream project!https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix
       
 (DIR) Post #A2clswSmD3MDn2RcOm by txt_file@chaos.social
       2020-12-27T09:01:13Z
       
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       @davidak up to date packages like Xen 4.8.5 in NixOS? Even Debian stable has a newer version (4.11.4). Debian oldstable has the same version as NixOS. ;-)
       
 (DIR) Post #A2clswhfJhGcXDPVbc by davidak@chaos.social
       2020-12-27T10:32:07Z
       
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       @txt_file there is also Xen 4.10.4 available on NixOS stable and it's the default on unstableNixOS has the most up-to-date packages, but 21.8% are out of date. xen seem to be one of themmost distros seem to have out-of-date xen with potential security issue https://repology.org/project/xen/versionsmaybe no one cares about xen nowadays. why wouldn't one use KVM?
       
 (DIR) Post #A2clswz2H7A5P5XNgG by txt_file@chaos.social
       2020-12-27T10:41:42Z
       
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       @davidak Why do people use vmware if there is kvm? Because sometimes you want to use a tier-1 hypervisor. https://youtube.com/watch?v=vAIX5rMM8Q8
       
 (DIR) Post #A2clsxDZP4mu8AKzKq by ultem@gnosis.systems
       2020-12-27T11:02:24.159176Z
       
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       @txt_file @davidak Businesses use vSphere/ESXi since there is enterprise support. Proxmox VE offers something similar for QEMU/KVM but is quite niche.