⚠ Advisory ⚠

DevOS leverages the flakes feature available via an experimental branch of nix. Until nix 3.0 is released, this project should be considered unstable, though quite usable as flakes have been maturing well for a while.

Introduction

DevOS grants a simple way to use, deploy and manage NixOS systems for personal and productive use. It does this by providing a convenient repository structure, integrating several popular projects like home-manager, and devshell, and offering useful conveniences like automatic source updates.

Skip the indeterminate nature of other systems, and the perceived difficulty of Nix. It's easier than you think!

Getting Started

Check out the guide to get up and running.

In the Wild

You author maintains his own branch, so you can take inspiration, direction, or make critical comments about my bad code. 😜

Motivation

NixOS provides an amazing abstraction to manage our environment, but that new power can sometimes bring feelings of overwhelm and confusion. Having a turing complete system can easily lead to unlimited complexity if we do it wrong. Instead, we should have a community consensus on how to manage a NixOS system.

Upstream

I'd love to see this in the nix-community should anyone believe its reached a point of maturity to be generally useful, but I'm all for waiting until 1.0#121 to save the cache work, too.

The future is declarative! 🎉

Community Profiles

There are two branches from which to choose: core and community. The community branch builds on core and includes several ready-made profiles for discretionary use.

Every package and NixOS profile declared in community is uploaded to cachix, so everything provided is available without building anything. This is especially useful for the packages that are overridden from master, as without the cache, rebuilds are quite frequent.

Inspiration & Art

• hlissner/dotfiles
• nix-user-chroot
• Nickel
• Awesome Nix
• devshell

License

DevOS is licensed under the MIT License.