Dude still hasn’t decided where to host the repo. It’s not an alternative, guix is…
Aux is more similar to Nix, than Guix is.
Guix uses the same concepts, but still is very different.
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.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.
I vote for nunix, it’s the only one I’d remember easily.
Fornix sounds surprisingly sexual.
Apenix
And this sounds like nix for apes 🐵
I read it as “a pin nix” like appendix with a lisp
We are just evolved apes with smartphones
Considering the word fornication, I’m not surprised fornix sounds sexual
Agreed, I made a thread for it. You’ve got some good names!
Thanks for sharing them. Looking at the thread and the author’s responses, it doesn’t seem like he’s open to changing the name. Not sure if that’s off to a good start, but we’ll see…
He got convinced, its now Auxolotl!
Theres going to be an official reevaluation once the governance has finished bootstrapping.
That’s definitely better! 👍
AFAIK LUnix exists as the “little Unix” project aiming to run on the Commodore 6502 computers.
There’s even a video where someone got it to run on a Famicom.
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.
You can contribute to Nixpkgs without GitHub account
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/about-the-patches-category/477
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 themaintainer.nixfile. 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 opened 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.atomto 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.Mailinglists are such a joke. They are a terrible user experience all around. It’s like being stuck in the 90s.
Hoping to switch to Guix someday, but we’ll see.
It’s not really worth it IMO except for lisp and Emacs packages. The biggest issue for me was that nearly every other package I need was seriously out of date.
Is Guix a cleaner base for a NixOS alternative ?
I think so. The language (Scheme) is a lot more logical to me, and the higher focus on reproducibility in the main channel compared to Nix (Guix can be bootstrapped from a tiny binary seed) is a draw for me.
Sadly no AFAIK, even ignoring the licensing issues.
I was just thinking about switching to Nix, but I have no idea what to choose now.
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
You should learn the nix lang, flakes, zero to nix, etc and try not to get bogged down in the Nix/Aux stuff. Be prepared to wait for things to settle down on that side.
This looks good, I’ll switch over as soon as they decided on a hoster. I don’t have too much experience working in open source projects, but I’ll try to contribute what I can
Ok, but why? Forking generally means you are unhappy with something but no one is saying what.
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.
I read somewhere that there was some drama about identity politics.
Sounds like a awesome fork, can’t wait!
Nice! I’m really looking forward to this. I’ve been playing with nix for a while, but there were some things that prevented me from seriously adopt it (e.g. flakes are still considered experimental, but they are widely used).
