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List of companies using Nix

70 points by iElectric2 10y ago

stefantalpalaru 10y ago
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meira 10y ago
Vote brigade? Great subject. Keep doing this and call me next one, tnks.
- sctb 10y ago
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  - meira 10y ago
    Where do I remove my account?
lucaspiller 10y ago
Apparently there is company switching from using Gentoo to NixOS. Gentoo seems a bit of a weird fit for production, unless you can compile packages on another server and deploy them (last time I used it was 10 years ago so I don't know if that's a thing).
- kragniz 10y ago
  Gentoo's not such a weird choice if you want to have a lot of control. CoreOS is getting pretty popular these days, and that's gentoo based.
  - deadbunny 10y ago
    CoreOS isn't what I would call a general purpose server OS though, it has to do one thing and do it well.
    - deleted 10y ago
      [deleted]
- Slackwise 10y ago
  They could be using Portage to build static images of variously configured systems like Google does for Chrome OS[1]. Portage is a very powerful and versatile build tool. [1]: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshooting/portage-build-faq https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshoo...
- hawski 10y ago
  You can build binary packages after successful compilation/installation (every time if you want) or only build binary package. Then you can share binary packages between all hosts or have one host that is building packages for all others. You can restrict portage to only install binary packages. Doing all this can be a bit tedious, but with current computer's power it is quite fast process. You will get lean system that can be like no other - that's a curse and a blessing. Nevertheless I speak from the position of a desktop Gentoo user from the past, that recently used Gentoo for personal R&D project. It certainly is better experience than few years ago. You can install only run-time needed packages on your host or even to different directory (for chroot). One thing that I don't know how to get over is to not have development files inside binary packages. Like include files. Also I had to manually copy gcc libraries to such a chroot, because I didn't want to install whole gcc there.
- drvdevd 10y ago
  I feel that any system that can benefit from a high level of control (e.g. any production system) can also benefit from a source based distribution model. Of course the sysadmins using it need to know how to take advantage of that control (and e.g. maybe write some C). And of course, you can get the same thing with any modern package manager but then you have to be intimately familiar with the way packaging is built from source on that distro and how to build and run your own package hosts. Nix is quite unique (and elegant IMO), in that it: 1) forces you to learn at least a bit of a DSL to use and understand it and 2) seems to put you somewhere in between these two "extremes" of control. I don't know how easy it is to run a hydra build server (it didn't look very easy last time I checked), but I do know the nix DSL gave me a clean place to specify almost exactly how my system had differed from a base install.
jwfxpr 10y ago
For anyone else trying to download the NixOS ISO from the website, they don't offer torrent downloads and the connection keeps dropping (for me, at least), I eventually got an intact copy. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:071B7CBA20B94E5FDC4DAD397DE98D3A05276536 SHA-256 can be verified from https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html
- buovjaga 10y ago
  Seems it is on Linux Tracker as well http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=aa493da36b620be20c57140c0fb6496824aa63a0 http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=aa...
azdle 10y ago
I've keep meaning to try out nixos for a long time, does anyone know of any ~$5 VPS's that have it as a default option?
- Kexoth 10y ago
  I'm also interested on this topic. On their wiki page[0] there is a list from some hosting companies offering guides for setting this, but didn't saw anyone offering it out-of-the-box. [0] - https://nixos.org/wiki/Hosting_providers_%26_NixOS https://nixos.org/wiki/Hosting_providers_%26_NixOS
k__ 10y ago
If someone wants to try NixOS on their VPS there is nixos in place [0], which basically "converts" a Linux to NixOS. "nixos-in-place is known to work on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Arch, and Slackware, including x86 and x86_64 variants, with and without LVM, including systems on Digital Ocean droplets" [0] https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place
runeks 10y ago
So, what's the best way to learn the Nix language? Are there any tutorials that stand out, or is the official manual the way to go?
- iElectric2 10y ago
  https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/nix-by-example-a0063a1a4c55 https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/nix-by-example-a0063a1a4c5...
Terretta 10y ago
One of our senior engineers spoke at Nix OS Conf 2015, which we also sponsored. He touches on what we do, and a few things he's doing with it, then gives a tech talk. https://youtu.be/7QGYOq8U9E0 https://youtu.be/7QGYOq8U9E0 Nic can be very helpful at lots of things. If you're interested in Nix or us, email me (in profile).

70 points by iElectric2 10y ago

Don't vote anything on that submission because you risk being suspended from the whole platform for "participating in a vote brigade".

meira 10y ago

Vote brigade? Great subject. Keep doing this and call me next one, tnks.

sctb 10y ago
We've asked you not to do this, so we've banned the account.
- meira 10y ago
  Where do I remove my account?

lucaspiller 10y ago

Apparently there is company switching from using Gentoo to NixOS. Gentoo seems a bit of a weird fit for production, unless you can compile packages on another server and deploy them (last time I used it was 10 years ago so I don't know if that's a thing).

kragniz 10y ago
Gentoo's not such a weird choice if you want to have a lot of control. CoreOS is getting pretty popular these days, and that's gentoo based.
- deadbunny 10y ago
  CoreOS isn't what I would call a general purpose server OS though, it has to do one thing and do it well.
  - deleted 10y ago
    [deleted]
Slackwise 10y ago
They could be using Portage to build static images of variously configured systems like Google does for Chrome OS[1]. Portage is a very powerful and versatile build tool. [1]: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshooting/portage-build-faq https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshoo...
hawski 10y ago
You can build binary packages after successful compilation/installation (every time if you want) or only build binary package. Then you can share binary packages between all hosts or have one host that is building packages for all others. You can restrict portage to only install binary packages. Doing all this can be a bit tedious, but with current computer's power it is quite fast process. You will get lean system that can be like no other - that's a curse and a blessing. Nevertheless I speak from the position of a desktop Gentoo user from the past, that recently used Gentoo for personal R&D project. It certainly is better experience than few years ago. You can install only run-time needed packages on your host or even to different directory (for chroot). One thing that I don't know how to get over is to not have development files inside binary packages. Like include files. Also I had to manually copy gcc libraries to such a chroot, because I didn't want to install whole gcc there.
drvdevd 10y ago
I feel that any system that can benefit from a high level of control (e.g. any production system) can also benefit from a source based distribution model. Of course the sysadmins using it need to know how to take advantage of that control (and e.g. maybe write some C). And of course, you can get the same thing with any modern package manager but then you have to be intimately familiar with the way packaging is built from source on that distro and how to build and run your own package hosts. Nix is quite unique (and elegant IMO), in that it: 1) forces you to learn at least a bit of a DSL to use and understand it and 2) seems to put you somewhere in between these two "extremes" of control. I don't know how easy it is to run a hydra build server (it didn't look very easy last time I checked), but I do know the nix DSL gave me a clean place to specify almost exactly how my system had differed from a base install.

jwfxpr 10y ago

For anyone else trying to download the NixOS ISO from the website, they don't offer torrent downloads and the connection keeps dropping (for me, at least), I eventually got an intact copy. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:071B7CBA20B94E5FDC4DAD397DE98D3A05276536 SHA-256 can be verified from https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html

buovjaga 10y ago
Seems it is on Linux Tracker as well http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=aa493da36b620be20c57140c0fb6496824aa63a0 http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=aa...

azdle 10y ago

I've keep meaning to try out nixos for a long time, does anyone know of any ~$5 VPS's that have it as a default option?

Kexoth 10y ago
I'm also interested on this topic. On their wiki page[0] there is a list from some hosting companies offering guides for setting this, but didn't saw anyone offering it out-of-the-box. [0] - https://nixos.org/wiki/Hosting_providers_%26_NixOS https://nixos.org/wiki/Hosting_providers_%26_NixOS

k__ 10y ago

If someone wants to try NixOS on their VPS there is nixos in place [0], which basically "converts" a Linux to NixOS. "nixos-in-place is known to work on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Arch, and Slackware, including x86 and x86_64 variants, with and without LVM, including systems on Digital Ocean droplets" [0] https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place

runeks 10y ago

So, what's the best way to learn the Nix language? Are there any tutorials that stand out, or is the official manual the way to go?

iElectric2 10y ago
https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/nix-by-example-a0063a1a4c55 https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/nix-by-example-a0063a1a4c5...

Terretta 10y ago

One of our senior engineers spoke at Nix OS Conf 2015, which we also sponsored. He touches on what we do, and a few things he's doing with it, then gives a tech talk. https://youtu.be/7QGYOq8U9E0 https://youtu.be/7QGYOq8U9E0 Nic can be very helpful at lots of things. If you're interested in Nix or us, email me (in profile).