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25,465 stars

NixOS/nixpkgs

Nix Packages collection & NixOS

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Stars25,465
20,719 stars

allinurl/goaccess

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

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Stars20,719
17,353 stars

NixOS/nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager

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Stars17,353
15,496 stars

spf13/spf13-vim

The ultimate vim distribution

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Stars15,496
13,396 stars

cheat/cheat

cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.

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Stars13,396
12,171 stars

jetpack-io/devbox

Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

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Stars12,171
10,119 stars

nix-community/home-manager

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

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Stars10,119
7,147 stars

cachix/devenv

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

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Stars7,147
6,797 stars

RubyMetric/chsrc

chsrc 全平台通用换源工具与框架. Change Source everywhere for every software

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Stars6,797
5,705 stars

LnL7/nix-darwin

nix modules for darwin

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Stars5,705
5,314 stars

digitallyinduced/ihp

🔥 The fastest way to build type safe web apps. IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness

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Stars5,314
5,302 stars

nix-community/awesome-nix

😎 A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community [maintainer=@cyntheticfox]

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Stars5,302
4,055 stars

flox/flox

The Deterministic Foundation for your SDLC

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Stars4,055
4,005 stars

containers/crun

A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers

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Stars4,005
3,872 stars

NixOS/nix.dev

Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.

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Stars3,872
3,781 stars

concrete-utopia/utopia

Design ❤️ Code

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Stars3,781
3,770 stars

Misterio77/nix-starter-configs

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

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Stars3,770
3,733 stars

andrew-d/static-binaries

Various *nix tools built as statically-linked binaries

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Stars3,733
3,659 stars

DeterminateSystems/nix-installer

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

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Stars3,659
3,618 stars

urbit/urbit

An operating function

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Stars3,618
3,574 stars

dustinlyons/nixos-config

General purpose Nix starter template for macOS or NixOS w/ step-by-step instructions

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Stars3,574
3,537 stars

railwayapp/nixpacks

App source + Nix packages + Docker = Image

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Stars3,537
3,296 stars

nix-community/nixos-anywhere

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

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Stars3,296
3,224 stars

NixOS/nixos-hardware

A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.

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Stars3,224
3,214 stars

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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Stars3,214
3,192 stars

nix-community/disko

Declarative disk partitioning and formatting using nix [maintainers=@Lassulus @Enzime @iFreilicht @Mic92 @phaer]

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Stars3,192
3,090 stars

imsnif/diskonaut

Terminal disk space navigator 🔭

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Stars3,090
3,054 stars

mitchellh/nixos-config

My NixOS configurations.

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Stars3,054
3,053 stars

nix-rust/nix

Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs

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Stars3,053
3,031 stars

Mic92/sops-nix

Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops

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Stars3,031
3,014 stars

nix-community/NixOS-WSL

NixOS on WSL [maintainer=@nzbr]

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Stars3,014
2,984 stars

viperML/nh

Yet another nix cli helper

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Stars2,984
2,956 stars

tweag/nickel

Better configuration for less

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Stars2,956
2,889 stars

justjanne/powerline-go

A beautiful and useful low-latency prompt for your shell, written in go

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Stars2,889
2,883 stars

nix-community/nixvim

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

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Stars2,883
2,767 stars

astro/microvm.nix

NixOS MicroVMs

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Stars2,767
2,733 stars

nix-community/nix-direnv

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

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Stars2,733
2,667 stars

sdiehl/wiwinwlh

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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Stars2,667
2,665 stars

IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell

Open source IFC library and geometry engine

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Stars2,665
2,429 stars

ryantm/agenix

age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager

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Stars2,429
2,414 stars

dmjio/miso

:ramen: A tasty Haskell web framework

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Stars2,414
2,401 stars

nix-community/nixos-generators

Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

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Stars2,401
2,333 stars

danth/stylix

System-wide colorscheming and typography for NixOS

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Stars2,333
2,327 stars

the-nix-way/dev-templates

Dev environments for numerous languages based on Nix flakes [maintainer=@lucperkins]

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Stars2,327
2,214 stars

zhaofengli/colmena

A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool

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Stars2,214
2,177 stars

NixOS/nixops

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

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Stars2,177
2,169 stars

serokell/deploy-rs

A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.

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Stars2,169
2,128 stars

dapphub/dapptools

Dapp, Seth, Hevm, and more

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Stars2,128
2,123 stars

est31/cargo-udeps

Find unused dependencies in Cargo.toml

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Stars2,123
2,087 stars

nix-community/nix-on-droid

Nix-enabled environment for your Android device. [maintainers=@t184256,@Gerschtli]

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Stars2,087
2,013 stars

tazjin/nixery

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

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Stars2,013
1,988 stars

ryan4yin/nix-config

❄️ My nix config for both desktops(NixOS+macOS) and homelab servers(NixOS).

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Stars1,988
1,943 stars

DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef

DeaDBeeF Player

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Stars1,943
1,931 stars

hlissner/dotfiles

And I say hey, what's going on?

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Stars1,931
1,901 stars

nix-community/NUR

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

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Stars1,901
1,866 stars

oxalica/nil

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

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Stars1,866
1,846 stars

nmattia/niv

Easy dependency management for Nix projects

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Stars1,846
1,833 stars

nix-community/impermanence

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

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Stars1,833
1,776 stars

sile-typesetter/sile

The SILE Typesetter — Simon’s Improved Layout Engine

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Stars1,776
1,760 stars

nix-community/lanzaboote

Secure Boot & Measured Boot for NixOS [maintainers=@blitz @raitobezarius @nikstur]

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Stars1,760
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