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An operating system generator, based on NixOS, that, given a config, outputs a small (47 MB), read-only squashfs for a runit-based operating system, with support for iPXE and signed boot.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2016-08-08 · latest 2026-06-25

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  1. …include so much as 50 MB of flash). -- 1: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique 2: https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os 3: https://www.liminix.org/
    comment by isityettime · 2026-06-25 · in I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?
  2. …this blog post might be interested in playing with not-os, another, much smaller OS built with Nix: https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os Could be a decent source of inspiration!
    comment by pxc · 2024-10-02 · in NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
  3. …OS generator that outputs an OS with 47MB squashfs": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34679031 https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os For memory constrained VMs and containers based on NixOS... Of course, even that isn't as small as…
    comment by peter_d_sherman · 2024-03-27 · in NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS
  4. …NetBSD working, including building the kernel, so I think it is better to start there. I opened https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os/issues/16 because I think that would be the absolute easiest first step, with the fewest moving parts. But…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-12-30 · in Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy
  5. …but idk how much commercial use they've yet seen, if any: a. https://github.com/telent/nixwrt b. https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os
    comment by pxc · 2021-06-25 · in Mobile NixOS
  6. …an option to similarly build lightweight OS images[1]. I haven't tried it yet but looks cool. [1] https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os
    comment by takeda · 2021-06-03 · in NixOS 21.05
  7. …* https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix * https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle * https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os Unfortunately those side projects often have even worse documentation.
    comment by takeda · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05
  8. https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2019-08-24 · in Mobile NixOS: The Present and the Future
  9. …a fork of nixpkgs which aims to have a NixOS work with FreeBSD kernel, and https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os to better make immutable OS images.
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2016-08-22 · in Reflections on NixOS
  10. https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os is an experiment for a "pre-fab nixos"--i.e. a stateless images that do not themselves contain nix. I'd like to see this sort of functionality implemented in NixOS proper.
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2016-08-08 · in Purely Functional Linux with NixOS [video]