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Manage system config using nix on any distro

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2023-08-13 · latest 2026-09-30

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  1. …but once things click together, it is wonderful. To add to what you have found; there is also https://github.com/numtide/system-manager which brings NixOS' declarative system configuration to other distros as well, but I haven't personally…
  2. …as a kind of pseudo container, though able to bring more of its own system configuration with it ( https://github.com/numtide/system-manager ) than the more typical nuisance setup of container + separate outer config managed by ansible or…
    comment by mikepurvis · 2026-08-08 · in The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
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    System Manager – Manage system config using Nix on any distro
    story by pabs3 · 2025-06-20 · 0 comments
  4. …was something like nix-darwin for non-nixos linux distros It's in early stages, but it exists now: https://github.com/numtide/system-manager