Magic_RB/NixNG - NixNG - Red Alder Gitea
NixNG is a, as of now, GNU/Linux distribution, which may be a considered a late sibling to NixOS. It shares many of its designs and utilizes the Nix package manager at its core. The defining features of NixNG are:
NixNG cannot boot on real hardware due to missing it's own kernel and initramfs, but it can "boot" as a container, be it lxc, or docker. Some modules are implemented but there is still a lot to be done. If you want to get a feel for it, you can look into ./examples where you'll find fully working systems, mostly catered to be containers.
We've built up several functional containers, which showcase the syntax and functional of NixNG. The sources are locacted in /examples/. Currently you can either build the top-level derivation which you theoretically could activate (don't do it it will break) with:
Look at the code, make changes, open a PR. There are no style guidelines as of now, but try to write readable and well formatted Nix code, without tabs or trailing whitespace. If you need help with something please feel free to open an issue or contact me on Discord Magic_RB#6785.
