Based on our record, NixOS seems to be a lot more popular than Slackware. While we know about 246 links to NixOS, we've tracked only 4 mentions of Slackware. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Congrats on making it past the slackware.com Install Help page that seeks to walk you through selection of non-existing boot and root floppy disks. Source: about 2 years ago
Using the slackware.uk mirror of Alienbob's content is a LOT faster than going to slackware.com:. Source: about 2 years ago
Stay tuned to http://slackware.com and the ##slackware IRC channel on. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
No Date for release candidate, But Patrick Volkerding, on slackware.com. Source: over 2 years ago
As we covered in my last post, NixOS is a amazing Linux distribution for creating stable and declared environments. Now while this is amazing for a desktop setup, it is also perfect for a home-server or home-lab. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago
Nix is a cross-platform package manager. It uses the nix programming language. Nix and NixOs are often used in the same context, but while the first is a package manager, the latter is a linux distribution based on nix. - Source: dev.to / 21 days ago
Today I want to talk to you about Nixos. What is it? Nixos is a declarative and reproducible OS, partly taking the words used on their own page. What does that mean? - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
Software developers often want to customize: 1. Their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow). 2. Their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here. 3. Or even their operating systems: for... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
Debian - Debian is a free distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system.
GNU Guix - Like Nix but GNU.
Void Linux - Void is a general purpose operating system, based on the monolithic Linux kernel.
Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS
Gentoo - The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux or BSD distribution.
Chocolatey - The sane way to manage software on Windows.