Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Nix

The top open-source alternatives to Nix are pkgsrc, Homebrew, and Docker. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

pkgsrc Landing Page
1

pkgsrc

pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 8 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
2

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 882 social mentions
Docker Landing Page
3

Docker

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Container Tools 62 social mentions
NuGet Landing Page
4

NuGet

The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 38 social mentions
NixOS Landing Page
5

NixOS

25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions
MacPorts Landing Page
6

MacPorts

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 5 social mentions
GNU Guix Landing Page
7

GNU Guix

Like Nix but GNU.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Developer Tools 90 social mentions
Wasmer Landing Page
8

Wasmer

The Universal WebAssembly Runtime
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #Cross Platform App Dev Tools #WebAssembly 50 social mentions
Flatpak Landing Page
9

Flatpak

Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Developer Tools 84 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
10

Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions
iTerm2 Landing Page
11

iTerm2

A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Terminal #Developer Tools #SSH 101 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
12

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions