NixOS Facter: a declarative hardware configuration for NixOS is inviting the community to try it out.

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NixOS Facter: declarative hardware configuration for NixOS

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-facter-declarative-hardware-configuration-for-nixos

Since we introduced NixOS Facter six weeks ago (Better hardware-detection with nixos-facter), we’ve mainly focused on refining and stabilising the report format and establishing some essential documentation. I’m happy to say that work is now done, and we’d like to invite the community to try it out. There are currently a handful of NixOS modules, mainly serving as proof of concept, but we see many more possibilities. In the coming months, we will start exploring them as we expand our use of Ni...

NixOS Facter: declarative hardware configuration for NixOS

NixOS Facter aims to be an alternative to projects such as NixOS Hardware and nixos-generate-config. It solves the problem of bootstrapping NixOS configurations by deferring decisions about hardware and other aspects of the target platform to NixOS modules.