NixOS Facter: declarative hardware configuration for NixOS
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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...
  • @linearchaosEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    It sounds neat, but I haven’t really had to screw with hardware configuration. I’ve had it on 10 different places, including decent sized servers and I’ve had to mess with one laptop video card which was working fine but stuck in acceleration mode all the time.

    • dinckelEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      I’m relatively new to Nix, but so far i’ve only had to touch the pre-generated hardware configuration file once, to add an extra couple drives on one of my systems.

      Still curious about what exactly this offers over nix-generate-config

      • @linearchaosEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        I read the spec, It seems useful if you want to do some server level tweaking like turning on the flags to make use of ECC RAM if there’s ECC RAM. But yeah the hardware can fix pretty damn solid two solid for me to even realize that someone made a project for better hardware control.