NixOS
Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS Joined Nov 2010 View on GitHub
- Stars
- 73,602
- across 98 public repos
- Rank
- #339
- of 94,827 organizations, top 0.4%
Repositories with 50+ stars
| Rank | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,548 | Nix Packages collection & NixOS | Nix | 26,777 |
| 2,687 | Nix, the purely functional package manager | C++ | 17,999 |
| 15,383 | A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables | C | 4,279 |
| 16,333 | Official documentation for getting things done with Nix. | Nix | 4,048 |
| 19,988 | A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks. | Nix | 3,359 |
| 30,687 | NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud. | Python | 2,214 |
| 41,760 | The official formatter for Nix code | Haskell | 1,639 |
| 43,026 | Hydra, the Nix-based continuous build system [maintainers=@dasj,@Ericson2314] | PLpgSQL | 1,591 |
| 49,920 | Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@Mic92 @bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius @r-vdp @samestep] | Rust | 1,370 |
| 84,513 | Flake templates | Nix | 770 |
| 97,451 | The Nix community RFCs | Markdown | 659 |
| 101,949 | Updating nixpkgs packages since 2018 | Haskell | 628 |
| 105,957 | Search NixOS packages and options | Elm | 602 |
| 126,460 | A Nix parser written in Rust [maintainer=@philiptaron] | Nix | 495 |
| 130,899 | JavaScript | 476 | |
| 133,701 | Nix related artwork | OpenSCAD | 465 |
| 152,084 | Generate Nix build instructions from a Cabal file | Haskell | 402 |
| 154,102 | Sources for nixos.org | Astro | 396 |
| 157,187 | Infrastructure as Code for the NixOS.org ecosystem [maintainers=@mweinelt, @Mic92, @arianvp, @vcunat, @jfly] | Nix | 387 |
| 159,015 | NG installer for Nix, forked from DetSys/nix-installer | Rust | 382 |
| 165,584 | Nix | 365 | |
| 174,444 | An Emacs major mode for editing Nix expressions. | Emacs Lisp | 344 |
| 183,278 | @ofborg tooling automation https://monitoring.ofborg.org/dashboard/db/ofborg | Rust | 325 |
| 209,009 | Parallel nix evaluator with a streamable json output [maintainers @Mic92, @adisbladis] | C++ | 279 |
| 227,882 | Nix documentation – centralized community online learning resource for Nix | 252 | |
| 249,529 | Nix plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE | Java | 226 |
| 267,127 | NixOS Weekly Newsletter | HTML | 208 |
| 299,845 | OBSOLETE (go to NixOS/nixpkgs) - NixOS, a Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager - OBSOLETE (go to NixOS/nixpkgs) | Shell | 181 |
| 306,858 | Aggregated bundlers [maintainer=@tomberek, @Artturin] | Nix | 176 |
| 319,118 | DEPRECATED! Use NixOS/nixpkgs repository instead. | Nix | 168 |
| 360,088 | DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container | Dockerfile | 145 |
| 364,277 | This is the home of the NixOS Foundation | 143 | |
| 388,710 | Global registry of Nix flakes | Shell | 132 |
| 419,393 | Web service for managing information on vulnerabilities in software distributed through Nixpkgs | Python | 120 |
| 540,157 | Config for the Community aarch64 NixOS box | Nix | 87 |
| 550,027 | Home for NixOS AMI automation | Python | 85 |
| 550,027 | Tool to vet (check) Nixpkgs, including its pkgs/by-name directory | Rust | 85 |
| 588,864 | This project contains the setup of https://wiki.nixos.org | Nix | 78 |
| 613,485 | Allows package maintainers to merge in nixpkgs [maintainers=@NixOS/nixpkgs-ci] | Python | 74 |
| 640,688 | The home of the NixOS branding guide and media kit. | Python | 70 |
| 752,777 | Generate nix expressions to build npm packages | CoffeeScript | 57 |
| 763,331 | Python | 56 | |
| 774,386 | Organisational documentation | Shell | 55 |
| 809,287 | Python | 52 |
Among 94,827 organizations
63k–100k stars: 206 organizations, including NixOS
Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale
Where the stars are
Languages
- Nix 36.7k stars, 50% · 11 repos
- C++ 18.3k stars, 25% · 2 repos
- C 4.3k stars, 6% · 1 repo
- Python 2.7k stars, 4% · 7 repos
- Haskell 2.7k stars, 4% · 3 repos
- Rust 2.2k stars, 3% · 4 repos
- PLpgSQL 1.6k stars, 2% · 1 repo
- Markdown 659 stars, 1% · 1 repo
and 10 more languages
When they were made
44 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2011 and 2025
Quick stats
- Next rank
- +292 stars to reach #338
- Next milestone
- +117,123 stars to reach the top 0.1%
- Public repos
- 98, 44 with 50+ stars
- Popular repos
- 9 over 1k stars, 2 over 10k stars
- Top repo
- nixpkgs, #1,548 of all repos, 36% of stars
- Smaller repos
- 901 stars from repos under 50