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Re:A story on home server security by diggan on Sunday January 05, 2025 @11:12AM (#42602722)
> that means you need to run NixOS for that to work

Does it? I'm pretty sure you're able to run Nix (the package manager) on Arch Linux for example, I'm also pretty sure you can do that on things like macOS too but that I haven't tested myself.

Or maybe something regarding this has changed recently?

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Re:A story on home server security by 0xCMP on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:27PM (#42604292)
sorry, yes to build it is fine, but managing them with Nix (e.g. dealing with which ports to expose and etc like in the article) requires NixOS.

edit: I actually never checked, but I guess nothing stops home-manager or nix-darwin from working too, but I don't think either supports running containers by default. EOD all NixOS does is make a systemd service which runs `docker run ..` for you.

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