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Zitrone 🍋 :nixos:

I just installed on an old (2013) Fritz!Box router i got scammed into on Kleinanzeigen.

it was really simple

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Zitrone 🍋 :nixos:

i swear i had an openwrt sticker

i unfortunately can't find it

maybe i gave it away

but why would i if i got it for sticking it on my router?

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Zitrone 🍋 :nixos:

Do you guys think i could install on that router instead? It only has like ~100MiB of Memory tho.

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Mo Bitar :ferris:

@qz It was very simple to install it on a rather recent TP-Link router as well. But it depends on the model.
Once it is installed, it is rock solid. Updates are also very smooth.

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Julian :nixos: :arch:

@qz
Maybe check out Liminix, seems to be just the right use case for it. Have never tried it myself though...

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Stephen McNamara

@qz sounds like you owe it to the internet to try! Use the minimal iso and make a minimal flake. Check out my codeberg under the nix/nixos repo you will find a "router" Snag my nftables for LAN / WAN 👍 give it a go i wanna know how it goes 😅 currently my router is deployed on 8th gen intel x86 box. You could save resources if you offloaded your dhcp and dns to pihole and then you'd have a nice ui to manage your dhcp devices on a bare bones router.

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tomatovance
@noflcl @qz offtopic but i have a system config in my nixos flake for building an installation iso and the size is 10GB lol
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Stephen McNamara

@mischievoustomato @qz probably building with all your local package stores. Bet if you did some housekeeping and tried to build excluding any nix-store caches it would be quite a bit smaller? Just a guess though knowing nothing about your build script

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tomatovance
@noflcl @qz yes, given that i have a lot of custom stuff, building a new system from scratch takes time (kernel build, ffmpeg, some other things including qtbase), together with downloading, and since I use disko as well, it becomes messy, so I make sure to preload stuff to the best of my abilities
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Stephen McNamara

@mischievoustomato @qz totally the way to go for a image on your local network. 10gig image on lan is nothing and would save toooonz of compile time

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tomatovance
@noflcl @qz it'd be great for that too, but i put it on a 32GB usb stick (3.0 thankfully)

Ah, also the purpose of it is to have a portable, usable linux everywhere.
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Zitrone 🍋 :nixos:

@noflcl just systemd is already 180MiB so this will never work with normal NixOS on this device

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Zitrone 🍋 :nixos:

@noflcl finding that out made me learn a cool nix command tho:
try `$ nix path-info -rhS $(which systemctl)`

oh damn how is glibc already 30MB?
4,4 MiB is just a chinese character collation

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Stephen McNamara

@qz you could reduce localization to US only, consider running init startup instead of systemd?

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Raito Bezarius

@qz you cannot eval on such machines but i think if your userspace is small enough, yeah, that fits

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Zitrone 🍋 :nixos:

@wamserma it seems definitely interesting, but i'll have to write device and flakes support code myself

definitely more work than openwrt for a probably more unstable experience

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