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Welcome to the '''Popular Boards''' NixOS Wiki Project. [[User:DoggoBit|DoggoBit]] created this page in order to co-ordinate the effort of editing and maintaining all wiki pages covering the most popular developer boards and embedded(-like) systems that people like to run NixOS on.

== Contributing ==

Feel free to propose a new project, contribute to the available project below, or dropping a line in the [[Project Talk:Popular Boards|cafe]].

== Active Projects ==

=== Census ===

We should make a list of all wiki pages that we would track in the future. To start with, here's a few:

* [[NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi]]
* [[NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 2]]
* [[NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 3]]
* [[NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 4]]
* [[NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 5]]
* [[NixOS on ARM/Raspberry Pi 0]]
* [[NixOS on ARM/Pinephone]]

=== Raspberry Pi Cleanup ===

In the middle of the frenzy to support the Pi boards, the pages are a bit of a mess. We should probably clean them up, and extract any board-agnostic (or generic enough) info into separate pages (e.g. the boot process).

=== Raspberry Pi 5 ===

One of us should reach out to the current maintainer of the nixos-raspberrypi repository and see how we can capture the info around how to get different systems working, focusing on the Pi 5.

:Currently working on reformatting the Raspberry Pi 5 page, as I'm struggling with my own Pi build :) [[User:DoggoBit|DoggoBit]] ([[User talk:DoggoBit|talk]]) 21:58, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

:Reached out to the maintainer in {{issue|nvmd/nixos-raspberrypi|30}}. Current config seems to be good, will keep an eye on it [[User:DoggoBit|DoggoBit]] ([[User talk:DoggoBit|talk]]) 23:56, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

=== Standardised Board Page ===

We should come up with a "standardised" page outline similar to the wiki's [[Manual of Style]].

Here's my proposed outline:

* [no heading] introduction
** start with whether there's official support, if there's community support or no support at all
** general info about the board, when it was produced, how popular is it with the nix community
** notable nix-specific info/projects that people should be aware of at a glimpse
* Suggested Installation Process (or just Installation Process if there's official support)
** step-by-step guide on how to install NixOS on the board. each step is a separate subsection
** single one, the most widely used by the community, the most user friendly, and the least prone to error
* Alternative Installation Processes
** list other community efforts, formatted like the previous section
* Known Limitations
** do some packages not work? errors? devices faulty? etc.
* Board-specific Projects
** are there community initiatives building cool stuff on this board?
* Related Projects
** Simply list other board versions, etc.
* References

Feel free to add/remove to this structure, or talk about this outline in the cafe

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