frostyard/nsl
NSpawn Subsystem for Linux: development environments for atomic hosts and people who want to keep the host clean
About the project
A CLI tool that provides WSL-style Linux machines on atomic hosts: each machine is a separate distro in a systemd-nspawn container inside a VM, with access to the host home directory.
Useful for
- Create a Debian machine to install project dependencies without touching the atomic host
- Run a build or tests in an isolated environment via nsl run make test
- Connect to a machine from VS Code over SSH using nsl ssh-config
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 0 stars so far today, about 23 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 5 days old and already has 73 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #187.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux” — 161 points, 1 day ago.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 73
- Today
- 0 · ≈ 23 by evening
- Forks
- 3
- Issues and pull requests
- 47
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- Go
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v0.7.0 · September 30, 2026
- Created
- September 26, 2026
- Last push
- September 30, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux161 points, September 29, 2026
Spotted in
- October 1, 2026Top new repositories this week: #186
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