# frostyard/nsl

> 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.

- Magnitude: 4.4 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 75 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 23 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2026-09-26 · Last push: 2026-09-30
- GitHub: https://github.com/frostyard/nsl · Homepage: https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/frostyard/nsl

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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 75 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #185.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux” — 161 points, 1 day ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3
- Issues and pull requests: 47
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 16 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.7.0 (2026-09-30)

## Stars per day, last 12 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-10-01: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 45, 28, 0

## Hacker News

- Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux — 161 points, 101 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894351

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #185

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
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Data as of 2026-10-01 02:08 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.