NixOS News

Nixpkgs 0.12 has been released.

Lluís Batlle has updated OpenOffice.org in Nixpkgs to 3.0.1 (screenshot).

We now have a fairly complete set of KDE 4.2 packages in Nixpkgs and NixOS.

Nix and NixOS releases are now built in Hydra, the new Nix-based continuous build system.

There is an article on Linux.com about Nix: “Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions”.

Nix 0.12 has been released.

The paper “Atomic Upgrading of Distributed Systems” (by Sander van der Burg, Eelco Dolstra and Merijn de Jonge) has been accepted for presentation at the First ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp).

The paper “NixOS: A Purely Functional Linux Distribution” (by Eelco Dolstra and Andres Löh) has been accepted for presentation at the 2008 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP).

The Nix website was down for a few days due to cooling problems in the server room causing the machine to overheat.

The Nix website has moved to nixos.org (hosted at TU Delft).

Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely Functional DSLs” at 8th Workshop on Language Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008).

The Jacquard program of NWO and EZ has granted funding for the Nix-related project “Pull Deployment of Services” (PDS), which is about improving the deployment of software and services in complex heterogenous environments.

New NixOS installation CD images for i686 and x86_64 are available, which is a good thing as the previous ones were already a few months old.

Nix 0.11 has been released.

Nixpkgs 0.11 has been released.

OpenOffice is now in Nixpkgs (screenshot of OpenOffice 2.2.1 running under NixOS, and another screenshot).

Wine now runs on NixOS!

There is now a mailing list (nix-commits@cs.uu.nl) that you can subscribe to if you want to receive automatic commit notifications from the Nix Subversion repository.

Eelco Dolstra presented the paper Purely Functional System Configuration Management at the 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI).

We now have KDE running on NixOS (obligatory screenshot).

NixOS is now almost usable as a desktop OS ;-).

There is now some basic documentation for NixOS.

NixOS now works on x86_64 machines.

To quote Eelco Visser: new hardware for buildfarm at Delft University of Technology has arrived.

Nixpkgs 0.10 has been released.

Nix 0.10.1 has been released.

Nix 0.10 has been released.

Nixpkgs 0.9 has been released.

Eelco Dolstra defended his PhD thesis on the purely functional deployment model.

Nix 0.9.2 has been released released.

Nix 0.9 has been released.

The paper “Secure Sharing Between Untrusted Users in a Transparent Source/Binary Deployment Model” has been accepted at ASE 2005.

The paper “Service Configuration Management” (accepted at the 12th International Workshop on Software Configuration Management) describes how we can rather easily deploy “services” (e.g., complete webserver configurations such as our Subversion server) th…

The paper “Efficient Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component Deployment Model” has been accepted at CBSE 2005.

The first Nix paper.