NixOS News

NixOS 19.09 “Loris” has been released, the twelfth stable release branch.

News One-page Nix expression language overview Vincent wrote a one-page introduction to Nix language, covering language features you'll most likely encounter from day one.

News nix is now easier to bootstrap on Linux distributions without previous nix installation.

News A set of patches to build Redox on NixOS An attempt to embrace Nix instead of constantly working around the limitations to build Redox OS.

News autobake: Create build recipes through automated trial and error GNU Guix 1.0.0 released RFC on setup.nix Python development tool Asko proposes a new Python development tool SNM release compatible with NixOS 19.03 nixpkgs macOS stdenv updates Matthew…

News Setting up a C++ project environment with Nix Jacek explans step by step how to package a simple C++ project and how to build against a matrix of different dependencies.

News The IPFS team made package managers their top priority for 2019 There might be progress on its Nix integration.

NixOS 19.03 “Koi” has been released, the eleventh stable release branch.

News NIXML: nix + YAML for easy reproducible environments Announcing the new Golang infrastructure: buildGoModule Why I use NixOS Announcing tree-sitter-nix A simple formatter for Nix using tree-sitter-nix Announcing Mixnix - Build Elixir projects with Nix

News Announcing Cachix private binary caches and 0.2.0 release You can now share an unlimited number of binary caches in your group of developers, protected from public use with just a few clicks.

News Moving from Homebrew to Nix Package Manager Salar wrote a step-by-step tutorial how to migrate from homebrew to Nix. nixos/printers: declarative configuration Tired of manually configuring your CUPS printers every time you set up a new NixOS host?

News NixOS is bootable via netboot.xyz Try out NixOS, without having to even create a USB key.

News Nix is now available in Debian NixOS 19.03 feature freeze nixos-generators The nixos-generators project allows to take the same NixOS configuration, and generate outputs for different target formats i.e.

News nix-instantiate introduction A polite introduction to use nix-instantiate and the NixOS module system to render JSON.

News Gnome 3.30 with wayland support has hit master To launch a wayland session simply use GDM or SDDM and select the gnome session.

News NixOS 19.03 will leverage multiple cores automatically by default for builds and Nix 2.2 will have the sandbox enabled by default on Linux Deploy a C++ web app on Heroku using Docker and Nix Meson 0.48 landed in staging again Declarative client mail…

News NixCon 2018 videos of talks Eris: A simple binary cache server News on the security team Language Server Protocol for Nix using HNix NixOS mailserver 2.2.0 Blogs The NixOps resources.machines option Auto patching prebuilt binary software Jobs Engineer

News cache.nixos.org moved from Amazon to Fastly.

NixOS 18.09 “Jellyfish” has been released, the tenth stable release branch.

We are happy to announce that we have moved our binary cache to Fastly.

News Exploring Nix & Haskell Part 1: Project Setup This is the first of a series of posts, with the overarching goal of building up a deterministic Haskell development environment using Nix, including a modern IDE experience and any tooling built-in.

News The NixCon 2018 sold out and program is now live Help make the Nix ecosystem's docs better A lot of people meet DocBook for the first time when they're contributing to the documentation of older, well established open source projects like NixOS.

News Nix overlay to program and use a tomu U2F token #33686: New installer bootloader Updates the bootloader, shedding one of the few remaining old logos, while also adding new features.

Nix 2.1 has been released.

News NixOS in production Gabriel Gonzalez shows how to do a remote [nixos-rebuild switch]{.title-ref} while pinning nixpkgs The [nix-devel]{.title-ref} mailing list is now replaced by our discourse.nixos.org forum instance which is also usable by email Co…

News An EPYC NixOS build farm Graham explores and benchmarks an AMD EPYC build server against a differently incredible build server, finding the EPYC's builds are much faster across the board.

The nix-devel mailing list is now replaced by our discourse forum instance which is also usable by email: discourse.nixos.org.

News NixOS 18.09 JellyFish to be forked off in a month Whole Nix community would like to specifically call out a massive thank-you to vcunat and samueldr for being 18.09's release managers, an important and central role in each release.

NixOS weekly project is rebooting, expect a newsletter every Wednesday in the morning (European timezone).

We're happy to announce that NixCon 2018, the third Nix Conference, will take place October 25-27 2018 in London For more information, see the NixCon 2018 website.

NixOS 18.03 “Impala” has been released, the ninth stable release branch.

Welcome to another edition of NixOS "Weekly" Newsletter!

Nix 2.0 has been released.

Welcome to another edition of NixOS "Weekly" News -- we're still working on that weekly bit and I've half a mind to amend the quote to add "monthly before weekly".

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NixOS 17.09 “Hummingbird” has been released, the eighth stable release branch.

The nix-dev mailing list has moved to nix-devel on Google Groups.

We're happy to announce that NixCon 2017, the second Nix Conference, will take place October 28–31 2017 in Munich For more information, see the NixCon 2017 website.

Welcome to another edition of NixOS Weekly.

A few months ago a proposal to define improvements process (nixos/rfcs) was announced.

Or in other words: no more Perl in Nix!

The 17.03 "Gorilla" release has been tagged!

NixOS 17.03 “Gorilla” has been released, the seventh stable release branch.

Nix, NixOS and nixpkgs are all moving ahead at good speed.

Another two weeks have passed and it is time for our summary.

Let us together review what happened in NixOS community in last 2 weeks.

Welcome to the first edition of NixOS weekly.

NixOS 16.09 “Flounder” has been released, the sixth stable release branch.

NixOps 1.4 has been released.

NixOS 16.03 “Emu” has been released, the fifth stable release branch.