Welcome to the Nix wiki!

edit TROUBLE?

• Getting Help
• FAQ
• install/remove software - also list installed software
• xorg/xserver settings
• NixOS issue tracker

edit HOWTOs

• How to contribute to the nix wiki (keep top)
• How to find the package you're looking for in Nix
• How to keep multiple packages up to date at once (example for pkgs.misc.collection)
• How to find any text in code fast (gnu idutils)
• Howto develop software on nixos (NOT how to develop for nixos or nix)
• How to set up MediaWiki in NixOS with vhosts
• How to write a NixOS module
• How to install NixOS from a USB stick
• How to install NixOS from linux
• How to escape from dependency hell when compiling recent packages
• How to write patches using TopGit in a collaborative manner
• How to install Firefox with Java plugin
• Encrypted root(home, swap) on NixOS luks
• Audio Howto
• TexLive Howto
• Mercurial and Nix repositories
• Emacs configuration
• Enable GTK themes in KDE
• Solve GConf errors when running GNOME applications (such as GnuCash)
• How to watch digital TV (DVB-T)
• Wireless networking
• How to setup wireless network using wicd
• How to unpack a package's sourcecode
• How to setup UPS/NUT
• How to get a chroot close enough to LSB for impure binary packages to work

edit Virtualisation

• NixOS and Xen
• How to install NixOS on Amazon EC2
• NixOS and OpenStack Compute
• How to install NixOS on linode.com
• How to install NixOS on Rackspace
• How to install NixOS as OpenVZ guest
• Install NixOS on VirtualBox
• Installing VirtualBox on NixOS
• Writing and running NixOS VM tests
• How to install Nix OS on a hetzner rootserver
• QEMU guest with networking and virtfs
• Soft-RAID mdadm (/dev/md0), LVM (PVs,VGs,LVs) and booting from LVM on top of a mdadm volume

edit Development

• Contributing to NixOS or Nix related projects
• CrossCompiling
• Multiplatform NixOS - PC, qemu arm versatile and sheevaplug by now
• open issues:derivation styles
• open issues:ways of updating sources automatically
• Nix on Windows
• Creating a Nix OS live CD live cdrom, (usb boot stick)

edit Licenses

• Software Licenses (Fedora Project)

edit misc

• Real World NixOS Dotfiles
• Samba on nix
• Hosting providers & NixOs
• Nix(OS) related repositories and work
• User Reviews
• Nix(OS) on the media
• Nix impurities
• Compile Nix on AIX

edit Laptops

• Acer 4810T
• ASUS M60J-JX041V
• Airis N990
• Compaq Presario 2144EA
• Lenovo Thinkpad x200

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