Published on Mon Mar 10 2025

On March 4th, 2025, we welcomed a new NixOS Foundation Board — marking the first-ever board rotation under our newly established constitution. Change is always a big step, but we believe this one is for the better! With clearly defined roles and a more structured approach, the Foundation is set up for success in supporting the Nix & NixOS ecosystem. Following a thorough selection process, carefully coordinated with the Steering Committee, the new board members are: President/Chair: Ron Efroni Rotman (continuing role) (@ron) Secretary: Silvan Mosberger (@infinisil) Director of Legal Affairs: Ryan Trinkle (@ryantrinkle) Treasurer: Maximilian Habryka (@lassulus)...

Published on Mon Apr 28 2025

The NixOS logo was originally designed by Simon Frankau for Haskell as part of the 2009 Haskell logo contest. Simon kindly gave permission for the design to be used by the NixOS project, and it was made official in November 2009. In 2015, a new version of the logo with a "hexagon design" was created by Tim Cuthbertson and added to the homepage. In March of 2017, it officially superseded the previous logo and was added to the nixos-artwork repository. Over the years, there have been many updates to the logo and repository, including: Converting the logotype to paths, removing the dependency on users having the designated font installed....

Published on Fri May 23 2025

Hey everyone, we are Leona Maroni and Tristan Ross, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS. We are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 25.05 "Warbler". NixOS is a Linux distribution. Its underlying package repository Nixpkgs can also be used on other Linux systems and macOS with the Nix package manager. This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2025-12-31). The old release 24.11 "Vicuña" is now officially deprecated and will reach its end-of-life and stop receiving security updates after 2025-06-30. NixOS Release Notes ...