Published on Mon Jan 23 2017

Welcome to the first edition of NixOS weekly. We will do our best to release this newsletter every second week. If there is something you think we could improve, please let us know. NixOS 17.03 release manager...

Published on Mon Feb 06 2017

Let us together review what happened in NixOS community in last 2 weeks. We are always looking to improve. Let us know how we can do better. Many of you are not aware, but you can easily subscribe and help triage tickets and pull requests in NixOS/nixpkgs...

Published on Wed Feb 22 2017

Another two weeks have passed and it is time for our summary. A new section Questions was added to the newsletter. The intention for this new section is that it is going to expose some of the questions that happen in the past. We hope that none of the questions will be left unanswered. Sometimes we forget just how awesome Nix / NixOS is and we take its capabilities for granted. It is important that we remind ourself from time to time why are we using it, via reddit - In...

Published on Mon Mar 13 2017

Nix, NixOS and nixpkgs are all moving ahead at good speed. The 17.03 milestone is more than 50% complete, and we merged 144 pull requests for nixpkgs just in the last seven days. The NixOS 17.03 beta...

Published on Mon Apr 03 2017

The 17.03 "Gorilla" release has been tagged! There are too many good things in this release to pick favourites. I refer you to the release notes instead. Some fun stats: ...

Published on Fri Apr 14 2017

Or in other words: no more Perl in Nix! Shea Levy's last branch for his long-ongoing work to remove Perl from the Nix tool has finally been merged NixOS on Packet.net Over the past several months, Graham Christensen (grahamc),...

Published on Tue May 02 2017

A few months ago a proposal to define improvements process (nixos/rfcs) was announced. While many contributions to Nix and NixOS related projects fits into GitHub pull requests model, doing a substantial change requires more involvement from the community. Two months later we can see that NixOS community is picking up on the process and RFCs are starting to show up each week. ...

Published on Fri May 19 2017

Welcome to another edition of NixOS Weekly. Major announcements include NixCon 2017 and the old wiki migration. This edition adds a new Tooling section for possibly useful Nix-related tools in addition to News, Jobs, Reading, and Events. NixCon 2017 October 28-31, Munich....

Published on Mon Jan 08 2018

The phoenix is a long-lived fiery bird that is present in many different mythologies from around the world. When a phoenix "dies", it does so by combustion and is reborn of the ashes left behind. It rises from its own ashes, in the freshness of youth, to live through another cycle of years. So in a sense, it never truly dies, but regenerates itself and lives forever. Just like this weekly newsletter. Welcome to the 2018 NixOS "Weekly" newsletter. We are back and hope to produce more of them this year then we did last...

Published on Thu Feb 01 2018

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". Let me start by addressing everyone who helped put this edition together: By creating the content and helping collect items, you make the newsletter possible. Thank you. Contributions for future editions are more than welcome. One way to help is by editing a release; we've added an Editor's...

Published on Mon Feb 26 2018

Welcome to another edition of NixOS "Weekly" Newsletter! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Nix 2.0 has been released ...

Published on Wed Jul 25 2018

NixOS weekly project is rebooting, expect a newsletter every Wednesday in the morning (European timezone). You're more than welcome to submit new items with a short description on latest pull request Domen ...

Published on Thu Aug 02 2018

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. Thank you...

Published on Wed Aug 15 2018

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....

Published on Wed Aug 22 2018

NixOS in production Gabriel Gonzalez shows how to do a remote [nixos-rebuild switch]{.title-ref} while pinning nixpkgs ...

Published on Wed Sep 05 2018

Nix overlay to program and use a tomu U2F token #33686: New installer...

Published on Wed Oct 03 2018

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....

Published on Wed Sep 26 2018

The NixCon 2018 sold out and program is now live Help make the Nix ecosystem's docs better...

Published on Wed Oct 10 2018

cache.nixos.org moved from Amazon to Fastly. A very hacky proof of concept of a lisp in Nix NixOS 18.09 Jellyfish...

Published on Fri Nov 16 2018

NixCon 2018 videos of talks Eris: A simple binary cache server ...

Published on Tue Dec 04 2018

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 ...

Published on Thu Jan 17 2019

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

Published on Wed Dec 19 2018

Gnome 3.30 with wayland support has hit master To launch a wayland session simply use GDM or SDDM and select the gnome session. Select gnome-xorg to run an X11 session. If you encounter a bug please cc @hedning on github. Fast Docker Compose 'deployments' for development with Arion...

Published on Thu Feb 07 2019

Nix is now available in Debian NixOS 19.03 feature freeze ...

Published on Wed Feb 20 2019

NixOS is bootable via netboot.xyz Try out NixOS, without having to even create a USB key. Easy dependency management for Nix projects...

Published on Wed Feb 27 2019

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...

Published on Wed Mar 13 2019

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. ...

Published on Wed Apr 17 2019

The IPFS team made package managers their top priority for 2019 There might be progress on its Nix integration. Statically linked Haskell executables and optionally Docker images or Debian packages...

Published on Wed Apr 03 2019

NIXML: nix + YAML for easy reproducible environments Announcing the new Golang infrastructure: buildGoModule ...

Published on Wed May 15 2019

autobake: Create build recipes through automated trial and error GNU Guix 1.0.0 released ...

Published on Wed May 01 2019

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. ...

Published on Thu Jun 27 2019

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. The ultra optimistic long-term goal is to be a competing alternative to the GNU make build system the project currently uses, to make Redox builds reproducible and...

Published on Wed Jul 31 2019

nix is now easier to bootstrap on Linux distributions without previous nix installation. Non-NixOS users are encouraged to try and report whether the improved autoconf checks make it easier to build it from source. static-haskell-nix started a crowd-funding on OpenCollective during ZuriHac to get its own dedicated Hetzner build server. Amazingly, the funding goal was reached within only 4 days!...

Published on Wed Sep 04 2019

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. ...

Published on Wed Nov 13 2019

Launching Hercules CI Announcing general availability of continuous integration specialized for Nix projects. Hercules CI Agent 0.6.1...

Published on Thu Oct 10 2019

NixOS 19.09 released ociTools in NixOS Katharina explains her recently merged Open Container Initiative support in NixOS....

Published on Fri Jan 10 2020

Nix Notes The Nix Notes is a collection of short notes about Nix, each contributing to the same virtual machine image. The notes show how to deploy the image to Digital Ocean, update the running virtual machine without recreating it, and more....

Published on Thu Feb 06 2020

nix-simple-deploy A Rust rewrite of unmaintained nix-deploy. Any feedback appreciated! cached-nix-shell: Instant startup time for nix-shell...

Published on Wed Mar 18 2020

Introducing nixbuild.net nixbuild.net is nix build as a service, allowing you to easily run distributed builds without having to setup, scale and maintain build servers. ...

Published on Fri Apr 24 2020

NixOS 20.03 was released NixOS 20.03 “Markhor” had 1014 people contribute 21597 contributions. ...

Published on Wed May 27 2020

Nix 2.3.5 release Long awaited support for macOS Catalina, see the manual A bunch of options to invoke installer (pass --help to see what's there)...

Published on Mon Jun 29 2020

Nix error messages proposal: phase 2, PR 1 merged! Nearly every C++ file in the repo was touched! This will be the biggest PR, by far, for this project. Getting this in is a major feat! Next up, I'm looking forward to finishing out this phase with showing the lines of code for errors,...

Published on Wed Aug 05 2020

NixOS | Installation and First Impressions Why IHP is Using The Nix Package Manager...

Published on Mon Oct 12 2020

NixCon 2020 Call-for-Participation is open! Conference dates: Oct. 16th – 18th, 2020. Live streaming on 2020.nixcon.org ...

Published on Fri Nov 27 2020

Announcing Nixpkgs Database A database and search engine for the entire history of each package at Nixpkgs. ...

Published on Thu Jan 21 2021

RFC 0080 Change NixOS releases to YY.05,YY.11 accepted The next NixOS stable release will be 21.05. ...

Published on Tue Feb 23 2021

Introducing flox - Nix for simplicity and scale flox makes it easy to build software or manage development environments with Nix at any scale. ...

Published on Fri Apr 09 2021

RFC 0085 FCP NixOS Release Stabilization: ZHF on master, new timeline RFC 0085 has been accepted! ...

Published on Tue Jun 08 2021

NixOS 21.05 released! Jonathan Ringer, release manager, announces NixOS 21.05 release with 1745 contributors in 33474 commits. ...

Published on Mon Sep 06 2021

Makes A DevSecOps framework powered by Nix and the NixOS module system. Our goal is to help people setup a powerful CI/CD system in just a few steps, in any provider,...

Published on Fri Jan 01 2021

deadnix Finds and removes unused code in .nix files. ...