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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 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 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 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 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...