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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. Deploying a fully automated Nix-based static website NYLUG Presents: "Sneaking in Nix - Building Production Containers with Nix" by Graham Christensen Lead DevOps Engineer with NixOs, Rust and Cloudflare A Nix-based functional organization for…

nix-simple-deploy A Rust rewrite of unmaintained nix-deploy. Any feedback appreciated! cached-nix-shell: Instant startup time for nix-shell Caching layer for nix-shell featuring instant startup time on subsequent runs. It supports NixOS and Linux. structured-attrs An explanation of __structuredAttrs in stdenv and why enabling it would be desirable. nix-bisect: Bisect Nix Builds A small command-line tool and python library that makes bisecting nix builds much more convenient. It prevents common…

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. Proposal for improving Nix error messages Crowdfunding campaign to fund a complete rework of error messages in Nix to improve beginner's experience and make working with the tooling pleasant. Contextflow is hiring! contextflow is an award winning Vienna-based startup using AI on 3D medical images to improve radiology workflows…

NixOS 20.03 was released NixOS 20.03 “Markhor” had 1014 people contribute 21597 contributions. Announcing Nixiosk Declarative Kiosk systems built with NixOS. Announcing Marketing Team The marketing team was founded and had their few meetings. They already improved the website (see Learn page). If you want to join, you will find the details in the announcement post. Let's improve the presentation of Nix/NixOS! nix-update A tool for updating nix packages semi-automatically The journey of packaging…

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) Various bugfixes to the installer MacOS sandboxing improvements Nix for GitHub Actions v9 v9 saves you a bunch of time when bootstrapping Nix (you can even disable adding of channels) Linux: ~20s -> ~7s MacOS: ~90s -> ~20s Nix Flakes, Part 1: An introduction and tutorial This is the first in a series of blog posts intended to provide a gentle…

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, and supporting show-trace in the new format. I expect that PR to be much easier, both to make the changes and to review them. Long-term reproducibility with Nix and Software Heritage RFC 70: Merge nixos-hardware…

NixOS | Installation and First Impressions Why IHP is Using The Nix Package Manager Cachix Blog: Documentation and More Documentation Cachix Blog: Upstream caches: avoiding pushing paths in cache.nixos.org Redox added to Nixpkgs Nixpkgs now supports cross-compiling to the Redox operating system. The redoxpkgs overlay has been created to fix packages for Redox An introduction to nix-shell What is nix-shell and how to use it. Windows Functional Virtual Machine WFVM automatically bootstraps a…

NixCon 2020 Call-for-Participation is open! Conference dates: Oct. 16th – 18th, 2020. Live streaming on 2020.nixcon.org 20.09 Zero Hydra Failures has begun! Help stabilize NixOS for the upcoming 20.09 Release Cachix: Changes to Garbage Collection Based on your feedback there are two minor changes to how garbage collection behaves in Cachix. nixbuild.net is Generally Available Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 fromElisp An Emacs Lisp reader in Nix. dconf2nix Nixify your DConf files (Gnome3 configuration)…

Announcing Nixpkgs Database A database and search engine for the entire history of each package at Nixpkgs. Cachix: write access control for binary caches The trust of who created binary cache contents comes from who owns the private signing key. This approach has a number of disadvantages when it comes to lifecycle in teams, so API tokens are now the default way to manage write access. NixOS 21.03 Call for Release Manager nixpkgs: Python 2.7 packages are no longer built nixpkgs: Haskell…