Learning resources

Manual

The main source of information about installing and using NixOS is the NixOS manual. Inside a NixOS system, you can read the manual by running the command nixos-help, and you can see the list of configuration options by running man configuration.nix. You can also search the list of options online.

Discourse forum

Discourse is a forum where we have discussions and help users out with their questions. Visit the page and register with GitHub or email/password: https://discourse.nixos.org/.

IRC

You can drop by on the IRC channel #nixos on irc.freenode.net to chat with the developers or other users.

Nix Pills

The Nix Pills are to convince you to give Nix a try, and to complement the explanations from the more formal documents, in short digestable pieces.

Mailing lists

nix-security-announce@googlegroups.com is for security-related announcements. To subscribe, visit the nix-security-announce Google Group or send an email to nix-security-announce+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

Other resources

There are several other manuals:

• The NixOS Wiki is an unofficial wiki maintained by the community.
• The Nixpkgs manual describes how to use the package collection that NixOS is built on.
• The Nix manual describes how to use the Nix package manager.
• The NixOps manual describes how to deploy NixOS machine in the cloud using NixOps.