News

Announcements

• 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

Tutorials & Resources

• An introduction to nix-shell

  What is nix-shell and how to use it.

• Windows Functional Virtual Machine

  WFVM automatically bootstraps a Windows image inside QEMU that you can use to run unit tests on Hydra for example.

• Nix-Bitcoin: A Security Focused Bitcoin Node

• django-nixos

  NixOS-based Django deployment

• systemd2nix

  Convert systemd service files to nixpkgs syntax

• On using Nix and Docker as deployment automation solutions: similarities and differences

  Explores the concepts behind Nix and Docker, explains in which ways they are different and similar, and shows some examples how both tools can be combined.

• nix-sops

  Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops.

• Custom home-manager installation with NixOS

• Using Nix to build multi-package, full stack Haskell apps

• Gnome 3 on NixOS

• How to Setup Nextcloud on NixOS

• Can’t Hack This: A hard-headed introduction to Nix (slides)

• Migrate from RAID1 disk to ZFS on NixOS

• How to Make Sure Nixpkgs Can Evaluate

• NixOS Raspberry Pi 4 Google Fiber Router

• Setting up Buildkite for Nix-based projects using Terraform and GCP

• NixOS: the good, the bad, and the ugly

• mvn2nix

  An alternative solution (in-development) to convert a pom.xml file into a Nix expression to help package Maven applications within Nix.

• Packaging a maven application with Nix

• Nix’s Ruby & bundler ecosystem

• How to setup a Nix binary cache using S3

• Setting up LDAP Authentication with NixOS

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