News

• 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

  Alexandre shows us how to use Niklas’ package set to compile Haskell packages statically using musl.

• Concourse CI on NixOS

  Michael walks us through the process of setting up Concourse CI on a NixOS machine.

• NixOS 19.03 Koi released

  Linus announces latest NixOS release, a total of over 20,000 commits since 18.09, by 886 contributors (67 more than for 18.09).

• Why NixOS is hard and how to fix it

  Dave shares his experience using NixOS and gives some feedback what can be improved by the community in the future w.r.t documentation.

• Hercules CI sprint #1 development update

  Development update includes features and bug fixes shipped in last two weeks and shares plans what the focus is in next two weeks.

• Mixing channels in NixOS

  Garry shares a trick how to use packages from different channels. Useful when NixOS upgrade/update is blocked due to a broken package.

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