News

Announcements

• 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 introduction to flakes, a new Nix feature that improves reproducibility, composability and usability in the Nix ecosystem.

This blog post describes why flakes were introduced, and give a short tutorial on how to use them.

• Earnest Capital Invests in Cachix

• Obsidian Systems is excited to bring IPFS support to Nix

Tutorials & Resources

• Shopify Engineering: What Is Nix?

Over the past year and a bit, Shopify has been progressively rebuilding parts of our developer tooling with Nix.

Burke Libbey dives into explaining Nix before diving into what's planned for the future.

• Nix: Re-running Fixed Output Derivations - At the Right Time

Have you ever been burned by forgetting to update a hash of a Fixed Output Derivation? Or realizing it hasn't worked since a while during an update?

This article explores your options at re-running fixed output derivation on input changes.

• My NixOS Desktop Flow

• Learn NixOS by turning a Raspberry Pi into a Wireless Router

• Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi 3

• NixOS on a Raspberry Pi: creating a custom SD image with OpenSSH out of the box

• Naive NixOS Rust Development

• nixology: Nix screencasts by Burke Libbey

• Keeping Up Appearances: Non-native macOS Light/Dark Mode

• Super Bootable 64

• Managing Firefox on macOS with Nix

• Nix Generator Functions for Sway

• Functional Fika — Nix and Haskell

• Debugging the micronaut package and code smells in Nix

• Nix Community Mumble

A Mumble server has been provisioned for use by the Nix community. Feel free to lurk in the lobby or create your own channels for hosting meetings and discussions.

Join with nix run nixpkgs.mumble -c mumble mumble://$USER@mumble.nix-community.org.

• Nix Package Versions

A tool to find all past versions of a package that were available in a channel, the revision you can download it from, and a copy-paste command for how to install it.

• nix-examples

Showcase of Nix usage for various technologies.

• NixKite: Buildkite pipeline generation tool using the NixOS module system

• Development with Nix in Python

• Deploying heterogeneous service-oriented systems locally with Disnix

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