News

• 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. We are looking for a fulltime Senior DevOps and Backend Engineer (m/f) with NixOs experience.

• nix-freeze-tree

  nix-freeze-tree is a utility that walks a directory tree, and writes out Nix expressions which rebuild that tree. The generated expressions have two important properties: a) Each file in the tree is built by a separate fixed-output derivation, and b) Directories are built by derivations that symlink their contents recursively. If you are using nix copy to ship a derivation between nix stores, copying the derivation built by evaluating the output of nix-freeze-tree can reuse existing files in the destination store, as fixed-output derivations can be checked against a hash before copying.

• I was wrong about Nix

  Christine talks about packaging Go and Elm application with Nix and publishing binaries to Cachix.

• How I start: Nix

  Christine talks about packaging and developing Rust with Nix.

• Nixpkgs reached 200,000 commits milestone

  It took less than 3 years since previous 100,000 milestone

• Nix for Coq Development

  Yann talks about how to package Coq with Nix using a simple tutorial.

• Possible nixpkgs-based Google Summer of Code projects .

  We want to try to use nix(pkgs) to build perfectly reproducible environments in a context where the users wouldn’t even be aware that nix is a thing that exists (unless, obviously, they want to know). This is in the context of a bioinformatics application, written in Haskell, but the nixpkgs integration can be done without writing Haskell code (NGLess)

• Nix: override packages with overlays

  Thomas has written a tutorial covering the problem that overlays are trying to solve, as well as how to use them.

• Announcing TUNA Nix mirror for China users

• Oslo NixOS minicon rapport

• How NixOS Is Enabling Edge and IoT Projects

• Interactive tutorials for using Nix and Nixpkgs written as a Jupyter notebook

  made by @FRidh

• A declarative process manager-agnostic deployment framework based on Nix tooling

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