This is a ported version of the Nix Pills, a series of blog posts written by Luca Bruno (aka Lethalman) and originally published in 2014 and 2015. It provides a tutorial introduction into the Nix package manager and Nixpkgs package collection, in the form of short chapters called ‘pills’.
Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
Pull requests · NixOS/nixpkgs
Nix Packages collection & NixOS. Contribute to NixOS/nixpkgs development by creating an account on GitHub.
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
Any Nix package, live in your browser
tl;dr Try it at https://trynix.dev. Click hello, or python 3.6.2 from 2017, or two eras of hello at once, or a package that exists in no public cache. A Linux machine boots in the tab and you get a shell with those Nix packages on PATH.
nixers - A forum for computer enthusiasts interested in Unix, Linux, BSD, Programming and much more.
nixers is a forum and discussion board for topics like Unix and programming.
Ergonomic overrides for Nixpkgs
Announcement post for the override-utils Nix package
nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon
Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka]
obscura: init at 0.1.10 by dhogenson · Pull Request #514273 · NixOS/nixpkgs
Things done Built on platform: x86_64-linux aarch64-linux x86_64-darwin aarch64-darwin Tested, as applicable: NixOS tests in nixos/tests. Package tests at passthru.tests. Tests in lib/...
gitpod-samples/template-nixos
The NixOS template, configured for Gitpod (www.gitpod.io) to give you pre-built, nix based ephemeral operating system environments in the cloud.
trynix — boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser
Pick any package from 13 years of nixpkgs history and boot it in an x86_64 Linux VM in your tab. No server anywhere.