NixOS Weekly #08 - NixOS Weekly

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News

Announcements

• NixCon 2020 Call-for-Participation is open!
  Conference dates: Oct. 16th – 18th, 2020. Live streaming on 2020.nixcon.org
• 20.09 Zero Hydra Failures has begun!
  Help stabilize NixOS for the upcoming 20.09 Release
• Cachix: Changes to Garbage Collection
  Based on your feedback there are two minor changes to how garbage collection behaves in Cachix.
• nixbuild.net is Generally Available
• Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1

Tutorials & Resources

• fromElisp
  An Emacs Lisp reader in Nix.

• dconf2nix
  Nixify your DConf files (Gnome3 configuration) as expected by Home Manager’s dconf settings.

• pynixify - Nix expression generator for Python projects
  A tool made to adopt Nix in your Python project, and to contribute to Nixpkgs with package definitions.

• Experimenting with Nix and the service management properties of Docker
  Demonstrates how we can combine Nix and Docker in unorthodox ways – we can replace traditional Docker images for dependency management by a shared Nix store, use Docker as a backend for my experimental Nix process management framework and use Disnix as a simple orchestrator for Docker containers.

• Manix - Documentation Searcher for Nix
  A fast Documentation Searcher for Nix. Its database consists of Nixpkgs Documentation, Nixpkgs Comments, Nixpkgs Tree (pkgs., pkgs.lib.), NixOS Options and Home-Manager Options.

• Searching and installing old versions of Nix packages
  Installing older versions of packages in Nix is easy but currently there is no official way to find out what revision has the package version that I need.

• Local Nix without Root
  Monkeying around with nix for HPC systems which have no root access and NFS filesystems.

• BigBlueButton packaging and modules for NixOS
  First preliminary release of bbb4nix, a way to run BigBlueButton on NixOS.

• Working Through the Jepsen Tutorial with a NixOS Container Cluster

• Developing Python with Poetry & Poetry2nix: Reproducible flexible Python environments

• “Cloud-like” Infrastructure at Home - Part 1: LoadBalancers on the Metal

• The easiest way (I’ve found) to create your own Nix channel

• Caching your nix-shell

• Have you heard the good news about NixOS?

• Oneshot systemd tasks on NixOS

• A Tutorial Introduction to Nix

• Setting Up a Nix Binary Cache

• Thoughts on NixOS

• Building and Importing NixOS AMIs on EC2

• Niv and Mach-Nix for Nix Python

• 10 unoffical NixOS packages worth checking out

• Towards a content-addressed model for Nix

• swift2nix: Run Swift inside Nix builds

• cargo2nix: Dramatically simpler Rust inside Nix

• Publishing Doxygen and Sphinx with Nix and Rake

• Tailscale is magic; even more so with NixOS

• Assigning unique IDs to services in Disnix deployment models

• nix-copy-closure your nix-shell

• Fully statically linked Haskell binaries with Bazel and Nix

• Automated test on NixOS repository with Gitlab CI/CD

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