NixOS Weekly #11 - Nixery, nixfmt and Cachix releases, NixCon 2019 tickets, a job and first impressions post

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News

• nix is now easier to bootstrap on Linux distributions without previous nix installation.
  Non-NixOS users are encouraged to try and report whether the improved autoconf checks make it easier to build it from source.

• static-haskell-nix started a crowd-funding on OpenCollective during ZuriHac to get its own dedicated Hetzner build server. Amazingly, the funding goal was reached within only 4 days!

• A big rework of the gstreamer package landed in nixpkgs with the upgrade to 1.16.

It also demonstrates how meson-build-system-based projects can be configured to complain loudly about any missing dependencies, as opposed to silently disabling features (like many autoconf based build systems do).

• Cachix 0.2.1 released
  Upgrade via the usual: $ nix-env -iA cachix -f https://cachix.org/api/v1/install

Notable improvement is the default compression level which has been lowered to increase bandwidth throughput and it’s overridable via --compression-level.

• Hercules CI #5 update requiredSystemFeatures, Cachix and Darwin support
  Preview access for the CI has been given to all subscribers as we’ve reached feature parity for the public launch.

• The NixCon 2019 ticket sale has started

• Functional DevOps in a Dysfunctional World

• Leveraging NixOS tests in your project

• Obsidian Systems is hiring a Nix engineer

• nixfmt 0.2 release

Please try it out on your code and give us feedback!

• Nixery is a tiny service that implements Docker’s registry protocol for serving images

• Nix and NixOS: first impressions

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