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Announcing the 2018 Creative Turing Tests | Neukom Institute Turing Tests in the Creative Arts http://bregman.dartmouth.edu/turingtests/node/72

NixOS 17.09 released
NixOS 17.09 “Hummingbird” has been released, the eigth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

Nix-dev mailing list moved
The nix-dev mailing list has moved to
nix-devel
on Google Groups. ⌘ Read more

NixCon 2017
We’re happy to announce that NixCon 2017, the
second Nix Conference, will take place October 28–31 2017 in Munich
For more information, see the
NixCon 2017 website.
And please consider
submitting a talk! ⌘ Read more

Monitoring announcement: @tux0r@rosaelefanten.org, your host is down and @cow2001@kaka.farm, your certificate has expired.

Monitoring announcement: @tux0r@rosaelefanten.org, your host is down and @cow2001@kaka.farm, your certificate has expired.

NixOS 17.03 released
NixOS 17.03 “Gorilla” has been released, the seventh stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 16.09 released
NixOS 16.09 “Flounder” has been released, the sixth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.4 released
NixOps\
 1.4 has been released. This release contains contains many
nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 16.03 released
NixOS 16.03 “Emu” has been released, the fifth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

I’m contemplating a announce_following option, disabled by default, to to anounce follow and unfollow commands in your twtfile.

I’m contemplating a announce_following option, disabled by default, to to anounce follow and unfollow commands in your twtfile.

Nix 1.11 released
Nix 1.11
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 15.09 released
NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 15.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 15.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.10 released
Nix 1.10
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixCon 2015

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NixOS Foundation
The NixOS Foundation
was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure
used by the Nix related projects. If you would like to support us, please go
here and donate some money! ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.9 released
Nix 1.9
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 14.12 released
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the [manual section\
 on\
 upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/ind … ⌘ Read more

TypeScrpt 1.4 announced http://t.co/413tcvxqWk

Nix 1.8 released
Nix 1.8
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

#js13kgames winners announced http://t.co/sbks3L6iUN

NixOS sprint in Ljubljana
We’re having a NixOS sprint at the Kiberpipa hackerspace
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on August
23—27. Joining is free! For more information and to
register, please go to the sprint\
 page. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 14.04 released
NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.12, systemd 212, GCC 4.8,
Glibc 2.19, KDE 4.12, light-weight NixOS containers, and much
more. See the release\
 notes for details. You can get NixOS 14.04 ISOs and
VirtualBox appliances from the download page. For information on
how to upgrade a 13.10 system to 14.04, check out the [manual\
 section on upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/#sec … ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.2 released
NixOps\
 1.2 has been released. This release contains contains many nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.7 released
Nix 1.7
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of new features. ⌘ Read more

Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL
A serious security\
 vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL. All stable
NixOS releases prior to version
13.10.35708.15a465c are vulnerable. (You can
see your current version by running nixos-version.) To
upgrade to the latest NixOS version, run nixos-rebuild
switch –upgrade. You can verify whether you are safe by
running

$ nix-store -qR /run/current-system | grep openssl

If this shows any OpenSSL ve … ⌘ Read more

FOSDEM talks
Domen Kožar gave a\
 talk at FOSDEM about NixOS ( video).
Also, Ludovic Courtès gave a talk\
 on\
 Guix, the Nix- … ⌘ Read more

Stdenv updates branch merged into master
The stdenv-updates branch has\
 been merged into the master branch of Nixpkgs. The main
change are that brings is that Nixpkgs/NixOS are now based on
GCC 4.8 and Glibc 2.18, in addition to many smaller updates. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 13.10 released
We have released NixOS 13.10, the first stable branch of NixOS.
Its goal is to provide a safe branch for production environments
that need bug fixes and security updates, but not the
potentially destabilising changes that sometimes occur on the
unstable branch. You can get NixOS 13.10 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. See the announcement
for … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.6.1 released
Nix\
 1.6.1 has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release but has some minor new features. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in
order to simplify development. The sources now live in the nixos\
 subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository on GitHub. See the
announcement
for more information. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.1.1 released
NixOps\
 1.1.1 has been released. This release consists mostly of minor bugfixes. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.6 released
Nix 1.6
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.1 released
NixOps\
 1.1 has been released. This release brings a backend for Hetzner,
a German data center provider, support for EC2 spot instances and some
minor bugfixes. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOS sprint in Slovenia
A sprint focused on NixOS and Kotti will be held 22-26\
 July 2013 in Lokve, Slovenia. It is organised by Termitnjak and
sponsored
by LogicBlox. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.0.1 released
NixOps\
 1.0.1 has been released, a minor bug fix release. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOS presentation at EuroPython
Domen Kožar gave a presentation at EuroPython\
 2013: “NixOS\
 Operating System: Declarative Configuration Distribution”. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.0 released
NixOps\
 1.0 has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS
cloud deployment tool. See the announcement
and the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.5.3 released
Nix 1.5.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
Today Sander van\
 der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A\
 Reference Architecture for Distributed Software\
 Deployment! It describes (among other things) [Disnix](https://github.com/s … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.5.2 released
Nix 1.5.2
has been released. This is a bug fix release. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.5.1 released
Nix 1.5.1
has been released. It fixes a regression introduced in Nix 1.4. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.4 released
Nix 1.4
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release that
addresses a security problem in multi-user mode. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

NixOS switched to systemd
NixOS has switched from Upstart to systemd!
Systemd brings many advantages such as better dependency
management, socket-based activation of services, per-service
logging, cgroup-based process management, and much more. (Read
the announcement.) ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.3 released
Nix 1.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See
the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.2 released
Nix 1.2
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.1 released
Nix 1.1
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Binary Nix tarballs available
Our continuous build system, Hydra, now produces binary\
 tarball distributions of Nix for Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD
and Linux. The tarballs contain all dependencies of Nix, making
it a lot easier to install Nix on those platforms. To install,
download a binary tarball, unpack it in the root directory, then
run nix-finish-install. See the [manual](https://hydra.nixos.org/view/nix/trunk/latest/tarball/download-by-t … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.0 released
After almost two years of development, Nix 1.0
has been released. See the release\
 notes for an overview of the most important improvements.
For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

PatchELF 0.6 released
PatchELF\
 0.6 has been released. Apart from some bug fixes, it adds
support for executables produced by the Gold linker. See the README
for details. ⌘ Read more

Hydra talk at Inria
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk on Hydra at Inria (which has
its own Hydra instance for building Inria software) entitled “Hydra:\
 continuous integration for demanding people”. ⌘ Read more

Moving to GitHub
The NixOS project is (slowly) migrating from Subversion to Git!
The master repositories will be hosted in the NixOS organization on GitHub. For the moment, just a
few subprojects have been migrated, such as Hydra and Charon. Thanks to
Tianyi Cui for donating the NixOS GitHub organization. ⌘ Read more

Nix-dev mailing list moved
The nix-dev mailing list has moved. The address is now
nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl ( web\
 interface). ⌘ Read more

FOSDEM talk about NixOS

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ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
The paper “Automating System\
 Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines” (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the 21st IEEE International\
 Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
en … ⌘ Read more

Xfce in NixOS

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Nix 0.16 released
Nix\
 0.16 has been released, featuring a much faster evaluator
and support for configurable parallelism inside builders. See
the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

NixOS talk at LSM
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk about Nix and NixOS at the Libre Software\
 Meeting
in Bordeaux, entitled “NixOS:\
 The Only Functional GNU/Linux Distribution” ( slides). ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.15 released
Nix\
 0.15 has been released. This is a bug fix release. See the
release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.14 released
Nix\
 0.14 has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix logo

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Nix 0.13 released
Nix\
 0.13 has been released. This is mostly a bug fix release,
although it also adds some new language features. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

LWN.net article on NixOS
LWN.net has an article about NixOS
written by Koen Vervloesem. ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.12 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.12 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. Meanwhile, the Nixpkgs trunk has been
updated
to GCC 4.3.3, Glibc 2.9 and X.org 7.4. ⌘ Read more

OpenOffice.org 3 in Nixpkgs

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Lluís Batlle has updated OpenOffice.org in Nixpkgs to 3.0.1
( screenshot). ⌘ Read more

KDE 4.2 in Nixpkgs/NixOS

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We now have a fairly complete set of KDE 4.2 packages in Nixpkgs
and NixOS. Previously we had KDE 3.5, but it was rather
incomplete: just kdelibs and kdebase.
Now we have all that desktop goodness, such as
kdemultimedia, kdenetwork and kdegames.
You can enable KDE 4 in NixOS by setting the
services.xserver.sessionType option to
kde4. Thanks go to Yury G. Kudryashov, And … ⌘ Read more

Hydra
Nix
and NixOS
releases are now built in Hydra, the new Nix-based
continuous build system. Hydra replaces our old Nix-based\
 build farm, which will be phased out soon. There are
several advantages over the old build farm: the build tasks for
a project are scheduled and published separat … ⌘ Read more

Linux.com article about Nix
There is an article on Linux.com about Nix: “Nix fixes dependency\
 hell on all Linux distributions”. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.12 released
Nix\
 0.12 has been released. The most important change is that
Nix no longer needs Berkeley DB to store metadata, but there are
many other improvements. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

DisNix paper accepted at HotSWUp
The paper “Atomic Upgrading of Distributed Systems” (by Sander
van der Burg, Eelco Dolstra and Merijn de Jonge) has been
accepted for presentation at the First ACM Workshop on Hot\
Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp). A draft\
of the paper is available. It describes Sander’s master’s
thesis research on DisNix, an extension … ⌘ Read more

NixOS paper accepted at ICFP!
The paper “NixOS: A Purely Functional Linux Distribution” (by
Eelco Dolstra and Andres Löh) has been accepted
for presentation at the 2008\
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP).
It describes NixOS in much greater detail than last year’s
HotOS paper, an … ⌘ Read more

Website back up
The Nix website was down for a few days due to cooling
problems in the server room causing the machine to overheat.
These should be resolved now. Apologies for the
inconvenience. ⌘ Read more

Website / SVN repositories moved
The Nix website has moved to nixos.org (hosted at TU Delft). The Subversion
repositories have moved to svn.nixos.org. See
this\
mailing list posting for information about moving existing
SVN working copies. ⌘ Read more

LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal\
Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\
Functional DSLs” at 8th\
Workshop on Language\
Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). It’s about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h … ⌘ Read more

Jacquard grant proposal accepted!
The Jacquard\
program of
NWO and EZ has granted funding for the Nix-related project “Pull
Deployment of Services” (PDS), which is about improving the
deployment of software and services in complex heterogenous
environments. The grant consists of 368 K€ for a PhD student (4
years) and a postdoc (3 years). If you’re interested in these
positions, please h … ⌘ Read more

New NixOS ISOs

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New NixOS installation CD images for i686 and
x86_64 are available,
which is a good thing as the previous ones were already a few
months old. The new images are Nix 0.11-based, contain Memtest86+ as a
convenience, should support more SATA drives, an … ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.11 released
Nix\
 0.11 has been released. This is a major new release
representing over a year of development. The most important
improvement is secure multi-user support. It also features many
usability enhancements and language extensions, many of them
prompted by NixOS, the purely functional Linux distribution
based on Nix. See the [release\
 notes](https://web.archive.org/web/20140913055323/https://releases.nixos.org … ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.11 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.11 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

OpenOffice in Nixpkgs

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NixOS progress report

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Commits mailing list
There is now a mailing\
list (nix-commits@cs.uu.nl) that you can
subscribe to if you want to receive automatic commit
notifications from the Nix Subversion repository. ⌘ Read more

HotOS paper on NixOS
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper Purely\
Functional System\
Configuration Management at the 11th Workshop on\
Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI). It gives an
overview of the ideas behind NixOS. The
slides
are also available. ⌘ Read more

NixOS progress report

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We now have KDE running on
NixOS ( obligatory\
screenshot). Just kdebase for now (Martin
Bravenboer already added kdelibs a long time ago so
that we could run the wonderful KCachegrind),
but it contains all the important stuff (Konqueror, KDesktop,
Kicker, Konsole, Control Center, … ⌘ Read more

NixOS progress report

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NixOS is now almost usable as a desktop OS ;-). We
have an X server, a bunch of Gnome packages, basic wireless
support, and of course all the applications in Nixpkgs that we
had all along running on other Linux distributions. Here are a
few screenshots:

• X server\
 with Compiz window manager.
  
• [Emacs a … ⌘ Read more

NixOS manual
There is now some basic\
 documentation for NixOS. ⌘ Read more

NixOS for x86_64
NixOS now works on x86_64 machines. A 64-bit ISO is available. ⌘ Read more

New build farm hardware at TUD

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Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.10 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.10 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.10.1 released
Nix\
 0.10.1 has been released. It fixes two obscure bugs that
shouldn’t affect most users. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.10 released
Nix\
 0.10 has been released. This release has many
improvements and bug fixes; see the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.9 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.9 has been released. ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis defended
Eelco Dolstra
defended his PhD\
 thesis on the purely functional deployment model. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.9.2 released
Nix\
 0.9.2 has been released released. This is a bug fix
release that addresses some problems on Mac OS X. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.9 released
Nix 0.9
has been released. This is a new major release that provides
quite a few performance improvements and bug fixes, as well as a
number of new features. Read the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Secure sharing paper accepted for ASE 2005
The paper “Secure Sharing Between Untrusted Users in a
Transparent Source/Binary Deployment Model” has been accepted at
ASE 2005. This
paper describes how a Nix store can be securely shared by
multiple users who may not trust each other; i.e., how do we
prevent one user from installing a Trojan horse that is
subsequently executed by some other user? ⌘ Read more

Service deployment paper accepted for SCM-12
The paper “Service Configuration Management” (accepted at the
12th\
 International Workshop on Software Configuration\
 Management) describes how we can rather easily deploy
“services” (e.g., complete webserver configurations such as our
Subversion server) through
Nix by treating the non-component parts (such as configur … ⌘ Read more

Patching paper accepted for CBSE 2005
The paper “Efficient Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component
Deployment Model” has been accepted at CBSE 2005.
It describes how we can deploy updates to Nix packages
efficiently, even if “fundamental” packages like Glibc are
updated (which cause a rebuild of all dependent packages), by
deploying binary patches between components in the Nix store.
Includes tec … ⌘ Read more

**Paper “Imposing a Memory Management Discipline on Software

  Deployment” accepted for presentation at ICSE 2004!**

The first Nix paper. ⌘ Read more