Web Actions/Web Intents ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/16H

Web Actions/Web Intents ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/16H

The Indie Web: Who owns your identity? ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/13w

The Indie Web: Who owns your identity? ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/13w

New repository: aquilax/malko-erp - Tiny web based ERP

Mozilla: Web FWD ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/13c

Mozilla: Web FWD ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/13c

A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11V

A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11V

Chris Saad über das „Synaptic Web“ ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/10N

Chris Saad über das „Synaptic Web“ ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/10N

Federating the Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/zM

Federating the Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/zM

FOSDEM talk about NixOS

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Малко ретро WEB носталгия (пазете си очите, евентуално и ушите): http://diggbg.com/home/html1

The Federated Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/ws

The Federated Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/ws

OpenWeb-Notizen: OpenID, XRD 1.0, Simple Web Discovery ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/wE

OpenWeb-Notizen: OpenID, XRD 1.0, Simple Web Discovery ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/wE

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

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

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

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 / 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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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

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

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