Nix is a functional package manager for Linux and other Unix systems, making the management of packages more reliable and easy to reproduce. With a traditional package manager, when updating a package, a new version is downloaded and used to ...
When using an operating system, upgrading packages or installing new ones are common tasks that introduce the risk of affecting the stability of the system. NixOS is a Linux distribution that ensures the reliability of the operating system and allows ...
The Nix packages collection is large with over 60 000 packages. However, chances are that sometimes the package you need is not available. You must integrate it yourself. I needed for some fonts which were not already present inside nixpkgs. ...
Nixpkgs is an ever-increasing collection of software packages for Nix and NixOS. Even with more than 80,000 packages, you easily run in a situation where there is a functionality that is not yet implemented. Earlier this year, we wrote a ...
A new job comes with a new laptop. As such, I was given a Framework Laptop DIY Edition with the objective to install and configure it entirely with NixOS. I will share my first impressions after receiving and opening the ...
