News

• The NixCon 2018 sold out and program is now live

• Help make the Nix ecosystem's docs better

  A lot of people meet DocBook for the first time when they're contributing to the documentation of older, well established open source projects like NixOS. Now there is https://docbook.rocks/ to help you get past the initial hurdle of "what do I do now?" I hope this helps!

• Nix 2.1 has been added to the docker images

• Creating Nix build function abstractions for pluggable SDKs

• Packaging a Haskell library for artefact evaluation using nix

• A way to develop software with Nix

  This project illustrates using the Nix package manager for programming heterogeneous, multi-module projects. Notably, it provides a Nix library called Pkgs-make to save some of the boilerplate we might have to write when using Nix for managing a software lifecycle. Pkgs-make currently directly supports Haskell and Python development, but has the potential to support other language platforms.

• Nix 2.1 is compatible with macOS 10.14 Mojave, make sure to update Nix before upgrading

• travis-ci Nix support now allows setting Nix version

• Building Customised NixOS Images

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