News

Announcements

• RFC 0080 Change NixOS releases to YY.05,YY.11 accepted

The next NixOS stable release will be 21.05.

• agenix - manage NixOS secrets - public beta

Agenix is a command-line tool for managing secrets encrypted with your existing SSH keys. It includes a NixOS module, age, for adding encrypted secrets into the Nix store and decrypting them.

• Cachix: Postmortem of outage on 20th December

Tutorials

• Deploying with GitHub Actions and more Nix

• Scrive Nix Workshop specialized for Haskell developers

• Installing NixOS on a raspberry pi 4

As the raspberry pi 4 is still not officially supported, this is a tutorial on how to get a base installation going if necessary without a screen.

• Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes

• Encrypted Secrets with NixOS

Resources

• autopatchelf - allowing arbitrary binaries to run on NixOS

• Podcast: A content addressable store for Nix with Théophane Hufschmitt

• Mobile NixOS: November 2020 round-up

• tex2nix

Generate small texlive environments for your document.

• NixOS in the Cloud, step-by-step: part 1

• nix-ld

Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS.

• NixOS cloud images

Additional NixOS install images for Amazon (aarch64, x86_64), openstack and kexec.

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