Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.
NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.
The Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs) is the ever growing packages collection for the Nix package manager, released under a permissive MIT/X11 license.
More about NixpkgsNixOps is a tool for deploying sets of NixOS Linux machines, bare-metal or to the cloud. It extends NixOS’s declarative approach to system configuration management to networks and provisioning.
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News
| NixOS 20.03 released | 20 Apr 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hey everyone, I am worldofpeace, one of the release managers for 20.03. As promised, the most glittered stable release is here: NixOS 20.03 “Markhor” ✨. NixOS 20.03 ContributorsWe had 1014 people contribute to NixOS 20.03 and 21597 contributions. Thank you soo much, each contribution is valued. Top 10 ordered by commits
My Reflections and ClosingBeing release manager for 20.03 has been a poignant moment for me in being part of NixOS. I had my goals that I set out before I was appointed, but I was really surprised how respected I am in the community. My primary goal was “work collaboratively with all participants in the NixOS project and being supportive of their efforts”. I feel I ✨ shine best in that dynamic in the project, so this really was perfect for me. I hope releasing NixOS has felt better for those involved. With the seeds I’ve planted it should continue to bloom this way. I’d like to thank Samuel Leathers, my co-release manager, for his congruent effervescence and guidance; Graham Christensen for his organizational encouragement; and obviously every last person I got to work with. Thanks ✌️ In leisure, pause, and experimental grace. worldofpeace. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NixOS 19.09 released | Oct 09 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NixOS 19.09 “Loris” has been released, the twelfth stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 19.09 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
For information on how to upgrade from older release branches
to 19.09, check out the
manual section on upgrading.
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| NixOS 19.03 released | Apr 10 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NixOS 19.03 “Koi” has been released, the eleventh stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 19.03 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
For information on how to upgrade from older release branches
to 19.03, check out the
manual section on upgrading.
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| NixOS 18.09 released | Oct 06 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NixOS 18.09 “Jellyfish” has been released, the tenth stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 18.09 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
For information on how to upgrade from older release branches
to 18.09, check out the
manual section on upgrading.
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| Fastly supports NixOS | Oct 04 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We are happy to announce that we have moved our binary cache to Fastly. Fastly is a big supporter of open source projects and now NixOS is one of them! Fastly provides us with CDN capability, which previously was running on AWS CloudFront. Big thanks go to Fastly, in particular Tom Denniston and Elaine Greenberg, our friends at Infor and Packet.com and Graham Christensen for making this possible. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nix 2.1 released | 02 Sep 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nix 2.1 has been released. See the release notes for a list of changes and new features. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NixOS Discourse forum | 14 Aug 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The nix-devel mailing list is now replaced by our discourse forum instance which is also usable by email: discourse.nixos.org. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NixCon 2018 | 21 May 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We're happy to announce that NixCon 2018, the third Nix Conference, will take place October 25-27 2018 in London For more information, see the NixCon 2018 website. And please consider submitting a talk! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NixOS 18.03 released | 04 Apr 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NixOS 18.03 “Impala” has been released, the ninth stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 18.03 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
For information on how to upgrade from older release branches
to 18.03, check out the
manual section on upgrading.
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| Nix 2.0 released | 22 Feb 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nix 2.0 has been released. See the release notes for a list of changes and new features. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NixOS 17.09 released | 02 Oct 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nix-dev mailing list moved | 12 Jul 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The nix-dev mailing list has moved to nix-devel on Google Groups. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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