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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<news>
<item>
<year>2015</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>30</day>
<title>
NixOS 15.09 released
</title>
<description>
NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release
branch. See the <a
href="/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-15.09">release notes</a>
for details. You can get NixOS 15.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the <a href="nixos/download.html">download
page</a>. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 15.09, check out the <a
href="/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-upgrading">manual section on
upgrading</a>.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2015</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>3</day>
<title>
Nix 1.10 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="/nix/download.html">Nix 1.10</a>
has been released. See the <a
href="/nix/manual#ssec-relnotes-1.10">release
notes</a> for a list of changes and new features.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2015</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>3</day>
<title>
NixCon 2015
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://conf.nixos.org"><img class="inline" style="width: 10em;" src="https://d2z6c3c3r6k4bx.cloudfront.net/uploads/event/logo/1005856/banner.png" alt="NixCon logo"/></a>
We're happy to announce that <strong>NixCon 2015</strong>, the
first Nix Conference, will take place on <strong>November
14—15th 2015 in Berlin</strong>. For more information, see the
<a href="http://conf.nixos.org">NixCon website</a>. And please
consider <a
href="http://conf.nixos.org/submit-a-talk.html">submitting a
talk</a>!
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2015</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>9</day>
<title>
NixOS Foundation
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://nixos.org/nixos/foundation.html">The NixOS Foundation</a>
was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure
used by the Nix related projects. If you would like to support us, please go
<a href="http://nixos.org/nixos/foundation.html">here</a> and donate some money!
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2015</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>12</day>
<title>
Nix 1.9 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.9">Nix 1.9</a>
has been released. See the <a
href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.9/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.9">release
notes</a> for a list of changes and new features.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>30</day>
<title>
NixOS 14.12 released
</title>
<description>
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the <a
href="/nixos/manual/sec-release-14.12.html">release notes</a>
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the <a href="nixos/download.html">download
page</a>. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the <a
href="/nixos/manual/sec-upgrading.html">manual section on
upgrading</a>.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>14</day>
<title>
Nix 1.8 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.8">Nix 1.8</a>
has been released. See the <a
href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.8/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.8">release
notes</a> for a list of changes and new features.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>30</day>
<title>
NixOS sprint in Ljubljana
</title>
<description>
We’re having a NixOS sprint at the <a
href="https://www.kiberpipa.org/en/">Kiberpipa hackerspace</a>
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on <strong>August
23—27</strong>. Joining is free! For more information and to
register, please go to the <a
href="http://www.kiberpipa.org/nixos-sprint-ljubljana-2014/">sprint
page</a>.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>30</day>
<title>
NixOS 14.04 released
</title>
<description>
NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.12, systemd 212, GCC 4.8,
Glibc 2.19, KDE 4.12, light-weight NixOS containers, and much
more. See the <a href="/nixos/manual/#sec-release-14.04">release
notes</a> for details. You can get NixOS 14.04 ISOs and
VirtualBox appliances from the <a
href="nixos/download.html">download page</a>. For information on
how to upgrade a 13.10 system to 14.04, check out the <a
href="/nixos/manual/#sec-upgrading">manual
section on upgrading</a>.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>30</day>
<title>
NixOps 1.2 released
</title>
<description>
<a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nixops/nixops-1.2">NixOps
1.2</a> has been released. This release contains contains many nice new features. See the <a
href="http://nixos.org/nixops/manual#ssec-relnotes-1.2">manual</a>
for details.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>11</day>
<title>
Nix 1.7 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.7">Nix 1.7</a>
has been released. See the <a
href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.7/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.7">release
notes</a> for a list of new features.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>9</day>
<title>
Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL
</title>
<description>
A <a href="http://heartbleed.com/">serious security
vulnerability</a> has been discovered in OpenSSL. All stable
NixOS releases prior to version
<strong>13.10.35708.15a465c</strong> are vulnerable. (You can
see your current version by running <tt>nixos-version</tt>.) To
upgrade to the latest NixOS version, run <tt>nixos-rebuild
switch --upgrade</tt>. You can verify whether you are safe by
running
<pre class="code">
$ nix-store -qR /run/current-system | grep openssl
</pre>
If this shows any OpenSSL version prior to 1.0.1g, you may be
vulnerable.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>2</day>
<title>
FOSDEM talks
</title>
<description>
<a href="https://www.domenkozar.com/">Domen Kožar</a> gave <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/nixos_declarative_configuration_linux_distribution/">a
talk at FOSDEM about NixOS</a> (<a
href="http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H1309_Van_Rijn/Saturday/NixOS_declarative_configuration_Linux_distribution.webm">video</a>).
Also, Ludovic Courtès gave <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/gnuguix/">a talk on
Guix</a>, the Nix- and Guile-based package manager.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2014</year>
<month>1</month>
<day>21</day>
<title>
Stdenv updates branch merged into master
</title>
<description>
The stdenv-updates branch <a
href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/668310a2b578d57a59dad7481db651ab3a258256">has
been merged</a> into the master branch of Nixpkgs. The main
change are that brings is that Nixpkgs/NixOS are now based on
GCC 4.8 and Glibc 2.18, in addition to many smaller updates.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>31</day>
<title>
NixOS 13.10 released
</title>
<description>
We have released NixOS 13.10, the first stable branch of NixOS.
Its goal is to provide a safe branch for production environments
that need bug fixes and security updates, but not the
potentially destabilising changes that sometimes occur on the
unstable branch. You can get NixOS 13.10 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the <a href="nixos/download.html">download
page</a>. See the <a
href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2013-October/011941.html">announcement</a>
for more information. For information on how to switch an
existing NixOS machine from the unstable channel to 13.10, check
out the <a
href="http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-upgrading">manual
section on upgrading</a>.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>28</day>
<title>
Nix 1.6.1 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.6.1">Nix
1.6.1</a> has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release but has some minor new features. See the <a
href="http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.6.1">release
notes</a> for details.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>10</day>
<title>
NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
</title>
<description>
The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in
order to simplify development. The sources now live in the <a
href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos"><tt>nixos</tt>
subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository on GitHub</a>. See the
<a href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2013-October/011873.html">announcement</a>
for more information.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>2</day>
<title>
NixOps 1.1.1 released
</title>
<description>
<a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nixops/nixops-1.1.1">NixOps
1.1.1</a> has been released. This release consists mostly of minor bugfixes. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6347332/download/1/manual/manual.html#ssec-relnotes-1.1.1">manual</a>
for details.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>10</day>
<title>
Nix 1.6 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.6">Nix 1.6</a>
has been released. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6039366/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>9</day>
<title>
NixOps 1.1 released
</title>
<description>
<a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nixops/nixops-1.1">NixOps
1.1</a> has been released. This release brings a backend for Hetzner,
a German data center provider, support for EC2 spot instances and some
minor bugfixes. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6036396/download/1/manual/manual.html#ssec-relnotes-1.1">manual</a>
for details.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>15</day>
<title>
NixOS sprint in Slovenia
</title>
<description>
A sprint focused on NixOS and <a
href="http://kotti.pylonsproject.org/">Kotti</a> will be held <a
href="http://www.coactivate.org/projects/zidanca-sprint-2013/project-home">22-26
July 2013 in Lokve, Slovenia</a>. It is organised by <a
href="http://www.termitnjak.com/">Termitnjak</a> and sponsored
by <a href="http://www.logicblox.com/">LogicBlox</a>.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>11</day>
<title>
NixOps 1.0.1 released
</title>
<description>
<a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nixops/nixops-1.0.1">NixOps
1.0.1</a> has been released, a minor bug fix release. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/5508053/download/1/manual/manual.html#ssec-relnotes-1.0.1">manual</a>
for details.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>5</day>
<title>
NixOS presentation at EuroPython
</title>
<description>
Domen Kožar gave a presentation at <a
href="https://ep2013.europython.eu/conference/talks/nixos-operating-system-declarative-configuration-distribution">EuroPython
2013</a>: <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtOBROowzDg">“NixOS
Operating System: Declarative Configuration Distribution”</a>.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>25</day>
<title>
NixOps 1.0 released
</title>
<description>
<a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nixops/nixops-1.0">NixOps
1.0</a> has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS
cloud deployment tool. See the <a
href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2013-June/011363.html">announcement</a>
and the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/5426864/download/1/manual/manual.html">manual</a>
for details.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>17</day>
<title>
Nix 1.5.3 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.5.3">Nix 1.5.3</a>
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/5350096/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>3</day>
<title>
PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
</title>
<description>
Today <a href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~sander/">Sander van
der Burg</a> successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled <a
href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~sander/index.php/phdthesis"><em>A
Reference Architecture for Distributed Software
Deployment</em></a>! It describes (among other things) <a
href="http://nixos.org/disnix/">Disnix</a>, a system for
deployment of service-oriented architectures.
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<year>2013</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>13</day>
<title>
Nix 1.5.2 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.5.2">Nix 1.5.2</a>
has been released. This is a bug fix release.
</description>
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<year>2013</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>28</day>
<title>
Nix 1.5.1 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.5.1">Nix 1.5.1</a>
has been released. It fixes a regression introduced in Nix 1.4. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4253990/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details.
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<year>2013</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>26</day>
<title>
Nix 1.4 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.4">Nix 1.4</a>
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release that
addresses a security problem in multi-user mode. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4228031/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details. For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4228031/download/1/manual#chap-installation">manual</a>.
</description>
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<item>
<year>2013</year>
<month>1</month>
<day>21</day>
<title>
NixOS switched to systemd
</title>
<description>
NixOS has switched from Upstart to <a
href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd">systemd</a>!
Systemd brings many advantages such as better dependency
management, socket-based activation of services, per-service
logging, cgroup-based process management, and much more. (Read
the <a
href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2013-January/010482.html">announcement</a>.)
</description>
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<year>2013</year>
<month>1</month>
<day>5</day>
<title>
Nix 1.3 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.3">Nix 1.3</a>
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See
the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3668901/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details. For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3668901/download/1/manual#chap-installation">manual</a>.
</description>
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<item>
<year>2012</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>6</day>
<title>
Nix 1.2 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.2">Nix 1.2</a>
has been released. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3455295/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details. For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3455295/download/1/manual">manual</a>.
</description>
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<year>2012</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>18</day>
<title>
Nix 1.1 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.1">Nix 1.1</a>
has been released. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2860022/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details. For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2860022/download/1/manual">manual</a>.
</description>
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<year>2012</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>24</day>
<title>
Binary Nix tarballs available
</title>
<description>
Our continuous build system, Hydra, now produces <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/view/nix/trunk/latest">binary
tarball distributions</a> of Nix for Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD
and Linux. The tarballs contain all dependencies of Nix, making
it a lot easier to install Nix on those platforms. To install,
download a binary tarball, unpack it in the root directory, then
run <tt>nix-finish-install</tt>. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/view/nix/trunk/latest/tarball/download-by-type/doc/manual#chap-installation">manual</a>
for more information.
</description>
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<year>2012</year>
<month>5</month>
<day>11</day>
<title>
Nix 1.0 released
</title>
<description>
After almost two years of development, <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.0">Nix 1.0</a>
has been released. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2609700/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for an overview of the most important improvements.
For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2609700/download/1/manual">manual</a>.
</description>
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<year>2011</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>7</day>
<title>PatchELF 0.6 released</title>
<description>
<a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/patchelf/patchelf-0.6">PatchELF
0.6</a> has been released. Apart from some bug fixes, it adds
support for executables produced by the Gold linker. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1524660/download/1/README">README</a>
for details.
</description>
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<year>2011</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>3</day>
<title>Hydra talk at Inria</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/">
<img class="inline" src="images/hydra.png" alt="Hydra
logo"/></a>
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk on <a
href="http://nixos.org/hydra">Hydra</a> at <a
href="http://www.inria.fr/centre/bordeaux">Inria</a> (which has
its own Hydra instance for building Inria software) entitled <a
href="http://sed.bordeaux.inria.fr/seminars/hydra-ci_20111103.pdf">“Hydra:
continuous integration for demanding people”</a>.
</description>
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<year>2011</year>
<month>10</month>
<day>28</day>
<title>Moving to GitHub</title>
<description>
The NixOS project is (slowly) migrating from Subversion to Git!
The master repositories will be hosted in the <a
href="https://github.com/NixOS/">NixOS organization</a> on <a
href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a>. For the moment, just a
few subprojects have been migrated, such as <a
href="https://github.com/NixOS/hydra">Hydra</a> and <a
href="https://github.com/NixOS/charon">Charon</a>. Thanks to
Tianyi Cui for donating the NixOS GitHub organization.
</description>
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<year>2011</year>
<month>9</month>
<day>14</day>
<title>
Nix-dev mailing list moved
</title>
<description>
The <tt>nix-dev</tt> mailing list has moved. The address is now
<tt>[email protected]</tt> (<a
href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev">web
interface</a>).
</description>
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<item>
<year>2011</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>5</day>
<title>
FOSDEM talk about NixOS
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://fosdem.org/2011"><img class="inline" src="logo/fosdem-logo.png" alt="Fosdem logo" /></a>
<a href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~sander/">Sander van der
Burg</a> gave a talk about NixOS at the <a
href="http://fosdem.org/2011/schedule/track/crossdistro_devroom">CrossDistro
track</a> of <a href="http://fosdem.org/2011/">FOSDEM</a> (<a
href="http://blip.tv/file/4726612">video</a>, <a
href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~sander/pdf/talks/vanderburg11-fosdem.pdf">slides</a>).
</description>
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<year>2010</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>18</day>
<title>
ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
</title>
<description>
The paper <a href="docs/papers.html#issre10">“Automating System
Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines”</a> (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the <a href="http://www.issre2010.org/">21st IEEE International
Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010)</a>.
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
environment (such as remote machines, network topologies, system
services or root privileges) can be written succinctly using <a
href="https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/nixos/trunk/tests/bittorrent.nix">declarative
specifications</a> of the machines needed by the test
environment. From these specifications we can automatically
instantiate (networks of) virtual machines. This is what we use
for <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/trunk/jobstatus">automated
regression testing of NixOS itself</a>. A <a
href="http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/decvms-issre2010-submitted.pdf">draft
of the paper</a> is available.
</description>
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<item>
<year>2010</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>18</day>
<title>
Xfce in NixOS
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://www.xfce.org/"><img class="inline" src="logo/xfce-small.png" alt="Xfce screenshot" /></a>
NixOS now supports <a href="http://www.xfce.org/">Xfce</a>, a
modern, light-weight desktop environment. It can be enabled by
setting the NixOS configuration value
<tt>services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.enable</tt> to
<tt>true</tt>. (<a
href="nixos/screenshots/nixos-xfce.png">Screenshot</a>)
</description>
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<item>
<year>2010</year>
<month>8</month>
<day>17</day>
<title>
Nix 0.16 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-0.16">Nix
0.16</a> has been released, featuring a much faster evaluator
and support for configurable parallelism inside builders. See
the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/565033/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details. For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/565033/download/1/manual">manual</a>.
</description>
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<item>
<year>2010</year>
<month>7</month>
<day>9</day>
<title>
NixOS talk at LSM
</title>
<description>
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk about Nix and NixOS at the <a
href="http://2010.rmll.info/spip.php">Libre Software Meeting</a>
in Bordeaux, entitled <a
href="http://2010.rmll.info/NixOS-The-Only-Functional-GNU-Linux-Distribution.html?lang=en"><em>“NixOS:
The Only Functional GNU/Linux Distribution”</em></a> (<a
href="http://2010.rmll.info/IMG/pdf/LSM2010-OS-NixOS.pdf">slides</a>).
</description>
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<item>
<year>2010</year>
<month>3</month>
<day>17</day>
<title>
Nix 0.15 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-0.15">Nix
0.15</a> has been released. This is a bug fix release. See the
<a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/326788/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details. For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/326788/download/1/manual">manual</a>.
</description>
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<item>
<year>2010</year>
<month>2</month>
<day>4</day>
<title>
Nix 0.14 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-0.14">Nix
0.14</a> has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/281118/download/3/release-notes">release
notes</a> for details. For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/281118/download/1/manual">manual</a>.
</description>
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<item>
<year>2009</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>25</day>
<title>
Nix logo
</title>
<description>
<a href="logo/nixos-hires.png">
<img class="inline" src="logo/nixos-lores.png" alt="Nix
logo" /></a> Long overdue, the Nix project finally has a logo!
The logo was originally created by <a
href="http://arbitrary.name/">Simon Frankau</a> for the <a
href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas">Haskell
logo competition</a>, who kindly gave us permission to use it
for the Nix project. (The snowflake motif is even more
appropriate for Nix, because <em>nix</em> is Latin for
<em>snow</em>.) Any further modifications are entirely our
fault.
</description>
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<item>
<year>2009</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>5</day>
<title>
Nix 0.13 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-0.13">Nix
0.13</a> has been released. This is mostly a bug fix release,
although it also adds some new language features. See the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/118589/download/3/release-notes/">release
notes</a> for details. For installation information, see the <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/build/118589/download/1/manual/">manual</a>.
</description>
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<year>2009</year>
<month>6</month>
<day>26</day>
<title>
LWN.net article on NixOS
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://lwn.net/">LWN.net</a> has an <a
href="http://lwn.net/Articles/337677/">article about NixOS</a>
written by Koen Vervloesem.
</description>
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<year>2009</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>24</day>
<title>
Nixpkgs 0.12 released
</title>
<description>
<a
href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12/">Nixpkgs
0.12</a> has been released. See the <a
href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12/release-notes/">release
notes</a> for details. Meanwhile, the Nixpkgs trunk has been
<a
href="https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/nixpkgs/trunk/?rev=15324&sc=1">updated</a>
to GCC 4.3.3, Glibc 2.9 and X.org 7.4.
</description>
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<year>2009</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>21</day>
<title>
OpenOffice.org 3 in Nixpkgs
</title>
<description>
<a
href="nixos/screenshots/nixos-openoffice-3.png"><img
class="inline screenshot"
src="nixos/screenshots/nixos-openoffice-3-small.png"
alt="OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 screenshot" /></a>
Lluís Batlle has updated OpenOffice.org in Nixpkgs to 3.0.1
(<a
href="nixos/screenshots/nixos-openoffice-3.png">screenshot</a>).
</description>
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<year>2009</year>
<month>4</month>
<day>7</day>
<title>
KDE 4.2 in Nixpkgs/NixOS
</title>
<description>
<a
href="nixos/screenshots/nixos-kde42-1.png"><img
class="inline screenshot"
src="nixos/screenshots/nixos-kde42-1-small.png"
alt="KDE 4.2 screenshot" /></a>
We now have a fairly complete set of KDE 4.2 packages in Nixpkgs
and NixOS. Previously we had KDE 3.5, but it was rather
incomplete: just <tt>kdelibs</tt> and <tt>kdebase</tt>.
Now we have all that <a
href="nixos/screenshots/nixos-kde42-2.png">desktop
goodness</a>, such as <tt>kdemultimedia</tt>,
<tt>kdenetwork</tt> and <tt>kdegames</tt>. You can
enable KDE 4 in NixOS by setting the
<tt>services.xserver.sessionType</tt> option to
<tt>kde4</tt>. Thanks go to Yury G. Kudryashov, Andrew
Morsillo and Sander van der Burg for doing the hard work on
adding KDE 4 to Nixpkgs. (<a
href="nixos/screenshots/nixos-kde42-1.png">Screenshot 1</a>,
<a href="nixos/screenshots/nixos-kde42-2.png">screenshot
2</a>.)
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2009</year>
<month>1</month>
<day>5</day>
<title>
Hydra
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://hydra.nixos.org/">
<img class="inline" src="images/hydra.png" alt="Hydra
logo"/></a>
<a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/releases/nix/unstable">Nix</a>
and <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/project/nixos/jobstatus">NixOS</a>
releases are now built in <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/">Hydra</a>, the new Nix-based
continuous build system. Hydra replaces our <a
href="http://buildfarm.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/status">old Nix-based
build farm</a>, 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 separately, so that for
instance a (fast) tarball build doesn’t have to wait for a
(slow) Cygwin build; build results are stored in a database,
which will enable all sorts of interesting queries; better error
reporting; a better web interface; and much more. We have
written a <a
href="http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/hydra-scp-submitted.pdf">draft
paper about Hydra</a>. There are some <a
href="http://hydra.nixos.org/job/hydra/trunk/build/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual">instructions
available</a> about how to set up your own Hydra server.
</description>
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<item>
<year>2008</year>
<month>12</month>
<day>22</day>
<title>
Linux.com article about Nix
</title>
<description>
There is an article on <a
href="http://www.linux.com/">Linux.com</a> about Nix: <a
href="http://www.linux.com/feature/155922">“Nix fixes dependency
hell on all Linux distributions”</a>.
</description>
</item>
<item>
<year>2008</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>21</day>
<title>
Nix 0.12 released
</title>
<description>
<a href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-0.12/">Nix
0.12</a> 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 <a
href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-0.12/release-notes/">release
notes</a> for details.
</description>
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