Notices tagged with nix

#SoftwareHeritage, #Nix, and #Guix cited as tools to improve the #reproducibility of research artifacts:
https://cacm.acm.org/news/is-there-a-way-to-solve-the-reproducibility-problem/

@gaby_wald So the french government is making a distro based on #nixos.
Let's gooo!
The future is #nix !!

really says it all

#nix #nixos

Modesty aside, I think I’ve come up with the cutest possible description of remote procedure call interface of the the #Guix & #Nix build daemon:
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/4495/commits/055d146e9fcfe712bdc16defee1d7704168ff5ab#L54

Hello everyone 👋

On Wednesday 3rd of December Bost and me will give a session on #guix at the Functional Programming Night in #Tübingen.

Guix is a Linux distribution and package manager forked from Nix. It allows bitwise reproducibility of software, fine-grained roll-backs, transactional installs and a lot more!

I'll give an introduction into Guix. Bost will show you the good and the not-so-good parts. And in the end there'll be an open stage about workflows/use-cases (also #Nix).

If you come, please register beforehand. There'll be free pizza and drinks! 🥳

Date: 2025-12-03 (Wednesday)
Event start: 18:45
Location: itdesign GmbH (Blaue Brücke, Tübingen, Germany)

https://tu-lambda.github.io/

#guile #scheme

@fnat @alexshendi @nmeum @civodul @daviwil @abcdw @rougier

Please boost 🙏

#Guix has already raised half of its annual budget 👇
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2025/update-on-the-guix-fundraising/

This is great but the journey’s not over!

If you can, if you care about #Guix (or #Nix!), about #FreeSoftware and independent projects, consider donating. 🤲
https://guix.gnu.org/donate/

By a weird turn of events I ended up watching a presentation about Nix. I'm having a hard time understanding how that's better than Flatpak or containers. Maybe I'll have to do deep dive on that.

#AllThingsOpen #Conference #Nix #HomeLab @homelab

No longer welcome on #nixos.

#nix, #nixos-related.

Just a quick preamble before we begin: I am a centrist libertarian. Love freedom, will happily advocate for the rights of marginalised groups and those wronged by inequity. Sadly, there has been a lot of that that within the community lately and has exceeded my threshold of tolerance. The NixOS community is rife with political activists, some in positions of authority that have made the community unsafe for particular demographics of people that share differing ideological frameworks from those currently imposing their own on the NixOS community.

Hobbies should be politically neutral as to remain inclusive for all people from different walks of life. The founding ethos of the free and open source community ensured that nobody was excluded or marginalised for their immutable traits or beliefs as they did not matter or would've otherwise impacted a person's ability to participate. Until I see a tangible effort made by the NixOS community to return to these roots, I will no longer be using Nix or NixOS and will encourage others to do the same. The free and open source movement is political in nature, yes. However, there should be absolutely no room for identity politics and culture wars which distract from the very purpose of our hobby. Creating, maintaining and iterating on software and public infrastructure that anyone may freely use for the betterment of Humanity.

I may weigh in on any replies if I can, but I don't have nearly as much investment to stick around and try help course correction. Unfortunately, I can't foresee any improvement in the condition of the community unless a movement with significant momentum were to appear in which those previously banned were invited back to participate in discourse.

At the expense of my reputation and future participation, this has been Slopsec signing off.

Re-posted here as the Discourse thread got censored.

#nixos, #nix, #nixos-related.

“Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions”
https://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix

Insightful post with a good understanding of the differences between #Nix and #Guix.

Even installing #nix via their provided install script doesn't install man pages.
WTF?

I can't help but thinking the nix devs are going "hah, only n00bs need man pages" x3

@dlakelan sort of, I mostly used unstable for years with a short flirt with Ubuntu in between and switched to GNU #Guix nine years ago. Converted all my machines and never looked back.

Guix is #Nix's sister, takes a stronger stance on freedom and uses the general purpose Guile Scheme language for everything...both were a big plus for me but I recognize that's personal and depends on your needs and preferences. Nix works OOTB on more machines and provides much more softwares.

Initially I used guix as a package manager on Debian and switched to Guix System after a couple of months after I had moved all my development into the Guix realm.

@Linux @rriemann @eu_os I agree with the point raised about #NixOS and have suggested looking into this a few times wrt EU OS. Using #Nix as build tool really is a very unique approach to building a Linux based OS and completely cuts out the notion of a “distribution”. It takes a more direct path from the upstream source code (kernel, systemd, …) to a working OS. Thus entirely sidestepping the raised concerns about another distro used as a base.

@rriemann @neo @Linux @eu_os isn't this disingenuous? you are comparing migrations to Linux and you are asking to an explicit migration to NixOS? it's not like your bootc thing was tried in public sectors?

either way, what Neo proposed was to use Nix and this was successfully used at the European Commission, Target, Shopify, Mercury and many more companies who document their usage of #Nix

even Google is using #Nix these days, so…

❄️ NixOS 25.05 has been released.

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/

#NixOS #Nix #Linux

🚨 Only 10 days left to apply for Summer of Nix 2025! 🚨
Are you a student or early-career dev passionate about #OSS?
Join a paid summer program to work on real #FOSS projects, learn #Nix with experienced mentors, and connect with a global community.
Apply by May 12: https://github.com/ngi-nix/summer-of-nix
#NixOS

Mark your calendars! #NixCon 2025 is set:
📍 Where: OST, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
📅 When: September 5-7, 2025 (Fri-Sun)

Tag your fellow Nix fans, spread the word, and let’s make this the best NixCon yet! More details here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-2025-5-7-september-in-rapperswil-jona-switzerland/62255
#Nix #NixOS

#guix social talk this week by @paulbutgold on self-hosting @forgejo using #oci / #docker #containers

His Gocix project brings the power of declarative configuration to running container services.

Details on the Wiki or register at the Meetup:

- https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GuixSocial

- https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/306340848/

@fnat

#guix #nix #linux #containers #docker #oci #scheme #guile #selfhosting #forge #foss