Welcome to another edition of NixOS “Weekly” Newsletter! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen.

News

• Nix 2.0 has been released

  • discussion on lobste.rs
  • discussion on hacker news

• NixOS 18.03 release approaching

  Mog has set up an unofficial redbubble store for various NixOS items (T-shirts, stickers, banners).

• Nix has learned to load plugins

• Nix workgroups area

  Workgroups are used to facilitate working on components of the Nix ecosystems. As of this writing there exists:

  • container workgroup: “building (minimal) OCI containers from the nixpkgs ecosystem.”
  • router workgroup: running NixOS on your router.

• Google Summer of Code 2018 proposals were not accepted

• Tracking RISC-V support in the Nix world

  Note the followup message linking the publicly visible boards:

  • RISC-V support for nix
  • RISC-V support for nixpkgs

• RFC 0023: Support musl libc

• Patreon to support the NixOS OfBorg infrastructure

  This supports @grhmc’s work on the OfBorg tooling.

Jobs

• Nix/DevOps position with Tweag I/O
• Software Engineer with DevOps and Continuous Delivery Experience at Conference Compass
• Serokell is hiring for several positions
  • Site Reliability Engineer (IT Operations Engineer)
  • Head of IT Operations

Reading

• Deploying systems with circular dependencies using Disnix by Sander van der Burg
• Haskell developer experience in NixOS by Roman Kuznetsov
• XMonad and Taffybar on NixOS using Stack by Dennis Gosnell
• Install VirtualBox on NixOS by Dennis Gosnell
• Parity as a service on NixOS by Alexander Krupenkin

Tooling

• nix-update for Emacs - An Emacs command for updating fetch declarations in place
• simple-hydra - A simple module for enabling Hydra
• groking-hydra - A repository of collecting insight about hydra
• dhall-build - A Dhall interface to the Nix build system
• nix-update - A script to update package in nixos automagically
• Disnix - Disnix 0.8 released

Events / Meetups

• ComcastLabs Connect: Functional Programming
  • When: March 9
  • Where: Philadelphia PA, USA
  • What: Among other functional programming topics, Susan Potter (@SusanPotter) is speaking on Functional Operations: Packaging, system/configuration building, and testing infrastructure with [Nix] lambdas

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