UPDATE: We now have a forum
I like #Nix, I do not like what has happened to it. #NixOS is an incredible technology and it deserves better. Nobody else has started the process so I guess I have to be the one to do it. We are forking. I would rather try and fail alongside all the people who love Nix but were pushed away from the project than give up.
Okay, it's official! I am launching a Patreon:
Here you can get early access to new issues of #NixPkgsNews, bi-weekly chapters of the book #NixForNewcomers as they are written, early previews of upcoming projects, Discord access, and even 1:1 #Nix / #NixOS support! Currently the latest news article is available as well as the first 3 chapters of my book.
If you like my work and would like to support me, this is the place to do it :)
Im Juni wurden u.a. #NixOS 24.05 und SLES sowie #openSUSE Leap 15 SP6 veröffentlicht. Zabbix erschien in der neuen Version 7.0. Neben zahlreichen Software-Updates wurden auch neue ARM- und RISC-V-Notebooks angekündigt. Der Sovereign Tech Fund startet in eine nächste Förderrunde, während Debian intern über verschiedene Themen diskutiert.
Wir lassen das Jahr mit eurem Feedback, einem CVE und einigen Neuerscheinungen ausklingen. elementary OS 8, #NixOS 24.11, #openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1, CentOS Stream 10 und EPEL 10 erscheinen. Das #Fedora-Projekt bekommt eine neue Projektleitung. #Proxmox Backup Server erscheint in der Version 3.3 und mit dem Raspberry Pi 500 erscheint ein neuer Kleinstrechner.
I am trying to use #NixOS and it's pretty challenging. I've used it before and am comfortable with navigating it. But, I keep having an issue of swap not mounting/activating.
I think the issue could be linked to me using the beta iso for 25.05 release. My hardware-configuration.nix has swap declared at the appropriate uuid. I've used this swap parition successfully with Gentoo and PopOS. I've looked at the documentation and nothing. I've looked for support resembling anything close to this and nothing. So that brought me to the rabbit-hole of trying to just make my installer iso. Just take a working calamares installer iso and declare a more recent kernel and build. That is where I've stopped. From the path that I took to build the iso, which there are many ways to make one, the directions stop at building. There is nothing about where the iso is then built, what steps you have to do after to compress. I am just discouraged by being unable to use this hardware properly with NixOS.
I've declared steam and ghostty in my config file and both only kinda work. There is no desktop icon for ghostty in my DE, the only way to execute it is via terminal and all theming is ignored. Even when loading my ghostty config file @ ~/.config/ghostty/... Steam has decided it only wants to check for updates and load said updates. There is no graphical environment after the initial pop-up window showing the update process. So I have a very powerful browser pc. I have loads of games with no way of running them. The terminal I want, is available! But only via the terminal of course...
@glitchtip is now available in #NixOS 🎉 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/386013
I plan to use it for CSP Report-URI as it seems to be the first software I am aware of that supports that feature and can be self hosted with a reasonable foot print.
Big thanks to @defelo and Nico Felbinger!
PS: should be on unstable shortly and I plan to PR a configureNginx option soon ™️
Let me take you #linux people on a little journey. Right now, there is a war. A war between those who fear the future of #nix and #NixOS and those who are apparently not getting the point.
To call something #opensource can mean so much nowadays. When it comes to the idea of an enterprise nixpkgs vs the open source or "community" #nixpkgs, I think it's time to make it clear:
#DeterminateSystems wants to have it's own #RHEL. Functions are decoupled from nix for a reason.
