Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting , Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - NixOS, Part 1: The Nix Ecosystem

When: December 18, 2024 7:00PM EDT (6:30PM for Q&A)

Topic: NixOS, Part 1: The Nix Ecosystem

Speakers: Zachary Lieb

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

We will not be live streaming as the YouTube the live streams have been
failing partway through our meetings. We will be recording the meeting
using Jitsi's recording feature.

Summary:

An overview of the Nix ecosystem. Details of the OS at the January
2025 meeting.

Abstract:

Zachary begins with an overview of the Nix ecosystem of tools for making
software deployments more reproducible, including Nixlang, a
domain-specific-language that all other Nix tools are configured in;
Nix-Shell, an ephemeral shell for a reproducible development
environment; Disko, a tool for declaratively describing disk partitions
and filesystem; Home-Manager, a tool to declaratively configure a user's
home directory; and Nixpkgs, one of the largest, most up-to-date
software repositories in the world.

He then shows an example of how he used Nixpkgs to replace the use of
traditional package managers in an install script in a real-world
software project. This expanded the amount of distros supported while
simultaneously reducing

Attachments:

https://www.xda-developers.com/thread/nixos-is-an-amazing-distro/
https://zachliebl.com/


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