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NixOS Wiki

Welcome to the unofficial user's wiki

This wiki is user-maintained. Take a look at the about page for more information.

Getting started

Newcomers are encouraged to read the Nix Ecosystem and Resources overview articles to get a comprehensive orientation. For more specific introductions, see:

Or for more extensive reference, check out:

See also:

Setting up NixOS

On ARM, with NixOS on ARM
In the cloud, with NixOS friendly hosters

Get in touch

Community overview
Get support
Official Website
GitHub repository
Forums
- stack overflow
- /r/NixOS
IRC
- Users: #nixos on freenode
- Developers: #nixos-dev on freenode
- Wiki: #nixos-wiki on freenode
Mailing list: nix-devel
Workgroups (“Interest Groups”)
- Workgroup:Container
- Workgroup:Router

News

2025-05-23 — NixOS 25.05 released

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

2024-09-02 — Wiki editors use Manual of Style

The Wiki team discussed and put into effect the Manual of Style for editing wiki articles. This is a huge step towards clear and consistent documentation. All editors are encouraged to follow this guide.

2024-08-22 — Wiki editors meeting

All interested wiki editors meet on 22th of August at 21:15 CEST in a Jitsi conference.

Agenda: https://pad.lassul.us/wiki-agenda?view

2024-07-05 — Wiki editors meeting

All interested wiki editors meet on 5th of July at 13:00 CEST in a Jitsi conference.

2024-04-01 — Launch of the wiki

The official NixOS wiki has taken off! If you want to find out why there is a new wiki effort, check out the FAQ.

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Special pages

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 ** Users: [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos ''#nixos'' on freenode]
 ** Developers: [irc://irc.freenode.net/nixos-dev ''#nixos-dev'' on freenode]