Resources
the Wiki
The community NixOS Wiki's core articles are divided into five article categories: discussions, for encyclopedic description, guides, for showing the user how to do stuff, tutorials intended to teach, cookbooks collecting a bag of tips and trips and reference material for the nitty gritty details. They are also divided by the six most prominent components of the Nix Ecosystem: NixOS, Nix, the Nix Language, Nixpkgs, NixOps and Hydra. The core articles of the Wiki correspond to one component and one category:
The goal is to eventually have strong articles for every entry of this table, but initial efforts will target the first row and first column.
Documentation
- Nix Pills - series of blog post about Nix/Nixpkgs internals
- Official nix Manual
- Official NixOS Manual
- Official Nixpkgs Manual
News
- planet.nixos.org - Aggregator for blogs related to nix/nixOS
- NixOS Weekly
nix-dev mailing list- superseded by nix-devel- nix-devel mailing list
Interactive Websites
- NixOS Packages Search - full-text search through all packages of NixOS
- NixOS Option Search - full-text search through all options of NixOS
- NixOS Code Search - full-text search through NixOS related packages
- A tour of nix - interactive Nix tutorial
- How old is ... - when have the nixos-channels last updated
- Hydra
Tutorials
- Interactive Tour of Nix - an interactive tutorial of the Nix Expression Language by Joachim Schiele and Paul Seitz
- Nix shell workshop
Cookbooks
- Domen's Nix Cookbook - A community initiative, by Domen Kožar
Talks
- Nixcon 2015 Talks produced and hosted by the CCC Video Operation Center