Nix 0.15 released
Nix\
 0.15 has been released. This is a bug fix release. See the
release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
Nix 0.14 released
Nix\
 0.14 has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
Nix 0.13 released
Nix\
 0.13 has been released. This is mostly a bug fix release,
although it also adds some new language features. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
Nixpkgs 0.12 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.12 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. Meanwhile, the Nixpkgs trunk has been
updated
to GCC 4.3.3, Glibc 2.9 and X.org 7.4. ⌘ Read more
OpenOffice.org 3 in Nixpkgs
LluÃs Batlle has updated OpenOffice.org in Nixpkgs to 3.0.1
( screenshot). ⌘ Read more
KDE 4.2 in Nixpkgs/NixOS
We now have a fairly complete set of KDE 4.2 packages in Nixpkgs
and NixOS. Previously we had KDE 3.5, but it was rather
incomplete: just kdelibs and kdebase.
Now we have all that desktop goodness, such as
kdemultimedia, kdenetwork and kdegames.
You can enable KDE 4 in NixOS by setting the
services.xserver.sessionType option to
kde4. Thanks go to Yury G. Kudryashov, And … ⌘ Read more
OpenOffice in Nixpkgs
Nixpkgs ( screenshot of\
OpenOffice 2.2.1 running under NixOS, and another\
screenshot). Despite being a rather gigantic package (it
takes two hours to compile on an In … ⌘ Read more
New build farm hardware at TUD
To quote
Eelco Visser: new
hardware for buildfarm at Delft University of Technology has
arrived.
Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more
Nix 0.10.1 released
Nix\
 0.10.1 has been released. It fixes two obscure bugs that
shouldn’t affect most users. ⌘ Read more