NixOS switched to systemd
NixOS has switched from Upstart to systemd!
Systemd brings many advantages such as better dependency
management, socket-based activation of services, per-service
logging, cgroup-based process management, and much more. (Read
the announcement.) ⌘ Read more

Hydra talk at Inria
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk on Hydra at Inria (which has
its own Hydra instance for building Inria software) entitled “Hydra:\
 continuous integration for demanding people”. ⌘ Read more

ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
The paper “Automating System\
 Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines” (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the 21st IEEE International\
 Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
en … ⌘ Read more

NixOS talk at LSM
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk about Nix and NixOS at the Libre Software\
 Meeting
in Bordeaux, entitled “NixOS:\
 The Only Functional GNU/Linux Distribution” ( slides). ⌘ Read more

DisNix paper accepted at HotSWUp
The paper “Atomic Upgrading of Distributed Systems” (by Sander
van der Burg, Eelco Dolstra and Merijn de Jonge) has been
accepted for presentation at the First ACM Workshop on Hot\
Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp). A draft\
of the paper is available. It describes Sander’s master’s
thesis research on DisNix, an extension … ⌘ Read more

Jacquard grant proposal accepted!
The Jacquard\
program of
NWO and EZ has granted funding for the Nix-related project “Pull
Deployment of Services” (PDS), which is about improving the
deployment of software and services in complex heterogenous
environments. The grant consists of 368 K€ for a PhD student (4
years) and a postdoc (3 years). If you’re interested in these
positions, please h … ⌘ Read more

Service deployment paper accepted for SCM-12
The paper “Service Configuration Management” (accepted at the
12th\
 International Workshop on Software Configuration\
 Management) describes how we can rather easily deploy
“services” (e.g., complete webserver configurations such as our
Subversion server) through
Nix by treating the non-component parts (such as configur … ⌘ Read more

**Paper “Imposing a Memory Management Discipline on Software

  Deployment” accepted for presentation at ICSE 2004!**

The first Nix paper. ⌘ Read more