NixOS for x86_64
NixOS now works on x86_64 machines. A 64-bit ISO is available. ⌘ Read more

New build farm hardware at TUD

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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

Nixpkgs 0.10 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.10 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ 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

Nix 0.10 released
Nix\
 0.10 has been released. This release has many
improvements and bug fixes; see the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.9 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.9 has been released. ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis defended
Eelco Dolstra
defended his PhD\
 thesis on the purely functional deployment model. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.9.2 released
Nix\
 0.9.2 has been released released. This is a bug fix
release that addresses some problems on Mac OS X. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.9 released
Nix 0.9
has been released. This is a new major release that provides
quite a few performance improvements and bug fixes, as well as a
number of new features. Read the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Secure sharing paper accepted for ASE 2005
The paper “Secure Sharing Between Untrusted Users in a
Transparent Source/Binary Deployment Model” has been accepted at
ASE 2005. This
paper describes how a Nix store can be securely shared by
multiple users who may not trust each other; i.e., how do we
prevent one user from installing a Trojan horse that is
subsequently executed by some other user? ⌘ 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

Patching paper accepted for CBSE 2005
The paper “Efficient Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component
Deployment Model” has been accepted at CBSE 2005.
It describes how we can deploy updates to Nix packages
efficiently, even if “fundamental” packages like Glibc are
updated (which cause a rebuild of all dependent packages), by
deploying binary patches between components in the Nix store.
Includes tec … ⌘ Read more

**Paper “Imposing a Memory Management Discipline on Software

  Deployment” accepted for presentation at ICSE 2004!**

The first Nix paper. ⌘ Read more