NixOS Wiki
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NixOS Wiki - Official NixOS Wiki
This is the official NixOS Wiki.
Hydra
Hydra is a tool for continuous integration testing and software release that uses a purely functional language to describe build jobs and their dependencies. Continuous integration is a simple technique to improve the quality of the software development process.
Nixpkgs
Nixpkgs is the largest repository of Nix packages and NixOS modules. The repository is hosted on GitHub and maintained by the community, with official backing from the NixOS Foundation. To search among available packages and options, see Searching packages. As highlighted in the announcement ...
Home
Start with plain Nix/NixOS, and ... with Nix/NixOS and comprehend their significance. ... First stop should be Resources, which serves as a gateway to the most important documentation. Some highlights below. ... Nix vs. Linux Standard Base ... Email wiki@nixos.org for ...
Applications
This article lists applications built for and with Nix; it constitutes a listing of what may be called the Extended Nix Ecosystem (see Nix Ecosystem for the Core Nix Ecosystem). If you are looking for Linux software/applications you should look at Software.
NixOS Wiki
nixos.wiki
NixOS Wiki
Despite that most content was copied verbatim (which is fine, forks are part of open source) there is no affiliation between the unofficial user's wiki and that wiki. ... We also have a write-up on the history of NixOS wikis (requiring an update).
Official NixOS Wiki - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
We would like to announce our effort to create a new official NixOS wiki, further details can be found here: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/113 More on discourse.nixos.org
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January 23, 2024Which wiki is the correct wiki now?
wiki.nixos.org is the official one More on reddit.com
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February 7, 2025NixOS Wiki – the unofficial user wiki
I tried to write more for the wiki while learning things about NixOS. But it's so annoying to make changes that I eventually gave up · I really like NixOS and Nix in general, it just lacks a central and organized, community maintained documentation like the Arch wiki. More on news.ycombinator.com
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October 1, 2023The official NixOS wiki is live(not an april fools joke)
How many times does it need to be said to everybody DO. NOT. LAUNCH. ANYTHING. ON. APRIL. FIRST. More on reddit.com
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April 2, 2024Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › NixOS
NixOS - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - An official NixOS wiki was launched in 2011, but was shut down in 2016 due to spam. An unofficial wiki at nixos.wiki was later started by the community to fill in the documentation gap.
NixOS Wiki
wiki.nixos.org › wiki › NixOS_system_configuration
NixOS system configuration - Official NixOS Wiki
NixOS uses a declarative configuration system that allows users to manage their entire operating system setup including installed packages, system services, user accounts, hardware settings, and more thorough configuration files. This page serves as an overview of how to work with and manage NixOS system...
NixOS Discourse
discourse.nixos.org › announcements
Official NixOS Wiki - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
January 23, 2024 - We would like to announce our effort to create a new official NixOS wiki, further details can be found here: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/113
Reddit
reddit.com › r/nixos › which wiki is the correct wiki now?
r/NixOS on Reddit: Which wiki is the correct wiki now?
February 7, 2025 -
I am back in Desktop Environment hell because there's still no Desktop Environment that "just works" for me (Need some things like Notifiactions, restoring workspaces, actually making sound and Network Manager Openconnect Support in a non tiling WM) and each of the main ones just make me frustrated for one reason or another.
Hacker News
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NixOS Wiki – the unofficial user wiki | Hacker News
October 1, 2023 - I tried to write more for the wiki while learning things about NixOS. But it's so annoying to make changes that I eventually gave up · I really like NixOS and Nix in general, it just lacks a central and organized, community maintained documentation like the Arch wiki.
GitHub
github.com › nix-community › wiki
GitHub - nix-community/wiki: Nixos wiki [maintainer=@samueldr] · GitHub
These wiki has been superseede by https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-wiki-infra and https://wiki.nixos.org
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NixOS Wiki
wiki.nixos.org › wiki › NixOS
NixOS - Official NixOS Wiki
NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager and build system. It supports declarative system-wide configuration management as well as atomic upgrades and rollbacks, although it can additionally support imperative package and user management.
NixOS Wiki
nixos.wiki › wiki › NixOS_Installation_Guide
NixOS Installation Guide - NixOS Wiki
From NixOS Wiki · Jump to: navigation, search · This guide is a companion guide for the official manual. In addition to describing the steps from the official manual, it provides known good instructions for common use cases. When there is a discrepancy between the manual and this guide, the supported case is the one described in the manual.
NixOS Search
search.nixos.org
NixOS Search - Packages
Search through thousands of packages, NixOS configuration options, and flakes available in the Nix ecosystem.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/nixos › the official nixos wiki is live(not an april fools joke)
r/NixOS on Reddit: The official NixOS wiki is live(not an april fools joke)
April 2, 2024 - I don't know the politics involved, but maybe the official wiki could've been "seeded" by one of the unofficial ones? Edit: Comparing, as a random example, the entries for flakes: official - nixos.wiki it seems like this is exactly what happened.
GitHub
github.com › NixOS › nixos-wiki-infra
GitHub - NixOS/nixos-wiki-infra: This project contains the setup of https://wiki.nixos.org · GitHub
This project contains the setup of the official NixOS Wiki (wiki.nixos.org).
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Languages Nix 51.3% | Shell 22.9% | Python 19.5% | HCL 6.2% | HTML 0.1%
Reddit
reddit.com › r/nixos › official nixos wiki
r/NixOS on Reddit: Official NixOS wiki
January 23, 2024 - There isn't an official one. This would make an official one, and it would probably be much more up to date than nixos.wiki
NixOS Wiki
nixos.wiki › wiki › Nix_Installation_Guide
Nix Installation Guide - NixOS Wiki
From NixOS Wiki · Jump to: navigation, search · This guide describes various more advanced methods for installing Nix.
NixOS
nixos.org › learn
Learn Nix | Nix & NixOS | Nix & NixOS
NixOS is a Linux distribution based on Nix package manager. ... A weekly beginner-oriented interactive video lecture on all things Nix. Running since October 2022. Watch on Youtube · The official wiki for Nix and NixOS (wiki.nixos.org); user ...
NixOS Wiki
nixos.wiki › wiki › Overview_of_the_NixOS_Linux_distribution
Overview of the NixOS Linux distribution - NixOS Wiki
NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager and build system. It supports reproducible and declarative system-wide configuration management as well as atomic upgrades and rollbacks, although it can additionally support imperative package and user management.
Nixos
nixos.github.io › release-wiki › Home.html
Home - NixOS Release Wiki
This is the official wiki for the NixOS release process. All release managers should document how they're actively changing the release process here.
NixOS Wiki
nixos.wiki › wiki › Flakes
Flakes - NixOS Wiki
From NixOS Wiki · Jump to: navigation, search · Nix flakes is an experimental feature of the Nix package manager. Flakes was introduced with Nix 2.4 on 2021-11-01 (see release notes). 1 Introduction · 2 Enable flakes temporarily · 3 Enable flakes permanently in NixOS ·
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nix_(package_manager)
Nix (package manager) - Wikipedia
April 10, 2026 - Nixpkgs is developed in a single Git repository on GitHub. Beside packages, it also contains the source code for NixOS.