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Determinate Systems Bringing Nix to the enterprise to empower fearless software delivery

We're happy to announce Determinate Systems (determinate.systems) as a diamond sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

Nix Builds as a Service nixbuild.net is a build cluster solution that adds scalability and intelligent scheduling to any Nix workflow. Use it as a cloud service or in private enterprise deployments.

We're happy to announce nixbuild.net as a silver sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

Corporate Nix and NixOS Training Classes Transform your team with Nix(OS) in one week. Intensive, effective training for rapid, frustration-free learning.

We're happy to announce Nixcademy (nixcademy.com) as a gold sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

Flox | Your dev environment, everywhere Manage and share development environments with all the frameworks and libraries you need, then publish artifacts anywhere. Harness the power of Nix.

We're happy to announce Flox (flox.dev) as a diamond sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

NixCon 2025: Name plates, anyone? By popular demand we are offering shiny metal trinkets! ✨ If you’d like to get one, you can order them now as an add-on in the NixCon 2025 ticket shop: They’re not free, but thanks to the…

Want a shiny metal #NixOS name plate? Order them now as an add-on in the #NixCon 2025 ticket shop: tickets.nixcon.org/2025/

Find more info on the NixOS Discourse: discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-202...

Home From embedded systems to cloud platforms and automated testing frameworks — we build transparent, trustworthy software infrastructure designed to evolve and endure.

We're happy to announce Cyberus Technology (cyberus-technology.de) as a gold sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

We're happy to announce Numtide (numtide.com) as a diamond sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

We're happy to announce Clan (clan.lol) as a diamond sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

Introducing the Framework Desktop and newest Framework Laptop 13 Choose between our latest Framework Laptop 13 powered by Ryzen™ AI 300 Series processors or our brand new Framework Desktop with Ryzen™ AI Max Series processors.

We're happy to announce Framework (frame.work) as a silver sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

garnix | the nix CI Simple, fast, and green CI and caching for nix projects

We're happy to announce Garnix (garnix.io) as a silver sponsor of #NixCon 2025. Thank you very much for your support!

Do you have your #NixCon ticket? It's 5-7 September in Rapperswil, CH. Get your ticket at tickets.nixcon.org/2025/ .
Thanks to our sponsors many contributors get a free ticket and we have free food. If you're involved in Nix and can't afford travel/stay reach out: nixcon@nixos.org

Do you have a great talk idea and want to reach a big crowd? You can still submit a talk proposal for #NixCon 2025 for another week - until the end of July! talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2025/...
P.S. Here's a sneak preview of what people are interested in seeing

Illustration with headshots of the two speakers. Credits for Johan's picture: https://flickr.com/photos/dvanzuijlekom/

Let’s have Nix meet-up in the Netherlands again!

We'll meet the 26th at the ProcoliX office in Dordrecht (near Rotterdam) and have two speakers and be plenty of time to socialize with other Nix folks

discourse.nixos.org/t/nixnl-meet...

#NixOS #Nix #ProcoliX #Fediversity #Basisbeveiliging #Meetup

FOD Oracle Watching over nixpkgs for FOD discrepancies

@sovereign.tech‬ is investing €230k to strengthen Nixpkgs and global #OpenSource IT supply chain security!
Focus areas:
• CI performance improvements
• Source retrieval and build reproducibility verification
• Reduced NixOS boot scripting
• Faster Nix evaluator
• Unprivileged Nix daemon

Join us for the 6th Zürich ZHF hackathon on May 24-25! Help prepare for #NixOS 25.05 Warbler release: fix bugs, learn #Nix, network with contributors! Bring a friend, and meet the community. Details discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-05-24...

🚨 Only 10 days left to apply for Summer of Nix 2025! 🚨
Are you a student or early-career dev passionate about #OSS?
Join a paid summer program to work on real #FOSS projects, learn #Nix with experienced mentors, and connect with a global community.
Apply by May 12: github.com/ngi-nix/summ...
#NixOS

🚀 NixCon 2025 website is LIVE! Join us Sept 5-7 in Switzerland for "bridge-building" across the Nix community.
✅ Sponsorships open
✅ Hotel info coming soon
✅ Volunteers needed (especially AV!)
Check it out: 2025.nixcon.org
#NixCon2025 #NixOS

North County #Nix had its first 2025 meetup on April 20th!
Thanks to Connor, Grant, Tristan, and Dan for joining the fun!
#NixOS
More details: discourse.nixos.org/t/north-coun...

North County NUG #2
🗓 April 20, 2025 | ⏰ 18:00–20:00
📍 Windmill Food Hall, Carlsbad, CA
The North County Nix User Group is back! hether you're deep into NixOS or just curious about declarative development, you're warmly invited.

northcounty.socal-nug.com/events/2025-...

NixOS Meetup in Darmstadt

NixOS Meetup in Darmstadt on April 7th, 2025!
Join us for great discussions and networking. Open to all!
📍 Location: Chaos Computer Club Darmstadt e.V., Wilhelminenstr. 17, 64283 Darmstadt
See you there! #NixOS discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-meet...

Stay Cool with NixCool™

Nix packages are thawing—don’t panic (yet). The team is on it! ❄️
Stay frosty! Details here discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-packag...

nix.dev

A thing about Nix for new users: flakes make dependency management less… flakey. 😆

💡 A flake is just a repo with a flake.nix file.
💡 It enforces structure & manages dependencies.
💡 Flake references use a URL-like syntax and can be locked for reproducibility.
Learn more, visit nix.dev

nixos ocean sprint 2025

Ocean Sprint 2025: A Wrap! A week of focused Nix development brought major improvements across the ecosystem!

Thanks to everyone involved! Full report here: discourse.nixos.org/t/oceansprin...

Mark your calendars! #NixCon 2025 is set:
📍 Where: OST, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
📅 When: September 5-7, 2025 (Fri-Sun)

Tag your fellow Nix fans, spread the word, and let’s make this the best NixCon yet! More details here: discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-202...
#Nix #NixOS

NixOS Meetup in Vienna

Casual #NixOS Meetup in Vienna! Join an informal NixOS meetup to chat about all things #Nix & NixOS!

📅 April 7, 2025 | 🕕 18:00 | 📍 GT_, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien
discourse.nixos.org/t/community-...

Nix derivations by hand blogpost

Farid Zakaria set out to build a Nix derivation from scratch—no helpers, just raw JSON! 🛠️ After battling errors, missing keys, and hashing surprises, he finally got it working. 🎉

Read the full adventure here: discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-deriva...

NixOS has a fantastic community, and with enough interest and contributors, anything is possible!

Good news for all #Nix fans—Nix 2.27.0 has landed, and it’s bringing some great quality-of-life improvements!
A huge shoutout to contributors who made this release happen!
Want to upgrade? Get it here releases.nixos.org?prefix=nix/n...
Read the announcement discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-2-27-0...

No formal wrap-up notes from Planet Nix, but who needs them when a picture says more than a thousand words?
One highlight? Engaging discussions with the #System76 team about their COSMIC, which runs on Ampere, and, of course, #NixOS. Because at its core, a conference is about the exchange of ideas!

Calling all mentors! The NixOS Foundation is looking for contributors to guide the next generation through the Outreachy program.

Submit your project and help make open source more inclusive.
Deadline: March 14

Make a difference—apply today! discourse.nixos.org/t/become-an-...