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Official NixOS Wiki Launched

by adham-omran on 4/11/24, 11:08 AM with 11 comments

• by keybored on 4/11/24, 1:20 PM

  https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Overview_of_the_Nix_Language

  > The Nix language is designed for conveniently creating and composing derivations – precise descriptions of how contents of existing files are used to derive new files.

  I’m getting Wikipedia math vibes.

• by adham-omran on 4/11/24, 11:08 AM

  The announcement on discourse can be found here https://discourse.nixos.org/t/wiki-nixos-org-is-now-live/425...

• by chiffre01 on 4/11/24, 1:20 PM

  Early days, but it would be nice if the install guides were written out, not just links to videos.

• by dcchambers on 4/11/24, 5:27 PM

  Good wikis take time, a good community, and consistent leadership. Seeding content is hard and good content takes time to write and effort to maintain. I think NixOS needs a wiki like this, so I am glad to see this project started. Hopefully it succeeds!

• by uyzstvqs on 4/11/24, 1:29 PM

  I will definitely bookmark this. I've been meaning to try out NixOS. It seems like a really interesting alternative to using containers for deploying servers. Both much simpler and much more powerful.