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NixOS is a Nix-based Linux distribution.

NixOS is a Linux distribution based on Nix, a functional programming language. It supports atomic upgrades, rollbacks and multi-user package management, and it has a declarative approach to system configuration management that makes it easy to reproduce a configuration on another machine.

Home page: https://nixos.org/

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Crate with diesel and mysql dependencies no longer compiles against mariadb after upgrading NixOS to 20.03

My crate, which depends on diesel with the mysql feature enabled, no longer compiles after upgrading my system from NixOS 19.09 to 20.03. It seems the only significant change is an update of the mariadb-server package from 10.2.17 to 10.3.18. There…
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Tiltbrush Poly Fails to Work in Linux

Poly animations from the Tiltbrush section fail to render for me in Linux (under either Chrome or Firefox): https://poly.google.com/tiltbrush (Items from Poly's homepage do work, however). I'm running NixOS with nvidia drivers. How to troubleshoot?
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What are different among various dot nix files?

I am new to nixos, this is my understanding about configurations Configuration files created by installer /etc/nixos/configuration.nix :: The central point of system description used by nixos-rebuild /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix :: to be…
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Leksah in NixOS 14.12 - fails to install, why?

Leksah in NixOS 14.12 - unstable channel fails to install, why ? [demo@nixos:~]$ nix-channel --list nixpkgs http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable [demo@nixos:~]$ nix-env -i leksah installing ‘leksah’ these derivations will be built: …
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Install grub on a disk drive by UUID

There is a way to indicate to grub to install on a device MBR by UUID instead of using /dev/sdX ? I'm setting a external eSATA hard disk with NixOS, and obviusly, the hard disk not would be always the same /dev/sdX device ? I see that I can config…
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nixos boot loader extra entry format?

Nixos has a configuration option in the manual for specifying extra entries in the grub menu "boot.loader.grub. extraEntries" but I can't figure out how to make it work for a second linux installation on the same hard disk with its own grub. More…
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Nixos can't install ruby2d gem

output shell.nix When i execute gem install ruby2d in my nix-shell it can't, because nix has no fhs. Can u help me?
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NixOS: Mediatek 7961 wifi not working properly (Vivobook Pro 16x)

I have a Vivobook Pro 16x which has a mediatek 7961 wifi chip and I just installed Nixos on it. Everything works except the Wifi. The wifi works occasionally, but not always. I updated the kernel to the latest version by setting boot.kernelPackages…
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How do I increase the limit on the number of open files in NixOS?

I'm testing out IPFS on NixOS and I'm seeing errors due to "too many open files" in the journalctl -u ipfs logs. ulimit -n shows the limit on the number of open files is set at 1024. How do I increase the file descriptor limit in…
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How to Shrink a VirtualBox Virtual Machine and Free Up Disk Space in nixos guest system?

I was following this instruction to try to shrink my virtual nixos. It says, You can’t actually use zerofree on your / partition while you’re booted into the standard Linux environment. Instead, you’ll want to boot into a special recovery mode…
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