Pick any package from 13 years of nixpkgs history and boot it in an x86_64 Linux VM in your tab. No server anywhere.
Any Nix package, live in your browser
tl;dr Try it at https://trynix.dev. Click hello, or python 3.6.2 from 2017, or two eras of hello at once, or a package that exists in no public cache. A Linux machine boots in the tab and you get a shell with those Nix packages on PATH.
nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon
Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka]
Please Stop Using `nixos-rebuild switch`
Better practices for safely and reliably deploying and updating NixOS systems.
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? | natkr's ramblings
In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.
Tracking NixOS option values and dependencies | oddlama's blog
oddlama's personal web page and blog
I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus | Bas Nijholt
After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.
Setting up a virtual machine with GPU passthrough
A guide for configuring NixOS with nvidia GPU passthrough to a virtual machine in virt-manager.
Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of
For some reason, during TacoSprint 2026 I decided to see if we could tackle relocatable binaries in Nix.
Dancing mad with sandboxing
Kefka is a Go-native shell sandbox with coreutils, Python via WebAssembly, and more. Learn the works of madness that went into making this happen!
shellbox - Instant Linux Boxes and OCI-backed VMs via SSH
Instant Linux boxes via SSH. Create stock boxes or OCI image-backed VMs. Scale to zero and pay only for what you use.
The Virtual OS Museum
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
Secrets Don’t Belong in Config
An audit of 445 NixOS modules shows the cost of making configuration and secrets share one interface.
Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug 🐞
For many years, I sometimes discovered that commands I was sure I had run were no longer present in my Z shell history file (~/.zsh_history). In this article, I will show you how I tracked down the bug. Spoiler: ultimately, patching Zsh to make it crash loudly and analyzing the crash’s core dump was the winning strategy!
