2025-02-05, 13:00–17:00, Niks (B.1.036)
Heard of Nix, but too afraid of its learning curve?
Fear no more!
Bryan & Co. will stick around to work and help on everything Nix/NixOS related.
From packaging simple Go applications in NixPkgs, all the way to complex NixOS module questions, nothing's off the table.
You might've heard about Nix, maybe you even have that one colleague that just won't stop talking about it. You've given in, sure I'll give it a shot... And, well, it's overwhelming.
This is a common problem with users just starting out with Nix and veterans alike. Nix can do a lot, from managing your packages, to managing your system declaratively, setting up full-fledged k8s cluster that integrate deeply into the Nix store, even embedded systems aren't safe from Nix's cross-compiling powers.
So, you'd like to learn, and maybe even meet the community. Members of Flox and the Nix community will be available to ask questions to during this event, we'll try to focus on the following.
- Installing Nix, the package manager, on your system
- Understanding Nix, the language
- Understanding Nixpkgs
- Installing packages with Nix on your system
- Using NixOS in a VM
- Configuring NixOS to host a simple web application
- Just hang out and talk about Nix, NixOS, and everything around it
- Whatever you'd like to work on!
- ...
If any of the above sounds interesting to you, give this workshop a shot. Bryan & Co. look forward to seeing you there, to generate interesting discussions and insights.
Bryan's been interested in computing for as long as he can remember. Even studying electronic engineering, just to understand how a computer could add 2 numbers together on a transistor level.
Recently, he's been interested in the smaller details of operating systems. How they work, why they look they way they do, and why LISP machines never took off.
Please don't hesitate to approach him about anything tech, or music, related. But, be warned, he has a tendency to just keep on talking once he gets going.