2025-02-05, 09:00–13:00, Niks (B.1.036)
Heard about Nix or NixOS but never taken the chance to try it? We will help you get started with this hands-on workshop!
This workshop will introduce the concepts of NixOS to beginners. Participants will be guided through the installation of NixOS in a virtual machine—local or remote—configuring the basics, setting up additional services from the Nix Packages collection, and managing programs with home-manager. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have a fully functional NixOS environment and the foundational knowledge to use it in other contexts.
Topics covered:
- Fresh installation and converting an existing Linux system
- Configuring services
- Running containers: OCI (Docker) and nixos-containers
- "Dotfiles" management with home-manager
Requirements
- Basic experience with running Linux inside virtual machines.
- A setup to run virtual machines with at least 4GB of RAM:
- A setup to run virtual machines (VirtualBox, Qemu, ... )
- Or an account on a cloud platform with resources available (Hetzner, OVH, DigitalOcean, Big Tech, ...)
Passionate about free software and the interconnection of technologies since his first FOSDEM in 2004, Hugo never stopped hacking around the possibilities offered by Linux and Python and sharing his passion.
He founded OKESO in 2016 as a company focused on providing expert advice, training and implementation on Software Engineering and Data Science, with a focus on Free and Open-Source technologies, Digital Sovereignty and Privacy.