My Documents

• Reference
• Tutorial
• How to use Nix as a Package Manager
• Chroot Nix Profile
• NixOS
• Syntax

Nix Pills

A good set of starting documents to "learn the ropes" of nix.

https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills

Manuals

These documents are long. Good for reference, not good for learning.

• The Nix Manual: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/

• The Nixpkgs Manual: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/

• The NixOS Manual: https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/

• Common operations Cheatsheet: https://nixos.wiki/index.php?title=Cheatsheet&useskin=vector The above link also shows equivalent operations between Ubuntu and Nix.

More Reading

The author of the "Nix Pills" listed above did his thesis on Nix. It's a good read about where current software deployment systems lack and how Nix has solved alot of the problems they have: https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

Questions

• Can a profile be defined with a nix expression?

Managine private nix packages outside of nixpkgs

http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2014/07/managing-private-nix-packages-outside.html

Nix Wants

• The Nix expression language is extremely powerful and extensible. However, I find there's a lack of documentation for functions that have been implemented in nixpkgs. I think the lack of documentation could be mitigated by adding support for a standard form for "in-source documentation". This would encourage maintainers to provide good documentation and help keep it in sync with the implementation, though, it does not guarantee it.